9-letter words containing l, y, e, h
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holohedry — The condition of a crystal whose point group is identical to that of its lattice.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holy tide — a time or season for special religious observance
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
- horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- hyalinize — to become hyaline.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydrocele — an accumulation of serous fluid, usually about the testis.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolize — (intransitive) To undergo hydrolization.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hydrolyte — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hydrolyze — Break down (a compound) by chemical reaction with water.
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- hyetology — the branch of meteorology dealing with precipitation.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- hywel dda — known as Hywel the Good. died 950 ad, Welsh prince. He united S and N Wales and codified Welsh law