9-letter words containing s, a, l, h
- highballs — Plural form of highball.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
- himalayas — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- hold sway — have influence
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hot flash — a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- inhalants — Plural form of inhalant.
- inshallah — If Allah wills it.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.