9-letter words containing s, e, l, a, h
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- ghastlier — Comparative form of ghastly.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- giltheads — Plural form of gilthead.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- go halves — plural of half.
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hailstone — a pellet of hail.
- hair seal — any of various seals having coarse hair and no soft underfur.
- hairlines — Plural form of hairline.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- halesowen — a town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 273 (2001)
- half hose — short hose; socks.
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- half size — any size in women's garments designated by a fractional number from 12½ through 24½, designed for a short-waisted, full figure.
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-hose — socks
- half-size — any size in women's garments designated by a fractional number from 12½ through 24½, designed for a short-waisted, full figure.
- half-sole — to repair or renew (a shoe) by putting on a new half sole.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- halfbeaks — Plural form of halfbeak.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- halysites — an extinct genus comprising the chain corals.
- hamamelis — (botany) Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
- hand lens — a magnifying glass designed to be held in the hand.
- handbells — Plural form of handbell.
- handhelds — Plural form of handheld.
- handseled — Simple past tense and past participle of handsel.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harebells — Plural form of harebell.
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- hashtable — Alternative spelling of hash table.
- haskell b — (language) An early version of Haskell by Lennart Augustsson <[email protected]> from Chalmers. Haskell B evolved into a full-featured implementation of Haskell 1.2, with quite a few extensions. Ports exist for many platforms including Sun, DEC, Sequent, IBM PC, Symmetry and unsupported versions for NS32000, IBM RT/PC, Cray, Sun-3, Vax, ARM, and RS/6000. Version 0.999.5 included a compiler, interpreter, library, documentation, and examples. Mailing list: <[email protected]>. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- hastately — in a hastate manner
- hasteless — Without haste; leisurely.
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- have legs — If an idea, plan, or activity has legs, it is likely to continue or succeed.
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.