9-letter words containing s, h, a, l, o
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- go halves — plural of half.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- hailstone — a pellet of hail.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hair loss — the loss of human hair from the head; balding
- halesowen — a town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 273 (2001)
- half hose — short hose; socks.
- half-hose — socks
- half-sole — to repair or renew (a shoe) by putting on a new half sole.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- halitosis — a condition of having offensive-smelling breath; bad breath.
- halituous — (obsolete) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- hallowmas — the feast of Allhallows or All Saints' Day, on November 1.
- haloforms — Plural form of haloform.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- handholds — Plural form of handhold.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- heat loss — the loss of heat from something such as a building
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- 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.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.