9-letter words containing s, h, o, l
- 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
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hellholes — Plural form of hellhole.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hemocoels — Plural form of hemocoel.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hillsboro — a town in NW Oregon.
- histology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- hoggishly — In a hoggish manner.
- hold sway — have influence
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- holdovers — Plural form of holdover.
- holinesse — Obsolete spelling of holiness.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- 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.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homostyly — (in plants) the condition of having all the flowers with styles of only one length, rather than of different lengths
- honeyless — without any honey