9-letter words containing s, o, l, y
- foolishly — In an unwise manner; stupidly.
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- fossilify — (dated) To fossilize.
- fossilogy — (archaic, 1776-19th century) The science or study of fossils.
- fulsomely — In a fulsome manner.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- gargoyles — Plural form of gargoyle.
- ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- globosely — In a globose manner.
- glycoside — any of the class of compounds that yield a sugar and an aglycon upon hydrolysis.
- glycosyls — Plural form of glycosyl.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- goldovsky — Boris [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, U.S. conductor, pianist, and opera director, born in Russia.
- goldsinny — any of various small European wrasses, esp the brightly coloured Ctenolabrus rupestris
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- 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.
- 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
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hugeously — hugely
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hydrosols — Plural form of hydrosol.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hylozoism — the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- ileostomy — the construction of an artificial opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall, permitting drainage of the contents of the small intestine.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- insolency — Quality of being insolent.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- irksomely — In an irksome manner; tediously.