9-letter words containing t, h, e, a, l
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- hexathlon — an athletic contest consisting of six different events
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hot metal — metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
- hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- later han — the Han dynasty after the interregnum a.d. 9–25.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- leachates — Plural form of leachate.
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- left half — a defensive player who plays midfield, on the left side of the pitch
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- lengthman — a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
- less than — to a smaller extent, amount, or degree: less exact.
- lethality — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leviathan — (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- like that — in that way
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- loathness — Unwillingness; reluctance.
- loathsome — causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
- love-hate — characterized simultaneously by feelings of love and hate
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lustihead — lustiness