9-letter words containing u, l, r
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- hierodule — a slave in service in an ancient Greek temple.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hold true — If a general statement holds true in particular circumstances, or if your previous statement holds true in different circumstances, it is true or valid in those circumstances.
- holy hour — an hour set aside for prayer and reflection
- home rule — self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- 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.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- howlround — the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system
- hummeller — a person, machine or tool which removes the awns or beards from barley
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humourful — Humorous; comical.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hungerful — hungry
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- illuminer — an illuminator
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
- in colour — If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey.
- in liquor — drunk; intoxicated
- inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inculture — (obsolete) Lack or neglect of cultivation or culture.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- insularly — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- interlude — an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- intraural — Alternate form of intra-aural.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
- irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- jaculator — a person who hurls or throws