9-letter words containing la
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- himalayan — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- himalayas — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hog latin — pig Latin.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hot flash — a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.
- 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.
- 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
- hula hoop — toy: plastic hoop
- hula-hula — a sinuous Hawaiian native dance with intricate arm movements that tell a story in pantomime, usually danced to rhythmic drumming and accompanied by chanting.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- idioblast — a cell that differs greatly from the surrounding cells or tissue.
- idiolatry — Autolatry, or self worship.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- idolaters — Plural form of idolater.
- idolators — Plural form of idolator.
- idolatory — Misspelling of idolatry.
- illations — Plural form of illation.
- illatives — Plural form of illative.
- illawarra — a coastal district of E Australia, in S New South Wales. Pop: 404 626 (2002 est)
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- immolated — Simple past tense and past participle of immolate.
- immolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immolate.
- immolator — One who offers in sacrifice.
- implanted — Simple past tense and past participle of implant.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- implating — Present participle of implate.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.