9-letter words containing ll
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- hollowing — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- holly oak — holm oak.
- hollyhock — any of several plants belonging to the genus Alcea (or Althaea), of the mallow family, native to Eurasia, especially A. rosea, a tall plant having a long cluster of showy, variously colored flowers.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- hosteller — a person who operates a hostel.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- hull down — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- 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
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- iberville — Pierre le Moyne [pyer luh mwan] /pyɛr lə ˈmwan/ (Show IPA), Sieur, 1661–1706, French naval officer, born in Canada: founder of the first French settlement in Louisiana, 1699.
- ice lolly — An ice lolly is a piece of flavoured ice or ice cream on a stick.
- idealless — Devoid of ideals.
- idyllical — Idyllic.
- idyllists — Plural form of idyllist.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- ill-being — state or condition of lacking health, solvency, etc.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- ill-timed — badly timed; inopportune.
- ill-treat — to treat badly; maltreat; abuse.
- ill-usage — unfair, unkind, or cruel treatment; abuse
- 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)
- illegally — forbidden by law or statute.
- illegible — not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print, etc.: This letter is completely illegible.
- illegibly — not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print, etc.: This letter is completely illegible.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illicitly — not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
- illimited — Not limited; interminable.
- illinoian — Geology. the third stage of the glaciation of North America during the Pleistocene.
- illisions — Plural form of illision.
- illiteral — Not literal.
- illnesses — Plural form of illness.
- illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
- illumined — Simple past tense and past participle of illumine.