9-letter words containing one
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- honeymoon — a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- 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 By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace.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.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hornstone — a variety of quartz resembling flint.
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- indonesia — East Indies (def 1).
- interpone — to interpose
- interzone — any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
- ironstone — any iron-bearing mineral or rock with siliceous impurities.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jargoneer — a user of jargon
- jonesboro — a city in NE Arkansas.
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- kairomone — A chemical substance emitted by an organism and detected by another of a different species that gains advantage from this, e.g., a parasite seeking a host.
- keel bone — carina.
- kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
- ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
- key money — advance rent or security required of a new tenant and given in exchange for the key to the house or apartment.
- keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- keystones — Plural form of keystone.
- kronecker — Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; German ley-oh-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; German ˈleɪ oʊˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1823–91, German mathematician.
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
- let alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- liaisoned — Simple past tense and past participle of liaison.
- life zone — a geographic region characterized by a distinct set of animals and plants.
- limestone — a sedimentary rock consisting predominantly of calcium carbonate, varieties of which are formed from the skeletons of marine microorganisms and coral: used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime.
- lionesque — a man of great strength, courage, etc.
- lionesses — Plural form of lioness.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- loadstone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- lodestone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- lone hand — Cards. a person who holds a hand so strong that he or she can play a deal without the hand of his or her partner. the hand played by such a person.