9-letter words that end in l
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- head wall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- headstall — that part of a bridle or halter that encompasses the head of an animal.
- healthful — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- hear tell — to be told (about); learn (of)
- heat-seal — to wrap in clear plastic and make airtight by applying heat to seal the edges.
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- hedgebill — a tool for pruning a hedge
- hela cell — a vigorous strain of laboratory-cultured cells descended from a human cervical cancer, used widely in research.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- hexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- hexameral — hexamerous.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- high-tail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.
- homotypal — of normal type
- 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 By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace.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.
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hot metal — metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- 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.
- humourful — Humorous; comical.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hungerful — hungry
- hydrofoil — Naval Architecture. a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- idiotical — of, relating to, or characteristic of an idiot.
- idyllical — Idyllic.
- ileocecal — of, relating to, or involving the ileum and cecum.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illiteral — Not literal.
- illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
- imagerial — the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
- immusical — (archaic) inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- impartial — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- in detail — an individual or minute part; an item or particular.