9-letter words containing a, h, o, l, e
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homer lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hot metal — metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
- 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.
- 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.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- 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.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- kahoolawe — an island in central Hawaii, S of Maui: uninhabited. 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km).
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- leasehold — property acquired under a lease.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loathness — Unwillingness; reluctance.
- loathsome — causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- 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.
- lookahead — (computing) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
- loosehead — (rugby) prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum.
- love-hate — characterized simultaneously by feelings of love and hate
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Pyralis farinalis, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals. The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) and the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia kuehniella) are other pyralids with similar habits
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- motlanthe — Kgalema (ɡɑːˈlɛmə). born 1949, South African statesman: president (2008–09)
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well