9-letter words containing a, h, o, l
- half-boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- half-cock — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- half-hose — socks
- half-hour — a period of 30 minutes.
- half-long — (of a speech sound) of intermediate length; neither short nor fully long.
- half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.
- half-note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- half-oval — having the general form, shape, or outline of an egg; egg-shaped.
- half-sole — to repair or renew (a shoe) by putting on a new half sole.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- halitosis — a condition of having offensive-smelling breath; bad breath.
- halitotic — of or relating to halitosis
- halituous — (obsolete) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- hallooing — Present participle of halloo.
- halloween — the evening of October 31; the eve of All Saints' Day; Allhallows Eve: observed especially by children in costumes who solicit treats, often by threatening minor pranks.
- hallowing — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
- hallowmas — the feast of Allhallows or All Saints' Day, on November 1.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- haloforms — Plural form of haloform.
- halogeton — a poisonous herbaceous plant, native to Siberia, that grows in North America
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- halothane — a colorless liquid, C 2 HBrClF 3 , used as an inhalant for general anesthesia.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- hand tool — handheld instrument
- hand-roll — (jargon) (From mainstream slang "hand-rolled cigarette" in opposition to "ready-made") To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand; implies that the normal process failed due to bugs or was defeated by something exceptional in the local environment. "The worst thing about being a gateway between four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration every time any of them upgrades."
- hand-tool — tool (defs 8, 9).
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- handholds — Plural form of handhold.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- harold ii — 1022?–66, king of England 1066: defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (son of Earl Godwin).
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- head-load — baggage or goods arranged so as to be carried on the heads of African porters
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.