11-letter words containing a, c, h, e, l
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- machiavelli — Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ di bɛrˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
- machicolate — to provide with machicolations.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- match plate — a plate on which patterns are set to be molded.
- matchlessly — In a matchless manner.
- mechanicals — (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings.
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- melancholia — a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
- melancholic — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
- melanchthon — Philipp [fil-ip;; German fee-lip] /ˈfɪl ɪp;; German ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), (Philipp Schwarzert) 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- mesenchymal — Of or pertaining to the mesenchyme.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metaethical — (ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics.
- methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
- misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
- mr. charlie — a white man or white men collectively
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- necrophilia — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- neural arch — a bony or cartilaginous arch resting on the chief part of each vertebra and forming a tunnel through which the nerve cord passes
- nonathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- nonchalance — the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
- nonchemical — Not chemical.
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
- omnichannel — Using every channel.
- omphalocele — A hernia of the navel.
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
- paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.