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11-letter words containing a, h, e, m, r, l

  • hypothermal — lukewarm; tepid.
  • isallotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature variations within a given period of time.
  • lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
  • lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
  • lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
  • light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
  • light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
  • lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
  • magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
  • mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
  • male thread — a helical ridge on a cylindrical bar, rod, shank, etc, formed by a die or lathe tool
  • malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
  • marsh elder — any of various composite plants of the genus Iva, as I. frutescens, that grow in salt marshes.
  • marshallers — Plural form of marshaller.
  • marshallese — a native or inhabitant of the Marshall Islands, especially a member of a Micronesian people native to these Islands.
  • marshlander — a person inhabiting marshland
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
  • melanophore — a pigmented connective-tissue cell containing melanin in its cytoplasm, responsible for color changes in many fishes and reptiles.
  • merthiolate — thimerosal
  • metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
  • methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
  • metharbital — A barbiturate anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy.
  • microcephal — a person with microcephaly
  • middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
  • montherlant — Henry de [ahn-ree duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də/ (Show IPA), 1896–1972, French author.
  • motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
  • mr. charlie — a white man or white men collectively
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
  • pamphleteer — a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.
  • parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
  • sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
  • slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • the slammer — prison
  • thermically — in a thermic manner
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • tilt hammer — a drop hammer used in forging, consisting of a heavy head at one end of a pivoted lever.
  • whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
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