12-letter words containing a, n, h, e, l
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- light-handed — short-handed.
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- love handles — fat midriff
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
- melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
- melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
- melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- melanochroic — Melanochroid
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- mergenthaler — Ottmar [ot-mahr;; German awt-mahr] /ˈɒt mɑr;; German ˈɔt mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1854–99, U.S. inventor of the Linotype, born in Germany.
- metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
- methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- mischanceful — unlucky
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- multichannel — Employing or possessing many television or communications channels.