10-letter words containing a, r, m, h
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- khitmutgar — (in India) a waiter.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- lattermath — a second mowing or crop of grass from land that has already been harvested in the same year
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- lymphogram — A diagnostic image produced by lymphography.
- maastricht — a city in the SE Netherlands, on the Maas River.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- macintrash — /mak'in-trash"/ The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn"t appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Compare Macintoy. See also beige toaster, WIMP environment, point-and-drool interface, drool-proof paper, user-friendly.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- maestricht — Maastricht.
- maharajahs — Plural form of maharajah.
- maharishis — Plural form of maharishi.
- maidenhair — any fern of the genus Adiantum, the cultivated species of which have fine, glossy stalks and delicate, finely divided fronds.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- mammograph — A machine for taking X-ray pictures of the breasts (mammaries).
- man crèche — an area of a department store set aside to provide entertainment for men while their partners shop
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mannerheim — Baron Carl Gustaf Emil von [kahrl goo s-tahf ey-meel fuh n] /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf ˈeɪ mil fən/ (Show IPA), 1867–1951, Finnish soldier and statesman.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- march hare — a hare during its breeding season in March, noted for its wild and excitable behaviour (esp in the phrase mad as a March hare)
- march past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- march-past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- marchese's — an Italian noblewoman, equivalent in rank to a marquise.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- margherita — a female given name, Italian form of Margaret.