10-letter words containing a, s, h, l, n
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isohalines — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- last thing — as the final action, esp before retiring to bed at night
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- legharness — armor for the leg, sometimes including that for the foot.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lethalness — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- manhandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manhandle.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshlands — Plural form of marshland.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- naga hills — a region in NE India and NW Myanmar (Burma), on the India-Myanmar border.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- nanoshells — Plural form of nanoshell.
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- nicholas i — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nightclass — an evening lesson
- northlands — Plural form of northland.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain