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19-letter words containing a, t, h, e, l

  • lose one's heart to — to fall in love with
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • lytham saint anne's — a resort in NW England, in Lancashire on the Irish Sea. Pop: 41 327 (2001)
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
  • magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
  • male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
  • malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
  • manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
  • mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
  • master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
  • mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
  • meningoencephalitic — Relating to meningoencephalitis.
  • meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
  • metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
  • methyl methacrylate — a colorless, volatile, flammable, water-insoluble, liquid, unsaturated ester, C 5 H 8 O 2 , that polymerizes readily to a clear plastic.
  • middle palaeolithic — the period between the Lower and the Upper Palaeolithic, usually taken as equivalent to the Mousterian
  • midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
  • military pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different events, a 300-meter freestyle swim, a 4000-meter cross-country run, a 5000-meter equestrian steeplechase, épée fencing, and pistol target-shooting at 25 meters, the winner being the contestant with the highest total score.
  • molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
  • moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
  • mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
  • multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
  • multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
  • mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
  • napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
  • nathaniel hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • national characters — (character)   Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.
  • natural catastrophe — A natural catastrophe is an unexpected event, caused by nature, such as an earthquake or flood, in which there is a lot of suffering, damage, or death.
  • neufchâtel (cheese) — a soft white cheese prepared from whole milk or skim milk and eaten fresh or cured
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • niagara-on-the-lake — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the border between Canada and New York.
  • non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • nonplayer character — a character in a tabletop role-playing game who is controlled by the Game Master.
  • nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • north valley stream — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • north-central state — a state of N Nigeria. Capital: Kaduna. Pop: 4 438 007 (1995 est). Area: 46 053 sq km (17 781 sq miles)
  • north-northeasterly — a wind or storm coming from the north-northeast
  • occupational health — Occupational health is the branch of medicine that deals with the health of people in their workplace or in relation to their job.
  • old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
  • old man and the sea — a novel (1952) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
  • on the baker's list — in good health
  • open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
  • oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
  • out at (the) elbows — shabby; poverty-stricken
  • palaeoethnobotanist — someone who studies fossil seeds and grains to further archaeological knowledge, esp of the domestication of cereals
  • paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
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