10-letter words containing c, a, n, h
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- lawn chair — a chair or chaise longue designed for use out of doors.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- 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.
- long-chain — pertaining to molecules composed of long chains of atoms, or polymers composed of long chains of monomers.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- macdonough — Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- machinated — Simple past tense and past participle of machinate.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- machineman — a worker in charge of a machine
- machinists — Plural form of machinist.
- 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.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- maconochie — a tinned stew of meat and vegetables given to soldiers during World War 1
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- 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).
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manichaean — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- manichaeus — Mani
- manicheism — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mcnaughton — Andrew George Latta [lat-uh] /ˈlæt ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1966, Canadian army officer, statesman, diplomat, and scientist.
- mechanical — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- mechanised — to make mechanical.