10-letter words containing c, h, e, l, m
- hermitical — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- homeschool — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homocercal — having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes.
- homoleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having a single type of ligand.
- horse clam — gaper.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
- 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.
- lymphocyte — a type of white blood cell having a large, spherical nucleus surrounded by a thin layer of nongranular cytoplasm.
- mach scale — a scale that measures how much deceit and manipulation one will approve or condone in order to achieve some end.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- mechanical — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- megalithic — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- menarcheal — the first menstrual period; the establishment of menstruation.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- michaelmas — a festival celebrated on September 29 in honor of the archangel Michael.
- michelozzo — full name Michelozzo di Bartolommeo. 1396–1472, Italian architect and sculptor. His most important design was the Palazzo Riccardo for the Medici family in Florence (1444–59)
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- milk vetch — a European plant, Astragalus glycyphyllos, of the legume family, believed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mischmetal — an alloy of cerium with certain rare earth metals and iron, used to produce the spark in lighters
- mohs scale — a scale of hardness used in mineralogy. Its degrees, in increasing hardness, are: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; feldspar 6; quartz 7; topaz 8; sapphire 9; diamond 10. Abbreviation: MSH.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- monothecal — having a sole compartment or cell
- mule chest — a low chest with drawers, mounted on a low frame.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- peach palm — a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phlegmonic — relating to or having the characteristics of a phlegmon
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- schlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.