10-letter words containing c, h, l, a
- 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.
- 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.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- 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.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- mail coach — a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
- 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.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- match play — play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won by each side.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- 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.
- 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.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- mihailovic — Draža [Serbo-Croatian. drah-zhah] /Serbo-Croatian. ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), Mikhailovitch, Draja.
- 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.
- monarchial — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- monothecal — having a sole compartment or cell
- multichain — comprising or involving several chains, esp (in chemistry) of a linear polymer
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- music hall — an auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
- mythically — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- neufchatel — a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France.
- 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
- nonchalant — coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual: His nonchalant manner infuriated me.
- nonethical — not related to ethics
- notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
- ochlagogue — (rare) A manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.