10-letter words containing c, h, o, l
- lalochezia — (rare) The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
- latch hook — a handheld tool similar to a latch needle, used for drawing loops of yarn through canvas or similar material to make rugs and the like.
- 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.
- law school — university where law degrees are taught
- le duc tho — (Phan Dinh Khai) 1911–90, Vietnamese politician and statesman: declined 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leech rope — a boltrope along a leech.
- leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair
- leontovich — Eugenie Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin/ (Show IPA), 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.
- letchworth — a town in SE England, in N Hertfordshire: the first garden city in Great Britain (founded in 1903). Pop: 32 932 (2001)
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- lipophilic — having a strong affinity for lipids.
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- 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).
- local echo — (communications) (Obsolete: "half-duplex") A mode of operation of a communications program or device in which it displays the characters the user enters at the same time as it sends them to the remote system. In communications between computers or computing processes, particularly those involving human keyboarding and/or reading, duplex came to mean the re-transmission of a keyboard character to the output display. Early input device such as the Teletype ASR-33 teleprinter, being descended from the electric typewriter, printed all input characters as they were typed (i.e. they did local echo). Local echo was typically optional on the video terminals that replaced them, and usually disabled in favour of remote echo. A disadvantage of local echo is that it will continue, even when the communication circuit has failed, which can be misleading.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lock horns — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockshield — (attributive) A kind of radiator valve used to balance the system by restricting the flow of water on the return side.
- locksmiths — Plural form of locksmith.
- lockstitch — A stitch made by a sewing machine by firmly linking together two threads or stitches.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- loincloths — Plural form of loincloth.
- 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.
- los mochis — a city in Sinaloa state, NW Mexico.
- lose touch — not keep in contact
- loucheness — The quality of being louche, shifty or disreputable.
- love child — a child born out of wedlock.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- low church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican Church that emphasizes evangelicalism and lays little stress on the sacraments, church rituals, and church authority.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lunch hour — pause from work to eat midday meal
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- lymphocyte — a type of white blood cell having a large, spherical nucleus surrounded by a thin layer of nongranular cytoplasm.
- 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
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- mccullough — David, born 1933, U.S. author and historian.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- 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.