11-letter words containing h, a, e, m
- lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- lappet moth — a large purple-brown hairy eggar moth, Gastropacha quercifolia, whose grey furry caterpillars have lappets on each flank
- leishmanial — Relating to leishmania.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machiavelli — Niccolò di Bernardo [neek-kaw-law dee ber-nahr-daw] /ˌnik kɔˈlɔ di bɛrˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1469–1527, Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author.
- machicolate — to provide with machicolations.
- machine age — the period in the early 20th century when there was greater production and more new inventions of machinery than previously, and considered to be at a peak between the first and second world wars
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
- magpie moth — a geometrid moth, Abraxas grossulariata, showing variable patterning in black on white or yellow, whose looper larvae attack currant and gooseberry bushes. The paler clouded magpie is A. sylvata
- maidenheads — Plural form of maidenhead.
- maidenhoods — Plural form of maidenhood.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- main chance — an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- make a dash — If you make a dash for a place, you run there very quickly, for example to escape from someone or something.
- make change — If you make change, you give someone smaller notes, bills, or coins, in exchange for the same value of larger ones.
- make hay of — to throw into confusion
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- male thread — a helical ridge on a cylindrical bar, rod, shank, etc, formed by a die or lathe tool
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- manichaeism — the system of religious doctrines, including elements of Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism, etc, taught by the Persian prophet Mani about the 3rd century ad. It was based on a supposed primordial conflict between light and darkness, or goodness and evil
- manila hemp — a fibrous material made from the leafstalks of the abacá, Musa textilis, used for making ropes, fabrics, etc.
- mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- manure heap — a pile of animal excreta, esp on a farm, kept for use as fertiliser