10-letter words containing h, a, o
- lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
- lalochezia — (rare) The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- landholder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
- 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.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- law school — university where law degrees are taught
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leaseholds — Plural form of leasehold.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- leukorrhea — A whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina.
- lhasa apso — one of a breed of small terriers having a long, heavy coat, raised in Tibet as watchdogs.
- 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.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
- litholatry — the worship of 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).
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
- liu shaoqi — 1898–1973, Chinese Communist leader: head of state 1959–66.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- 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.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- loggerhead — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- logographs — Plural form of logograph.
- logography — printing with logotypes.
- logophilia — The love of words and word games.
- logophobia — an obsessive fear of words.
- logorrhoea — (British spelling) Standard form of logorrhea.
- 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.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longheaded — Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
- look ahead — see what is in front
- look sharp — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.