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15-letter words containing h, a, o

  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • lay on the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
  • length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • level one cache — primary cache
  • level two cache — secondary cache
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • literary theory — the systematic analysis and study of literature using general principles
  • lithochromatics — the art or process of painting in oil on stone and taking impressions from the result
  • local authority — council, local government
  • logarithmically — In a logarithmic manner.
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • lord chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
  • lose one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • low bandwidth x — (networking)   (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
  • low earth orbit — (communications)   (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high bandwidth for video on demand, television, and Internet communications. A satellite in LEO, in contrast to one in a geostationary orbit, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
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