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15-letter words containing h, a, r

  • 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.
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • light artillery — guns and howitzers of small caliber.
  • like grim death — as if afraid for one's life
  • literary theory — the systematic analysis and study of literature using general principles
  • lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
  • lithium citrate — a white crystalline solid sometimes used in the treatment of manic-depressive illness and mania. Formula: Li3C6H5O7
  • 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
  • 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 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 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.
  • luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
  • 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.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • mad as a hatter — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • magnetorheology — the study of the relationships between the particle and fluid properties of magnetic suspensions.
  • mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
  • maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
  • maidenhair tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-tree — ginkgo.
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • make a horlicks — to make a mistake or a mess
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • make the effort — try
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • malayan camphor — borneol.
  • man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • mannerheim line — a zone of Finnish fortification erected along part of the border between Finland and Russia before the Finno-Russian War.
  • manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
  • manx shearwater — a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)
  • marathon runner — person who runs in a marathon race
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mare erythraeum — (Red Sea) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • marital therapy — a psychotherapeutic treatment for married couples, who are seen by a therapist both individually and jointly to assist them in resolving various problems related to their marriage.
  • market research — investigation into consumers' needs
  • market-research — to conduct market research on.
  • marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
  • marsh andromeda — a low-growing pink-flowered ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda polifolia, that grows in peaty bogs of northern regions
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
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