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14-letter words containing h, e, a, l

  • kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • kedleston hall — a mansion near Derby in Derbyshire: rebuilt (1759–65) for the Curzon family by Matthew Brettingham, James Paine, and Robert Adam
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • lady's-thistle — a composite plant, Silybum marianum, of the Mediterranean region, having glossy, spiny leaves and purplish-red flower heads.
  • lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
  • lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
  • lake neuchâtel — a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
  • langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • larmor theorem — the theorem that an electron subjected only to the force exerted by the nucleus about which it is moving will undergo Larmor precession but no other change in motion when placed in a magnetic field.
  • larval therapy — the use of maggots that feed on dead tissue to assist in the healing of serious wounds. An ancient practice, it has been revived in rare cases in which healing is hampered by the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics
  • latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
  • late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lead the field — If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.
  • learn by heart — memorize
  • lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
  • leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • lechatelierite — a mineral, an amorphous form of silica formed by the fusion by heat of silica and found in fulgurites.
  • leclanché cell — a primary cell with a carbon anode, surrounded by crushed carbon and manganese dioxide in a porous container, immersed in an electrolyte of aqueous ammonium chloride into which the zinc cathode dips. The common dry battery is a form of Leclanché cell
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • leland haywardLeland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
  • lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
  • leu enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
  • leucocythaemia — leukaemia
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
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