10-letter words containing h, e, n, i
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- lanthanide — any element of the lanthanide series.
- late-night — of or occurring late at night: a late-night TV talk show.
- laugh line — crow's-foot (def 1).
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- leech line — a line for hauling the middle of a leech of a square sail up to the yard.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lengthwise — In a direction parallel with a thing's length.
- leontovich — Eugenie Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin/ (Show IPA), 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- lie behind — If you refer to what lies behind a situation or event, you are referring to the reason the situation exists or the event happened.
- liebknecht — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, German socialist leader.
- lienholder — a person who has a lien on particular property.
- light line — the line or level to which a ship or boat sinks when fully supplied with fuel and ballast but without cargo.
- lighten up — be less serious
- lightening — the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity, occurring toward the end of pregnancy, changing the contour of the abdomen and facilitating breathing by lessening pressure under the diaphragm.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- lilienthal — David E(ly) 1899–1981, U.S. public administrator.
- line ahead — a formation adopted by a naval unit for manoeuvring
- litherness — (obsolete) Wickedness.
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- lithophone — a Chinese stone chime consisting of 16 stone slabs hung in two rows and struck with a hammer.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- lye hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- lymphokine — any lymphocyte product, as interferon, that is not an antibody but may participate in the immune response through its effect on the function of other cells, as destroying antigen-coated cells or stimulating macrophages.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- machinated — Simple past tense and past participle of machinate.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- machineman — a worker in charge of a machine
- maconochie — a tinned stew of meat and vegetables given to soldiers during World War 1
- mahoganies — Plural form of mahogany.
- maidenhair — any fern of the genus Adiantum, the cultivated species of which have fine, glossy stalks and delicate, finely divided fronds.
- maidenhead — the hymen.
- maidenhood — the state or time of being a maiden or virgin.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- mainsheets — Plural form of mainsheet.
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- manichaean — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.