10-letter words containing h, o, a, r
- lakeshores — Plural form of lakeshore.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- landholder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- 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
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
- leukorrhea — A whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
- litholatry — the worship of stones
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- 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.
- logorrhoea — (British spelling) Standard form of logorrhea.
- 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.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- 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.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- lothair ii — ("the Saxon") c1070–1137, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of the Germans 1125–37.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- lymphogram — A diagnostic image produced by lymphography.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- mammograph — A machine for taking X-ray pictures of the breasts (mammaries).
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
- menorrhoea — menstrual flow.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metatheory — a theory devised to analyze a theory.
- metathorax — the posterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the third pair of legs and the second pair of wings.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.