10-letter words containing h, o, l, e, n
- lederhosen — Leather shorts with H-shaped suspenders, traditionally worn by men in Alpine regions such as Bavaria.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- leontovich — Eugenie Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin/ (Show IPA), 1900–1993, U.S. actress, director, and playwright, born in Russia.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- lienholder — a person who has a lien on particular property.
- 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.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- long horse — vaulting horse.
- long house — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longheaded — Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
- longhouses — Plural form of longhouse.
- loucheness — The quality of being louche, shifty or disreputable.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lumen-hour — a unit of luminous energy, equal to that emitted in 1 hour by a light source emitting a luminous flux of 1 lumen. Abbreviation: lm-hr.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- 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)
- lyme-hound — lyam-hound.
- lymph node — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- 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.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- mellophone — a marching or military band brass instrument similar in appearance and range to the French horn but slightly smaller and simpler to play.
- mendelsohn — Erich [ey-rikh] /ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1887–1953, German architect in England and in the U.S.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.
- monomethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single methyl group in a molecule.
- monothecal — having a sole compartment or cell
- moon shell — any marine gastropod of the family Naticidae, having a rounded, short-spired, smooth shell.
- morpholine — a colorless, hygroscopic liquid, C 4 H 9 NO, used chiefly as a solvent for dyes, resins, and waxes.
- motherland — one's native land.
- mush-melon — muskmelon.
- nalorphine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 3 , used to nullify respiratory depression due to narcotics and for the diagnosis of addiction to narcotics.
- namma hole — gnamma hole.
- nanoshells — Plural form of nanoshell.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- necrophile — (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- negrophile — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- neighborly — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- nephrolith — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- nephrology — the branch of medical science that deals with the kidney.
- net blotch — a disease of barley, characterized by a brown, netlike discoloration of the leaves, caused by fungi of the genus Helminthosporium.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- non-lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- nonathlete — a person who is not an athlete
- nonethical — not related to ethics
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.