10-letter words containing i, n, h, a
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lawn chair — a chair or chaise longue designed for use out of doors.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- 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.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- 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
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- long-chain — pertaining to molecules composed of long chains of atoms, or polymers composed of long chains of monomers.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- 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.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- machineman — a worker in charge of a machine
- machinists — Plural form of machinist.
- macintrash — /mak'in-trash"/ The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn"t appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Compare Macintoy. See also beige toaster, WIMP environment, point-and-drool interface, drool-proof paper, user-friendly.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- maconochie — a tinned stew of meat and vegetables given to soldiers during World War 1
- madonnaish — resembling a Madonna
- 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.
- main shaft — the principal shaft of a motor, transmission, etc. (distinguished from jackshaft).
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- mainsheets — Plural form of mainsheet.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malpighian — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- 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
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manhunting — Organized searching for a criminal or enemy.
- 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.