10-letter words containing l, a, h, o, n
- harmonical — Alternative form of harmonic.
- hegemonial — hegemonic, controlling, dominant
- heligoland — Helgoland.
- helmswoman — The female equivalent of a helmsman.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- heptathlon — an athletic contest for women comprising seven different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score.
- herakleion — a seaport in N Crete.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- hold hands — clasp each another's hand
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- home-alone — (esp of a young child) left in a house, flat, etc unattended
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- horizontal — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- hormonally — In a hormonal way.
- hortensial — (obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inhalation — an act or instance of inhaling.
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isohalines — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- john logan — John or James (Tah-gah-jute) c1725–80, leader of the Cayuga tribe.
- johnny law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lake huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- landholder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- 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.
- loan shark — a person who lends money at excessively high rates of interest; usurer.
- 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.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.