11-letter words containing l, a, k, e, h
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hypokalemia — an abnormally low concentration of potassium in the blood.
- hypokalemic — Having a low percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- keelhauling — Present participle of keelhaul.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- kitchenalia — cooking equipment and other items found in a kitchen
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- kosher salt — a coarse-grained salt with no additives, used especially to draw out the blood from meat to make it kosher.
- lackey moth — a bombycid moth, Malacosoma neustria, whose brightly striped larvae live at first in a communal web often on fruit trees, of which they may become a pest
- lake school — Lake Poets.
- lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
- lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
- leatherlike — Resembling leather.
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- leukorrheal — Relating to leukorrhea.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- rathskeller — (in Germany) the cellar of a town hall, often used as a beer hall or restaurant.
- sales check — sales slip.
- salt shaker — a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
- saltchucker — a saltwater angler
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- shacklebone — the wrist