19-letter words containing l, h, e, a
- let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- leukoencephalopathy — (medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain.
- liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
- lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
- lift the curtain on — to begin
- light entertainment — entertainment that requires less mental effort to enjoy, or is considered frivolous
- like a cheshire cat — If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely.
- limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
- line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
- lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
- lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
- lose one's heart to — to fall in love with
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
- lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
- lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
- lytham saint anne's — a resort in NW England, in Lancashire on the Irish Sea. Pop: 41 327 (2001)
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
- malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
- manned space flight — space travel in vehicles with a human crew
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
- mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
- mechanical scanning — Electronics. a technique for varying the sector covered by a transmitting or receiving antenna by rotating it.
- mechanical-engineer — the branch of engineering dealing with the design and production of machinery.
- meningoencephalitic — Relating to meningoencephalitis.
- meningoencephalitis — Inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue.
- metatarsophalangeal — (anatomy) Relating to the metatarsus and phalange.
- methyl methacrylate — a colorless, volatile, flammable, water-insoluble, liquid, unsaturated ester, C 5 H 8 O 2 , that polymerizes readily to a clear plastic.
- middle palaeolithic — the period between the Lower and the Upper Palaeolithic, usually taken as equivalent to the Mousterian
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- military pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different events, a 300-meter freestyle swim, a 4000-meter cross-country run, a 5000-meter equestrian steeplechase, épée fencing, and pistol target-shooting at 25 meters, the winner being the contestant with the highest total score.
- mohammed ali jinnah — Mohammed Ali ("Quaid-i-Azam") 1876–1948, Muslim leader in India: first governor general of Pakistan 1947–48.
- molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
- moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
- mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- muhammadan calendar — Muslim calendar.
- mulheim an der ruhr — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, near Essen.
- multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
- multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
- naberezhniye chelny — city in E European Russia, on the Kama River: pop. 514,000
- nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
- napierian logarithm — natural logarithm.
- nathaniel hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- national characters — (character) Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.