6-letter words containing l, h, e
- lashes — Plural form of lash.
- lathed — a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
- lathen — made of lath or laths
- lather — a worker who puts up laths.
- lathes — Plural form of lathe.
- leachy — allowing water to percolate through, as sandy or rocky soil; porous.
- leched — Simple past tense and past participle of lech.
- lecher — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- leches — to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
- lechwe — an African antelope, Kobus leche, related to the waterbuck, inhabiting wet, grassy plains: a threatened species.
- lehigh — a river in E Pennsylvania, flowing SW and SE into the Delaware River. 103 miles (165 km) long.
- lehman — Herbert H(enry) 1878–1963, U.S. banker and statesman.
- lehnga — A long formal or ceremonial skirt worn by Indian women.
- length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- lepcha — a member of a people of Sikkim and adjacent areas of Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
- lesche — an arcade or other public place in ancient Greece.
- letcha — (slang) Let you.
- letchy — Alternative form of lechy.
- lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- lethee — lifeblood
- lhotse — a mountain peak in the Himalayas, on the Nepal-Tibet border: fourth highest peak in the world. 27,890 feet (8501 meters).
- lichee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lichen — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- linnhe — Loch, Loch Linnhe.
- lithed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithe.
- lither — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- liveth — Archaic third-person singular form of live.
- loathe — to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
- lother — unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to be loath to admit a mistake.
- louche — dubious; shady; disreputable.
- loveth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of love.
- lushed — drunkard; alcoholic; sot.
- lusher — lush2 (def 1).
- lushes — drunkard; alcoholic; sot.
- luther — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
- lychee — the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.
- lyghte — Obsolete spelling of light.
- machel — Samora Moisés [suh-mawr-uh moi-zes] /səˈmɔr ə mɔɪˈzɛs/ (Show IPA), 1933–86, Mozambique political leader: president 1975–86.
- mahler — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1860–1911, Austrian composer and conductor, born in Bohemia.
- methyl — containing the methyl group.
- michel — Obsolete form of mickle.
- mohole — a hole bored through the earth's crust into the region below the Mohorovičić discontinuity, for geological research.
- molech — Moloch (defs 1, 2).
- neilah — the Jewish religious service marking the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
- olathe — a city in E Kansas.
- owelsh — Old Welsh
- pelham — a bit that is used with two pairs of reins, designed to serve the purpose of a full bridle.
- phelps — William Lyon [lahy-uh n] /ˈlaɪ ən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1943, U.S. educator and literary critic.
- phenol — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- phenyl — containing the phenyl group.