10-letter words containing l, h, s
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- ml threads — SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in Modula-2+ and Mesa. Written by Greg Morrisett <[email protected]>. Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
- mohs scale — a scale of hardness used in mineralogy. Its degrees, in increasing hardness, are: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; feldspar 6; quartz 7; topaz 8; sapphire 9; diamond 10. Abbreviation: MSH.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- moon shell — any marine gastropod of the family Naticidae, having a rounded, short-spired, smooth shell.
- moonlights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moonlight.
- more-welsh — of or relating to Wales, its people, or their language.
- motherless — a female parent.
- mouse-hole — the burrow of a mouse.
- mule chest — a low chest with drawers, mounted on a low frame.
- mulishness — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- multiflash — (of a photographic image) created using several flashes in quick succession in order to depict the successive stages of a movement or action sequence
- multihulls — Plural form of multihull.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mush-melon — muskmelon.
- music hall — an auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- naga hills — a region in NE India and NW Myanmar (Burma), on the India-Myanmar border.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- nanoshells — Plural form of nanoshell.
- neckcloths — Plural form of neckcloth.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- nicholas i — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- night soil — human excrement collected and used as fertilizer.
- nightclass — an evening lesson
- nightclubs — Plural form of nightclub.
- nihilistic — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- nonhostile — Not hostile; free of hostility.
- northlands — Plural form of northland.
- nose wheel — the landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft.
- oenophiles — Plural form of oenophile.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old school — advocates or supporters of established custom or of conservatism: a military man of the old school.
- old-school — advocates or supporters of established custom or of conservatism: a military man of the old school.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- on the sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- open-shelf — open-stack.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.