10-letter words containing n, a, i, l, h
- late-night — of or occurring late at night: a late-night TV talk show.
- laugh line — crow's-foot (def 1).
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lawn chair — a chair or chaise longue designed for use out of doors.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- lilienthal — David E(ly) 1899–1981, U.S. public administrator.
- line ahead — a formation adopted by a naval unit for manoeuvring
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- 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.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- 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.
- long-chain — pertaining to molecules composed of long chains of atoms, or polymers composed of long chains of monomers.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malpighian — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mechanical — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- middlehand — the player on the dealer's right in a game with three players. Compare endhand, forehand (def 7).
- midlothian — Formerly Edinburgh. a historic county in SE Scotland.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- monarchial — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- monorhinal — having one nasal orifice
- multichain — comprising or involving several chains, esp (in chemistry) of a linear polymer
- 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
- nalbuphine — a potent synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 7 NO 4 , used as an analgesic for moderate to severe pain.
- nalorphine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 3 , used to nullify respiratory depression due to narcotics and for the diagnosis of addiction to narcotics.
- naphtalite — a member of the tribe of Naphtali.
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.