10-letter words containing n, a, o, t
- lanthanoid — (inorganic chemistry) lanthanide.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latifundio — a great estate of Latin America or Spain.
- latitation — the state of lying hidden
- latrotoxin — (biochemistry) Any of a group of neurotoxins found in the venom of spiders of the genus Latrodectus.
- latticinio — an opaque, white glass first produced in Venice during the Renaissance, often used in thread form to decorate clear glass pieces.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- laundromat — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.
- laureation — The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
- lazy tongs — extensible tongs for grasping objects at a distance, consisting of a series of pairs of crossing pieces, each pair pivoted together in the middle and connected with the next pair at the extremities.
- lead on to — If one event or action leads on to another, it causes it or makes it possible.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- levigation — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- leviration — Levirate marriage.
- levitation — the act or phenomenon of levitating.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- linoleates — Plural form of linoleate.
- linolenate — a salt or ester of linolenic acid
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- literation — The act or process of representing by letters.
- 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.
- litigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- 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.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- locational — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- long eaton — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 46 490 (2001)
- long-coats — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having more than 15 years to run before redemption
- longtailed — Having a long tail (used in the names of various birds and animals).
- loon pants — trousers that flare from the knee
- lopatnikov — Nicolai Lvovich [nik-uh-lahy luh-voh-vich;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy lvaw-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ ləˈvoʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈlvɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- loratadine — An antihistamine drug used to treat allergies.
- lord acton — Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron) 1834–1902, English historian.
- lorication — the act of covering with a protective coating
- lotus land — the land of the lotus-eaters, or any fabulous, dreamlike setting
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.