10-letter words containing n, a, t, l, h
- 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.
- late-night — of or occurring late at night: a late-night TV talk show.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- lefthanded — Alternative spelling of left-handed.
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lethalness — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- 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.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- 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.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- 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.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- midlothian — Formerly Edinburgh. a historic county in SE Scotland.
- monothecal — having a sole compartment or cell
- motherland — one's native land.
- multichain — comprising or involving several chains, esp (in chemistry) of a linear polymer
- naphtalite — a member of the tribe of Naphtali.
- neufchatel — a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France.
- nightclass — an evening lesson
- non-lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- nonathlete — a person who is not an athlete
- nonchalant — coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual: His nonchalant manner infuriated me.
- nonethical — not related to ethics
- nonthermal — Not thermal; not produced by heat.
- northlands — Plural form of northland.
- notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
- on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- orthogonal — Mathematics. Also, orthographic. pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars: an orthogonal projection. (of a system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the product of any two different functions is zero. (of a system of complex functions) defined so that the integral of the product of a function times the complex conjugate of any other function equals zero. (of two vectors) having an inner product equal to zero. (of a linear transformation) defined so that the length of a vector under the transformation equals the length of the original vector. (of a square matrix) defined so that its product with its transpose results in the identity matrix.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different track and field events and won by the contestant gaining the highest total score.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phenolated — containing phenol; carbolated.
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- plainchant — plainsong (defs 1, 2).