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15-letter words containing n, e, a, h

  • kincardineshire — a former county in E Scotland.
  • kindheartedness — The quality of being kindhearted.
  • kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
  • kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
  • knapping hammer — a hammer used for breaking and shaping stones
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • knight banneret — banneret1 (def 2).
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • langston hughes — Charles Evans, 1862–1948, U.S. jurist and statesman: chief justice of the U.S. 1930–41.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laser machining — Laser machining is a process in which material is removed from a surface using light from a laser.
  • late in the day — in the evening
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • lay on the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • lead-pipe cinch — an absolute certainty: It's a lead-pipe cinch they'll be there.
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
  • learner's chain — an inexperienced team of slaughtermen working in a freezing works
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
  • lethal mutation — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • level one cache — primary cache
  • levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
  • lord chancellor — the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc.
  • lose one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • macaroni cheese — Macaroni cheese is a dish made from macaroni and cheese sauce.
  • machine gunning — the act of using a machine gun
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
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