10-letter words containing n, i, h, l, s
- huntsville — a city in N Alabama: rocket and missile center.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant
- inhalators — Plural form of inhalator.
- inholdings — Plural form of inholding.
- insightful — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isohalines — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- knightless — not suitable or seemly for a knight
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- last thing — as the final action, esp before retiring to bed at night
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- 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.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lengthwise — In a direction parallel with a thing's length.
- leviathans — Plural form of leviathan.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- lich stone — a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery.
- lightnings — (archaic) Plural form of lightning.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lisichansk — a city in E Ukraine, on the Donets River, NE of Donetsk.
- litherness — (obsolete) Wickedness.
- 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.
- loincloths — Plural form of loincloth.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- 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.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- millionths — Plural form of millionth.
- minischool — an alternative educational institution, usually offering specialized or individual instruction.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- moonlights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moonlight.
- mulishness — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- 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
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.