10-letter words containing n, s, a, l
- long lease — (in England and Wales) a lease, originally for a period of over 21 years, on a whole house of low rent and ratable value, which is the occupants' only or main residence. The leaseholder is entitled to buy the freehold, claim an extension of 50 years, or become a statutory tenant
- long-coats — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- longaevous — long-lived
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- loon pants — trousers that flare from the knee
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- 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.
- low season — The low season is the time of year when a place receives the fewest visitors, and fares and holiday accommodation are often cheaper.
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lusitanian — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustrating — Present participle of lustrate.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lyre snake — any of several mildly venomous colubrid snakes of the genus Trimorphodon, inhabiting rocky areas from the southwestern U.S. to Central America, having fangs in the rear of the upper jaw and a lyre-shaped marking on the head.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- macro lens — a lens used to bring into focus objects very close to the camera.
- madeleines — Plural form of madeleine.
- magallanes — Punta Arenas.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malignants — Plural form of malignant.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- mallanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- mallenders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- 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.
- mammalians — an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
- manageless — (archaic) unmanageable.
- mandelstam — Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938? Russian acmeist poet and essayist.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manhandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manhandle.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- mannerless — without good manners; ill-mannered; discourteous; impolite.
- manstealer — A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshlands — Plural form of marshland.
- maskalonge — muskellunge.