10-letter words containing s, e, l, n, a
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- lake nyasa — a lake in central Africa at the S end of the Great Rift Valley: the third largest lake in Africa, drained by the Shire River into the Zambezi. Area: about 28 500 sq km (11 000 sq miles)
- lake sevan — a lake in Armenia at an altitude of 1914 m (6279 ft). Area: 1417 sq km (547 sq miles)
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- land's end — a cape in Cornwall that forms the SW tip of England.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- landgraves — Plural form of landgrave.
- landladies — Plural form of landlady.
- landmasses — Plural form of landmass.
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- landslides — Plural form of landslide.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lanosterol — a sterol, C 30 H 50 O, formed from squalene epoxide, that is a precursor in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and is a component of lanolin.
- lansquenet — landsknecht.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- lanuginose — covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
- laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
- latenesses — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- latescence — the state or quality of being latescent
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lavishness — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawnmowers — Plural form of lawnmower.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leadenness — The quality of being leaden.
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- lease-lend — material assistance to an ally
- leavenless — Without any yeast or other raising agent.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- legalising — Present participle of legalise.
- legharness — armor for the leg, sometimes including that for the foot.
- 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.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lemon soda — a sweet fizzy drink that tastes of lemon
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.