11-letter words containing t, h, a, l
- light opera — operetta.
- light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
- light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lipoatrophy — (medicine) The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
- lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
- lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- litholapaxy — the procedure of removing bladder stones by crushing them and extracting them through a catheter
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- loathedness — the state or condition of being an object of disgust and dislike
- loathsomely — In a way that is loathsome.
- logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
- logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- machicolate — to provide with machicolations.
- magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- male thread — a helical ridge on a cylindrical bar, rod, shank, etc, formed by a die or lathe tool
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- match plate — a plate on which patterns are set to be molded.
- matchlessly — In a matchless manner.
- matriarchal — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- mehemet ali — 1769–1849, viceroy of Egypt 1805–48.
- melanchthon — Philipp [fil-ip;; German fee-lip] /ˈfɪl ɪp;; German ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), (Philipp Schwarzert) 1497–1560, German Protestant reformer.
- mental home — a home, hospital, or institution for people who are mentally ill
- mentholated — saturated with or containing menthol: a mentholated cough drop.
- merthiolate — thimerosal
- mesha stele — Moabite Stone.
- mesothelial — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the mesothelium.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metaethical — (ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics.
- metaldehyde — a chemical, (CH3CHO)4, that is a polymer of acetaldehyde, used to kill slugs and snails and also as a fuel for portable stoves
- metalithium — A heavy isotope of the simplest alkali metal, (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and containing 8 neutrons. Metalithium is an artificial isotope produced by bombarding Lithium 7 with neutrons. It is radioactive, with a half-life of 0.84 seconds.
- metalsmiths — Plural form of metalsmith.