10-letter words containing t, h, o, r
- lithotrity — the operation of crushing stone in the urinary bladder into particles small enough to be voided.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- lothair ii — ("the Saxon") c1070–1137, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of the Germans 1125–37.
- loveworthy — worthy of being loved
- lower hutt — an industrial town in New Zealand on the S coast of North Island. Pop: 100 300 (2004 est)
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metatheory — a theory devised to analyze a theory.
- metathorax — the posterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the third pair of legs and the second pair of wings.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- methoprene — a synthetic insect juvenile hormone, C 1 9 H 3 4 O 3 , used as a biological pesticide primarily on mosquito and fly larvae to prevent maturing to the adult state.
- methylator — A person, company of device that methylates (originally, one that produced methylated spirits).
- microlight — An ultralight aircraft.
- microliths — Plural form of microlith.
- microphyte — a microscopic plant.
- microtherm — a plant requiring a minimum of heat for growth.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- monarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- montrachet — a dry white wine of N Burgundy
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
- morphodite — (informal, slang) A comic slang version of hermaphrodite.
- mother hen — a person who attends to the welfare of others, especially one who is fussily protective.
- mother wit — natural or practical intelligence, wit, or sense.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- motherhood — the state of being a mother; maternity.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherless — a female parent.
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- motherlode — (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherwell — Robert, 1915–91, U.S. painter.
- motherwort — a European plant, Leonorus cardiaca, of the mint family, an introduced weed in the U.S., having cut leaves with a whorl of lavender flowers in the axils.
- mothproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mothproof.
- motor home — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.
- motor ship — a ship propelled by an internal-combustion engine or engines
- motor show — an exhibition which displays rare, fashionable and expensive cars
- motorcoach — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- motormouth — a person who is a constant or irrepressible talker.
- mouth harp — harmonica (def 1).
- mouthguard — A device that fits into the mouth over one or both arches of teeth, which is usually made of plastic. They may be used to protect aginst injury during sport or fighting, or may serve a medical purpose.