10-letter words containing as
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- june grass — Kentucky bluegrass.
- kans grass — kans.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
- kshatriyas — Plural form of kshatriya.
- labionasal — articulated with the lips and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as m.
- lace glass — glass in a filigree pattern.
- 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)
- lamaseries — Plural form of lamasery.
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lancashire — a county in NW England. 1174 sq. mi. (3040 sq. km).
- landmasses — Plural form of landmass.
- las cruces — a city in S New Mexico, on the Rio Grande.
- las palmas — Las. Las Palmas.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laser beam — a beam of radiation produced from a laser, used in surgery, communications, weapons systems, printing, recording and various industrial processes.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- last sleep — death
- last straw — the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, remarks, etc., that leads to a loss of patience, a disaster, etc.: He has been late before, but this is the last straw.
- last thing — as the final action, esp before retiring to bed at night
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- lead glass — glass containing lead oxide.
- lease-back — an arrangement by which a company sells a property and simultaneously obtains a long-term lease from the buyer for continued use of the deeded property
- lease-lend — material assistance to an ally
- leasebacks — Plural form of leaseback.
- leaseholds — Plural form of leasehold.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- lend-lease — the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
- leontiasis — a lionlike facial distortion.
- lespedezas — Plural form of lespedeza.
- leuco base — a noncolored or slightly colored compound that is produced by reducing a dye and is readily oxidized to regenerate the dye.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- lewis base — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with an acid by transferring a pair of electrons to it.
- lhasa apso — one of a breed of small terriers having a long, heavy coat, raised in Tibet as watchdogs.
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- light-fast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.