10-letter words containing len
- field lens — the lens in an eyepiece that is farthest from the eye and that deviates rays toward the center of the eye lens.
- flatulence — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- flatulency — (chiefly, dated) flatulence.
- flocculent — like a clump or tuft of wool.
- fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- futileness — incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile.
- gentleness — kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
- glen check — Glen plaid.
- glen ellyn — a city in NE Illinois.
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- glendoveer — a heavenly sprite
- glenrothes — a new town in E central Scotland, the administrative centre of Fife: founded in 1948. Pop: 38 679 (2001)
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- hexavalent — having a valence of six.
- hip-length — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hornblende — a dark-green to black mineral of the amphibole group, calcium magnesium iron and hydroxyl aluminosilicate.
- humbleness — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- indolently — having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person.
- inesculent — Inedible.
- inglenooks — Plural form of inglenook.
- insolently — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
- interblend — (transitive) To blend or mingle so as to form a union.
- klendusity — (in plants) the ability to resist disease
- lease-lend — material assistance to an ally
- 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.
- lengthened — Simple past tense and past participle of lengthen.
- lengthener — A person or thing that lengthens something.
- lengthless — Without length.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lengthwise — In a direction parallel with a thing's length.
- lenin peak — a peak in the Trans Alai range, in central Asia, between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. 23,382 feet (7127 meters).
- lenitively — In a lenitive manner.
- lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
- lentamente — slowly.
- lenticular — of or relating to a lens.
- lentigines — a freckle or other pigmented spot.
- lentil cut — a cabochon cut in which the upper and lower portions of the stone are identical.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- lentiviral — Of or pertaining to a lentivirus.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- lenz's law — the principle that the direction of the current induced in a circuit by a changing magnetic field is such that the magnetic field produced by this current will oppose the original field
- liableness — Quality of being liable; liability.
- linolenate — a salt or ester of linolenic acid
- littleneck — the quahog clam, Venus mercenaria, when young and small.
- littleness — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- llangollen — a town in NE Wales, in Denbighshire on the River Dee: International Musical Eisteddfod held annually since 1946. Pop: 2930 (2001)
- loan-blend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- macro lens — a lens used to bring into focus objects very close to the camera.
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.