10-letter words containing a, l, t, m
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- 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.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lentamente — slowly.
- letter man — a person who has earned a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport.
- lettergram — (historical) A telegram longer than an ordinary message and sent more cheaply and with a lower priority.
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- ligamental — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament.
- ligamentum — ligament.
- light meat — any meat that is light-colored before cooking, as veal or chicken (distinguished from red meat).
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- limitative — limiting; restrictive.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- litteratim — literatim.
- littermate — one of a pair or group of animals born or reared in the same litter.
- little man — the common or ordinary person.
- live steam — steam direct from the boiler and at full pressure, ready for use in work.
- livestream — to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens
- loadmaster — an aircrew member responsible for the loading and stowage of cargo aboard an aircraft.
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- local time — the time based on the meridian through a specific place, as a city, in contrast to that of the time zone within which the place is located; the time in a specific place as compared to that of another place to the east or west.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- loom-state — (of a woven cotton fabric) not yet dyed
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- maculating — Present participle of maculate.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- maculature — (dated) Blotting paper.