11-letter words containing a, n, l, e, m
- lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- lan manager — (operating system) Microsoft's OS/2-based network operating system. Developed in conjunction with 3Com, Lan Manager runs as a task under OS/2. Because of this, a file server may concurrently be used for other tasks, such as database services. It offers good mulitasking.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- latent time — the time from the onset of a stimulus to that of the response
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- leishmanial — Relating to leishmania.
- lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- ligamentary — Of or relating to ligaments.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- machinelike — like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- maddeningly — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- magdalenian — of or relating to the final Paleolithic culture of much of western Europe, dating from c13,000–10,000 b.c. and notable for its artifacts of bone, antler, and ivory and for the cave art of western France and northeastern Spain.
- maglemosean — of, relating to, or characteristic of the first Mesolithic culture of the northern European plain, adapted to forest and waterside habitats and characterized by flint axes, microliths, and bone and antler equipment used in hunting and fishing.
- maglemosian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the first Mesolithic culture of the northern European plain, adapted to forest and waterside habitats and characterized by flint axes, microliths, and bone and antler equipment used in hunting and fishing.
- magnetotail — the narrow and elongated region of the magnetosphere of the earth or of another planet that extends in the direction away from the sun.
- maiden lady — an unmarried woman
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- malakatoone — a variety of large peach
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- maleficence — the doing of evil or harm: the maleficence of thieves.
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
- malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malignities — Plural form of malignity.