8-letter words containing a, p, l, m
- handlamp — A small lamp carried in the hand.
- headlamp — headlight.
- helpmann — Sir Robert (Murray) 1909–86, Australian dancer, choreographer, and actor.
- helpmate — a companion and helper.
- impaling — Present participle of impale.
- impanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impanel.
- imperial — of, like, or pertaining to an empire.
- implants — Plural form of implant.
- impleach — to intertwine
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- kamloops — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- la palma — a city in SW California.
- ladypalm — a type of small palm of the genus Rhapis, popularly grown as an indoor plant
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lamp oil — kerosene.
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- lampless — Without a lamp or lamps; unlit.
- lampoons — Plural form of lampoon.
- lamppost — a post, usually of metal, supporting a lamp that lights a street, park, etc.
- lampreys — Plural form of lamprey.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- lip balm — salve for the lips
- lipaemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lippmann — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1845–1921, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1908.
- lymphoma — a tumor arising from any of the cellular elements of lymph nodes.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- maladapt — To adapt badly; to exhibit maladaptation.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
- malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- mappable — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- mayapple — American plant
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible