10-letter words containing a, s, i, m, l
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- latissimus — Either of a pair of large, roughly triangular muscles covering the lower part of the back, extending from the sacral, lumbar, and lower thoracic vertebrae to the armpits.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- 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.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- 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.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- 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.
- 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
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- macrolides — Plural form of macrolide.
- madeleines — Plural form of madeleine.
- magistrals — Plural form of magistral.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- majestical — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- mala fides — bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides (def 1).
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- malignants — Plural form of malignant.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- mammalians — an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- marbleizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marbleize.
- marseilles — a department in SE France. 2026 sq. mi. (5245 sq. km). Capital: Marseilles.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.