10-letter words containing e, l, a, m
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legwarmers — Plural form of legwarmer.
- 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.
- lemon balm — any of various oily, fragrant, resinous substances, often of medicinal value, exuding from certain plants, especially tropical trees of the genus Commiphora.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- lemon soda — a sweet fizzy drink that tastes of lemon
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lentamente — slowly.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- 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.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- leukoderma — vitiligo.
- liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- liebermann — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1847–1935, German painter and etcher.
- 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.
- 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.
- like magic — very quickly
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
- limitative — limiting; restrictive.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
- literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- 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.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.