9-letter words containing e, m, p, l
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- impaneled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- impedible — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- impellent — impelling: an impellent power; an impellent cause.
- impelling — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imperiled — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- implanted — Simple past tense and past participle of implant.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of implead.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- implement — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- implexion — a complication or entanglement
- impliable — (archaic) Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- impliedly — involved, indicated, or suggested without being directly or explicitly stated; tacitly understood: an implied rebuke; an implied compliment.
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- klemperer — Otto, 1885–1973, German orchestra conductor.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lipidemia — (medicine) The presence of lipids in the blood.
- liposomes — Plural form of liposome.