9-letter words containing e, m, p, l
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- maplelike — Resembling a maple tree or some aspect of one.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- may apple — an American plant, Podophyllum peltatum, of the barberry family, bearing an edible, yellowish, egg-shaped fruit.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meal plan — outline of what to cook and eat
- medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- megapixel — a unit equal to one million pixels, used to measure the resolution of a digital image: My camera has a resolution of 12 megapixels.
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- melampode — the black hellebore, Helleborus niger
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- melpomene — the Muse of tragedy.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- merpeople — Plural form of merperson.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- metapelet — a woman who cares for children, especially on kibbutzim in Israel; foster mother.
- metaplasm — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- millepede — any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- millipede — any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- mispickel — arsenopyrite.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- misspells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspell.
- mole plow — a plow typically having a pointed shoe at the end of a vertical support, for cutting a hollow drainage channel below the surface.
- monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
- monopoles — Plural form of monopole.