9-letter words containing e, m, u, l
- guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- gum elemi — elemi.
- gum field — an area of land containing buried fossilized kauri gum
- gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
- gun-metal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
- helium ii — liquid helium existing as a superfluid below the lambda point of 2.186 K, having very low viscosity and very high thermal conductivity.
- help menu — the place on a computer where you can get help and advice
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- home rule — self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homologue — something homologous.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- humblebee — bumblebee.
- humblesse — humbleness, humility, or abasement
- humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hummeller — a person, machine or tool which removes the awns or beards from barley
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- illumined — Simple past tense and past participle of illumine.
- illuminer — an illuminator
- illumines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illumine.
- immutable — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- 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.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- 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.
- junglegym — climbing frame for children
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- la marque — a city in SE coastal Texas.
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
- leucaemia — Alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leucotome — an instrument for dissecting the white matter of the brain, consisting of a cannula containing a slender rotating blade.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukaemia — (UK) alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- leukemoid — resembling leukaemia
- leukotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.