9-letter words containing e, m, u, l
- mutualise — Alternative spelling of mutualize.
- mutualize — to make mutual.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- ngerulmud — the capital of Palau (from 2006), in the state of Melekeok on the island of Babelthuap
- nonlegume — not a vegetable of the family Fabaceae
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- numerally — According to number; in number; numerically.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nummuline — relating to a nummulite or a member of the group Nummulitidae or consisting of nummulites
- nummulite — a fossil foraminifer of the genus Camerina (Nummulites), having a calcareous, usually disklike shell.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outfumble — to exceed in fumbling
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outmantle — to be better dressed than
- outmuscle — to get the better of or dominate by virtue of superior strength or force.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- petroleum — oil used for fuel
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumbless — incapable of being sounded
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plummeted — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- pole-jump — pole-vault.
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pummeling — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pummelled — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- puzzledom — the domain of puzzles
- qualmless — having no qualms
- quelimane — a seaport in E Mozambique.
- quicklime — lime1 (def 1).
- remindful — reviving memory of something; reminiscent.
- remoulade — a cold sauce made with mayonnaise and various condiments and herbs, as chopped pickles, capers, mustard, parsley, chervil, and tarragon.
- reptilium — a building for the public exhibition of reptiles.
- reticulum — any fine network, esp one in the body composed of cells, fibres, etc
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- ruddleman — a person who deals in ruddle.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- scutellum — Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.