10-letter words containing i, m, a, t
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kiritimati — Christmas Island (def 2).
- kitambilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- kitembilla — a shrub or small tree, Dovyalis hebecarpa, of India and Sri Lanka, having velvety, maroon-purple fruit.
- kuomintang — the dominant political party of China from 1928 to 1949, founded chiefly by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and led from 1925 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek; the dominant party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1949.
- lacrimator — a chemical substance that causes the shedding of tears, as tear gas.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- laminating — Present participle of laminate.
- lamination — act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- latissimus — Either of a pair of large, roughly triangular muscles covering the lower part of the back, extending from the sacral, lumbar, and lower thoracic vertebrae to the armpits.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- 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.
- 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.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- limitative — limiting; restrictive.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- 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
- 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.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- maastricht — a city in the SE Netherlands, on the Maas River.