9-letter words containing i, r, m, n
- laminaria — any of various often very large kelps of the genus Laminaria, some species of which are the source of algins used as thickening or stabilizing agents in foodstuffs and other products.
- laminarin — (carbohydrate) A glucan produced by some brown algae.
- laminator — to separate or split into thin layers.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- lemnitzer — Lyman Louis [lahy-muh n] /ˈlaɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1988, U.S. army officer; chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 1960–63; supreme allied commander NATO 1963–69.
- lentiform — lenticular.
- leo minor — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Leo and Ursa Major
- ligniform — having the form of wood; resembling wood, as a variety of asbestos.
- limbering — Present participle of limber.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limerence — The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one’s feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- link arms — If two or more people link arms, or if one person links arms with another, they stand next to each other, and each person puts their arm round the arm of the person next to them.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- liverymen — Plural form of liveryman.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
- macaronic — composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- maccaroni — macaroni.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- macrobian — Having an exceptionally long life span.
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- magaziner — Someone who writes for a magazine.
- magnifier — a person or thing that magnifies.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- main door — the principal or largest door that is used to enter a building which has more than one door
- main drag — the main street of a city or town; main stem.
- main road — principal street
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- maistring — ruling or subduing
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- mammering — to stammer or mutter.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandarine — Alternative spelling of mandarin (in the term
- mandarins — Plural form of mandarin.
- mandrills — Plural form of mandrill.