10-letter words containing l, e, m, n
- instalment — the act of installing.
- insultment — the act of insulting, or an insult
- intermodal — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- intermodel — Between models.
- intermural — of, relating to, or taking place between two or more institutions, cities, etc.: an intermural track meet.
- interramal — situated between the rami
- intimately — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
- isoaminile — a drug formerly used to suppress coughing. Formula: C16H24N2
- jean morel — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1903–75, French orchestra conductor.
- jostlement — Crowding; hustling.
- judgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- jungle gym — children's climbing frame
- kernmantel — denoting a type of mountaineering rope
- lacedaemon — Sparta.
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lake ilmen — a lake in NW Russia, in the Novgorod Region: drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Area: between 780 sq km (300 sq miles) and 2200 sq km (850 sq miles), according to the season
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- lame-brain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land-damne — to make life unbearable for someone
- landmarked — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landmasses — Plural form of landmass.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lawn mower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawnmowers — Plural form of lawnmower.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- leguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- 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.
- lemon balm — any of various oily, fragrant, resinous substances, often of medicinal value, exuding from certain plants, especially tropical trees of the genus Commiphora.
- lemon curd — lemon paste made with eggs and sugar
- lemon drop — a lemon-flavored lozenge.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- lemon mint — a plant, Mentha piperita, of the central U.S., having white or pinkish flowers and lemon-scented leaves when crushed.
- lemon soda — a sweet fizzy drink that tastes of lemon
- lemon sole — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
- lemon tree — plant: bears lemons