11-letter words containing l, e, m, u, r
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.
- fluorometer — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
- flusterment — the state of being flustered
- formula one — the top class of professional motor racing
- formularies — Plural form of formulary.
- formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
- formularize — formulate.
- foul matter — Printing. materials, as manuscript, galleys, or proofs, that have been superseded by revised proofs or galleys or by the bound book, and have been returned to the publisher by the printer.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glomerulate — grouped in small, dense clusters
- glumiferous — having glumes
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- gray mullet — mullet1 (def 1).
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- grey mullet — any teleost food fish of the family Mugilidae, mostly occurring in coastal regions, having a spindle-shaped body and a broad fleshy mouth
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- importunely — (obsolete) In an importune manner.
- imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
- innumerable — very numerous.
- innumerably — very numerous.
- intermutual — (obsolete) mutual.
- intermutule — a space between two mutules.
- intervallum — an interval of time
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kettledrums — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- lime sulfur — a mixture of lime and sulfur that has been boiled in water: used in powdered form or in aqueous solution as an insecticide, a fungicide, and a sheep dip.
- lime-juicer — a British sailor.
- livermorium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Lv; atomic number: 116.