10-letter words containing l, e, m
- 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.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- locomobile — automotive; self-propelling.
- locomotive — a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- lodgements — Plural form of lodgement.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- lonesomely — In a lonesome manner, in a way missing companionship.
- lonesomest — Superlative form of lonesome.
- long metre — a stanzaic form consisting of four octosyllabic lines, used esp for hymns
- longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- longsomely — lengthily, slowly, and tediously
- loom large — to be very prominent or important
- loom-state — (of a woven cotton fabric) not yet dyed
- loose smut — a disease of cereal grasses caused by smut fungi of the genus Ustilago, in which powdery spore masses replace the host tissue
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- low comedy — comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
- low german — the West Germanic languages not included in the High German group, as English, Dutch, Flemish, or Plattdeutsch. Abbreviation: LG. Compare High German (def 1).
- low-income — of or relating to those with a relatively small income.
- low-minded — having or showing a coarse or vulgar taste or interests.
- lower limb — a limb that is lower or hindmost; a leg
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- loxodromes — Plural form of loxodrome.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- lumbermill — a mill for dressing logs and lumber.
- lumbersome — unwieldy; cumbrous
- lumberyard — a yard where lumber is stored for sale.
- lumen-hour — a unit of luminous energy, equal to that emitted in 1 hour by a light source emitting a luminous flux of 1 lumen. Abbreviation: lm-hr.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminesced — Simple past tense and past participle of luminesce.
- luminesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luminesce.
- lumisterol — a steroid compound produced when ergosterol is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Formula: C28H44O
- lumpectomy — the surgical removal of a breast cyst or tumor.
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- lye hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- lyme grass — type of perennial dune grass
- lyme regis — a resort in S England, in Dorset, on the English Channel: noted for finds of prehistoric fossils. Pop: 4406 (2001)