8-letter words containing l, e, o, m
- polyseme — a word with multiple meanings
- polysemy — a condition in which a single word, phrase, or concept has more than one meaning or connotation.
- polysome — a complex of ribosomes strung along a single strand of messenger RNA that translates the genetic information coded in the messenger RNA during protein synthesis.
- premodel — a representation, generally in miniature, to show the construction or appearance of something.
- premolar — situated in front of the molar teeth.
- premoral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- premould — to mould in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- promulge — to promulgate.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- rebeldom — a region or territory controlled by rebels.
- reemploy — to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
- remolade — rémoulade.
- remotely — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- rock elm — an elm, Ulmus thomasii, of eastern North America, having deeply furrowed, grayish-brown bark.
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- saleroom — Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).
- salmonet — a young salmon
- scleroma — a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- seldomly — rarely; seldom.
- semibold — denoting a weight of typeface between medium and bold face
- semillon — a variety of white grape used in winemaking, especially in France in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux.
- seminole — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- semioval — shaped like half of an oval
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- simoleon — a dollar.
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- smogless — free of smog; without smog
- smokable — suitable for being smoked.
- smolensk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the upper Dnieper, SW of Moscow: Russians defeated by Napoleon 1812.
- smollett — Tobias George, 1721–71, English novelist.
- smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- snowmelt — water from snow that is melting or has melted.
- solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
- solemnly — grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood: solemn remarks.
- solesmes — a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes, France, known especially for the work of its monks in editing and performing Gregorian chant.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- solimoes — Brazilian name of the Amazon from its junction with the Río Negro to the border of Peru.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- somedeal — somewhat.
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- swelldom — fashionable society
- symploce — the simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
- telomere — the segment of DNA that occurs at the ends of chromosomes.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- to blame — If someone is to blame for something bad that has happened, they are responsible for causing it.