9-letter words containing l, i, m, e
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gimleting — Present participle of gimlet.
- gimmalled — (of a mechanism) jointed
- gintleman — (Irish) eye dialect of gentleman.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- glamorise — (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize — to make glamorous.
- glamourie — Alternative spelling of glamoury.
- glimmered — Simple past tense and past participle of glimmer.
- glomeruli — Irregular plural form of glomerulus.
- gloomiest — Superlative form of gloomy.
- glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
- gmelinite — a zeolitic mineral
- gnomelike — Resembling a gnome.
- gold mine — a mine yielding gold.
- gold-mine — a mine yielding gold.
- goldminer — a person who mines gold or works in a gold mine.
- greenmail — the practice of buying a large block of a company's stock in order to force a rise in stock prices or an offer by the company to repurchase that block of stock at an inflated price to thwart a possible takeover bid.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.
- guillaume — Charles Édouard [French sharl ey-dwar] /French ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1861–1938, Swiss physicist: Nobel Prize 1920.
- guillemet — one of two marks « or » used in French, Italian, and Russian printing to enclose quotations.
- guillemin — Roger (Charles Louis) [roj-er chahrlz loo-ee;; French raw-zhey sharl lwee] /ˈrɒdʒ ər tʃɑrlz ˈlu i;; French rɔˈʒeɪ ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), born 1924, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977.
- guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- gum elemi — elemi.
- gum field — an area of land containing buried fossilized kauri gum
- gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half-mile — a half of a mile (0.8 kilometer).
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamamelis — (botany) Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
- harlemite — a native or inhabitant of Harlem.
- harmaline — a chemical derived from the harmala plant, used as a hallucinogen or used in conjunction with other hallucinogens
- hate mail — letters, telegrams, etc., that express prejudice or disagreement in abusive or threatening terms.
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- helidrome — a small airport for helicopters
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- helium ii — liquid helium existing as a superfluid below the lambda point of 2.186 K, having very low viscosity and very high thermal conductivity.
- hellenism — ancient Greek culture or ideals.
- helmeting — the wearing or provision of a helmet
- helminths — Plural form of helminth.
- hemialgia — pain or neuralgia involving only one side of the body or head.
- hemicycle — a semicircle.
- hemiliver — Lb anatomy Half of the liver.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.