9-letter words containing l, i, s, o, m
- localisms — Plural form of localism.
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- lose time — delay, fail to act
- magnolias — Plural form of magnolia.
- mail slot — a slot, usually covered with a hinged flap, through which letters, etc are delivered to a building
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malvoisie — malmsey wine.
- mandolins — Plural form of mandolin.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- massillon — a city in NE Ohio.
- mastoidal — Mastoid.
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- melanosis — abnormal deposition or development of black or dark pigment in the tissues.
- meliorism — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meliorist — A proponent of meliorism.
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- melodists — Plural form of melodist.
- melodizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of melodize.
- memorials — Plural form of memorial.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- middorsal — located in the middle of the dorsum or back
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- milestone — a stone functioning as a milepost.
- milktoast — milquetoast.
- milkworts — Plural form of milkwort.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- millstone — either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
- milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.
- mirligoes — dizziness
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- misfolded — Simple past tense and past participle of misfold.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misload.
- mislocate — to misplace.
- misoclere — hostile to clergy
- missional — a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.