8-letter words containing l, o, c, m
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- dolmenic — of or relating to a dolmen
- domicile — a place of residence; abode; house or home.
- flamenco — a style of dancing, characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies, that is strongly rhythmic and involves vigorous actions, as clapping the hands and stamping the feet.
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- hemlocks — Plural form of hemlock.
- hemocoel — a series of interconnected spaces between tissues and organs through which blood flows freely, unconfined by veins or arteries, occurring in several invertebrate groups, especially mollusks and arthropods.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- impolicy — The state or act of being impolitic.
- inoculum — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- laconism — laconic brevity.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- leechdom — a remedy
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- locomote — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- logicism — the doctrine, developed chiefly by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, that mathematics can be reduced to logic.
- logomach — Someone who argues about the meaning of words.
- lt comdr — Lieutenant Commander
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- maiolica — majolica.
- majolica — Italian earthenware covered with an opaque glaze of tin oxide and usually highly decorated.
- male cow — a bull.
- mallorca — Majorca.
- mameluco — (South America) A child born of a white father and American Indian mother.
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- marcello — Benedetto [be-ne-det-taw] /ˌbɛ nɛˈdɛt tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1686–1739, Italian composer.
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- mcdonald — David John, 1902–79, U.S. labor leader: president of the United Steelworkers of America 1952–65.
- mcdowell — Ephraim, 1771–1830, U.S. surgeon.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- micro ml — (uML) An interpreter for a subset of SML. Runs on MS-DOS. Written at the University of Umea, Sweden.
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- mindlock — (fantasy, scifi) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.
- miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- molecule — Chemistry, Physics. the smallest physical unit of an element or compound, consisting of one or more like atoms in an element and two or more different atoms in a compound.
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- molluscs — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- moluccan — of or relating to a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 2 223 000 (1999 est). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)