6-letter words containing l, o
- lutose — covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- luzhou — a city in S Sichuan province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- lycaon — a king of Arcadia said to have offered Zeus a plate of human flesh to learn whether the god was omniscient
- lyndon — a male given name.
- lynxos — A POSIX compliant real-time operating system from Lynx Real-Time Systems. It has a Unix-like interface to application programs.
- lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth [neb-wert] /ˈnɛb wərt/ (Show IPA), 1803–73, English novelist, dramatist, and politician.
- mahalo — (Hawaiian English) thank you.
- malabo — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- maldon — a market town in SE England, in Essex; scene of a battle (991) between the East Saxons and the victorious Danes, celebrated in The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem; notable for Maldon salt, used in cookery. Pop: 20 731 (2001)
- malloc — C's standard library routine for storage allocation. It takes the number of bytes required and returns a pointer to a block of that size. Storage is allocated from a heap which lies after the end of the program and data areas. Memory allocated with malloc must be freed explicitly using the "free" routine before it can be re-used.
- mallon — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- mallow — any of various plants of the genus Malva, including several popular garden plants, as the musk mallow.
- maloca — An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
- malone — Edmond, 1741–1812, Irish literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.
- malory — Sir Thomas, c1400–71, English author.
- maloti — plural of loti.
- malouf — David. born 1934, Australian novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His novels include An Imaginary Life (1978), Remembering Babylon (1993), The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996), and Ransom (2009)
- maltol — a crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 3 , obtained from larch bark, pine needles, chicory, or roasted malt, used for enhancing flavors and aromas, as in foods, wines, and perfumes.
- marlon — a male given name.
- mccloy — John Jay, 1895–1989, U.S. lawyer, banker, and government official.
- mellon — Andrew William, 1855–1937, U.S. financier: Secretary of the Treasury 1921–32.
- mellor — Schlaer-Mellor
- mellow — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- melody — musical sounds in agreeable succession or arrangement.
- meloid — a beetle of the family Meloidae, comprising the blister beetles.
- melons — the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- melton — a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- merlon — (in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
- merlot — a dark-blue grape used in winemaking, especially in the Bordeaux region of France and in areas of Italy, Switzerland, and California.
- mflops — 1. (unit) megaflops. 2. (benchmark) A benchmark which attemps to estimate a system's floating-point "MFLOPS" rating for specific FADD, FSUB, FMUL and FDIV instruction mixes.
- michol — Michal.
- milano — an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
- milord — an English nobleman or gentleman (usually used as a term of address).
- milosz — Czeslaw [ches-law;; Polish ches-wahf] /ˈtʃɛs lɔ;; Polish ˈtʃɛs wɑf/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, U.S. poet and novelist, born in Poland: Nobel prize 1980.
- milton — John, 1608–74, English poet.
- mimola — Operational hardware specification language.
- mobile — capable of moving or being moved readily.
- moblog — a multimedia blog that contains text, photos, video, or audio sent from a cell phone or other mobile device.
- modals — Plural form of modal.
- modcal — A version of HP-PASCAL enhanced with system programming constructs, used internally by HP.
- modell — Obsolete form of model.
- models — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
- modula — MODUlar LAnguage
- module — a separable component, frequently one that is interchangeable with others, for assembly into units of differing size, complexity, or function.
- moduli — Physics. a coefficient pertaining to a physical property.
- modulo — with respect to a modulus: 6 is congruent to 11, modulo 5.
- moghul — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- moguls — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- mohole — a hole bored through the earth's crust into the region below the Mohorovičić discontinuity, for geological research.
- moiled — to work hard; drudge.