11-letter words containing l, u, m, a
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- small hours — pre-dawn
- small stuff — small cordage, as marlines, yarns, etc.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- square meal — a nourishing or filling meal: You'll feel better after you've had a square meal.
- square mile — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; 2.59 square kilometers. 2 , sq. mi. Abbreviation: mi.
- stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- stimulating — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subassemble — to assemble a basic unit of (a larger assembly).
- subassembly — a structural assembly, as of electronic or machine parts, forming part of a larger assembly.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
- submittable — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subumbrella — the concave undersurface of a coelenterate medusa, as a jellyfish.
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- summability — the quality of being summable
- summersault — to perform a somersault.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- syllabarium — syllabary.
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
- taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
- tautologism — the use of tautology.
- tetrazolium — a derivative of an acidic chemical compound
- thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
- tidal datum — (in a hydrographic survey) a curved surface representing one phase of a tide, usually mean low water, taken as a datum level.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- truth claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- tumble cart — a horse-drawn cart having two solid wheels.
- ultramarine — of the color ultramarine.
- ultramodern — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy