9-letter words containing l, u, m
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- colchicum — any Eurasian liliaceous plant of the genus Colchicum, such as the autumn crocus
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collegium — (in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department
- colluvium — a mixture of rock fragments from the bases of cliffs
- collyrium — any medicated preparation for the eyes; eyewash
- colosseum — an amphitheatre in Rome built about 75–80 ad
- colostrum — the thin milky secretion from the nipples that precedes and follows true lactation. It consists largely of serum and white blood cells
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourman — a person who deals in paints
- columbary — a dovecote
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- columbous — niobous.
- columella — the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- commutual — mutual
- complexus — a complicated whole made up of interconnected or related parts
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- cram-full — stuffed full
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cubiculum — an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs
- cuckoldom — the state of being a cuckold
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cult film — a film that a certain group of people admire very much
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dilithium — A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.
- dismayful — filled with dismay