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9-letter words containing l, u, m

  • lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
  • lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
  • lumbermen — Plural form of lumberman.
  • lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
  • lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
  • lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
  • luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
  • luminance — brightness
  • luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
  • luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
  • lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
  • lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
  • lumpingly — clumsily and heavily
  • lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
  • lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
  • luna moth — a large, pale-green, American moth, Actias luna, having purple-brown markings, lunate spots, and long tails.
  • lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
  • lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
  • lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
  • lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
  • lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
  • luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
  • luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
  • lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
  • maclaurinColin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
  • maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
  • maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
  • magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
  • magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
  • magnalium — an alloy of magnesium and aluminum, sometimes also containing copper, nickel, tin, and lead.
  • mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
  • majuscule — (of letters) capital.
  • maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
  • malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
  • malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
  • 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.
  • mallemuck — mollymawk.
  • malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
  • malodours — Plural form of malodour.
  • malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
  • maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
  • malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
  • mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
  • mandelbug — (jargon, programming)   /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
  • mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
  • mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
  • mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
  • manicules — Plural form of manicule.
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