10-letter words containing m, a, i, e
- lamaseries — Plural form of lamasery.
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- lame-brain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- liebermann — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1847–1935, German painter and etcher.
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- ligamental — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament.
- ligamentum — ligament.
- light meat — any meat that is light-colored before cooking, as veal or chicken (distinguished from red meat).
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- like magic — very quickly
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
- limitative — limiting; restrictive.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
- literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- litteratim — literatim.
- littermate — one of a pair or group of animals born or reared in the same litter.
- little man — the common or ordinary person.
- live steam — steam direct from the boiler and at full pressure, ready for use in work.
- livestream — to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens
- local time — the time based on the meridian through a specific place, as a city, in contrast to that of the time zone within which the place is located; the time in a specific place as compared to that of another place to the east or west.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.