11-letter words containing m, a, n
- lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- laminations — Plural form of lamination.
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- lan manager — (operating system) Microsoft's OS/2-based network operating system. Developed in conjunction with 3Com, Lan Manager runs as a task under OS/2. Because of this, a file server may concurrently be used for other tasks, such as database services. It offers good mulitasking.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
- larrikinism — (Australia, New Zealand) The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- laryngotomy — incision of the larynx.
- last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- latent time — the time from the onset of a stimulus to that of the response
- latifundium — a great estate.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- leishmanial — Relating to leishmania.
- lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- ligamentary — Of or relating to ligaments.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- limitations — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- lognormally — in the manner of having a having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- longanimity — patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance.
- longanimous — Long-suffering; patient; showing self-control and restraint.
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- lund simula — (language) A version of SIMULA from Lund Software House. Version 4.07. (FTP: rascal.ics.utexas.edu/misc/mac/programming/ no longer exists).
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- lymph gland — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphangial — pertaining to the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- m-radiation — one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil