10-letter words containing m, e, c, l
- hermitical — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- homeschool — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homocercal — having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes.
- homoleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having a single type of ligand.
- horse clam — gaper.
- imbalanced — If you describe a situation as imbalanced, you mean that the elements within it are not evenly or fairly arranged.
- imbecility — an instance or point of weakness; feebleness; incapability.
- immaculate — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
- immiscible — not miscible; incapable of being mixed.
- impactable — Likely to be impacted.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impeccable — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- impeccably — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- implacable — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
- implicated — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- inclemency — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
- incomplete — not complete; lacking some part.
- inimicable — adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
- lacedaemon — Sparta.
- lacemakers — Plural form of lacemaker.
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lactometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of milk.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leg muscle — any of various muscles in the leg of a human or animal
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- 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 curd — lemon paste made with eggs and sugar
- lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- lienectomy — splenectomy.
- like magic — very quickly
- limberneck — a fatal infection of botulism affecting birds, especially chickens and ducks, characterized by weakness of the neck muscles and inability to eat.
- lime juice — sharp-tasting juice of limes
- limicoline — shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to numerous birds of the families Charadriidae, comprising the plovers, and Scolopacidae, comprising the sandpipers.
- limoncello — A lemon-flavored Italian liqueur.
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- 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.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- locomobile — automotive; self-propelling.
- locomotive — a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- low comedy — comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.