8-letter words containing m, e, l, n
- gunmetal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- helminth — a worm, especially a parasitic worm.
- helmsman — a person who steers a ship.
- helmsmen — Plural form of helmsman.
- helpmann — Sir Robert (Murray) 1909–86, Australian dancer, choreographer, and actor.
- hemlines — Plural form of hemline.
- hielaman — an Australian Aboriginal shield
- hielamon — a shield made of wood or bark.
- homeland — one's native land.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- hymeneal — of or relating to marriage.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hymnless — having no hymn
- hymnlike — Resembling a hymn in form or sound.
- illumine — Light up ; brighten.
- ilmenite — a very common black mineral, iron titanate, FeTiO 3 , occurring in crystals but more commonly massive.
- imbolden — embolden.
- immantle — to cover with a mantle
- immanuel — the name of the Messiah as prophesied by Isaiah, often represented in Christian exegesis as being Jesus Christ. Isa. 7:14.
- immingle — (obsolete) To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.
- impanels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impanel.
- implunge — to submerge
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inflamed — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- inflamer — (usually, figuratively) Something that inflames.
- inflames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflame.
- islesman — an islander
- kremlins — Plural form of kremlin.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lameness — crippled or physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty.
- lamented — mourned for, as a person who is dead: Our late lamented friend.
- lamenter — One who laments.
- lamentin — Alternative form of lamantin.
- laminate — to separate or split into thin layers.
- laminose — laminate; laminar.
- landmine — an explosive charge concealed just under the surface of the ground or of a roadway, designed to be detonated by pressure, proximity of a vehicle or person, etc.
- laomedon — a king of Troy and the father of Priam, for whom the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon.
- lavement — A washing or bathing.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leadsmen — Plural form of leadsman.
- leaseman — a person who leases land and obtains the rights to its use, especially oil-drilling rights.
- ledgment — (architecture) A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.
- legement — Obsolete form of ledgment.
- lemmings — Plural form of lemming.
- lemnisci — Plural form of lemniscus.
- lemonade — a beverage consisting of lemon juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- leninism — the form of Communism as taught by Lenin, with emphasis on the dictatorship of the proletariat.