9-letter words containing m, e, l, n
- long game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit shots, especially drives, for distance. Compare short game (def 1).
- long ream — 500 sheets of paper
- long-term — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- long-time — You use long-time to describe something that has existed or been a particular thing for a long time.
- longtimer — One who has been a resident, member, etc. for a long time.
- 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.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- 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.
- maclennan — (John) Hugh, 1907–90, Canadian novelist and essayist.
- madeleine — a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
- madonsela — Thuli (ˈtʊlɪ). born 1962, South African advocate; in her term as Public Protector (2009–16) she was noted for exposing political corruption
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- magdalena — a river in SW Colombia, flowing N to the Caribbean. 1060 miles (1705 km) long.
- magdalene — the, Mary Magdalene.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- main line — a fashionable residential district west of Philadelphia.
- mainlined — Simple past tense and past participle of mainline.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- malanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- malengine — a wicked plan or deceit
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malintent — Malicious intent.
- maltalent — an evil intention
- managable — Misspelling of manageable.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- 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.
- mandibles — Plural form of mandible.
- mandoline — A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat frame with adjustable cutting blades for slicing vegetables.
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- mangonels — Plural form of mangonel.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- manhandle — to handle roughly.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manizales — a city in W Colombia.
- manlikely — in a manlike manner
- manliness — having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.