9-letter words containing m, e, l, u
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- clitellum — a thickened saddle-like region of epidermis in earthworms and leeches whose secretions bind copulating worms together and later form a cocoon around the eggs
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collegium — (in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department
- colosseum — an amphitheatre in Rome built about 75–80 ad
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columella — the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- complexus — a complicated whole made up of interconnected or related parts
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- displumed — Simple past tense and past participle of displume.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dumb-bell — A dumb-bell is a short bar with weights on either side which people use for physical exercise to strengthen their arm and shoulder muscles.
- dumbbells — Plural form of dumbbell.
- dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
- effluvium — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.
- emaculate — (obsolete) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
- emolument — A salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.
- empurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of empurple.
- empurples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empurple.
- emulating — Present participle of emulate.
- emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- emulators — Plural form of emulator.
- emulgence — the act of draining
- emulously — In an emulous manner; ambitiously or competitively.
- emulsions — Plural form of emulsion.
- epilobium — a plant from the genus Epilobium, such as willow-herb