9-letter words containing m, i, e, l
- lineament — Often, lineaments. a feature or detail of a face, body, or figure, considered with respect to its outline or contour: His fine lineaments made him the very image of his father.
- liniments — Plural form of liniment.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lipidemia — (medicine) The presence of lipids in the blood.
- liposomes — Plural form of liposome.
- lissomely — In a lissome manner; with supple grace.
- listerism — an antiseptic method introduced by Joseph Lister, involving the spraying of the parts under operation with a carbolic acid solution.
- literatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithotome — an instrument used in a lithotomy operation, to remove bladder stones
- livermore — a city in W California.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- liverymen — Plural form of liveryman.
- 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.
- lose time — delay, fail to act
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- lysimeter — an instrument for determining the amount of water-soluble matter in soil.
- m-1 rifle — a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- madeleine — a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- 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.
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- malachite — a green mineral, basic copper carbonate, Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2 , an ore of copper, used for making ornamental articles.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- 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.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- malvoisie — malmsey wine.