11-letter words containing m, l, a
- lamb's ears — a hardy Middle Eastern plant, Stachys byzantina, of the mint family, having white, wooly leaves and small, purple flowers in dense whorls.
- lamb's lugs — a perennial herb, Stachys lanata, planted for its foliage, which is covered with white woolly down; the purplish or striped flowers are small
- lamb's tail — burro's tail.
- lamb's wool — a soft, virgin wool possessing superior spinning qualities, shorn from a seven-month-old lamb.
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamellation — an arrangement or structure in which there are thin layers, plates, or scales.
- lamellicorn — having antennae with lamellate terminal segments, as beetles of the group Lamellicornia, including the scarabaeids and stag beetles.
- lamelliform — shaped like a lamella; platelike; scalelike.
- lamentation — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- laminations — Plural form of lamination.
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lammergeier — the largest Eurasian bird of prey, Gypaëtus barbatus, ranging in the mountains from southern Europe to China, having a wingspread of 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3 meters) and black feathers hanging from below the bill like a mustache.
- lammergeyer — Alternative form of lammergeier.
- lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- lan manager — (operating system) Microsoft's OS/2-based network operating system. Developed in conjunction with 3Com, Lan Manager runs as a task under OS/2. Because of this, a file server may concurrently be used for other tasks, such as database services. It offers good mulitasking.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- lapilliform — shaped like a pebble
- lappet moth — a large purple-brown hairy eggar moth, Gastropacha quercifolia, whose grey furry caterpillars have lappets on each flank
- larrikinism — (Australia, New Zealand) The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- laryngotomy — incision of the larynx.
- lasiocampid — (zoology) Any member of the Lasiocampidae.
- last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- latent time — the time from the onset of a stimulus to that of the response
- latifundium — a great estate.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lay baptism — baptism administered by a lay-person.
- leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
- ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
- leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
- legatissimo — to be performed as smoothly and connectedly as possible
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- legitimated — Simple past tense and past participle of legitimate.
- legitimates — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimator — a person who makes something legitimate
- leiomyomata — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leishmanial — Relating to leishmania.