9-letter words containing m, l, a
- laborsome — Alternative form of laboursome.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lacemaker — A person who makes lace.
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- laconisms — Plural form of laconism.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- lacrimoso — sad or mournful
- ladderman — a firefighter who is a member of a hook-and-ladder company.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- lady palm — any of several palms of the genus Rhapis, native to southeastern Asia and cultivated as houseplants.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- lake mead — a reservoir in NW Arizona and SE Nevada, formed by the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River: one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. Area: 588 sq km (227 sq miles)
- lamartine — Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de [al-fawns ma-ree lwee duh pra duh] /alˈfɔ̃s maˈri lwi də pra də/ (Show IPA), 1790–1869, French poet, historian, and statesman.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
- lambaréné — a town in W Gabon on the Ogooué River: site of the hospital built by Albert Schweitzer, who died and was buried there (1965). Pop: 9000 (2003 est)
- lambasted — to beat or whip severely.
- lambastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste.
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambdamoo — (games) The most frequently used server software for running a MOO and also the nerve-center (of sorts) of the MOO community.
- lambently — In a lambent manner, brightly.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lambskins — Plural form of lambskin.
- lambswool — Fine wool from a young sheep, used to make knitted garments, blankets, etc., with a soft texture.
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamellate — composed of or having lamellae.
- lamellose — lamellate
- lamenters — Plural form of lamenter.
- lamenting — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- laminable — capable of being laminated.
- laminaria — any of various often very large kelps of the genus Laminaria, some species of which are the source of algins used as thickening or stabilizing agents in foodstuffs and other products.
- laminarin — (carbohydrate) A glucan produced by some brown algae.
- laminated — Also, laminous. composed of or having laminae.
- laminates — Plural form of laminate.
- laminator — to separate or split into thin layers.
- lamington — (Australia, obsolete) A Homburg hat.
- laminitis — inflammation of sensitive laminae in the hoof of a horse, caused by stressful events, as trauma, infection, or parturition.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- lamp-post — A lamp-post is a tall metal or concrete pole that is fixed beside a road and has a light at the top.
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- lampblack — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.