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12-letter words containing m, l, n

  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
  • little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
  • locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
  • locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
  • lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
  • logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
  • lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
  • lonesomeness — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
  • long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
  • longsomeness — tiresome lengthiness
  • looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
  • lose no time — act without delay
  • lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
  • lower merion — a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
  • lower-income — earning less than average
  • lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
  • luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
  • luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
  • luminousness — The condition of being luminous.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
  • lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
  • machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
  • macromineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
  • macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
  • madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
  • madonna lily — a lily, Lilium candidum, having clusters of pure white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magnet steel — steel used for the manufacture of permanent magnets, often having a high cobalt content and smaller amounts of nickel, aluminium, or copper
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • maidenliness — The state or condition of being maidenly.
  • mail merging — a software facility that can produce a large number of personalized letters by combining a file containing a list of names and addresses with one containing a single standard document
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