9-letter words containing m, l, n
- letterman — a person who has earned a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport.
- lettermen — Plural form of letterman.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen
- ligaments — Plural form of ligament.
- ligniform — having the form of wood; resembling wood, as a variety of asbestos.
- lima bean — a bean, Phaseolus limensis, having a broad, flat, edible seed.
- limbering — Present participle of limber.
- lime kiln — a kiln in which calcium carbonate is calcined to produce quicklime
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limekilns — Plural form of limekiln.
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- limerence — The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one’s feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship.
- limestone — a sedimentary rock consisting predominantly of calcium carbonate, varieties of which are formed from the skeletons of marine microorganisms and coral: used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime.
- limit man — (in a handicap sport or game) the competitor with the maximum handicap
- limnology — the scientific study of bodies of fresh water, as lakes and ponds, with reference to their physical, geographical, biological, and other features.
- limonoids — Plural form of limonoid.
- limousine — any large, luxurious automobile, especially one driven by a chauffeur.
- lindemann — Frederick Alexander, 1st Viscount Cherwell. 1886–1957, British physicist, born in Germany; Churchill's scientific adviser during World War II
- line item — the distinct title of an entry or account as it appears on a separate line in a bookkeeping ledger or a fiscal budget.
- line mark — a trademark covering all items of a particular product line.
- 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.
- link arms — If two or more people link arms, or if one person links arms with another, they stand next to each other, and each person puts their arm round the arm of the person next to them.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- liveryman — an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
- liverymen — Plural form of liveryman.
- lodgement — the act of lodging.
- lodgments — Plural form of lodgment.
- lognormal — noting or pertaining to a logarithmic function with a normal distribution, or the distribution of a random variable for which the logarithm of the variable has a normal distribution.
- logomania — Great enthusiasm for words.
- lomonosov — Mikhail Vasilevich [myi-khuh-yeel vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1711–65, Russian philosopher, poet, scientist, and grammarian.
- londinium — the Latin name for London when it was a Roman city
- long clam — soft-shell clam.
- long game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit shots, especially drives, for distance. Compare short game (def 1).
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long moss — Spanish moss.
- long ream — 500 sheets of paper
- long-form — noting or relating to journalistic content or a genre of journalism characterized by stories or essays that are several thousand words long, typically combining factual reporting with a narrative and empathetic style: A long-form article can illuminate and humanize your subject.
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- long-term — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- 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.
- loomingly — So as to loom.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- lumbermen — Plural form of lumberman.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminance — brightness
- luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.