9-letter words containing m, o, l, u
- guacamole — a dip of mashed avocado mixed with tomato, onion, and seasonings.
- guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
- home rule — self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homologue — something homologous.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humourful — Humorous; comical.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- joliotium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
- krummholz — a forest of stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- leucotome — an instrument for dissecting the white matter of the brain, consisting of a cannula containing a slender rotating blade.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukemoid — resembling leukaemia
- leukotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- limousine — any large, luxurious automobile, especially one driven by a chauffeur.
- liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
- londinium — the Latin name for London when it was a Roman city
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- loudmouth — a loudmouthed person.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- luna moth — a large, pale-green, American moth, Actias luna, having purple-brown markings, lunate spots, and long tails.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.