10-letter words containing m, o, r, l
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- lattermost — latest; last.
- laundromat — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.
- lawn mower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawnmowers — Plural form of lawnmower.
- lemon curd — lemon paste made with eggs and sugar
- lemon drop — a lemon-flavored lozenge.
- lemon tree — plant: bears lemons
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- letterbomb — (messaging) 1. An e-mail message containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's computer or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must turn the terminal off to unwedge it. Under Unix, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents interpreted as a shell command. The results of this could range from silly to tragic. See also Trojan horse; compare nastygram, talk bomb. 2. Loosely, a mailbomb.
- letterform — a sheet of stationery used for letters.
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leukoderma — vitiligo.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
- linguiform — having the shape of a tongue; tongue-shaped.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- livingroom — Alternative form of 'living room'.
- loadmaster — an aircrew member responsible for the loading and stowage of cargo aboard an aircraft.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lobstermen — Plural form of lobsterman.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- locomotors — Also, locomotory. of, relating to, or affecting locomotion.
- locomotory — Also, locomotory. of, relating to, or affecting locomotion.
- locutorium — parlor (def 4).
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- long metre — a stanzaic form consisting of four octosyllabic lines, used esp for hymns
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- loom large — to be very prominent or important
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- lord mayor — (chiefly in Britain and the Commonwealth) the mayor of certain cities or the chief municipal officer of certain boroughs.
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- low german — the West Germanic languages not included in the High German group, as English, Dutch, Flemish, or Plattdeutsch. Abbreviation: LG. Compare High German (def 1).
- lower limb — a limb that is lower or hindmost; a leg
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- loxodromes — Plural form of loxodrome.