9-letter words containing m, u, d, l
- gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- illumined — Simple past tense and past participle of illumine.
- impundulu — a mythical bird associated with witchcraft, frequently manifested as the secretary bird
- impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- lady muck — an ordinary woman behaving or being treated as if she were aristocratic
- 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.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- leukemoid — resembling leukaemia
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- londinium — the Latin name for London when it was a Roman city
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- loudmouth — a loudmouthed person.
- ludditism — a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- maudlinly — In a maudlin fashion.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- medullary — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling the medulla of an organ or the medulla oblongata.
- medullate — medullated, or having a medulla or pith
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- milk duct — a duct leading from the mammary gland to the tip of a nipple which carries milk to the nipple in breastfeeding women
- mindfully — attentive, aware, or careful (usually followed by of): mindful of one's responsibilities.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- modula-2* — An extension of Modula-2 by M. Philippsen <[email protected]> of the University of Karlsruhe. It uses a superset of data parallelism, allowing both synchronous and asynchronous programs, both SIMD and MIMD. Parallelism may be nested to any depth. There are version for MasPar and a simulator for the SPARC.
- modula-3* — Incorporation of Modula-2* ideas into Modula-3.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.
- modularly — In a modular manner.
- modulated — Simple past tense and past participle of modulate.
- modulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modulate.
- modulator — a person or thing that modulates.
- molybdous — of or containing molybdenum, especially in its lower valences.
- mouldable — something formed in or on a mold: a mold of jelly.
- mouldered — Simple past tense and past participle of moulder.
- mouldiest — Superlative form of mouldy.
- mouldings — Plural form of moulding.
- mud slide — mudflow.
- mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- mudlogger — a person in the oil industry who checks the mud for traces of oil or gas
- mudslides — Plural form of mudslide.
- mufflered — Wearing a muffler.