9-letter words containing m, u, l, i, s
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- ligustrum — any of various shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ligustrum, of the olive family, comprising the privets.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- 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.
- lixiviums — Plural form of lixivium.
- 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.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
- 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.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- miniscule — minuscule.
- minuscule — very small.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- misguggle — to handle roughly or incompetently so as to spoil or crumple
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misruling — Present participle of misrule.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- mouldiest — Superlative form of mouldy.
- mouldings — Plural form of moulding.
- mouselike — any of numerous small Old World rodents of the family Muridae, especially of the genus Mus, introduced widely in other parts of the world.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- mud slide — mudflow.
- mudslides — Plural form of mudslide.
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- mullahism — governance or rule by mullahs
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.
- multidisc — comprising more than one disc
- multidose — (pharmacy) Containing multiple doses.
- multigyms — Plural form of multigym.
- multilisp — (language) A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit concurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a "future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When the evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the value.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.