10-letter words containing o, m, l, n
- lincomycin — a toxic antibiotic, C 18 H 34 N 2 O 6 S, isolated from Streptomyces lincolnensis, used in its hydrochloride form for the treatment of serious Gram-positive penicillin-resistant infections.
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lineswomen — Plural form of lineswoman.
- linguiform — having the shape of a tongue; tongue-shaped.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- livingroom — Alternative form of 'living room'.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lobstermen — Plural form of lobsterman.
- locomoting — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- locomotion — the act or power of moving from place to place.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- lodgements — Plural form of lodgement.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- logjamming — the act of logs accumulating in a river and becoming jammed
- loma linda — a town in SW California.
- 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
- lonesomely — In a lonesome manner, in a way missing companionship.
- lonesomest — Superlative form of lonesome.
- 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
- longbowman — an archer who uses a longbow.
- longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- longsomely — lengthily, slowly, and tediously
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- 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).
- low-income — of or relating to those with a relatively small income.
- low-minded — having or showing a coarse or vulgar taste or interests.
- lumen-hour — a unit of luminous energy, equal to that emitted in 1 hour by a light source emitting a luminous flux of 1 lumen. Abbreviation: lm-hr.
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- luminosity — luminance (def 2).
- luminously — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lye hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- lyme-hound — lyam-hound.
- lymph node — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphokine — any lymphocyte product, as interferon, that is not an antibody but may participate in the immune response through its effect on the function of other cells, as destroying antigen-coated cells or stimulating macrophages.
- lysenkoism — a genetic doctrine formulated by Lysenko and asserting that acquired characteristics are inheritable.
- macro lens — a lens used to bring into focus objects very close to the camera.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- malar bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- malar-bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- malaxation — The act of softening a mass by malaxating.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.