10-letter words containing o, m, n, i, l
- lamination — act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- 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.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lampooning — 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.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- laumontite — a white zeolite mineral, chiefly hydrated silicate of aluminum and calcium.
- leamington — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- leguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lemon kali — an artificially flavored carbonated lemon drink; lemon soda pop.
- lemon mint — a plant, Mentha piperita, of the central U.S., having white or pinkish flowers and lemon-scented leaves when crushed.
- lemon vine — Barbados gooseberry (def 1).
- lemoniness — The state or quality of being lemony.
- lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
- lentissimo — very slow.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- lienectomy — splenectomy.
- limestones — Plural form of limestone.
- limicoline — shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to numerous birds of the families Charadriidae, comprising the plovers, and Scolopacidae, comprising the sandpipers.
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- limoncello — A lemon-flavored Italian liqueur.
- limousines — Plural form of limousine.
- 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'.
- locomoting — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- locomotion — the act or power of moving from place to place.
- 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
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- low-income — of or relating to those with a relatively small income.
- low-minded — having or showing a coarse or vulgar taste or interests.
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- luminosity — luminance (def 2).
- luminously — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- 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)
- 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.
- maculation — the act of spotting.