7-letter words containing t, e, m, l
- lameter — (Scots) a cripple.
- lametta — Thin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.
- lamster — a fugitive from the law.
- latimer — Hugh, c1470–1555, English Protestant Reformation bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- laytime — the period of time allowed by a shipowner to a carrier to carry out cargo loading or discharging operations
- leftism — a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
- legitim — the part of an estate that children or other close relatives can claim against the decedent's testament.
- leitrim — a county of N Republic of Ireland in Connacht province, on Donegal Bay: agricultural. County town: Carrick-on-Shannon. Pop: 25 799 (2002). Area: 1525 sq km (589 sq miles)
- lemmata — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- leptome — plant tissue, similar to phloem, that conducts food substances in bryophytes
- liement — (fencing) An action in which one fencer forces the opponent\u2019s blade into the diagonally opposite line, (that is, from high line to low line on the opposite side, or vice versa) by taking it with the guard and forte of his own blade.
- limbate — bordered, as a flower in which one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- limited — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- limiter — a person or thing that limits.
- limites — plural of limes.
- limpets — Plural form of limpet.
- listeme — (linguistics) An item that is memorized as part of a list, as opposed to being generated by a rule.
- loments — Plural form of loment.
- maleate — a salt or ester of maleic acid.
- mallets — Plural form of mallet.
- maltase — an enzyme that converts maltose into glucose and causes similar cleavage of many other glucosides.
- malteds — Plural form of malted.
- maltese — of or relating to Malta, its people, or their language.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- manteel — a cloak, shawl or covering
- mantels — Plural form of mantel.
- mantled — Simple past tense and past participle of mantle.
- mantles — Plural form of mantle.
- mantlet — mantelet (def 2).
- marlite — an indurated marl.
- martele — martellato.
- martlet — British Dialect. a house martin.
- matelot — a sailor.
- matilde — Also called Maud. 1102–67, empress of the Holy Roman Empire 1114–25; queen of England 1141 (daughter of Henry I of England).
- matless — Without a mat.
- medalet — a small medal, usually no larger than 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter.
- meillet — Antoine [ahn-twan] /ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, French linguist.
- meletin — quercetin.
- melilot — a cloverlike plant of the genus Melilotus, of the legume family, grown as a forage plant.
- melitta — a female given name.
- melkite — a Christian in Egypt and Syria who accepted the definition of faith adopted by the Council of Chalcedon in a.d. 451.
- mellite — a pharmaceutical containing honey.
- meltage — the amount melted or the result of melting.
- meltemi — a northerly wind in the northeast Mediterranean; etesian wind
- melteth — Archaic third-person singular form of melt.
- melting — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- meltith — a meal or repast
- menthol — Also called hexahydrothymol, peppermint camphor. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble alcohol, C 1 0 H 2 0 O, obtained from peppermint oil or synthesized: used chiefly in perfumes, confections, cigarettes, and liqueurs and in medicine for colds and nasal disorders for its cooling effect on mucous membranes.
- mentula — A penis.
- metaled — Alternative spelling of metalled.