9-letter words containing u, l, m, i
- columbium — niobium
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- coulombic — relating to the discoveries of Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- cribellum — a sievelike spinning organ in certain spiders that occurs between the spinnerets
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cubiculum — an underground burial chamber in Imperial Rome, such as those found in the catacombs
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cult film — a film that a certain group of people admire very much
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dilithium — A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- displumed — Simple past tense and past participle of displume.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dumpishly — in a downhearted and despondent manner
- dumplings — Plural form of dumpling.
- duralumin — an alloy of aluminum that is 4 percent copper and contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, iron, and silicon: used for applications requiring lightness and strength, as in airplane construction.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- effluvium — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.
- emulating — Present participle of emulate.
- emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- emulsions — Plural form of emulsion.
- epilobium — a plant from the genus Epilobium, such as willow-herb
- equimolal — having an equal number of molecules
- equimolar — (chemistry) Containing the same number of moles (of two or more compounds).
- eulogiums — Plural form of eulogium.
- eumelanin — a form of melanin found in human skin and hair, more common in people with dark skin
- feudalism — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- film buff — a connoisseur of or expert on cinema and films
- filoplume — a specialized, hairlike feather having a slender shaft with few or no barbs.
- flaminius — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), died 217 b.c, Roman statesman and general who was defeated by Hannibal.
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- fluminous — Pertaining to a river or rivers; flowing, fluent.
- flunkyism — The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
- formulaic — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- formulise — formulate.
- formulism — adherence to or reliance on formulas.
- formulize — formulate.