9-letter words containing u, l, m, i
- joliotium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
- jump bail — property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- junk mail — unsolicited commercial mail or email.
- kizil kum — Kyzyl Kum.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
- leucaemia — Alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemia — (UK) alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- leukemoid — resembling leukaemia
- lift pump — a pump in which a liquid is lifted rather than forced up from below.
- 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).
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- 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.
- liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
- lixiviums — Plural form of lixivium.
- londinium — the Latin name for London when it was a Roman city
- 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.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminance — brightness
- luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lumpingly — clumsily and heavily
- lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- magnalium — an alloy of magnesium and aluminum, sometimes also containing copper, nickel, tin, and lead.
- 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.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.