8-letter words containing u, l, m
- halloumi — a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- hamulate — Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.
- harmfull — Archaic form of harmful.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- helium i — colorless liquid helium existing below its boiling point of 4.2 K and above the lambda point of 2.186 K.
- hog plum — yellow mombin.
- hoodlums — Plural form of hoodlum.
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- humorful — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humpless — having no hump
- illicium — (ichthyology) The modified dorsal fin on the head of anglerfish, acting as a lure.
- illinium — promethium. Symbol: Il.
- illumine — Light up ; brighten.
- illuvium — the material accumulated through illuviation.
- immanuel — the name of the Messiah as prophesied by Isaiah, often represented in Christian exegesis as being Jesus Christ. Isa. 7:14.
- implunge — to submerge
- impulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of impulse.
- impulses — Plural form of impulse.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- impurple — Alternative form of empurple.
- inoculum — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- insuloma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- labdanum — a resinous juice that exudes from various rockroses of the genus Cistus: used in perfumery, fumigating substances, etc.
- labellum — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- laudanum — a tincture of opium.
- lemessus — ancient name of Limassol.
- lemuroid — lemurlike; of the lemur kind.
- leucemia — leukemia.
- leucemic — leukemic
- leukemia — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemic — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemid — any cutaneous lesion that occurs in leukemia.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.