8-letter words containing u, l, m
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- limequat — a hybrid citrus tree produced by crossing the lime and the kumquat.
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- limuloid — of, relating to, or resembling the king crab genus Limulus
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- lixivium — the solution, containing alkaline salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes with water; lye.
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- luhrmann — Baz (Mark Anthony). born 1962, Australian film director and screenwriter; his films include Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008), and The Great Gatsby (2013)
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberer — A person engaged in the lumber trade, especially a lumberjack.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- luminant — That illuminates; luminous.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- luminism — a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lummoxes — a clumsy, stupid person.
- lump sum — money: one-off payment
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lutecium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lutetium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- luxmeter — a device for measuring the brightness or illumination of a surface
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- macallum — an ice cream with raspberry sauce
- macaulay — Dame Rose, c1885–1958, English poet and novelist.
- macrural — (zoology) macrurous.
- maculate — spotted; stained.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- macushla — darling.
- mail hub — mail server
- mail out — If someone mails out things such as letters, leaflets, or bills, they send them to a large number of people at the same time.
- mail-out — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- makhlouf — Saint Sharbel [shahr-buh l] /ˈʃɑr bəl/ (Show IPA), 1828–98, Lebanese monk: canonized 1977.
- malamute — Alaskan malamute.
- malemute — Alaskan malamute.
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- malunion — (anatomy) Bad or incorrect union (of parts of the body).
- mameluco — (South America) A child born of a white father and American Indian mother.
- mameluke — a member of a military class, originally composed of slaves, that seized control of the Egyptian sultanate in 1250, ruled until 1517, and remained powerful until massacred or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.
- manfully — having or showing boldness, courage, or strength; resolute.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- manually — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- manuel i — called the Fortunate. 1469–1521, king of Portugal (1495–1521); his reign saw the discovery of Brazil and the beginning of Portuguese trade with India and the East
- manurial — Of or pertaining to manure.