9-letter words containing u, m, l, a
- cacuminal — relating to or denoting a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue turned back towards the hard palate
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- calcaneum — calcaneus.
- caldarium — (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths
- calembour — a pun
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calvarium — the upper, domed part of the skull
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- campanula — any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- casualism — the doctrine that the existence and occurrence of everything is controlled by chance
- cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
- chalumeau — an early reed instrument, the precursor of the clarinet
- chalutzim — halutz.
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- claustrum — a thin layer of grey matter in the brain
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- colourman — a person who deals in paints
- columbary — a dovecote
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columella — the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- commutual — mutual
- cram-full — stuffed full
- 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.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- dicumarol — a white, crystalline powder, C19H12O6, originally extracted from spoiled sweet clover, used to retard blood clots
- dismayful — filled with dismay
- doum palm — doom palm.
- dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
- 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
- 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.
- emaculate — (obsolete) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
- emulating — Present participle of emulate.
- emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.