9-letter words containing lum
- 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.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- opusculum — opuscule.
- ossiculum — (anatomy) An ossicle.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- plum duff — a duff containing raisins.
- plumb bob — plummet (def 1).
- plumb-bob — plummet (def 1).
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plumbless — incapable of being sounded
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
- plummeted — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plump for — to drop or fall heavily or suddenly; come down abruptly or with direct impact.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- reticulum — any fine network, esp one in the body composed of cells, fibres, etc
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- scutellum — Botany. the shieldlike cotyledon of certain monocots.
- semiplume — a semiplume feather
- sensillum — Zoology. a simple sense organ usually consisting of one or a few cells at the peripheral end of a sensory nerve fiber.
- slum area — an area of a city filled with slums
- slumbered — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- spirillum — any of several spirally twisted, aerobic bacteria of the genus Spirillum, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans.
- subphylum — a category of related classes within a phylum.
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- the glums — gloomy feelings
- unillumed — not illuminated
- unplumbed — not plumbed; not tested or measured with a plumb line.
- volumeter — any of various instruments or devices for measuring volume, as of gases, liquids, or solids.
- volumetry — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- voluminal — relating to volume
- volumizer — a product that gives extra body to the hair