10-letter words containing s, i, m, l
- lamaseries — Plural form of lamasery.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- laminarins — Plural form of laminarin.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- latissimus — Either of a pair of large, roughly triangular muscles covering the lower part of the back, extending from the sacral, lumbar, and lower thoracic vertebrae to the armpits.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- legitimise — to make legitimate.
- legitimism — a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
- legitimist — a supporter of legitimate authority, especially of a claim to a throne based on direct descent.
- leguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lemoniness — The state or quality of being lemony.
- lentissimo — very slow.
- leominster — a city in N Massachusetts.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- limberness — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
- limelights — Plural form of limelight.
- limestones — Plural form of limestone.
- limicolous — dwelling in mud or muddy regions.
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- limousines — Plural form of limousine.
- limp wrist — a contemptuous term used to refer to a homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- limpidness — The property of being limpid, clarity.
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lineswomen — Plural form of lineswoman.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- live steam — steam direct from the boiler and at full pressure, ready for use in work.
- livestream — to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens
- lobotomies — Plural form of lobotomy.
- lobotomise — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobotomist — to perform a lobotomy on.