10-letter words containing lam
- giant clam — any of several huge clams of the family Tridacnidae, inhabiting the shallow waters of coral reefs in the tropical Indo-Pacific, as Tridacna gigas: some may weigh more than 500 pounds (225 kg).
- glammed up — made to look more glamorous
- glamorised — Simple past tense and past participle of glamorise.
- glamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamorize.
- glamorizer — One who glamorizes.
- glamorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glamorize.
- glamorless — Alternative spelling of glamourless.
- glamouring — Present participle of glamour.
- glamourise — to make glamorous.
- glamourize — to make glamorous.
- glamourous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- grand lama — the chief monk and ruler of Tibet: called the Dalai Lama since the middle of the 17th century.
- grand slam — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- horse clam — gaper.
- inflamable — a former spelling of inflammable
- islamicist — a specialist in the study of Islam
- lamarckian — of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- 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
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lambdoidal — Lambdoid.
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- lame-brain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- lamellated — Lamellate.
- lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- lamestream — noting or relating to traditional print and broadcast media, when regarded as lacking the fairness, creativity, etc., of independent online news sources.
- laminarian — belonging or relating to the laminaria or to the zone where they grow, which is between two and ten fathoms deep
- laminarins — Plural form of laminarin.
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- laminating — Present participle of laminate.
- lamination — act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- laminotomy — (surgery) The neurosurgical procedure that removes part of a lamina of the vertebral arch in order to decompress the spinal cord.
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lamp shell — a mollusklike marine animal; brachiopod.
- lamp-black — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lamper eel — lamprey.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.