11-letter words containing lam
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- lamb of god — Christ.
- lamb's ears — a hardy Middle Eastern plant, Stachys byzantina, of the mint family, having white, wooly leaves and small, purple flowers in dense whorls.
- lamb's lugs — a perennial herb, Stachys lanata, planted for its foliage, which is covered with white woolly down; the purplish or striped flowers are small
- lamb's tail — burro's tail.
- lamb's wool — a soft, virgin wool possessing superior spinning qualities, shorn from a seven-month-old lamb.
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- lamellation — an arrangement or structure in which there are thin layers, plates, or scales.
- lamellicorn — having antennae with lamellate terminal segments, as beetles of the group Lamellicornia, including the scarabaeids and stag beetles.
- lamelliform — shaped like a lamella; platelike; scalelike.
- lamentation — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- laminations — Plural form of lamination.
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lammergeier — the largest Eurasian bird of prey, Gypaëtus barbatus, ranging in the mountains from southern Europe to China, having a wingspread of 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3 meters) and black feathers hanging from below the bill like a mustache.
- lammergeyer — Alternative form of lammergeier.
- lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- little slam — the winning of twelve of the thirteen tricks of a deal. Also called small slam. Compare grand slam (def 1).
- methylamine — any of three derivatives of ammonia in which one or all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by methyl groups, especially a gas, CH 5 N, with an ammonialike odor, the simplest alkyl derivative of ammonia and, like the latter, forming a series of salts.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- phenylamine — aniline.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
- propylamine — an isomeric amine of propyl
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- quartz lamp — a lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, as mercury vapor, contained in a fused-silica bulb that transmits ultraviolet light with little absorption.
- reclamation — the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
- riding lamp — a light on a boat or ship showing that it is at anchor
- safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- sea lamprey — a parasitic marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, that spawns in fresh water along both Atlantic coasts and in the Great Lakes, where it is responsible for losses of economically valuable fish.
- spirit lamp — a lamp that burns methylated or other spirits instead of oil
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- st.-lambert — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- tamil eelam — the separate Tamil state that the Tamil Tigers have sought to establish in northern Sri Lanka
- the slammer — prison
- unblameable — not able to be blamed; immune to blame; blameless
- unblameably — in an unblameable fashion; blamelessly
- unglamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.