8-letter words containing a, g, m, l
- malignly — In a malign manner.
- malinger — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- maltings — Plural form of malting.
- mamaliga — a porridge of cornmeal, orig. of Romania
- mangling — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- mangonel — (formerly) any of various military engines for throwing large stones, darts, and other missiles.
- mantling — a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- margelan — a city in E Uzbekistan, NW of Fergana.
- marginal — pertaining to a margin.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- medaling — a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like: a gold medal for the best swimmer.
- megadeal — a large business transaction.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megamall — A megamall is a very large shopping area containing very many shops, cinemas, and restaurants.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- megillah — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- meleager — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek epigrammatist.
- meltages — (very, rare) Plural form of meltage.
- mesoglea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- mileages — Plural form of mileage.
- milligal — a unit of acceleration, equal to one thousandth of a gal; one thousandth of a centimeter per second per second. Abbreviation: mGal.
- milligan — Spike, real name Terence Alan Milligan. 1918–2002, Irish radio, stage, and film comedian and author, born in India. He appeared in The Goon Show (with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe; BBC Radio, 1952–60) and his films include Postman's Knock (1962), Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall (1972), The Three Musketeers (1974), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), and Yellowbeard (1982). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2000
- misalign — To align incorrectly.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- ngaliema — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- oligemia — Alt form olig\u00e6mia.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
- plumbago — graphite.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).
- qualming — the state of having a qualm