10-letter words containing a, l, m, d
- medullated — myelinated.
- melanoderm — a person with dark pigmentation of the skin.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- melodramas — Plural form of melodrama.
- melvindale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
- mesodermal — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
- metal wood — a structural material consisting of a sheet of metal glued between two veneers or of a veneer glued between two sheets of metal.
- metallized — Simple past tense and past participle of metallize.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methylated — Simple past tense and past participle of methylate.
- methyldopa — a white powder, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- microblade — bladelet.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- middle age — the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.
- middle ear — the middle portion of the ear, consisting of the tympanic membrane and an air-filled chamber lined with mucous membrane, that contains the malleus, incus, and stapes. Compare ear1 (def 1).
- middlegame — (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.
- middlehand — the player on the dealer's right in a game with three players. Compare endhand, forehand (def 7).
- middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
- midlothian — Formerly Edinburgh. a historic county in SE Scotland.
- milk adder — any of numerous, usually brightly marked king snakes of the subspecies Lampropeltis triangulum (doliata), of North America.
- millifarad — a unit of capacitance, equal to one thousandth of a farad. Abbreviation: mF, mf.
- mineraloid — a mineral substance that does not have a definite chemical formula or crystal form.
- misaligned — improperly aligned.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- misdealing — Present participle of misdeal.
- misdeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- mislabeled — Simple past tense and past participle of mislabel.
- misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
- mislocated — to misplace.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- misrelated — Simple past tense and past participle of misrelate.
- mixolydian — of, relating to, or denoting an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from G to G
- ml threads — SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in Modula-2+ and Mesa. Written by Greg Morrisett <[email protected]>. Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
- modacrylic — designating or of any of various synthetic fibers that resist combustion, made from long-chain polymers composed primarily of acrylonitrile modified by other polymers: used in making fabrics, carpets, etc.
- modalities — the quality or state of being modal.
- moderately — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
- modifiable — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- modigliani — Amedeo [ah-me-de-aw] /ˌɑ mɛˈdɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1920, Italian painter and sculptor in France.
- modula-3pi — Machine-independent intermediate language for compilation of Modula-3*. "Modula-3pi Language Definition", E.A. Heinz, TR, U Karlsruhe 1993.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularity — the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system.
- modularize — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modulating — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.