9-letter words containing a, l, m, o
- mail room — sorting office for post
- mail slot — a slot, usually covered with a hinged flap, through which letters, etc are delivered to a building
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mailcoach — a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- mailwoman — (rare) A female postal worker.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- malcolm x — (Malcolm Little) 1925–65, U.S. black-rights activist and religious leader.
- male alto — countertenor.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolar — pertaining to a malleolus.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malnormal — (mathematics) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting malnormality.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- malvoisie — malmsey wine.
- mammalogy — the science dealing with mammals.
- mammology — Alternative form of mammalogy.
- mandilion — a short cloak, with full hanging sleeves, often open or slit under the arms, worn by soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- mandoline — A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat frame with adjustable cutting blades for slicing vegetables.
- mandolins — Plural form of mandolin.
- mandylion — a loose garment formerly worn over armour
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- mangonels — Plural form of mangonel.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- mariology — the body of belief, doctrine, and opinion concerning the Virgin Mary.
- marlovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Christopher Marlowe or his writings, especially his plays.
- marlstone — an indurated marl.
- marmolada — a mountain in N Italy: highest peak of the Dolomites, 11,020 feet (3360 meters).