7-letter words containing a, l, m, s
- macules — Plural form of macule.
- maglevs — Plural form of maglev.
- mailers — Plural form of mailer.
- malaise — a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- maligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malign.
- malines — French name of Mechlin.
- malison — a curse.
- malkins — Plural form of malkin.
- mallams — Plural form of mallam.
- mallees — Plural form of mallee.
- mallets — Plural form of mallet.
- malleus — the outermost of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of mammals. Also called hammer. Compare incus (def 1), stapes.
- mallows — Plural form of mallow.
- malmsey — a strong, sweet wine with a strong flavor, originally made in Greece but now made mainly in Madeira.
- malosol — A lightly-salted Russian caviar.
- malpais — Southwestern U.S. an extensive area of rough, barren lava flows.
- maltase — an enzyme that converts maltose into glucose and causes similar cleavage of many other glucosides.
- malteds — Plural form of malted.
- maltese — of or relating to Malta, its people, or their language.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- mammals — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
- mangels — Plural form of mangel.
- mangles — Plural form of mangle.
- manless — an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman.
- mansell — Nigel (Ernest James). born 1953, English motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion (1992)
- mantels — Plural form of mantel.
- mantles — Plural form of mantle.
- manuals — Plural form of manual.
- mapless — Without a map or maps.
- marbles — 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.
- marcels — Plural form of marcel.
- marisol — (Marisol Escobar) born 1930, Venezuelan artist, in U.S. since 1950.
- marlais — (language) A simple-minded interpreter by Brent Benson at Harris for a programming language strongly resembling Dylan. Marlais version 0.2a is a "hackers release" for education, experimentation, porting, extension, and bug fixing. It has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, VAX/BSD, OS/2, Linux, Sequent Symmetry, Encore, HP-UX, Ultrix, SGI, Sony News, and A/UX.
- marlins — Plural form of marlin.
- marsala — a seaport in W Sicily.
- marshal — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marvels — Plural form of marvel.
- mascled — Composed of, or covered with, lozenge-shaped scales.
- masculy — covered with mascles
- mashlam — maslin.
- mastful — (of a tree) yielding mast in abundance
- matless — Without a mat.
- maulers — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- mealies — Sometimes, mealies. corn; maize.
- measled — (of swine or other livestock) affected with measles.
- measles — (used with a singular or plural verb) Pathology. an acute infectious disease occurring mostly in children, characterized by catarrhal and febrile symptoms and an eruption of small red spots; rubeola. any of certain other eruptive diseases. Compare German measles.
- medials — Plural form of medial.