10-letter words containing a, l, m, u
- malaguetta — an aromatic African herb of the ginger family
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malgré lui — in spite of himself
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- malt sugar — maltose
- malt-sugar — 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.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manitoulin — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- maquillage — makeup (defs 1, 2, 5).
- marlaceous — Resembling marl.
- marouflage — a method of attaching a canvas to a wall through adhesion, accomplished by coating the surface with white lead mixed with oil.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- marvellous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- matricular — relating to a matricula, or having the nature of a matricula
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- maurolycus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.
- mausoleums — Plural form of mausoleum.
- max muller — Friedrich [free-drik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), Müller, Friedrich Max.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.
- meaningful — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- measurable — capable of being measured.
- measurably — capable of being measured.
- measuredly — In a measured fashion.
- medullated — myelinated.
- megafaunal — Of or pertaining to the megafauna.
- megajoules — Plural form of megajoule.
- megalosaur — any gigantic carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
- meiofaunal — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a meiofauna.
- melaleucas — Plural form of melaleuca.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- mensurable — measurable.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- metallurgy — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.