9-letter words containing a, l
- 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 line — a fashionable residential district west of Philadelphia.
- 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.
- mainlined — Simple past tense and past participle of mainline.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- mainsails — Plural form of mainsail.
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.
- 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 like — 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.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- make talk — to talk idly, as in an effort to pass time
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- malachite — a green mineral, basic copper carbonate, Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2 , an ore of copper, used for making ornamental articles.
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
- malanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- 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.
- malatesta — an Italian family that ruled Rimini from the 13th to the 16th century
- 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
- malayalam — a Dravidian language spoken in extreme southwestern India.
- malaysian — a native or inhabitant of Malaysia.
- malcolm x — (Malcolm Little) 1925–65, U.S. black-rights activist and religious leader.
- maldivian — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
- male alto — countertenor.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- maleffect — an undesirable effect
- malengine — a wicked plan or deceit
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- maligning — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- malignity — the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.