13-letter words containing a, m, l
- maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
- maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malariologist — An expert in malaria.
- maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malinvestment — An incorrect or unwise investment.
- malleableness — The quality of being malleable.
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
- mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
- malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
- malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
- maltese cross — a cross having four equal arms that expand in width outward.
- malthusianism — 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.
- mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
- mammary gland — any of the compound accessory reproductive organs of female mammals that occur in pairs on the chest or ventral surface and contain milk-producing lobes with ducts that empty into an external nipple, becoming functional when young are born and secreting milk for the duration of suckling.
- mammoplasties — Plural form of mammoplasty.
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- managerialism — Belief in or reliance on the use of professional managers in administering or planning an activity.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- mangel-wurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manipulations — Plural form of manipulation.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mannheim gold — a brass alloy used to imitate gold; red brass.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- mansplanation — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantelshelves — Plural form of mantelshelf.
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- many-coloured — having many colours
- maple heights — a city in NE Ohio.
- mar del plata — a city in E Argentina: seaside resort.
- marble quarry — a quarry where marble is extracted
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- marbleization — The process of marbleizing.
- marching girl — one of a team of girls dressed in fancy uniform who perform marching formations
- mare australe — (Southern Sea) an area near the south pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- marginal note — aside
- marginal seat — a seat in which elections tend to be won by small margins
- marginalising — Present participle of marginalise.
- marginalizing — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- mariage blanc — unconsummated marriage
- mariculturist — One who engages in mariculture.
- marie galante — an island in the E West Indies: a dependency of Guadeloupe. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).