8-letter words containing a, m, l
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanian — a freshwater mollusc of the former family Melaniidae. The Melaniidae family is now separated into the Thiaridae, Pleuroceridae, and Melanopsidae families.
- melanion — a youth of Arcadia, usually identified with Hippomenes as the successful suitor of Atalanta.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanite — a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
- melanize — To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.
- melanoid — of or characterized by melanosis.
- melanoma — any of several types of skin tumors characterized by the malignant growth of melanocytes.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- melaxuma — a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
- meleager — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek epigrammatist.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- meltable — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- meltages — (very, rare) Plural form of meltage.
- memorial — something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
- mendable — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- menially — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mentally — in or with the mind or intellect; intellectually.
- mersalyl — a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
- mesnalty — the estate of a mesne lord.
- mesoglea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- mesylate — (organic chemistry) methanesulfonate.
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- metafile — (graphics, file format) 1. An image file format for transport between different machines, often as a device independent bitmap. 2. A functional specification for encoding computer graphics for later display on some suitable device.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metalist — a person who works with metals.
- metalize — to make metallic; give the characteristics of metal to.
- metalled — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metaller — (music, informal) One who listens to metal music.
- metallic — of, relating to, or consisting of metal.
- metallo- — denoting metal
- metamale — a sterile male organism, esp a fruit fly (Drosophila) that has one X chromosome and three sets of autosomes
- metazoal — a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.
- methanal — formaldehyde.
- methanol — methyl alcohol.
- methylal — a colorless, flammable, volatile liquid, C 3 H 8 O 2 , having a chloroformlike odor, used chiefly as a solvent, in perfumery, and in organic synthesis.
- metrazol — pentylenetetrazol
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.