10-letter words containing a, n, i, m, l, s
- measliness — the state or quality of being measly or meagre
- médaillons — a portion of food, especially meat or poultry, cut or served in a round or oval shape.
- medallions — Plural form of medallion.
- medicinals — Plural form of medicinal.
- melanesian — of or relating to Melanesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- melanising — Present participle of melanise.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- metallings — road metals
- microloans — Plural form of microloan.
- milk snake — a nonvenomous brown-and-grey North American colubrid snake Lampropeltis doliata, related to the king snakes
- minelayers — Plural form of minelayer.
- mineralise — Alt form mineralize.
- mineralist — a mineralogist
- minimalise — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- minimalism — Music. a reductive style or school of modern music utilizing only simple sonorities, rhythms, and patterns, with minimal embellishment or orchestrational complexity, and characterized by protracted repetition of figurations, obsessive structural rigor, and often a pulsing, hypnotic effect.
- minimalist — a person who favors a moderate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or who holds minimal expectations for the success of a program.
- misaligned — improperly aligned.
- misanalyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- misbalance — To balance badly or wrongly.
- miscalling — Present participle of miscall.
- miscellane — A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; maslin; meslin.
- miscellany — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- misdealing — Present participle of misdeal.
- misexplain — (transitive) To explain incorrectly.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
- misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- missileman — a person who builds, designs, launches, or operates guided missiles.
- mistakenly — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- misvaluing — Present participle of misvalue.
- monastical — Alternative form of monastic.
- moniliasis — (formerly) candidiasis.
- moralising — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- mortal sin — a willfully committed, serious transgression against the law of God, depriving the soul of divine grace.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- musicianly — In the manner of a musician.
- naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- neorealism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of various movements in literature, art, etc., that are considered as a return to a more realistic style.
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nominalise — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- nominalism — (in medieval philosophy) the doctrine that general or abstract words do not stand for objectively existing entities and that universals are no more than names assigned to them. Compare conceptualism, realism (def 5a).
- nominalist — An adherent of any of the various kinds of nominalism.
- nondualism — The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena; that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
- nonmusical — not belonging to or relating to music
- normalcies — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- normalised — normalisation