9-letter words containing a, p, l, m
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- lymphomas — Plural form of lymphoma.
- macapagal — Diosdado [dee-aws-dah-daw] /ˌdi ɔsˈdɑ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1910–97, Philippine statesman: president 1961–65.
- machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
- magmalisp — (language) The predecessor of Magma2.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- mail path — source route
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- 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.
- maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- malpighia — (botany) Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- maplelike — Resembling a maple tree or some aspect of one.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- matagalpa — a city in W central Nicaragua.
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- may apple — an American plant, Podophyllum peltatum, of the barberry family, bearing an edible, yellowish, egg-shaped fruit.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meal plan — outline of what to cook and eat
- medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- megapixel — a unit equal to one million pixels, used to measure the resolution of a digital image: My camera has a resolution of 12 megapixels.
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- melampode — the black hellebore, Helleborus niger
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- metapelet — a woman who cares for children, especially on kibbutzim in Israel; foster mother.
- metaplasm — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- milliamps — Plural form of milliamp.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
- monopolar — Having a single pole.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.