8-letter words containing c, l, m
- mallorca — Majorca.
- mameluco — (South America) A child born of a white father and American Indian mother.
- man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
- manacled — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- manacles — Plural form of manacle.
- manchild — a male child; boy; son.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- mandalic — Of, or pertaining to, a mandala.
- maniacal — of or relating to mania or a maniac.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- marcella — a female given name.
- marcello — Benedetto [be-ne-det-taw] /ˌbɛ nɛˈdɛt tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1686–1739, Italian composer.
- marichal — Juan, born 1937, U.S. baseball pitcher, born in the Dominican Republic.
- marlitic — having the nature of marlite
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- masscult — the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- mcaleese — Mary (Patricia). born 1951, Irish politician; president of Ireland (1997–2011)
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mcdonald — David John, 1902–79, U.S. labor leader: president of the United Steelworkers of America 1952–65.
- mcdowell — Ephraim, 1771–1830, U.S. surgeon.
- mci mail — (messaging) The first commercial Internet electronic mail service, launched by MCI in about 1981. Vint Cerf was the chief engineer. Reading mail was free but you had to pay to send. Users discovered you could communicate for free by sharing an account. One user would save a message as a draft and the other would read it and replace it with his response.
- mckellen — Sir Ian (Murray). born 1939, British actor, noted esp for his Shakespearean roles; films include The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03)
- mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- mcmillan — Edwin Mattison [mat-uh-suh n] /ˈmæt ə sən/ (Show IPA), 1907–91, U.S. educator and physicist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1951.
- mechelen — French Malines. Flemish Mechelen [mekh-uh-luh n] /ˈmɛx ə lən/ (Show IPA). a city in N Belgium.
- medallic — of or relating to medals.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- melchers — Gari [gair-ee] /ˈgɛər i/ (Show IPA), 1860–1932, U.S. painter.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- melchite — a Christian in Egypt and Syria who accepted the definition of faith adopted by the Council of Chalcedon in a.d. 451.
- mellitic — (of an acid) obtained from mellite
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- metallic — of, relating to, or consisting of metal.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- 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.
- micellar — Physical Chemistry. an electrically charged particle formed by an aggregate of molecules and occurring in certain colloidal electrolyte solutions, as those of soaps and detergents.
- micelles — Plural form of micelle.
- michelet — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1798–1874, French historian.
- michelin — André (ɑ̃dre). 1853–1931, French industrialist; founder, with his brother Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), of the Michelin Tyre Company (1888): the first to use demountable pneumatic tyres on motor vehicles
- michelle — a female given name.
- micro ml — (uML) An interpreter for a subset of SML. Runs on MS-DOS. Written at the University of Umea, Sweden.
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux