10-letter words containing d, e, l, i, m
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- melodizing — Present participle of melodize.
- melvindale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
- metallized — Simple past tense and past participle of metallize.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- microblade — bladelet.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- middle age — the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.
- middle ear — the middle portion of the ear, consisting of the tympanic membrane and an air-filled chamber lined with mucous membrane, that contains the malleus, incus, and stapes. Compare ear1 (def 1).
- middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
- middlegame — (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.
- middlehand — the player on the dealer's right in a game with three players. Compare endhand, forehand (def 7).
- middlemost — midmost.
- middletone — halftone (def 1).
- middletown — a township in E New Jersey.
- middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
- midfielder — a player active in the midfield, as in soccer, often playing both offensively and defensively.
- mild steel — low-carbon steel, containing no more than 0.25 percent carbon.
- mildewcide — a chemical for destroying mildew.
- milk adder — any of numerous, usually brightly marked king snakes of the subspecies Lampropeltis triangulum (doliata), of North America.
- millerbird — a rare, small, gray-brown, thin-billed warbler, Acrocephalus familiaris, occurring only on the Hawaiian islet of Nihoa: the subspecies that inhabited the islet of Laysan is now extinct.
- millipedes — Plural form of millipede.
- mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- mindlessly — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- minefields — Plural form of minefield.
- mineraloid — a mineral substance that does not have a definite chemical formula or crystal form.
- misaligned — improperly aligned.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- miscolored — to give a wrong color to.
- misdealing — Present participle of misdeal.
- misdeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
- misdeemful — having a wrong opinion of
- misdevelop — to develop in a faulty or abnormal manner
- misfielded — Simple past tense and past participle of misfield.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- mislabeled — Simple past tense and past participle of mislabel.
- misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
- mislocated — to misplace.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- misrelated — Simple past tense and past participle of misrelate.
- misspelled — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
- modalities — the quality or state of being modal.