10-letter words containing e, l, a, m
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- melodramas — Plural form of melodrama.
- melomaniac — One with an abnormal fondness of music.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- melvindale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- memorially — By means of, or in terms of, memory.
- menacingly — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menarcheal — the first menstrual period; the establishment of menstruation.
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- mensurable — measurable.
- mental age — the level of native mental ability or capacity of an individual, usually as determined by an intelligence test, in relation to the chronological age of the average individual at this level: a ten-year-old child with the mental age of a twelve-year-old; a mental age of twelve.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- mercantile — of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
- mesmerical — Alternative form of mesmeric.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesodermal — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metabolite — a product of metabolic action.
- metabolize — (of a body or organ) process (a substance) by metabolism.
- metabolome — (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of metabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- metafemale — (biology) A female with triple X syndrome.
- metagalaxy — the complete system of galaxies; the Milky Way and all the surrounding galaxies.
- metal lath — any of various meshlike laths of metal for plastering.
- metal tape — a high-performance recording tape having a magnetic metal-particle coating that is not an oxide.
- metal wood — a structural material consisting of a sheet of metal glued between two veneers or of a veneer glued between two sheets of metal.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metallings — road metals
- metallized — Simple past tense and past participle of metallize.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metallurgy — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metalsmith — a person skilled in making articles of metal.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- metaplasia — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metaplasis — the second of three stages of ontogenetic development proposed by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, in which the development of the individual is complete
- 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.
- metastable — Metallurgy. chemically unstable in the absence of certain conditions that would induce stability, but not liable to spontaneous transformation.
- metastably — In a metastable way.
- metatarsal — of or relating to the metatarsus, the part of the foot that includes the bones between the ankle and toes.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.