8-letter words containing e, m, u, l, a
- maculate — spotted; stained.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- malamute — Alaskan malamute.
- malemute — Alaskan malamute.
- mameluco — (South America) A child born of a white father and American Indian mother.
- mameluke — a member of a military class, originally composed of slaves, that seized control of the Egyptian sultanate in 1250, ruled until 1517, and remained powerful until massacred or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- manuel i — called the Fortunate. 1469–1521, king of Portugal (1495–1521); his reign saw the discovery of Brazil and the beginning of Portuguese trade with India and the East
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- medullae — Irregular plural form of medulla.
- medullar — Medullary.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- melaxuma — a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- modulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- mule-fat — a composite shrub, Baccharis viminea, of California, having willowlike leaves and clustered flowers, growing in riverbeds.
- mulhacen — a mountain in S Spain: the highest peak in Spain. 11,411 feet (3478 meters).
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- muralled — decorated with a mural or murals
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- muteable — Capable of being muted.
- mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- noumenal — ontic.
- nu-metal — a type of rock music popular from the late 1990s, featuring much of the sound typical of heavy metal but also influenced by rap and hip-hop
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- sacellum — a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- saeculum — an age in astronomy
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.