8-letter words containing l, a, m, e, s
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- 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.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- meltages — (very, rare) Plural form of meltage.
- 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.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mersalyl — a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
- mesnalty — the estate of a mesne lord.
- mesoglea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- mesylate — (organic chemistry) methanesulfonate.
- metalist — a person who works with metals.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- miladies — Plural form of milady.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- mileages — Plural form of mileage.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- misalter — to alter wrongly
- mislabel — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
- misleads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislead.
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- missable — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- modalise — Alternative spelling of modalize.
- molasses — a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, varying from light to dark brown in color.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- moralise — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- movables — Plural form of movable.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- myelomas — Plural form of myeloma.
- nameless — having no name.
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- plateasm — the practice of talking with the mouth open too wide
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.