10-letter words containing l, a, m, o
- matzo ball — a dumpling made from matzo meal, usually served in soup.
- matzo meal — ground matzos.
- maurolycus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.
- mausoleums — Plural form of mausoleum.
- mcgonagall — William. 1830–?1902, Scottish writer of doggerel, noted for its bathos, repetitive rhymes, poor scansion, and ludicrous effect
- meadowland — an area or section of land that is a meadow or is used or kept as a meadow.
- meadowlark — any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, of the family Icteridae, especially S. magna (eastern meadowlark) and S. neglecta (western meadowlark) having a brownish and black back and wings and a yellow breast, noted for their clear, tuneful song.
- médaillons — a portion of food, especially meat or poultry, cut or served in a round or oval shape.
- medallions — Plural form of medallion.
- megajoules — Plural form of megajoule.
- megalocyte — (physiology) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megalosaur — any gigantic carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
- meiofaunal — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a meiofauna.
- melaconite — the massive variety of tenorite
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- melanoderm — a person with dark pigmentation of the skin.
- melanosome — an organelle in melanocytes that synthesizes and stores melanin.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- melodramas — Plural form of melodrama.
- melomaniac — One with an abnormal fondness of music.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- memorially — By means of, or in terms of, memory.
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- 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.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methylator — A person, company of device that methylates (originally, one that produced methylated spirits).
- methyldopa — a white powder, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- metolazone — a thiazide diuretic, C 1 6 H 1 6 ClN 3 O 3 S, used in the treatment of hypertension and as a diuretic in patients with chronic renal failure.
- miarolitic — (of an igneous rock) having irregular cavities into which crystals protrude
- microalgal — Of, or pertaining to, microalga.
- microblade — bladelet.
- microflora — Biology. microscopic plants.