10-letter words containing l, e, m
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- maleficial — abusive or hurtful
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malgré lui — in spite of himself
- malignance — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- malignment — a slanderous disparagement or vilification
- malingered — Simple past tense and past participle of malinger.
- malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- mallanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malleation — the act of hammering or beating something thin
- malleefowl — Alternative form of mallee fowl.
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- mallenders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- maltreated — Simple past tense and past participle of maltreat.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- mamillated — Having nipples.
- mammillate — having a mammilla or mammillae.
- manageable — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- manageably — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- manageless — (archaic) unmanageable.
- managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- mandelstam — Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938? Russian acmeist poet and essayist.
- mandeville — Bernard de [duh] /də/ (Show IPA), c1670–1733, English physician and satirist, born in Holland.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manhandled — Simple past tense and past participle of manhandle.
- manhandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manhandle.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifolded — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- mannerable — Well-mannered.
- mannerless — without good manners; ill-mannered; discourteous; impolite.
- manstealer — A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
- mantellone — a purple mantle extending to the ankles, worn over the cassock by lesser prelates of the papal court.
- manteltree — a wooden or stone lintel over the opening of a fireplace.
- mantletree — a wooden or stone lintel over the opening of a fireplace.
- map legend — key to symbols on a map
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- maple leaf — a one-ounce gold coin of Canada showing a maple leaf on the reverse: traded for investment or as a collector's item.
- maquillage — makeup (defs 1, 2, 5).
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- marbleized — Simple past tense and past participle of marbleize.