10-letter words containing l, e, o, m
- mefloquine — An antimalarial drug consisting of a fluorinated derivative of quinoline.
- 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.
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- mellophone — a marching or military band brass instrument similar in appearance and range to the French horn but slightly smaller and simpler to play.
- mellow out — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- mellowness — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- melodizing — Present participle of melodize.
- melodramas — Plural form of melodrama.
- melomaniac — One with an abnormal fondness of music.
- melon dome — a hemispherical dome with a circular base and a ribbed vault divided into individual webs, each of which has a baseline curved segmentally in plan and also curved in elevation.
- melon foot — a bun foot having vertical channels.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- melon seed — a small, broad, shallow boat for sailing or rowing, formerly used by hunters in various bays and marshes along the coast of New Jersey.
- melon-bulb — a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
- memorially — By means of, or in terms of, memory.
- mendelsohn — Erich [ey-rikh] /ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1887–1953, German architect in England and in the U.S.
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- menologies — Plural form of menology.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
- mesne lord — (in old English law) an intermediate feudal lord; the tenant of a chief lord and a lord to his own tenants.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesodermal — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
- mesofossil — A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesolimbic — (anatomy) Relating to the middle part of the limbic system.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesophylls — Plural form of mesophyll.
- 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.