11-letter words containing l, o, m, e
- melioration — Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- melliferous — yielding or producing honey.
- mellifluous — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
- mellifulous — Misspelling of mellifluous.
- mellophones — Plural form of mellophone.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- melodically — melodious.
- melodiously — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- melolonthid — any of various scarab beetles whose larvae feed chiefly on roots, including the cockchafers and June bugs
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- melpomenish — Tragic; relating to tragedy in a literary or theatrical work.
- melting pot — a pot in which metals or other substances are melted or fused.
- memorabilia — Objects kept or collected because of their historical interest, especially those associated with memorable people or events.
- memorialise — (British) alternative spelling of memorialize.
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- memorialize — to commemorate.
- memorizable — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memory cell — any small, long-lived lymphocyte that has previously encountered a given antigen and that on reexposure to the same antigen rapidly initiates the immune response (memory T cell) or proliferates and produces large amounts of specific antibody (memory B cell) the agent of lasting immunity.
- memory lane — the memory of one's past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory lane.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- memory loss — an impaired memory or amnesia
- mendelssohn — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) 1809–47, German composer.
- meningocele — a protrusion of the meninges through an opening in the skull or spinal column, forming a bulge or sac filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
- mental home — a home, hospital, or institution for people who are mentally ill
- mentholated — saturated with or containing menthol: a mentholated cough drop.
- mentionable — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- mentionless — Without a mention; unmentioned.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- merthiolate — thimerosal
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- mesolimnion — an unfrozen lake's thermocline
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- mesothelial — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the mesothelium.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- metabolised — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolise.
- metabolises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metabolise.
- metabolisms — Plural form of metabolism.
- metabolites — Plural form of metabolite.
- metabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolize.
- metabolizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metabolize.