10-letter words containing l, s, m
- meddlesome — given to meddling; interfering; intrusive.
- medicalise — to handle or accept as deserving of or appropriate for medical treatment.
- medicinals — Plural form of medicinal.
- megacycles — Plural form of megacycle.
- megajoules — Plural form of megajoule.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megalosaur — any gigantic carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
- megapixels — Plural form of megapixel.
- megaplexes — Plural form of megaplex.
- megaseller — A book or other product that has sold in extremely large numbers.
- melaleucas — Plural form of melaleuca.
- melanesian — of or relating to Melanesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- melanising — Present participle of melanise.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanosome — an organelle in melanocytes that synthesizes and stores melanin.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- 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.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- mellowness — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- melodramas — Plural form of melodrama.
- 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.
- mendelsohn — Erich [ey-rikh] /ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1887–1953, German architect in England and in the U.S.
- menologies — Plural form of menology.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- mensurable — measurable.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- merit list — a list of students or people with high grades in exams or other achievements
- mesitylene — a colorless, liquid, aromatic hydrocarbon, C 9 H 1 2 , occurring naturally in coal tar and prepared from acetone: used chiefly as a chemical intermediate.
- mesmerical — Alternative form of mesmeric.
- 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.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- 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.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metallings — road metals
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalsmith — a person skilled in making articles of metal.