10-letter words containing m, a, l, c, h
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- menarcheal — the first menstrual period; the establishment of menstruation.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- 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.
- michaelmas — a festival celebrated on September 29 in honor of the archangel Michael.
- midchannel — (geography) In the middle of a channel.
- mihailovic — Draža [Serbo-Croatian. drah-zhah] /Serbo-Croatian. ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), Mikhailovitch, Draja.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mischmetal — an alloy of cerium with certain rare earth metals and iron, used to produce the spark in lighters
- mohs scale — a scale of hardness used in mineralogy. Its degrees, in increasing hardness, are: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; feldspar 6; quartz 7; topaz 8; sapphire 9; diamond 10. Abbreviation: MSH.
- molestache — (slang, rare) A type of mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.
- monarchial — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- monothecal — having a sole compartment or cell
- multichain — comprising or involving several chains, esp (in chemistry) of a linear polymer
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- music hall — an auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
- mythically — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
- orichalcum — a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- peach palm — a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- pharmacol. — pharmacology
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- ralph cram — Ralph Adams, 1863–1942, U.S. architect and writer.
- ramshackle — dilapidated, run down
- rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- schlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- schoolmaid — a schoolgirl
- schoolmarm — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- slow march — a march in slow time
- slow match — a slow-burning match or fuse, often consisting of a rope or cord soaked in a solution of saltpeter.
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- telemachus — the son of Odysseus and Penelope who helped Odysseus to kill the suitors of Penelope.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- xml schema — (data) XML data that describes the relationship between elements and attributes in some other class of XML data. A schema may or may not include data type representations. XML schemas are a more advanced alternative to DTDs.