10-letter words containing m, a, l, e, t
- maternally — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- materteral — Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an aunt; feminine version of avuncular.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- matterless — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- matzo meal — ground matzos.
- may beetle — June bug (def 1).
- medallists — Plural form of medallist.
- medullated — myelinated.
- megalithic — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megalocyte — (physiology) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
- melaconite — the massive variety of tenorite
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- meliorated — Made better; improved.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- mental age — the level of native mental ability or capacity of an individual, usually as determined by an intelligence test, in relation to the chronological age of the average individual at this level: a ten-year-old child with the mental age of a twelve-year-old; a mental age of twelve.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- mercantile — of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- 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.
- 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.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- metafemale — (biology) A female with triple X syndrome.
- metagalaxy — the complete system of galaxies; the Milky Way and all the surrounding galaxies.
- metal lath — any of various meshlike laths of metal for plastering.
- metal tape — a high-performance recording tape having a magnetic metal-particle coating that is not an oxide.
- 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.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metallings — road metals
- metallized — Simple past tense and past participle of metallize.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metallurgy — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metalsmith — a person skilled in making articles of metal.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- metaplasia — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metaplasis — the second of three stages of ontogenetic development proposed by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, in which the development of the individual is complete
- metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
- metastable — Metallurgy. chemically unstable in the absence of certain conditions that would induce stability, but not liable to spontaneous transformation.
- metastably — In a metastable way.
- metatarsal — of or relating to the metatarsus, the part of the foot that includes the bones between the ankle and toes.
- 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.
- methuselah — a patriarch who lived 969 years. Gen. 5:27.