9-letter words containing m, a, l, u, s
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mass cult — something regarded as significant by a minority, but a very large one
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- mathusala — Methuselah (def 1).
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- mausoleal — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausoleum — a stately and magnificent tomb.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- meursault — a dry, white Burgundy wine produced in the district around Meursault in E France.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- modulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modulate.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- molluskan — (rare) alternative spelling of molluscan.
- mousetail — (botany) Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
- mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- mulattoes — Plural form of mulatto.
- mule-ears — any of several composite plants of the genus Wyethia, of the western U.S., having large leaves and broad flower heads with yellow rays.
- muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
- mullahism — governance or rule by mullahs
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- multicast — Send (data) across a computer network to several users at the same time.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- multitask — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.