6-letter words containing m, a, l
- marlon — a male given name.
- martel — Charles, Charles Martel.
- marula — A medium-sized dioecious tree, Sclerocarya birrea, indigenous to Southern Africa and West Africa.
- marvel — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- masala — Any of a number of spice mixtures ground into a paste or powder for use in Indian cooking.
- mascle — a lozenge represented as having a lozenge-shaped hole at the center.
- maskil — an advocate or supporter of the Haskalah.
- maslin — a mixture of different grains, flours, or meals, especially rye mixed with wheat.
- matily — in a matey manner
- matlab — (mathematics, language, application) A high-level language and interactive program from The MathWorks for numeric computation and visualisation. MATLAB supports numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, linear algebra, statistics, Fourier analysis, filtering, optimisation and numerical integration. It can output two and three dimensional graphics and can be integrated with C, C++, Fortran, Java, COM and Microsoft Excel.
- maudle — (obsolete, transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
- mauled — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- mauler — One who mauls.
- maulvi — (in India) an expert in Islamic law: used especially as a term of respectful address among Muslims.
- mawlid — a Muslim holiday celebrating the birth of Muhammad, occurring on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiʿ al-awwal, and characterized especially by the recitation of panegyrical poems honoring Muhammad.
- mayfly — Also called shadfly. any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, having delicate, membranous wings with the front pair much larger than the rear and having an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.
- mazily — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
- mclean — John (1785-1861), US Supreme Court associate justice 1829-61. The US postmaster general 1823-29, he was appointed to the Court by President Jackson.
- mealer — a person eating but not lodging at a boarding house
- mealie — Sometimes, mealies. corn; maize.
- meanly — moderately.
- measle — singular of measles (def 3).
- measly — Informal. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance.
- meatal — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- medals — Plural form of medal.
- medial — situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- medlar — a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- melaka — Malacca (defs 1, 2).
- melan- — melano-
- melena — the discharge of black, tarry, bloody stools, usually resulting from a hemorrhage in the alimentary tract.
- melian — a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- mensal — of, relating to, or used at the table.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mesail — a pivoted piece on a helmet between a visor and a beaver.
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- mesial — medial.
- metals — Plural form of metal.
- mezail — mesail.
- mezcal — Alternative form of mescal.
- miauls — Plural form of miaul.
- michal — a daughter of Saul, who became the wife of David. I Sam. 14:49; 18:27.
- miladi — an English noblewoman (often used as a term of address).
- milady — an English noblewoman (often used as a term of address).
- milage — the aggregate number of miles traveled over in a given time.
- milano — an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.
- millay — Edna St. Vincent (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain) 1892–1950, U.S. poet.
- milpas — Plural form of milpa.
- mimola — Operational hardware specification language.
- miskal — a unit of weight used esp in Iran, usually equal to about 4.6 grams