7-letter words containing m, e, n, a
- melanie — a female given name.
- melanin — any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life, that account for the dark color of skin, hair, fur, scales, feathers, etc.
- melano- — black or dark
- melinda — a female given name.
- menaced — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menaces — Plural form of menace.
- menacme — the part of a female's life during which menstruation occurs.
- menasha — a city in E Wisconsin.
- menazon — a colorless, crystalline compound, C 6 H 1 2 N 5 O 2 PS 2 , used as a systemic insecticide, especially for control of aphids.
- mendota — Lake, a lake in S Wisconsin, in N Madison. About 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- mendoza — Pedro de [pe-th raw th e] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1487–1537, Spanish soldier and explorer: founder of the first colony of Buenos Aires 1536?.
- menials — Plural form of menial.
- meninga — Mal. born 1960, Australian rugby league player: scored 21 tries in 46 internationals (1982–94)
- menorah — a candelabrum having seven branches (as used in the Biblical tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem), or any number of branches (as used in modern synagogues).
- menorca — Minorca.
- mentula — A penis.
- meranti — wood from any of several Malaysian trees of the dipterocarpaceous genus Shorea
- mercian — of or relating to Mercia, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
- messina — a seaport in NE Sicily.
- messman — an enlisted person who serves in the messroom.
- methane — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, CH 4 , the main constituent of marsh gas and the firedamp of coal mines, obtained commercially from natural gas: the first member of the methane, or alkane, series of hydrocarbons.
- mexican — of or relating to Mexico or its people.
- miazine — pyrimidine (def 1).
- minable — capable of being mined, especially profitably.
- minaret — a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- mineola — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- minerva — the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and the arts, identified with the Greek goddess Athena.
- miniate — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- mintage — the act or process of minting.
- mirbane — nitrobenzene, as formerly used in perfumes
- misname — to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
- mohegan — a member of a group of Pequot Indians that broke with the Pequot and then fought against them in the Pequot War.
- moineau — Lb fortifications A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
- momenta — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
- monades — plural of monas.
- mondale — Walter Frederick ("Fritz") born 1928, U.S. politician: senator 1965–77; vice president 1977–81.
- moneral — Of or pertaining to the Monera.
- moneran — any organism of the kingdom Monera.
- monesia — a preparation extracted from the bark of a South American tree, Pradosia lactescens, and used chiefly as an astringent and as an expectorant.
- montage — the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition. Compare collage (def 1).
- montale — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1981, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1975.
- montane — pertaining to, growing in, or inhabiting mountainous regions.
- montera — A traditional Iberian hat associated with bullfighters.
- moraine — a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- mundane — common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- muraena — any species of moray eel, esp of the genus Muraena (family Muraenidae), common in Mediterranean, tropical, and sub-tropical waters and prized as a food fish by the ancient Romans
- mutagen — a substance or preparation capable of inducing mutation.
- mycenae — an ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis: important ruins.
- namable — capable of or susceptible to being named or identified; identifiable.