9-letter words containing m, l, a
- melanosis — abnormal deposition or development of black or dark pigment in the tissues.
- melanotic — of or affected with melanosis.
- melanuria — the presence of melanin in urine
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melastome — any of various tropical flowering plants of the family Melastomataceae
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- meliorate — (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- melismata — Plural form of melisma.
- melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
- melomania — great enthusiasm for music
- melomanic — characterized by a great enthusiasm for music
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- melt away — thaw
- meltwater — water from melted snow or ice.
- membranal — Of or pertaining to a membrane.
- memorable — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorably — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorials — Plural form of memorial.
- mendelian — of or relating to Gregor Mendel or to his laws of heredity.
- meningeal — (anatomy) Relating to the meninges.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- mentalese — the language of thought; thoughts represented in the mind without words, especially complex thoughts built from simpler ones.
- mentalise — Alt form mentalize.
- mentalism — the doctrine that objects of knowledge have no existence except in the mind of the perceiver.
- mentalist — a person who believes in or advocates mentalism.
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- mentalize — (usually, in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- meritable — Deserving of reward.
- meromelia — A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
- mesangial — Of or pertaining to the mesangium.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- mesogleal — relating to the mesoglea
- mesogloea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- mesoscale — pertaining to meteorological phenomena, such as wind circulation and cloud patterns, that are about 1–100 km (0.6–60 miles) in horizontal extent.
- mess call — a bugle call for mess.
- mess hall — a place in which a group eats regularly, especially a dining hall in a military camp, post, etc.
- messalian — Euchite.
- messalina — Valeria, died a.d. 48, third wife of Claudius I.
- messaline — a thin, soft silk with a twill or satin weave.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metaclass — (programming) The class of a class in an object-oriented programming language. A metaclass is a class whose instances are themselves classes. Typically there will only be one metaclass, called "Class" or similar, which is the class of all classes including itself. In some languages there will be no metaclass. The idea of a metaclass is closely associated with introspection - the ability of a program to access the structure and logic of itself or other programs.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.