11-letter words containing m, o, r, e, l, a
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- mallee root — the rootstock (rhizome) of a mallee tree, often used as fuel
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- manila rope — rope made from Manila hemp.
- manorialize — to bring under manorialism.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- marmoreally — In a marmoreal fashion; like marble.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- mediatorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a mediator.
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melanoderma — (pathology) An unusual darkening of the skin.
- melanophore — a pigmented connective-tissue cell containing melanin in its cytoplasm, responsible for color changes in many fishes and reptiles.
- melioration — Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- memorabilia — Objects kept or collected because of their historical interest, especially those associated with memorable people or events.
- memorialise — (British) alternative spelling of memorialize.
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- memorialize — to commemorate.
- memorizable — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memory lane — the memory of one's past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory lane.
- memory leak — (programming) A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- merthiolate — thimerosal
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- meteoroidal — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteoroids. (from 19th c.).
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- millionaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.