10-letter words containing s, a, l, i, e, m
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- mesmerical — Alternative form of mesmeric.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metallings — road metals
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalsmith — a person skilled in making articles of metal.
- metaplasia — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metaplasis — the second of three stages of ontogenetic development proposed by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, in which the development of the individual is complete
- michaelmas — a festival celebrated on September 29 in honor of the archangel Michael.
- microscale — A very small or microscopic scale.
- miles away — If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
- militaries — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- militarise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of militarize.
- milk shake — a frothy drink made of cold milk, flavoring, and usually ice cream, shaken together or blended in a mixer.
- milk snake — a nonvenomous brown-and-grey North American colubrid snake Lampropeltis doliata, related to the king snakes
- milkshakes — Plural form of milkshake.
- mill scale — scale1 (def 6b).
- millesimal — thousandth.
- millstream — the stream in a millrace.
- minelayers — Plural form of minelayer.
- mineralise — Alt form mineralize.
- mineralist — a mineralogist
- minimalise — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- misaligned — improperly aligned.
- misanalyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- misapplies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapply.
- misbalance — To balance badly or wrongly.
- miscellane — A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; maslin; meslin.
- miscellany — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
- mischannel — to channel wrongly
- mischmetal — an alloy of cerium with certain rare earth metals and iron, used to produce the spark in lighters
- misdealing — Present participle of misdeal.
- misdeclare — to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy.
- misexplain — (transitive) To explain incorrectly.
- mishandled — Simple past tense and past participle of mishandle.
- mishandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishandle.
- mislabeled — Simple past tense and past participle of mislabel.
- misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
- mislocated — to misplace.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- misrelated — Simple past tense and past participle of misrelate.