10-letter words containing s, m, a, l, t
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- maelstroms — Plural form of maelstrom.
- magistrals — Plural form of magistral.
- majestical — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malignants — Plural form of malignant.
- malt sugar — maltose
- malt-sugar — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- mandelstam — Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938? Russian acmeist poet and essayist.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manstealer — A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
- mast clamp — a pierced slab of hardwood built into the deck structure of a small ship or boat to receive the force of the mast, which is fitted tightly through it.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- masterable — Possible to master; able to be mastered.
- masterless — Lacking or deprived of a master.
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matterless — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- maximalist — a person who favors a radical and immediate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or the completion of a program.
- medallists — Plural form of medallist.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- 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.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- 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
- metastable — Metallurgy. chemically unstable in the absence of certain conditions that would induce stability, but not liable to spontaneous transformation.
- metastably — In a metastable way.
- metatarsal — of or relating to the metatarsus, the part of the foot that includes the bones between the ankle and toes.
- methuselah — a patriarch who lived 969 years. Gen. 5:27.
- methylates — Plural form of methylate.
- 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.
- militarism — a strong military spirit or policy.
- militarist — a person imbued with militarism.
- milk-toast — easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.