10-letter words containing s, m, e, l, i
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- 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.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- menologies — Plural form of menology.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- merit list — a list of students or people with high grades in exams or other achievements
- mesitylene — a colorless, liquid, aromatic hydrocarbon, C 9 H 1 2 , occurring naturally in coal tar and prepared from acetone: used chiefly as a chemical intermediate.
- mesmerical — Alternative form of mesmeric.
- mesofossil — A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
- mesolimbic — (anatomy) Relating to the middle part of the limbic system.
- mesolithic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic.
- mesolonghi — Missolonghi.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- 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
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- michaelmas — a festival celebrated on September 29 in honor of the archangel Michael.
- micromoles — Plural form of micromole.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microscale — A very small or microscopic scale.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- middelskot — (in South Africa) an intermediate payment to a farmers' cooperative for a crop or wool clip
- middlemost — midmost.
- mild steel — low-carbon steel, containing no more than 0.25 percent carbon.
- 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.
- milestones — Plural form of milestone.
- 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
- milkfishes — Plural form of milkfish.
- milkshakes — Plural form of milkshake.
- mill scale — scale1 (def 6b).
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- millesimal — thousandth.
- millimoles — Plural form of millimole.
- millipedes — Plural form of millipede.
- millstones — Plural form of millstone.
- millstream — the stream in a millrace.