10-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melezitose — (organic compound) A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- melitriose — raffinose.
- 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.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- 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.
- 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.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- metrostyle — a device that controls the speed of a player piano
- mettlesome — spirited; courageous.
- 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.
- 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.
- millstones — Plural form of millstone.
- millstream — the stream in a millrace.
- mineralist — a mineralogist
- minstrelsy — the art or practice of a minstrel.
- mischmetal — an alloy of cerium with certain rare earth metals and iron, used to produce the spark in lighters
- mislocated — to misplace.
- misrelated — Simple past tense and past participle of misrelate.
- mistakable — capable of being or liable to be mistaken or misunderstood.
- mistakenly — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- mistletoes — Plural form of mistletoe.
- mistressly — relating to a female who is skilled or expert in a particular area
- ml threads — SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in Modula-2+ and Mesa. Written by Greg Morrisett <[email protected]>. Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
- modalities — the quality or state of being modal.
- molalities — Plural form of molality.