6-letter words containing al
- mallam — (Islam) In Africa, a teacher of the Koran.
- malled — Simple past tense and past participle of mall.
- mallee — any of various dwarf Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus dumosa and E. oleosa, that sometimes form large tracts of brushwood.
- mallei — Plural form of malleus.
- malles — Plural form of malle.
- mallet — a hammerlike tool with a head commonly of wood but occasionally of rawhide, plastic, etc., used for driving any tool with a wooden handle, as a chisel, or for striking a surface.
- mallia — a town in E Crete: site of an excavated Minoan palace.
- malloc — C's standard library routine for storage allocation. It takes the number of bytes required and returns a pointer to a block of that size. Storage is allocated from a heap which lies after the end of the program and data areas. Memory allocated with malloc must be freed explicitly using the "free" routine before it can be re-used.
- mallon — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- mallow — any of various plants of the genus Malva, including several popular garden plants, as the musk mallow.
- malmag — a small Asian lemur
- maloca — An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.
- malone — Edmond, 1741–1812, Irish literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.
- malory — Sir Thomas, c1400–71, English author.
- maloti — plural of loti.
- malouf — David. born 1934, Australian novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His novels include An Imaginary Life (1978), Remembering Babylon (1993), The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996), and Ransom (2009)
- malted — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- malter — (dated) A person who makes malt; a maltster.
- maltha — a liquid bitumen used in ancient times as a mortar or waterproofing agent.
- maltol — a crystalline compound, C 6 H 6 O 3 , obtained from larch bark, pine needles, chicory, or roasted malt, used for enhancing flavors and aromas, as in foods, wines, and perfumes.
- maluku — Moluccas
- malvin — (biochemistry) An anthocyanin, a diglucoside of malvidin, found in very many foods.
- mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
- manala — Tuonela.
- mangal — A mangrove swamp.
- manual — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- masala — Any of a number of spice mixtures ground into a paste or powder for use in Indian cooking.
- mealer — a person eating but not lodging at a boarding house
- mealie — Sometimes, mealies. corn; maize.
- meatal — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- medals — Plural form of medal.
- medial — situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- mensal — of, relating to, or used at the table.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- mesial — medial.
- metals — Plural form of metal.
- mezcal — Alternative form of mescal.
- michal — a daughter of Saul, who became the wife of David. I Sam. 14:49; 18:27.
- miskal — a unit of weight used esp in Iran, usually equal to about 4.6 grams
- missal — (sometimes initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Church. the book containing the prayers and rites used by the priest in celebrating Mass over the course of the entire year.
- mistal — a cow shed; byre
- mitral — of or resembling a miter.
- modals — Plural form of modal.
- modcal — A version of HP-PASCAL enhanced with system programming constructs, used internally by HP.
- monals — Plural form of monal.
- monial — a mullion.
- morale — emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.: the morale of the troops.
- morals — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.