7-letter words containing al
- malanje — a city in N Angola.
- mälaren — Lake, a lake in S Sweden, extending W from Stockholm. 440 sq. mi. (1140 sq. km).
- malaria — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malarky — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- malatya — a city in central Turkey.
- malayan — of or relating to Malaya or its inhabitants
- malayo- — Malay and
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malcolm — a male given name: from a Gaelic word meaning “disciple of Saint Columba.”.
- maleate — a salt or ester of maleic acid.
- malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- malicho — mischief or wrongdoing
- maligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malign.
- malinda — a female given name.
- malines — French name of Mechlin.
- malinke — a member of an agricultural people living in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast.
- malison — a curse.
- malkins — Plural form of malkin.
- mallams — Plural form of mallam.
- mallard — a common, almost cosmopolitan, wild duck, Anas platyrhynchos, from which the domestic ducks are descended.
- mallees — Plural form of mallee.
- mallets — Plural form of mallet.
- malleus — the outermost of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of mammals. Also called hammer. Compare incus (def 1), stapes.
- malling — the overbuilding of shopping malls in a region: the malling of America.
- mallory — Stephen Russell, 1813?–73, U.S. lawyer and politician.
- mallows — Plural form of mallow.
- mallrat — Alternative spelling of mall rat.
- malmedy — Eupen and Malmédy.
- malmsey — a strong, sweet wine with a strong flavor, originally made in Greece but now made mainly in Madeira.
- malodor — an unpleasant or offensive odor; stench.
- malonic — of or derived from malonic acid; propanedioic.
- malonyl — containing the malonyl group.
- malosol — A lightly-salted Russian caviar.
- malpais — Southwestern U.S. an extensive area of rough, barren lava flows.
- malraux — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
- maltase — an enzyme that converts maltose into glucose and causes similar cleavage of many other glucosides.
- malteds — Plural form of malted.
- maltese — of or relating to Malta, its people, or their language.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- malting — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- maltman — Someone who works in a malthouse.
- maltose — 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.
- malvern — an urban area in W England, SW of Birmingham: mineral springs; incorporated into Malvern Hills 1974.
- malvine — a female given name.
- malware — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- mammals — 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.
- mancala — (games, board games) A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
- mandala — Oriental Art. a schematized representation of the cosmos, chiefly characterized by a concentric configuration of geometric shapes, each of which contains an image of a deity or an attribute of a deity.
- manimal — (informal) A fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals.