6-letter words containing a, l, m
- maline — Also, maline. a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.
- malism — The belief that the world is evil.
- malkin — an untidy woman; slattern.
- 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.
- mandel — a male given name.
- mandil — A loose outer coat or jacket worn by men in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- manful — having or showing boldness, courage, or strength; resolute.
- mangal — A mangrove swamp.
- mangel — A beet of a variety with a large root, cultivated as feed for livestock.
- mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- manila — an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China: formerly (1898–1946) under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. 114,830 sq. mi. (297,410 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- mankle — a man's bare ankle, especially when displayed for the purpose of fashion
- manley — Michael (Norman).1924–97, Jamaican statesman; prime minister of Jamaica (1972–80; 1989–92)
- mantel — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantle — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- manual — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- manuel — a male given name.
- manzil — (Islam) Any of the seven partitions of the Qur'an, which can be read in an entire day.
- maples — Plural form of maple.
- marble — Alice, 1913–90, U.S. tennis player.
- marbly — like marble in appearance, hardness, coldness, etc.
- marcel — to wave (the hair) by means of special irons, producing the effect of regular, continuous waves (marcel waves)
- mariel — a city and seaport of Cuba, on the W coast, SW of Havana.
- marled — fertilized with marl.
- marler — A laborer in a marlpit.
- marley — Robert Nesta ("Bob") 1945–81, Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter: popularizer of Rastafarianism.
- marlin — any large, saltwater game fish of the genera Makaira and Tetrapterus, having the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike structure.