10-letter words containing ale
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- maleficial — abusive or hurtful
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- manstealer — A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
- marshalers — Plural form of marshaler.
- martingale — Also called standing martingale. part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting of a strap that fastens to the girth, passes between the forelegs and through a loop in the neckstrap or hame, and fastens to the noseband: used to steady or hold down the horse's head.
- melaleucas — Plural form of melaleuca.
- melvindale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- metafemale — (biology) A female with triple X syndrome.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- microscale — A very small or microscopic scale.
- mill scale — scale1 (def 6b).
- mohs scale — a scale of hardness used in mineralogy. Its degrees, in increasing hardness, are: talc 1; gypsum 2; calcite 3; fluorite 4; apatite 5; feldspar 6; quartz 7; topaz 8; sapphire 9; diamond 10. Abbreviation: MSH.
- monovalent — Chemistry. univalent.
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- octavalent — having a valence of eight.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- orangevale — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- outrivaled — Simple past tense and past participle of outrival.
- over-alert — abnormally alert
- overscaled — on an excessive scale
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- pedernales — a river in central Texas, flowing E to the Colorado river. About 105 miles (169 km) long.
- polyvalent — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- potamogale — otter shrew.
- prevalence — the condition of being prevalent, or widespread: the prevalence of AIDS in developing countries.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- regalement — to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
- resaleable — able to be resold; suitable for resale.
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- sale price — discounted cost
- sale value — the amount of money that sth would make if it were to be sold
- sales call — a phone call made by a sales representative of a company to a person's home with the purpose of selling goods, services, etc
- sales slip — a receipt or other slip of paper issued by a store or other vendor showing where a purchase was made and also the amount, date, department, etc.
- sales talk — a line of reasoning or argument intended to persuade someone to buy, accept, or do something.
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- saleswoman — a woman who sells goods, services, etc.
- scale back — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scale leaf — a scalelike leaf, as a bud scale or certain bracts.
- scale moss — any thalloid liverwort.