12-Letter Words That Start With: MEL

• someone subject to melancholia

• someone subject to melancholia

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama

• characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected

• extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state

• a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor

• the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing

• a soft shade of a color

• geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana

• an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte

• the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

• a condition superior to an earlier condition

• the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning