Words Containing: M,A,L,T,A

• relating to the blood vessels or blood

• a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt

• capable of being tamed

• beat with a cane

• censure severely or angrily

• conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

• demanding attention

• (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin

• of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point

• A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

• The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

• (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

• The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.

• One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

• Any of a class of cyclic amides that are the nitrogen analogs of lactones, formed by heating amino acids; the tautomeric enol forms are known as lactims.