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Showing words for MEASLES using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Measles

measles

6 Letter Words for Measles

easels, easles, eassel, leases, massel, meases, measle, mesela, mesels, seames, sesame

5 Letter Words for Measles

almes, amess, amsel, eales, easel, eases, easle, elses, lames, lases, leams, lease, lemes, leses, malee, males, mases, masse, meals, mease, melas, meles, mesal, mesas, mesel, meses, messe, salem, sales, salse, samel, sames, seals, seame, seams, sease, seels, seems, seles, selma, semel, semes, sesma, slaes, slams, smees

4 Letter Words for Measles

alee, alem, ales, alme, alms, amel, asem, asse, eale, ease, eels, elem, elms, else, emes, eses, esse, lame, lams, lase, lass, leam, leas, lees, leme, lese, less, maes, male, mals, mase, mass, meal, meas, mela, mele, mels, mesa, mese, mess, sale, sals, same, seal, seam, seas, seel, seem, sees, sele, sels, seme, sese, slam, slee, smee

3 Letter Words for Measles

aes, ale, als, ame, ase, asl, ass, eam, eas, eel, ela, elm, els, eme, ems, ese, esm, ess, lam, las, lea, lee, lem, les, mae, mal, mas, mea, mee, mel, mes, mls, msl, mss, sal, sam, sea, see, sel, sem, sla, sle, sma, sml, sse

Definitions for Measles

[1] (used with a singular or plural verb ) Pathology . an acute infectious disease occurring mostly in children, characterized by catarrhal and febrile symptoms and an eruption of small red spots; rubeola. any of certain other eruptive diseases. Compare German measles.
[2] Veterinary Pathology . a disease in swine and other animals caused by the larvae of certain tapeworms of the genus Taenia.
[3] (used with a plural verb ) the larvae that cause measles in swine and other animals, and that upon maturation produce trichinosis in humans.
[4] a highly contagious viral disease common in children, characterized by fever, profuse nasal discharge of mucus, conjunctivitis, and a rash of small red spots spreading from the forehead down to the limbs Technical names: morbilli , rubeola See also German measles
[5] a disease of cattle, sheep, and pigs, caused by infestation with tapeworm larvae

Words nearby Measles

mear, mearns, meas., measle, measled, measles, measles immune globulin, measles virus, measles virus vaccine, measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, measly

Origin of Measles

1275–1325; Middle English mesels, variant of maseles (plural); cognate with Dutch maselen (plural), Middle Dutch masel; akin to German Masern measles, plural of Maser speck

Word origin for Measles

C14: from Middle Low German masele spot on the skin; influenced by Middle English mesel leper, from Latin misellus, diminutive of miser wretched