9-letter words containing a, m, g
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- malengine — a wicked plan or deceit
- malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- maligning — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- malignity — the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
- malingers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.
- malingery — The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
- malpighia — (botany) Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
- mammalogy — the science dealing with mammals.
- mammering — to stammer or mutter.
- mammogram — an x-ray photograph obtained by mammography.
- mammology — Alternative form of mammalogy.
- manacling — Present participle of manacle.
- managable — Misspelling of manageable.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mandating — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- mangalore — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- manganate — (chemistry) Any compound containing the manganate ion, MnO42-.
- manganese — a hard, brittle, grayish-white, metallic element, an oxide of which, MnO 2 (manganese dioxide) is a valuable oxidizing agent: used chiefly as an alloying agent in steel to give it toughness. Symbol: Mn; atomic weight: 54.938; atomic number: 25; specific gravity: 7.2 at 20°C.
- manganite — a gray to black mineral, hydrous manganese oxide, MnO(OH); gray manganese ore.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- manginess — The condition of being mangy.
- mangonels — Plural form of mangonel.
- mangroves — Plural form of mangrove.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- manriding — relating to the carrying of miners around a mine
- manyogana — An ancient/early Japanese syllabary in which Chinese characters represented sounds instead of their regular meaning as they again do today in the form of kanji; it was the predecessor of hiragana and katakana, present Japanese phonetic alphabets; used in the Manyosh\u016b, a poetic anthology.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- margarine — a butterlike product made of refined vegetable oils, sometimes blended with animal fats, and emulsified, usually with water or milk.
- margarita — a cocktail made of tequila, lime or lemon juice, and an orange-flavored liqueur, usually served in a salt-rimmed glass.
- margarite — Mineralogy. a gray, pink, or yellow mica, occurring in brittle monoclinic crystals. an aggregate of small, rudimentary crystals resembling minute globules in a row: found in glassy volcanic rocks.
- marginals — Plural form of marginal.
- marginate — having a margin.
- margining — Present participle of margin.
- margraves — Plural form of margrave.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marigolds — Plural form of marigold.
- marigrams — Plural form of marigram.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- mariology — the body of belief, doctrine, and opinion concerning the Virgin Mary.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marooning — to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.