10-letter words containing a, n, u, m
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- man-minute — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work accomplished by one person in a minute.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandamuses — Plural form of mandamus.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- maneuvered — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuverer — One who maneuvers.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- manhunting — Organized searching for a criminal or enemy.
- manichaeus — Mani
- manicuring — Present participle of manicure.
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manitoulin — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- mannequins — Plural form of mannequin.
- manoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuvre.
- manoeuvrer — Alternative spelling of maneuverer.
- manoeuvres — A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
- mansuetude — mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
- manu samoa — the international Rugby Union football team of Western Samoa
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- manumation — (business, nonstandard) Applying technology to automate a business process that produces the same results as the manual process before automation.
- manumitted — Simple past tense and past participle of manumit.
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- marabuntas — Plural form of marabunta.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- maringouin — a mosquito, especially a large swamp mosquito.
- marinus ii — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- martinique — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- maturation — the act or process of maturating.
- matureness — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- maundering — A rambling or pointless discourse.
- maupassant — (Henri René Albert) Guy de [ahn-ree ruh-ney al-ber gee duh] /ɑ̃ˈri rəˈneɪ alˈbɛr gi də/ (Show IPA), 1850–93, French short-story writer and novelist.
- mauretania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- mauritania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- mavourneen — darling; dear.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mcnaughton — Andrew George Latta [lat-uh] /ˈlæt ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1966, Canadian army officer, statesman, diplomat, and scientist.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.