10-letter words containing a, r, i, m, n
- mainstream — the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend: the mainstream of American culture.
- maintainer — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- maintainor — a person guilty of maintenance.
- malingered — Simple past tense and past participle of malinger.
- malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- man friday — a male assistant to an administrator or executive; right-hand man.
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandarinic — Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manfredini — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1684–1748, Italian composer.
- mangabeira — a South American rubber tree
- manicuring — Present participle of manicure.
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- mannerheim — Baron Carl Gustaf Emil von [kahrl goo s-tahf ey-meel fuh n] /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf ˈeɪ mil fən/ (Show IPA), 1867–1951, Finnish soldier and statesman.
- mannerisms — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- mansionary — a resident or dweller
- 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).
- 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
- māoritanga — the Māori culture; Māori way of life
- 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.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- marcionism — the doctrines and principles of the Marcionites.
- marcionite — a member of a Gnostic ascetic sect that flourished from the 2nd to 7th century a.d. and that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Christ.
- marcomanni — an ancient Germanic people who lived in central Europe.
- margarines — Plural form of margarine.
- marginalia — Marginal notes.
- marginally — pertaining to a margin.
- marginated — Having a distinct margin.
- margravine — the wife of a margrave.
- marinading — a seasoned liquid, usually of vinegar or wine with oil, herbs, spices, etc., in which meat, fish, vegetables, etc., are steeped before cooking.
- marinating — Present participle of marinate.
- marination — The process of marinating.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- marine ivy — a vine, Cissus incisa, of the grape family, native to the southern U.S., having three leaflets or three-lobed leaves and black fruit, grown as a houseplant.
- maringouin — a mosquito, especially a large swamp mosquito.
- marinorama — A representation of a sea view.
- marinus ii — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- marionette — a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- marjolaine — (italics) French. marjoram.