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10-letter words containing a, r, m, o

  • mary tudorAntony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
  • mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
  • maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
  • mass ratio — the ratio of the mass of a fully-fuelled rocket at liftoff to the mass of the rocket without fuel
  • masterwork — masterpiece.
  • masterwort — a European plant, Astrantia major, of the parsley family, having pinkish-rose or white flower clusters with purplish bracts beneath.
  • masticator — Someone who masticates.
  • matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
  • matrifocal — of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods.
  • matrilocal — of or relating to residence with the wife's family or tribe; uxorilocal: matrilocal customs.
  • matriotism — Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.
  • matrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
  • matronalia — an annual festival of ancient Rome held by matrons in honor of Juno.
  • matronized — Simple past tense and past participle of matronize.
  • matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
  • matronymic — metronymic.
  • matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
  • mattamores — Plural form of mattamore.
  • matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
  • maturation — the act or process of maturating.
  • matzo brei — small pieces of matzo soaked in water, mixed with beaten eggs, and fried.
  • maurolycus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.
  • mavourneen — darling; dear.
  • meadow rue — any of several plants belonging to the genus Thalictrum, of the buttercup family, having leaves resembling those of rue, especially T. dioicum, of North America.
  • meadowlark — any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, of the family Icteridae, especially S. magna (eastern meadowlark) and S. neglecta (western meadowlark) having a brownish and black back and wings and a yellow breast, noted for their clear, tuneful song.
  • meatometer — A device to measure the width of a human's urinary meatus.
  • mecopteran — mecopterous.
  • mediocracy — government or rule by a mediocre person or group.
  • megalosaur — any gigantic carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
  • megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
  • megastores — Plural form of megastore.
  • melanoderm — a person with dark pigmentation of the skin.
  • meliorated — Made better; improved.
  • melodramas — Plural form of melodrama.
  • melon pear — pepino (def 2).
  • membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • memorandum — a short note designating something to be remembered, especially something to be done or acted upon in the future; reminder.
  • memorative — (obsolete) commemorative.
  • memorially — By means of, or in terms of, memory.
  • menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
  • menorrhoea — menstrual flow.
  • meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
  • meritocrat — a member of a meritocracy.
  • mesocardia — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
  • mesocranic — having a skull with a cranial index between that of dolichocranic and brachycranic skulls.
  • mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
  • mesodermal — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
  • mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
  • mesovarium — the mesentery of the ovary.
  • metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
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