10-letter words containing a, t, c, o
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lucubrator — One who lucubrates.
- lycra lout — an aggressive urban cyclist who disregards the rules of the road
- macchiatos — Plural form of macchiato.
- maceration — the act or process of macerating.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- macrobiota — any living organisms in a given area large enough to be seen with the naked eye
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
- macrocytic — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrometer — An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- macrotrend — A large-scale trend.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- malolactic — Of or denoting bacterial fermentation that converts malic acid to lactic acid, especially as a secondary process used to reduce the acidity of some wines.
- mammectomy — mastectomy.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- mao jacket — a plain, shirtlike jacket, usually blue or gray, with pockets and a high collar, worn by Mao Zedong and universally adopted in the People's Republic of China during his regime.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- 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.
- masochists — Plural form of masochist.
- mason city — a city in N Iowa.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- mastectomy — the operation of removing all or part of the breast or mamma.
- masticator — Someone who masticates.
- mastodonic — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- 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.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- 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.
- matrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- matronymic — metronymic.
- mcnaughton — Andrew George Latta [lat-uh] /ˈlæt ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1966, Canadian army officer, statesman, diplomat, and scientist.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- medication — the use or application of medicine.
- megalocyte — (physiology) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
- melaconite — the massive variety of tenorite
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- meritocrat — a member of a meritocracy.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.