10-letter words containing e, n, t, r
- long metre — a stanzaic form consisting of four octosyllabic lines, used esp for hymns
- longstreet — James, 1821–1904, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- loratadine — An antihistamine drug used to treat allergies.
- lorenzetti — Ambrogio [ahm-braw-jaw] /ɑmˈbrɔ dʒɔ/ (Show IPA), c1319–48, and his brother, Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA) c1305–48, Italian painters.
- lorgnettes — Plural form of lorgnette.
- lute stern — a transom stern used on small boats, having an open after extension for breaking up seas coming from astern.
- lutestring — a silk fabric of high sheen, formerly used in the manufacture of dresses.
- macerating — Present participle of macerate.
- maceration — the act or process of macerating.
- macrotrend — A large-scale trend.
- magnetizer — One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.
- magnetrons — Plural form of magnetron.
- main entry — the principal entry of an item in a reference text, often placed in alphabetical order.
- main store — main memory
- 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.
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manometers — Plural form of manometer.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- manservant — a male servant, especially a valet.
- manstealer — A slave-dealer; someone who seizes another person to hold that person as a slave or sell that person into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
- manteltree — a wooden or stone lintel over the opening of a fireplace.
- mantletree — a wooden or stone lintel over the opening of a fireplace.
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
- marcescent — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- 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.
- marginated — Having a distinct margin.
- marionette — a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- martensite — a metastable microconstituent of any of various forms of carbon steel, produced by undercooling sufficiently below the normal transformation temperature, especially a hard, brittle product of the decomposition of austenite, produced in this way.
- martinelli — Giovanni [jee-uh-vah-nee;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1885–1969, U.S. operatic tenor, born in Italy.
- martingale — Also called standing martingale. part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting of a strap that fastens to the girth, passes between the forelegs and through a loop in the neckstrap or hame, and fastens to the noseband: used to steady or hold down the horse's head.
- martinique — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- marvelment — The state of marvelling; amazement.
- mastermind — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- maternally — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- matronized — Simple past tense and past participle of matronize.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
- matureness — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- mauretania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- meatscreen — a metal screen placed behind meat that is being roasted in order to reflect the fire's heat
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- meitnerium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element. Symbol: Mt; atomic number: 109.
- menstruant — A woman who is menstruating.
- menstruate — to undergo menstruation.