9-letter words containing m, a, i, t
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- malignity — the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
- malintent — Malicious intent.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- mamillate — having nipples or nipple-like protuberances
- mammality — the characteristic of being a mammal
- mammonite — the greedy pursuit of riches.
- manassite — a member of the tribe of Manasseh.
- mancation — a holiday for a group of men, esp. one that involves typically masculine pursuits
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- mandating — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- manganite — a gray to black mineral, hydrous manganese oxide, MnO(OH); gray manganese ore.
- manicotti — a dish consisting of large, tubular noodles stuffed with a mild cheese and baked in a tomato sauce.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manifests — Plural form of manifest.
- manitoban — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- manitowoc — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- mannerist — 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.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- mantillas — Plural form of mantilla.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- manzanita — any of several western North American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Arctostaphylos, of the heath family, having leathery leaves and clusters of white to pink flowers.
- māori rat — a small brown rat, Rattus exulans, native to New Zealand
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- margarita — a cocktail made of tequila, lime or lemon juice, and an orange-flavored liqueur, usually served in a salt-rimmed glass.
- margarite — Mineralogy. a gray, pink, or yellow mica, occurring in brittle monoclinic crystals. an aggregate of small, rudimentary crystals resembling minute globules in a row: found in glassy volcanic rocks.
- marginate — having a margin.
- marialite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in sodium and containing no calcium.
- marielito — a refugee from Cuba who came to the U.S. in 1980 as part of a mass migration that sailed from Mariel, Cuba.
- marimbist — A player of the marimba.
- marinated — Simple past tense and past participle of marinate.
- marinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marinate.
- marinette — a city in NE Wisconsin.
- marinetti — Emilio Filippo Tommaso [e-mee-lyaw fee-leep-paw tawm-mah-zaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ fiˈlip pɔ tɔmˈmɑ zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1944, Italian writer.
- maritally — In a marital manner.
- maritimer — a native or inhabitant of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
- mark time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- marketing — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- marketise — Alternative spelling of marketize.
- marketize — (economics, management) To convert to management by open-market principles.
- markowitz — Harry M, born 1927, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- martially — inclined or disposed to war; warlike: The ancient Romans were a martial people.
- martin ii — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.