10-letter words containing m, a, l, t, n
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lentamente — slowly.
- letter man — a person who has earned a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport.
- ligamental — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament.
- ligamentum — ligament.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- lion-tamer — a person who trains lions, esp for entertainment in a circus
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- little man — the common or ordinary person.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- maculating — Present participle of maculate.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- magnetical — (obsolete) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; magnetic.
- mail train — a train that transports letters, packages, etc
- malaxation — The act of softening a mass by malaxating.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- maledicent — ((archaic)) one who enjoys using slanderous language.
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malignants — Plural form of malignant.
- malignment — a slanderous disparagement or vilification
- malleation — the act of hammering or beating something thin
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- mandelstam — Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938? Russian acmeist poet and essayist.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manitoulin — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- 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.
- mantellone — a purple mantle extending to the ankles, worn over the cassock by lesser prelates of the papal court.
- manteltree — a wooden or stone lintel over the opening of a fireplace.
- mantletree — a wooden or stone lintel over the opening of a fireplace.
- 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).
- 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.
- marvelment — The state of marvelling; amazement.