11-letter words containing m, a, n
- maidservant — a female servant.
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- main chance — an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- main market — the market for trading in the listed securities of companies on the London Stock Exchange
- main memory — program-addressable storage that is directly controlled by and generally contained in the CPU: except for cache storage, the fastest type of storage available to any computer system.
- main office — headquarters
- main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
- main-de-fer — manifer.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- mainsprings — Plural form of mainspring.
- mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
- maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
- maintaining — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- maintopmast — (nautical) The topmast of the mainmast.
- maintopsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- maisonettes — Plural form of maisonette.
- majoretting — the practice of performing as majorettes
- make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- make change — If you make change, you give someone smaller notes, bills, or coins, in exchange for the same value of larger ones.
- make fun of — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make-up man — a man who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- malakatoone — a variety of large peach
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- malecontent — Obsolete spelling of malcontent.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- maleficence — the doing of evil or harm: the maleficence of thieves.
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
- malfeasance — 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.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- malignantly — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- malignities — Plural form of malignity.
- malingerers — Plural form of malingerer.
- malingering — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- malposition — faulty or wrong position, especially of a part or organ of the body or of a fetus in the uterus.
- maltreating — Present participle of maltreat.
- mamillation — a nipple-like protrusion
- mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
- man and boy — from childhood
- man manager — a person who manages personnel in the manner specified