10-letter words containing m, a, r, i
- mannerisms — 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.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- mansionary — a resident or dweller
- 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).
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- māoritanga — the Māori culture; Māori way of life
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marbleized — Simple past tense and past participle of marbleize.
- marbleizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marbleize.
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- marcionism — the doctrines and principles of the Marcionites.
- 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.
- marcomanni — an ancient Germanic people who lived in central Europe.
- mardi gras — the day before Lent, celebrated in some cities, as New Orleans and Paris, as a day of carnival and merrymaking; Shrove Tuesday.
- margarines — Plural form of margarine.
- margaritas — Plural form of margarita.
- margherita — a female given name, Italian form of Margaret.
- marginalia — Marginal notes.
- marginally — pertaining to a margin.
- marginated — Having a distinct margin.
- margravial — Of or relating to a margrave.
- margravine — the wife of a margrave.
- marguerite — a female given name, French form of Margaret.
- marigraphs — Plural form of marigraph.
- marinading — a seasoned liquid, usually of vinegar or wine with oil, herbs, spices, etc., in which meat, fish, vegetables, etc., are steeped before cooking.
- marinating — Present participle of marinate.
- marination — The process of marinating.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- marine ivy — a vine, Cissus incisa, of the grape family, native to the southern U.S., having three leaflets or three-lobed leaves and black fruit, grown as a houseplant.
- maringouin — a mosquito, especially a large swamp mosquito.
- marinorama — A representation of a sea view.
- marinus ii — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- mariolatry — excessive (and proscribed) veneration of the Virgin Mary, especially in forms appropriate to God.
- marionette — a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- mariticide — The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
- marjolaine — (italics) French. marjoram.
- mark spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.
- mark twain — Roger (William Roger Clemens"The Rocket") born 1962, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- marketroid — /mar'k*-troyd/ (Or "marketing slime", "marketeer", "marketing droid", "marketdroid") A member of a company's marketing department, especially one who promises users that the next version of a product will have features that are not actually scheduled for inclusion, are extremely difficult to implement, and/or are in violation of the laws of physics; and/or one who describes existing features (and misfeatures) in ebullient, buzzword-laden adspeak. Derogatory.
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- marmarosis — the conversion of limestone into marble by metamorphism
- marmennill — A fabled marine male creature usually represented as having the head, trunk, and arms of a man and a lower part like the tail of a fish.
- marquisate — the rank of a marquis.