10-letter words containing m, c, a, r
- majuscular — (of letters) uppercase, capitalized.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- mamaroneck — a city in SE New York.
- man crèche — an area of a department store set aside to provide entertainment for men while their partners shop
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandarinic — Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
- manicuring — Present participle of manicure.
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- 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.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marcantant — a merchant
- marcescent — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- march hare — a hare during its breeding season in March, noted for its wild and excitable behaviour (esp in the phrase mad as a March hare)
- march past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- march-past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- marchese's — an Italian noblewoman, equivalent in rank to a marquise.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- 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.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- marcomanni — an ancient Germanic people who lived in central Europe.
- mariticide — The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
- market cap — A market cap is the total market value of all the shares in a company.
- 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
- marlaceous — Resembling marl.
- martinican — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- massacring — Present participle of massacre.
- masseteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the masseter.
- mastercard — a brand of credit or debit card
- masticator — Someone who masticates.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchmaker — a person who makes matches for burning.
- matriarchs — A woman who is the head of a family or tribe.
- matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
- matricidal — Relating to matricide, the killing of a mother.
- matricides — Plural form of matricide.
- matricliny — matrocliny.
- matricular — relating to a matricula, or having the nature of a matricula
- matrifocal — of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods.
- matrilocal — of or relating to residence with the wife's family or tribe; uxorilocal: matrilocal customs.
- matrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- matronymic — metronymic.