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8-letter words containing m, o, n, a

  • magnolia — a city in SW Arkansas.
  • mah jong — a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
  • mahjongg — Alternative spelling of mahjong.
  • mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
  • mahonias — Plural form of mahonia.
  • mainboom — the spar for the mainsail
  • maindoor — a door giving access to a house from the street
  • majorcan — a native or inhabitant of Majorca
  • majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
  • makimono — a horizontal hand scroll containing either text or a captioned painting, intended to be viewed as it is unrolled from right to left, one segment at a time.
  • malegaon — a city in NW Maharashtra state in W India.
  • malenkov — Georgi Maximilianovich [gyi-awr-gyee muh-ksyi-myi-lyah-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi mə ksyɪ myɪˈlyɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1902–88, Russian political leader: premier of the Soviet Union 1953–55.
  • malisons — Plural form of malison.
  • malonate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of malonic acid.
  • malunion — (anatomy) Bad or incorrect union (of parts of the body).
  • mamelons — Plural form of mamelon.
  • mammonic — Of, or pertaining to, Mammons.
  • man lock — an air lock serving as a decompression chamber for workers.
  • man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • manarola — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • mancando — in a fading manner
  • manchego — a Spanish cheese made from ewes' milk
  • mancozeb — A grayish-yellow pesticide.
  • mandator — a person who gives a mandate.
  • mandingo — a member of any of a number of peoples forming an extensive linguistic group in western Africa.
  • mandioca — cassava.
  • mandolin — a musical instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body and a fretted neck.
  • mandorla — A pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art.
  • mangonel — (formerly) any of various military engines for throwing large stones, darts, and other missiles.
  • mangrove — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora, the species of which are mostly low trees growing in marshes or tidal shores, noted for their interlacing above-ground adventitious roots.
  • manholes — Plural form of manhole.
  • manhours — Plural form of manhour.
  • manifold — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
  • maniform — shaped like a hand.
  • manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
  • manitous — Plural form of manitou.
  • mannitol — Chemistry. a white, crystalline, sweetish, water-soluble, carbohydrate alcohol, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in three optically different forms, the common one being found in the manna of the ash Fraxinus ornus and in other plants: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, electrolytic condensers for radios, plasticizers, and mannitol hexanitrate, and as a pill excipient.
  • manoever — Misspelling of manoeuvre or 'maneuver'.
  • manolete — (Manuel Laureano Rodríguez y Sánchez) 1917–47, Spanish matador.
  • manorial — (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
  • manouver — Misspelling of maneuver.
  • manouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
  • manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
  • mansholt — Sicco Leendert (ˈsɪko ˈleːndərt). 1908–95, Dutch economist and politician; vice president (1958–72) and president (1972–73) of the European Economic Community Commission. He was the author of the Mansholt Plan for the agricultural organization of the European Economic Community
  • mansions — Plural form of mansion.
  • mansonry — mansions or dwelling places collectively
  • mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
  • manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
  • manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
  • many-one — (of a relation) having the property that each element is assigned to one element only but that many elements may be assigned to the same element.
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