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.