10-letter words containing m, o, r, i
- maceration — the act or process of macerating.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- macrobiota — any living organisms in a given area large enough to be seen with the naked eye
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- macrocytic — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrolides — Plural form of macrolide.
- macromedia — (company) A company supplying multimedia and interactive television services and digital arts software tools in the US and worldwide. They produce products for Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh including: Macromedia FreeHand, a tool for design and illustration; Macromedia Director, an animation and authoring tool for multimedia production; Authorware Professional, a multiplatform authoring tool for interactive learning; MacroModel, a 3D modelling tool for multimedia, graphics and product design; SoundEdit 16, a digital sound recording and editing system; Fontographer, a typeface editing programme; and Action!, a multimedia presentation application. Chief Executive Officer: Bud Colligan.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- macroseism — A severe earthquake.
- macrosomia — (pathology) The state (of a foetus or neonate) of being abnormally large.
- macrosomic — (pathology) Relating to or affected by macrosomia.
- macrozamia — a member of a this genus of fern-like trees that grow in Australia
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- mail order — shopping by post
- mail-order — pertaining to or obtained by mail order: a dozen mail-order rosebushes.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- main store — main memory
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- mainpernor — a person who gives a guarantee that a prisoner will appear in court
- maintainor — a person guilty of maintenance.
- major axis — the axis of an ellipse that passes through the two foci.
- major suit — hearts or spades, especially with reference to their higher point values.
- majorities — Plural form of majority.
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- 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
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- mansionary — a resident or dweller
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- māoritanga — the Māori culture; Māori way of life
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- 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.
- marination — The process of marinating.
- maringouin — a mosquito, especially a large swamp mosquito.
- marinorama — A representation of a sea view.
- 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.
- marjolaine — (italics) French. marjoram.
- 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.
- marmarosis — the conversion of limestone into marble by metamorphism
- marry into — become part of: a family
- maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
- mass ratio — the ratio of the mass of a fully-fuelled rocket at liftoff to the mass of the rocket without fuel
- masticator — Someone who masticates.
- matrifocal — of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods.