10-letter words containing n, a, m, e, t
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- maternally — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- matronized — Simple past tense and past participle of matronize.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
- matureness — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- mauretania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- means test — appraisal of sb's financial situation
- means-test — to subject (a person or a specific benefit) to a means test: The government proposes to means-test Medicare.
- meat wagon — an ambulance.
- meatscreen — a metal screen placed behind meat that is being roasted in order to reflect the fire's heat
- mechanists — Plural form of mechanist.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- mediastina — Plural form of mediastinum.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- medicament — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- medicating — Present participle of medicate.
- medication — the use or application of medicine.
- meditating — Present participle of meditate.
- meditation — the act of meditating.
- megadontia — macrodontia.
- meganewton — a unit of force equal to one million newtons
- melaconite — the massive variety of tenorite
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- mendicants — Plural form of mendicant.
- mendicated — Simple past tense and past participle of mendicate.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- menstruant — A woman who is menstruating.
- menstruate — to undergo menstruation.
- mental age — the level of native mental ability or capacity of an individual, usually as determined by an intelligence test, in relation to the chronological age of the average individual at this level: a ten-year-old child with the mental age of a twelve-year-old; a mental age of twelve.
- mercantile — of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
- merchantry — (dated) The body of merchants taken collectively.
- metacenter — the intersection between two vertical lines, one through the center of buoyancy of a hull in equilibrium, the other through the center of buoyancy when the hull is inclined slightly to one side or toward one end: the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the initial stability of the hull.
- metacentre — the intersection between two vertical lines, one through the center of buoyancy of a hull in equilibrium, the other through the center of buoyancy when the hull is inclined slightly to one side or toward one end: the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the initial stability of the hull.
- metagenome — (genetics) all the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual organisms.
- metahumans — Plural form of metahuman.
- metallings — road metals
- metapontum — an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.
- metasyntax — (grammar) Syntax used to describe syntax. The best known example is BNF and its variants such as EBNF. A metasyntactic variable is a variable used in metasyntax.
- methacetin — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 9 H 1 1 NO 2 , used for relieving pain and reducing or preventing fever.
- methanogen — any of a diverse group of widely distributed archaebacteria that occur in anaerobic environments, as the intestinal tracts of animals, freshwater and marine sediments, and sewage, and are capable of producing methane from a limited number of substrates, including carbon dioxide and hydrogen, acetate, and methylamines: an important source of natural gas.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- metolazone — a thiazide diuretic, C 1 6 H 1 6 ClN 3 O 3 S, used in the treatment of hypertension and as a diuretic in patients with chronic renal failure.
- metromania — A mania for writing poetry, especially doggerel.
- microlenat — /mi:"-kroh-len"-*t/ The unit of bogosity, written uL; the consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use. The microLenat, originally invented by David Jefferson, was promulgated as an attack against noted computer scientist Doug Lenat by a tenured graduate student at CMU. Doug had failed the student on an important exam for giving only "AI is bogus" as his answer to the questions. The slur is generally considered unmerited, but it has become a running gag nevertheless. Some of Doug's friends argue that *of course* a microLenat is bogus, since it is only one millionth of a Lenat. Others have suggested that the unit should be redesignated after the grad student, as the microReid.
- militiamen — a person serving in the militia.
- mineralist — a mineralogist
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- mini-state — a small, independent nation.