10-letter words containing n, a, o, t
- maceration — the act or process of macerating.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- macrotrend — A large-scale trend.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- magnetrons — Plural form of magnetron.
- main store — main memory
- maintainor — a person guilty of maintenance.
- maisonette — a small house, especially one connected to a large apartment building.
- making out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- malaxation — The act of softening a mass by malaxating.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malleation — the act of hammering or beating something thin
- man to man — A man-to-man conversation or meeting takes place between two men, especially two men who meet to discuss a serious personal matter.
- man-to-man — characterized by directness, openness, etc.; frank and personal: He had a man-to-man talk with his son about sex.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- mangosteen — the juicy, edible fruit of an East Indian tree, Garcinia mangostana.
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- manitoulin — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- manometers — Plural form of manometer.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- mantellone — a purple mantle extending to the ankles, worn over the cassock by lesser prelates of the papal court.
- manumation — (business, nonstandard) Applying technology to automate a business process that produces the same results as the manual process before automation.
- māoritanga — the Māori culture; Māori way of life
- marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
- 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.
- marination — The process of marinating.
- marionette — a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- marry into — become part of: a family
- mason city — a city in N Iowa.
- mastodonic — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- mastodynia — (medicine) mastalgia; pain in the breast.
- matosinhos — a port in N Portugal, on the estuary of the Leça River north of Oporto: fishing industry. Pop: 167 026 (2001)
- matrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- matronalia — an annual festival of ancient Rome held by matrons in honor of Juno.
- matronized — Simple past tense and past participle of matronize.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- matronymic — metronymic.
- matterhorn — a mountain on the border of Switzerland and Italy, in the Pennine Alps. 14,780 feet (4505 meters).
- maturation — the act or process of maturating.
- mcnaughton — Andrew George Latta [lat-uh] /ˈlæt ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1966, Canadian army officer, statesman, diplomat, and scientist.
- meat wagon — an ambulance.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- medication — the use or application of medicine.
- meditation — the act of meditating.
- megadontia — macrodontia.
- meganewton — a unit of force equal to one million newtons