11-letter words containing n, a, s, m
- malposition — faulty or wrong position, especially of a part or organ of the body or of a fetus in the uterus.
- man-at-arms — a soldier.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- mandarinism — A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
- mandataries — Plural form of mandatary.
- mandatories — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandlestone — The amygdaloid.
- mandolinist — One who plays the mandolin.
- mangalsutra — a necklace worn by a Hindu woman to signify that she is married
- manganesian — (chemistry) manganic.
- manganosite — (mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing manganese and oxygen.
- mangosteens — Plural form of mangosteen.
- manichaeism — the system of religious doctrines, including elements of Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism, etc, taught by the Persian prophet Mani about the 3rd century ad. It was based on a supposed primordial conflict between light and darkness, or goodness and evil
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manifestant — a person who initiates or participates in a public demonstration; demonstrator.
- manifesting — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifestoes — Plural form of manifesto.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- manna sugar — mannitol.
- manneristic — a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- mannishness — The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
- manstealing — the act of kidnapping.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- manteltrees — Plural form of manteltree.
- manumission — the act of manumitting.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcescence — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- mare's-nest — something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
- marginalise — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalism — (economics) The use of marginal analysis to solve large classes of microeconomic problems.
- marginalist — somene who adheres to the theory of marginalism
- margravines — Plural form of margravine.
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- marionettes — Plural form of marionette.
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- marshalling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshlander — a person inhabiting marshland
- martensitic — Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
- martingales — Plural form of martingale.
- martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.