10-letter words containing n, i, t, r, a
- lorication — the act of covering with a protective coating
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lustrating — Present participle of lustrate.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- macerating — Present participle of macerate.
- maceration — the act or process of macerating.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- macintrash — /mak'in-trash"/ The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn"t appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Compare Macintoy. See also beige toaster, WIMP environment, point-and-drool interface, drool-proof paper, user-friendly.
- magistrand — a fourth-year university student
- magnetizer — One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.
- mail train — a train that transports letters, packages, etc
- main entry — the principal entry of an item in a reference text, often placed in alphabetical order.
- main store — main memory
- mainstream — the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend: the mainstream of American culture.
- maintainer — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- maintainor — a person guilty of maintenance.
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- māoritanga — the Māori culture; Māori way of life
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- 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.
- marginated — Having a distinct margin.
- marinating — Present participle of marinate.
- marination — The process of marinating.
- marionette — a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- mark twain — Roger (William Roger Clemens"The Rocket") born 1962, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- marry into — become part of: a family
- martensite — a metastable microconstituent of any of various forms of carbon steel, produced by undercooling sufficiently below the normal transformation temperature, especially a hard, brittle product of the decomposition of austenite, produced in this way.
- martin iii — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- martinelli — Giovanni [jee-uh-vah-nee;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1885–1969, U.S. operatic tenor, born in Italy.
- martingale — Also called standing martingale. part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting of a strap that fastens to the girth, passes between the forelegs and through a loop in the neckstrap or hame, and fastens to the noseband: used to steady or hold down the horse's head.
- martinican — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- martinique — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- mastermind — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- matricliny — matrocliny.
- 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.
- maturation — the act or process of maturating.
- mauretania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- mauritania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.