10-letter words containing r, d, a, m
- 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.
- macrotrend — A large-scale trend.
- macroworld — A world or reality on a larger scale, thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics.
- madagascar — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, about 240 miles (385 km) off the SE coast of Africa: formerly a French colony; gained independence 1960. 227,800 sq. mi. (590,000 sq. km). Capital: Antananarivo.
- madderwort — A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- magistrand — a fourth-year university student
- maidenhair — any fern of the genus Adiantum, the cultivated species of which have fine, glossy stalks and delicate, finely divided fronds.
- mail order — shopping by post
- mail-order — pertaining to or obtained by mail order: a dozen mail-order rosebushes.
- mainlander — a person who lives on a mainland.
- major mode — major scale.
- major-domo — a man in charge of a great household, as that of a sovereign; a chief steward.
- majordomos — Plural form of majordomo.
- make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- make-ready — Printing. the process of preparing a form for printing by overlays or underlays to equalize the impression.
- mal de mer — seasickness.
- maladdress — awkwardness; tactlessness
- malingered — Simple past tense and past participle of malinger.
- mallanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- mallenders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- maltreated — Simple past tense and past participle of maltreat.
- man friday — a male assistant to an administrator or executive; right-hand man.
- 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
- mandarinic — Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- mandragora — mandrake (def 1).
- maneuvered — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manfredini — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1684–1748, Italian composer.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- manoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuvre.
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- marbleized — Simple past tense and past participle of marbleize.
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- mardi gras — the day before Lent, celebrated in some cities, as New Orleans and Paris, as a day of carnival and merrymaking; Shrove Tuesday.
- marginated — Having a distinct margin.
- marinading — a seasoned liquid, usually of vinegar or wine with oil, herbs, spices, etc., in which meat, fish, vegetables, etc., are steeped before cooking.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- mariticide — The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
- markedness — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- market day — the day on which a regular market is held
- market-led — of or relating to an approach to business in which the customer's requirements are identified by market research before a product or service is released
- 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.
- marmalades — Plural form of marmalade.
- marmaladey — Covered with marmalade.
- marsh deer — a large South American deer, Blastocerus dichotomus, that lives in forests near rivers and swamps: an endangered species.