10-letter words containing r, i, e, m, a, n
- 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.
- malingered — Simple past tense and past participle of malinger.
- malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- manfredini — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1684–1748, Italian composer.
- mangabeira — a South American rubber tree
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- mannerheim — Baron Carl Gustaf Emil von [kahrl goo s-tahf ey-meel fuh n] /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf ˈeɪ mil fən/ (Show IPA), 1867–1951, Finnish soldier and statesman.
- mannerisms — 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.
- manometric — Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer.
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- 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.
- margarines — Plural form of margarine.
- marginated — Having a distinct margin.
- margravine — the wife of a margrave.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- marine ivy — a vine, Cissus incisa, of the grape family, native to the southern U.S., having three leaflets or three-lobed leaves and black fruit, grown as a houseplant.
- marionette — a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.
- marjolaine — (italics) French. marjoram.
- marketings — Plural form of marketing.
- marmennill — A fabled marine male creature usually represented as having the head, trunk, and arms of a man and a lower part like the tail of a fish.
- marshiness — The quality or state of being marshy.
- 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.
- 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.
- martinique — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- marvelling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- mastermind — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- matronized — Simple past tense and past participle of matronize.
- matronlike — Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
- maundering — A rambling or pointless discourse.
- mauretania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- mazarinade — a pamphlet criticizing Jules Mazarin
- meandering — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
- mechanizer — A person who, or machine that mechanizes.
- medrinaque — A type of fabric from the Philippines, made from the abaca tree.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- menageries — Plural form of menagerie.
- mercantile — of or relating to merchants or trade; commercial.
- meridional — of, relating to, or resembling a meridian.
- mesocranic — having a skull with a cranial index between that of dolichocranic and brachycranic skulls.
- 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.
- micronesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising the small Pacific islands N of the equator and E of the Philippines, whose main groups are the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the Marshall Islands.
- mignardise — A bite-sized dessert sometimes served at the end of a meal.
- migraineur — Someone who suffers from migraine headaches.
- minauderie — affectionate behaviour or flirtation