10-letter words containing ma
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- feel small — to be humiliated or inferior
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- femaleness — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- filmmaking — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- finger man — a person who points out someone to be murdered, robbed, etc.
- fingermark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
- firemaster — (Scotland) The chief of a fire brigade.
- firmaments — Plural form of firmament.
- first mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- flammarion — (Nicolas) Camille [nee-kaw-lah ka-mee-yuh] /ni kɔˈlɑ kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1842–1925, French astronomer and author.
- fledermaus — an opera (1874) by Johann Strauss, Jr.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- foilswoman — a woman who uses or specializes in using a foil
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- folsom man — a Paleo-Indian of the Folsom tradition.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- formalised — Simple past tense and past participle of formalise.
- formaliter — formally
- formalized — Simple past tense and past participle of formalize.
- formalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formalize.
- formalness — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- formalwear — clothing designed for or customarily worn on formal occasions, as tuxedos and evening gowns.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatters — Plural form of formatter.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- frog march — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- frog-march — If you are frog-marched somewhere, someone takes you there by force, holding you by the arms or another part of your body so that you have to walk along with them.
- frontwoman — The lead female singer in a band.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- fumadiddle — flumadiddle.
- fumatorium — an airtight structure in which plants are fumigated to destroy fungi or insects.
- galimatias — confused or unintelligible talk.
- gama grass — an ornamental, reedlike grass, Tripsacum dactyloides, one of the largest in the U.S., growing from 4 to 7 feet (1.2 to 2.1 meter) high.
- gamma iron — Metallurgy. an allotrope of iron, stable between 910°C and 1400°C and having a face-centered cubic lattice.
- gamma rays — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- gammadions — Plural form of gammadion.
- gangmaster — a person who recruits and manages temporary or migratory labourers, esp for seasonal agricultural work
- garbageman — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage; sanitation worker.