10-letter words containing ma
- intimately — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
- intimating — to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.
- intimation — the act of intimating, or making known indirectly.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- ironmaster — the master of a foundry or ironworks; a manufacturer of iron.
- irrumation — Vigorous oral sex; the active penetration of a mouth with a penis.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- ishmaelite — a descendant of Ishmael, the traditional ancestor of the Arab peoples.
- isoseismal — noting or pertaining to equal intensity of earthquake shock.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- jamahiriya — an Arab socialist state
- jiggermast — a small mast set well aft in a boat or ship; mizzenmast.
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- journeyman — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- judge-made — established by a court, as by an application or interpretation of a law that is allegedly contrary to the intentions of the enacting body or by a decision that does not rest on legislation.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- kalimantan — Indonesian name of Borneo, especially referring to the southern, or Indonesian, part.
- kama sutra — a Hindu religious treatise written c. a.d. 400, that deals with pleasure, love, and sexuality
- karamanlis — Konstantinos [kawn-stahn-dee-naws] /ˌkɔn stɑnˈdi nɔs/ (Show IPA), 1907–98, Greek politician: prime minister 1955–63, 1974–80; president 1980–85, 1990–95.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- kept woman — a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
- kermanshah — a city in W Iran.
- kernmantel — denoting a type of mountaineering rope
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- khidmatgar — (in India) a waiter.
- kilmarnock — Official name Kilmarnock and Loudon. an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in SW Scotland.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kingmakers — Plural form of kingmaker.
- kiritimati — Christmas Island (def 2).
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- kramatorsk — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- kymatology — The study of wave motion.
- lacemakers — Plural form of lacemaker.
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lacrimator — a chemical substance that causes the shedding of tears, as tear gas.
- lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- lake mälar — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
- lamarckian — of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- lamaseries — Plural form of lamasery.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- landammann — the chairman of the governing council in any of several Swiss cantons
- landmarked — a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide, especially to ships at sea or to travelers on a road; a distinguishing landscape feature marking a site or location: The post office served as a landmark for locating the street to turn down.
- landmasses — Plural form of landmass.
- las palmas — Las. Las Palmas.
- lattermath — a second mowing or crop of grass from land that has already been harvested in the same year
- laundromat — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.
- laundryman — a person who works in or operates a laundry.