10-letter words containing ma
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- leiomyomas — Plural form of leiomyoma.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- letter man — a person who has earned a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport.
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- leukoderma — vitiligo.
- liebermann — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1847–1935, German painter and etcher.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- like magic — very quickly
- limacology — the study of slugs
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- littermate — one of a pair or group of animals born or reared in the same litter.
- little man — the common or ordinary person.
- loadmaster — an aircrew member responsible for the loading and stowage of cargo aboard an aircraft.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- loma linda — a town in SW California.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- longbowman — an archer who uses a longbow.
- lord mayor — (chiefly in Britain and the Commonwealth) the mayor of certain cities or the chief municipal officer of certain boroughs.
- loremaster — (chiefly, fantasy) A wise person with knowledge of history, genealogy and ancient poetry and possibly magic as well.
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- low german — the West Germanic languages not included in the High German group, as English, Dutch, Flemish, or Plattdeutsch. Abbreviation: LG. Compare High German (def 1).
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
- lymantriid — (zoology) Any of the moth family Lymantriidae.
- lymphedema — the accumulation of lymph in soft tissue with accompanying swelling, often of the extremities: sometimes caused by inflammation, obstruction, or removal of lymph channels.
- lymphodema — (pathology) A condition of fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- maastricht — a city in the SE Netherlands, on the Maas River.
- mabe pearl — a smooth cultured pearl cultivated in a hemispherical shape so that it has one flat and one convex surface.
- mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
- macadamias — Plural form of macadamia.
- macadamise — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macadamize — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- macaronics — Plural form of macaronic.
- maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).