10-letter words containing ma
- manu samoa — the international Rugby Union football team of Western Samoa
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- manumation — (business, nonstandard) Applying technology to automate a business process that produces the same results as the manual process before automation.
- manumitted — Simple past tense and past participle of manumit.
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- many a one — many people
- many-sided — having many sides.
- manzanilla — a pale, very dry sherry from Spain.
- manzanillo — a seaport in SE Cuba.
- manzanitas — Plural form of manzanita.
- mao jacket — a plain, shirtlike jacket, usually blue or gray, with pockets and a high collar, worn by Mao Zedong and universally adopted in the People's Republic of China during his regime.
- mao zedong — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- māoritanga — the Māori culture; Māori way of life
- map legend — key to symbols on a map
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- maple leaf — a one-ounce gold coin of Canada showing a maple leaf on the reverse: traded for investment or as a collector's item.
- maquillage — makeup (defs 1, 2, 5).
- mar-a-lago — an estate and resort in Palm Beach, Florida; used by Donald Trump as a presidential retreat
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- marabuntas — Plural form of marabunta.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marathoner — a runner who competes in a marathon.
- marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
- marbleized — Simple past tense and past participle of marbleize.
- marbleizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form 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.
- marcantant — a merchant
- marcescent — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- march hare — a hare during its breeding season in March, noted for its wild and excitable behaviour (esp in the phrase mad as a March hare)
- march past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- march-past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- marchantia — a type of liverwort plant
- marchese's — an Italian noblewoman, equivalent in rank to a marquise.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- marcionism — the doctrines and principles of the Marcionites.
- 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.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- marcomanni — an ancient Germanic people who lived in central Europe.
- mardi gras — the day before Lent, celebrated in some cities, as New Orleans and Paris, as a day of carnival and merrymaking; Shrove Tuesday.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- margarines — Plural form of margarine.
- margaritas — Plural form of margarita.
- margherita — a female given name, Italian form of Margaret.
- marginalia — Marginal notes.
- marginally — pertaining to a margin.