10-letter words containing ma
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- brahmanism — the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism, characterized by diversified pantheism, the caste system, and the sacrifices and family ceremonies of Hindu tradition
- brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
- brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- brood mare — a mare kept for breeding purposes
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- camarasaur — a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 feet (12.2 meters); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.
- camarillas — Plural form of camarilla.
- capnomancy — divination by observing smoke patterns
- caramanlis — 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.
- carcinomas — Plural form of carcinoma.
- carmagnole — a dance and song popular during the French Revolution
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- catamarans — Plural form of catamaran.
- cavalryman — A cavalryman is a soldier who is in the cavalry, especially one who rides a horse.
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cellar-man — a person who is in charge of the alcoholic-beverage supply of a hotel or restaurant.
- centesimal — hundredth
- chain mail — Chain mail is a kind of armour made from small metal rings joined together so that they look like cloth.
- chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
- chamaeleon — a faint constellation lying between Volans and the South celestial pole
- charismata — Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
- check mark — A check mark is a written mark like a V with the right side extended. It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with.
- checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
- checkmates — Plural form of checkmate.
- chiang mai — city in NW Thailand, on a headstream of the Chao Phraya: pop. 162,000
- chiasmatic — relating to the intersection of the optic nerve fibres at the bottom of the brain
- chief mate — first mate.