12-letter words containing man
- granny woman — midwife (def 1).
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- grimaldi man — a type of Aurignacian man having a negroid appearance, thought to be a race of Cro-Magnon man
- gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
- hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
- handcraftman — handicraftsman.
- hasta manana — so long; (I'll) see you tomorrow
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- hemangiomata — See under angioma.
- high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- homoromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- huntsmanship — The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
- hysteromania — unusually increased sexual desire in a woman
- ill-mannered — having bad or poor manners; impolite; discourteous; rude.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- la mano nera — Black Hand (def 1).
- lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- line manager — immediate supervisor
- lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
- man of straw — straw man.
- man-mountain — a man who is very tall and heavily built
- man-tailored — (of women's clothing) tailored in the general style and with the details of men's clothing. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- managed care — a healthcare plan or system that seeks to control medical costs by contracting with a network of providers.
- managed code — (operating system) Code that is executed by the .NET common language runtime (CLR). VB.NET code is always managed code but C++ .NET can optionally use unmanaged code. Managed code provides metadata allowing the CLR to manage security (role-based as well as new approaches to code access security). The CLR also handles errors, manages the program stack and finds methods in assembly modules. Managed data is memory that's subject to garbage collection. There are additional restrictions to permit interoperability of different languages, for example, Visual Basic arrays must be zero-based.
- managemental — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.