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16-letter words containing man

  • journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
  • man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • man of few words — man who speaks very little
  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • man of the house — the male head of a household.
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
  • managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
  • management chart — a chart created by a manager that indicates the time schedule of projects, etc
  • management style — the way in which and the methods someone uses in managing a company, business, etc
  • management union — a union that represents managers in negotiations with their employers concerning terms and conditions of employment
  • managerial staff — staff in positions of management
  • mandarin chinese — the official language of China since 1917; the form of Chinese spoken by about two thirds of the population and taught in schools throughout China
  • manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
  • manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
  • manganese violet — a moderate to strong purple color.
  • mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • manifest destiny — the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.
  • manipulativeness — Quality of being manipulative.
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
  • maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
  • megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
  • micromanipulator — A device, used for micromanipulation, consisting of microscopic needles and instruments viewed through a microscope.
  • middelmannetjies — Plural form of middelmannetjie.
  • mount carmel man — an early human of Neanderthaloid type, known from skeletal remains from the late Pleistocene Epoch, c50,000–40,000 b.c., found in Palestine.
  • mount erymanthus — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
  • movies on demand — Movies on demand is a service that allows you to choose and watch a movie on your television.
  • nautical almanac — a year book containing tidal and astronomical information for navigators
  • new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
  • non-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • one man one vote — One man one vote or one person one vote is a system of voting in which every person in a group or country has the right to cast their vote, and in which each individual's vote is counted and has equal value.
  • operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
  • organization man — a person who subordinates his personal life to the demands of the organization he works for
  • ostend manifesto — a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.
  • over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • palaeolithic man — any of various primitive types of man, such as Neanderthal man and Java man, who lived in the Palaeolithic
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • permanent magnet — a magnet that retains its magnetism after being removed from an external magnetic field.
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