8-letter words containing man
- mantinea — an ancient city in S Greece, in Arcadia: battles 362 b.c., 223 b.c.
- mantises — Plural form of mantis.
- mantissa — Mathematics. the decimal part of a common logarithm. Compare characteristic (def 3a).
- mantling — a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
- mantraps — Plural form of mantrap.
- manually — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- manuel i — called the Fortunate. 1469–1521, king of Portugal (1495–1521); his reign saw the discovery of Brazil and the beginning of Portuguese trade with India and the East
- manuhiri — a visitor to a Māori marae
- manumits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manumit.
- manurial — Of or pertaining to manure.
- manuring — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- manutius — Aldus [awl-duh s,, al-] /ˈɔl dəs,, ˈæl-/ (Show IPA), (Teobaldo Mannucci or Manuzio) 1450–1515, Italian printer and classical scholar.
- manville — a borough in N central New Jersey.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- manx cat — a tailless variety of the domestic cat.
- many-one — (of a relation) having the property that each element is assigned to one element only but that many elements may be assigned to the same element.
- manyatta — (East Africa) A Masai or Samburu settlement or compound, often temporary, established by a family or clan, or as an encampment of young warriors.
- manyfold — by many times; by multiples: The state's highway expenses have increased manyfold in the past decade.
- manyness — The quality or state of being many.
- manzello — a saxophone-like instrument used in jazz music
- marchman — a person living on the border territories
- marksman — a person who is skilled in shooting at a mark; a person who shoots well.
- mass man — a hypothetical common man, especially one held to be typical of a mass society, to be characterized by the absence of unique values or distinct personality traits, to lack a sense of personal or social responsibility, and to be readily manipulated by the techniques developed by mass media.
- meresman — a man who decides on the exact boundaries of a parish, etc
- merryman — a jester or zany
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- moneyman — an investor; angel; backer.
- motorman — a person who operates or drives an electrically operated vehicle, as a streetcar or subway train.
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
- namangan — a city in E Uzbekistan, NW of Andizhan.
- nobleman — a man of noble birth or rank; noble; peer.
- nonhuman — not human.
- normande — a breed of cattle originating in Normandy
- normandy — a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.
- norseman — Northman.
- northman — one of the ancient Scandinavians, especially a member of the group that from about the 8th to the 11th century made many raids and established settlements in Great Britain, Ireland, many parts of continental Europe, and probably in parts of North America.
- numantia — an ancient city in N Spain: besieged and taken 134–133 b.c. by Scipio the Younger.
- omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
- one-many — (of a relation) having the property that an element may be assigned to several elements but that given an element, only one may be assigned to it.
- orra man — an odd-jobman
- ottomans — Plural form of ottoman.
- overmany — an excess of people
- oversman — an overseer
- pachmann — Vladimir de [vlad-uh-meer duh;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir de] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər də;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1933, Russian pianist.
- panhuman — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- penwoman — a female writer
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- peterman — a safecracker.