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8-letter words that end in man

  • indiaman — (formerly) a large merchant ship engaged in trade with India
  • inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
  • irishman — a man born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
  • iron manCalvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
  • islesman — an islander
  • java man — the fossil remains of Homo erectus found in Java.
  • kingsman — (military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
  • klansman — a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • knifeman — A knifeman is someone who has attacked or killed someone with a knife.
  • landsman — Also, landman. a person who lives or works on land.
  • laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
  • leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
  • leaseman — a person who leases land and obtains the rights to its use, especially oil-drilling rights.
  • liegeman — a vassal; subject.
  • linesman — Sports. an official, as in tennis and soccer, who assists the referee. Football. an official who marks the distances gained and lost in the progress of play and otherwise assists the referee and field judge. Ice Hockey. either of two officials who assist the referee by watching for icing, offside, and substitution violations and fouls and by conducting face-offs.
  • linksman — a person who plays golf; golfer.
  • lodesman — a person who steers a ship
  • loftsman — a person who prepares molds and patterns.
  • madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
  • main man — one's best and most trusted male friend.
  • 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.
  • nobleman — a man of noble birth or rank; noble; peer.
  • nonhuman — not human.
  • 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.
  • omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
  • orra man — an odd-jobman
  • oversman — an overseer
  • 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.
  • pilotman — a railway worker who directed trains through hazardous stretches of track
  • pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
  • pivotman — a pivot (def 7b).
  • placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
  • plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
  • plateman — a person who makes and sells plate armour
  • pointman — soldier who walks at the front of an infantry patrol in combat
  • prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
  • pressman — a person who operates or has charge of a printing press.
  • prizeman — a man who wins a prize
  • proseman — a writer of prose
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