8-letter words starting with m
- mannitol — Chemistry. a white, crystalline, sweetish, water-soluble, carbohydrate alcohol, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in three optically different forms, the common one being found in the manna of the ash Fraxinus ornus and in other plants: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, electrolytic condensers for radios, plasticizers, and mannitol hexanitrate, and as a pill excipient.
- manoever — Misspelling of manoeuvre or 'maneuver'.
- manolete — (Manuel Laureano Rodríguez y Sánchez) 1917–47, Spanish matador.
- manorial — (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- manouver — Misspelling of maneuver.
- manouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manrider — a train used to carry miners into a coal mine
- mansards — Plural form of mansard.
- manscape — A view of a group of people.
- manshift — the work accomplished by one person in one shift
- mansholt — Sicco Leendert (ˈsɪko ˈleːndərt). 1908–95, Dutch economist and politician; vice president (1958–72) and president (1972–73) of the European Economic Community Commission. He was the author of the Mansholt Plan for the agricultural organization of the European Economic Community
- mansions — Plural form of mansion.
- mansonry — mansions or dwelling places collectively
- mansuete — gentle or tame
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- mantegna — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1431–1506, Italian painter and engraver.
- mantelet — a short mantle.
- mantilla — a silk or lace head scarf arranged over a high comb and falling over the back and shoulders, worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.
- 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
- mao suit — an outfit worn in the People's Republic of China consisting of a Mao jacket and loose trousers.
- map onto — to fit in with or correspond to
- mapepire — (Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.
- mapmaker — a person who makes maps; cartographer.
- mappable — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mappings — Plural form of mapping.
- maquette — a small model or study in three dimensions for either a sculptural or an architectural project.
- maquilas — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- mar-hawk — a falconer who trains or handles the birds badly.