9-letter words starting with m
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- mailcoach — a railway coach specially constructed for the transportation of mail
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mailorder — Ordered to be delivered to one's home.
- mailrooms — Plural form of mailroom.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- mailwoman — (rare) A female postal worker.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- main beam — a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete used in the construction of houses which transmits its load directly to a wall or column, as opposed to another beam
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- main door — the principal or largest door that is used to enter a building which has more than one door
- main drag — the main street of a city or town; main stem.
- main idea — the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about: Find the main idea in each paragraph.
- main line — a fashionable residential district west of Philadelphia.
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- main menu — website, DVD, etc.: navigation page
- main road — principal street
- main stem — the main street of a city or town; the main drag.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- mainlined — Simple past tense and past participle of mainline.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- mainmasts — Plural form of mainmast.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- mains gas — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- mains set — an appliance, such as a television or radio, that is powered by mains electricity
- mainsails — Plural form of mainsail.
- mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
- mainstage — The largest performing space in a venue.
- mainstays — Plural form of mainstay.
- maintaine — Obsolete spelling of maintain.
- maintains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maintain.
- maintenon — Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
- maiquetia — a city in the Federal District, in N Venezuela.
- maistring — ruling or subduing
- maitre d' — maître d'hôtel (defs 1–3).
- maj. gen. — Major General
- majestick — Archaic spelling of majestic.
- majesties — regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur: majesty of bearing; the majesty of Chartres.
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- majordomo — The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
- majorette — drum majorette.
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- make away — to depart in haste
- make bail — If someone who has been arrested makes bail, or if another person makes bail for them, the arrested person is released on bail.