10-letter words starting with ma
- malingered — Simple past tense and past participle of malinger.
- malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- mallanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malleation — the act of hammering or beating something thin
- malleefowl — Alternative form of mallee fowl.
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- mallenders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- malolactic — Of or denoting bacterial fermentation that converts malic acid to lactic acid, especially as a secondary process used to reduce the acidity of some wines.
- malpighian — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- malt sugar — maltose
- malt-sugar — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- maltreated — Simple past tense and past participle of maltreat.
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- mama's boy — a boy or man showing excessive attachment to or dependence on his mother.
- mamaroneck — a city in SE New York.
- mamillated — Having nipples.
- mammalians — an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
- mammectomy — mastectomy.
- mammillary — of, relating to, or resembling a mammilla.
- mammillate — having a mammilla or mammillae.
- mammogenic — exciting or generating mammary development
- mammograms — Plural form of mammogram.
- mammograph — A machine for taking X-ray pictures of the breasts (mammaries).
- mamoncillo — the genip, Melicoccus bijugatus.
- man crèche — an area of a department store set aside to provide entertainment for men while their partners shop
- man friday — a male assistant to an administrator or executive; right-hand man.
- man of god — a clergyman.
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- man to man — A man-to-man conversation or meeting takes place between two men, especially two men who meet to discuss a serious personal matter.
- man's fate — French La Condition Humaine. a novel (1933) by André Malraux.
- man-eating — feeding on or having an appetite for human flesh: a man-eating tiger.
- man-minute — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work accomplished by one person in a minute.
- man-of-war — a warship.
- man-to-man — characterized by directness, openness, etc.; frank and personal: He had a man-to-man talk with his son about sex.
- manageable — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- manageably — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- manageless — (archaic) unmanageable.
- management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- manageress — a woman who is a manager.
- managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).