7-letter words containing n, a, m, t
- manbote — a sum of money paid to a lord whose vassal was murdered.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- manetho — flourished c250 b.c, Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.
- manhunt — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- manihot — (obsolete) manioc.
- manitou — (among the Algonquian Indians) a supernatural being that controls nature; a spirit, deity, or object that possesses supernatural power.
- mankato — a city in S Minnesota, on the Minnesota River.
- mannite — mannitol.
- manrent — (historical) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
- manroot — man-of-the-earth.
- mansart — Jules Hardouin [zhyl ar-dwan] /ʒül arˈdwɛ̃/ (Show IPA), (Jules Hardouin) 1646–1708, French architect: chief architectural director for Louis XIV.
- mantapa — a porch or vestibule of a Brahman temple.
- mantaro — a river in central Peru, flowing SE to the Apurímac River. About 360 miles (580 km) long.
- manteau — a mantle or cloak, especially one worn by women.
- manteca — a town in central California.
- manteel — a cloak, shawl or covering
- mantels — Plural form of mantel.
- mantids — Plural form of mantid.
- mantled — Simple past tense and past participle of mantle.
- mantles — Plural form of mantle.
- mantlet — mantelet (def 2).
- mantova — a city in E Lombardy, in N Italy: birthplace of Vergil.
- mantram — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- mantrap — an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
- mantras — Plural form of mantra.
- mantric — Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- mantuan — a city in E Lombardy, in N Italy: birthplace of Vergil.
- mantuas — Plural form of mantua.
- manumit — to release from slavery or servitude.
- maranta — any of several tropical American plants of the genus Maranta, including arrowroot and several species cultivated as ornamentals for their variegated foliage.
- margent — margin.
- marston — John, c1575–1634, English dramatist and satirical poet.
- martens — Plural form of marten.
- martian — of, relating to, or like the planet Mars or its hypothetical inhabitants.
- martina — a female given name.
- marting — Present participle of mart.
- martini — a cocktail made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth, usually served with a green olive or a twist of lemon peel.
- martins — Archer John Porter [ahr-cher] /ˈɑr tʃər/ (Show IPA), 1910–2002, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952.
- martinu — Bohuslav [baw-hoo-slahf] /ˈbɔ hʊˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1959, Czech composer.
- martnet — an arrangement of lines formerly used for gathering up a leech of a sail.
- masting — Nautical. a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast. any of a number of individual spars composing such a structure, as a topmast supported on trestletrees at the head of a lower mast. any of various portions of a single spar that are beside particular sails, as a top-gallant mast and royal mast formed as a single spar.
- matanza — (US, Western US) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.
- matapan — Cape, a cape in S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.
- matinal — (often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical. the first of the seven canonical hours. the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak. Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- matinee — an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- matings — Plural form of mating, gerund of 'mate'.
- matrona — In Ancient Rome, a wife of an honorable man.
- matrons — Plural form of matron.
- matting — a piece of cardboard or other material placed over or under a drawing, painting, photograph, etc., to serve as a frame or provide a border between the picture and the frame.