9-letter words containing main
- baisemain — a kissing of the hand; thus, a sign of respect
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- 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.
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- remainder — something that remains or is left: the remainder of the day.
- remaining — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- ring main — a domestic electrical supply in which outlet sockets are connected to the mains supply through a ring circuit
- semainier — a chest of the 18th century having seven long drawers: originally meant to hold a week's supply of clothing.
- the mains — the main distribution network for water, gas, or electricity
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