8-Letter Words Starting: MAND

• the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic

• a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers

• the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

• cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

• an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail

• a document giving an official instruction or command

• a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

• the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

• assign under a mandate

• make mandatory

• assign authority to

• the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

• shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

• a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

• any high government official or bureaucrat

• a high public official of imperial China

• a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

• a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum

• baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters

• an authority who issues a mandate