| aid | (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assist, assistance, help |
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| (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: attention, care, tending |
| (noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do | Synonyms: assistance, help |
| (noun) gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause | Synonyms: assistance, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance |
| aide | (noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: auxiliary |
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| (noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: adjutant, aide-de-camp |
| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| braid | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braiding, gold braid |
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| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: plait, tress, twist |
| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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| chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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| handmaid | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaiden |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaiden, servant |
| handmaiden | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaid |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, servant |
| housemaid | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, maid, maidservant |
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| maid | (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maiden |
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| (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maidservant |
| maiden | (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maid |
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| (noun) (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored | Synonyms: maiden over |
| maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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| maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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| maidenhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidhood |
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| maidenliness | (noun) behavior befitting a young maiden | - |
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| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| maidism | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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| mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| milkmaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: dairymaid |
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| nursemaid | (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nurse |
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| parlormaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlourmaid |
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| parlourmaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlormaid |
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| plaid | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: tartan |
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| raid | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: foray, maraud |
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| (noun) an attempt by speculators to defraud investors | - |
| raider | (noun) a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler |
| redmaids | (noun) succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Calandrinia ciliata, red maids |
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| staidness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, solemnity |
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| triskaidekaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of the number 13 | - |
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| upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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| upbraiding | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over |
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