| amateur | (noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
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| (noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| antepenultimate | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
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| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bromate | (noun) a chemical compound that contains the bromate ion. | - |
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| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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| carbamate | (noun) a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid | - |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| chromate | (noun) any salt or ester of chromic acid | - |
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| classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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| climate | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: clime |
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| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: mood |
| cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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| dichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: bichromate |
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| diplomate | (noun) medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group | - |
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| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| estimate | (noun) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody | Synonyms: estimation |
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| (noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimation, idea |
| (noun) the respect with which a person is held | Synonyms: estimation |
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: appraisal, estimation |
| (noun) a statement indicating the likely cost of some job | - |
| flatmate | (noun) an associate who shares an apartment with you | - |
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| glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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| guesstimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guestimate |
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| guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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| haematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: hematemesis |
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| hamate | (noun) the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers | Synonyms: hamate bone, os hamatum, unciform bone |
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| helpmate | (noun) a helpful partner | Synonyms: helpmeet |
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| hematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: haematemesis |
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| housemate | (noun) someone who resides in the same house with you | - |
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| humate | (noun) material that is high in humic acids | - |
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| illegitimate | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
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| immateriality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: incorporeality |
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| (noun) complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration | - |
| inanimateness | (noun) not having life | Synonyms: lifelessness |
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| inmate | (noun) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) | - |
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| (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inpatient |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, yard bird, yardbird |
| intimate | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: confidant |
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| mate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: checkmate |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | - |
| (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, partner, spouse |
| (noun) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | - |
| (noun) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | Synonyms: first mate |
| (noun) informal term for a friend of the same sex | - |
| (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: teammate |
| (noun) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: fellow |
| matelote | (noun) highly seasoned soup or stew made of freshwater fishes (eel, carp, perch) with wine and stock | - |
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| mater | (noun) an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously | - |
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| materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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| material | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile |
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| (noun) things needed for doing or making something | - |
| (noun) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form | - |
| (noun) a person judged suitable for admission or employment | - |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: stuff |
| materialisation | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialization |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialization, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialization |
| materialism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | Synonyms: physicalism |
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| (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: philistinism |
| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| materiality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, corporeality, physicalness |
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| (noun) relevance requiring careful consideration | - |
| materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |
| materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| maternity | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: motherhood |
| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, pregnancy |
| mates | (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, match |
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| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| meprobamate | (noun) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety | Synonyms: Equanil, Meprin, Miltown |
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| messmate | (noun) (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | - |
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| miltomate | (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
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| overestimate | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation |
| penultimate | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
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| playmate | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playfellow |
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| primate | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | - |
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| (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate |
| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| roommate | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roomie, roomy |
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| schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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| shipmate | (noun) an associate on the same ship with you | - |
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| somatesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis |
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| (noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia |
| stablemate | (noun) a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | Synonyms: stable companion |
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| stalemate | (noun) drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check | - |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, standstill |
| stomate | (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stoma |
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| stromateid | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: butterfish, stromateid fish |
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| sublimate | (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid | - |
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| tablemate | (noun) someone you dine with | Synonyms: dining companion |
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| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| ultimate | (noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind | - |
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| ultimateness | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimacy |
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| underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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| workmate | (noun) a fellow worker | - |
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