makeshift | (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
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makeup | (noun) cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance | Synonyms: make-up, war paint |
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(noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: composition, constitution, make-up, physical composition |
(noun) an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event | Synonyms: make-up |
makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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(noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
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(noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
(noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |
mako | (noun) powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: mako shark |
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makomako | (noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, New Zealand wine berry, wineberry |
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malabsorption | (noun) abnormal absorption of nutrients from the digestive tract | - |
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malacca | (noun) a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm | Synonyms: malacca cane |
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(noun) stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles | - |
malachite | (noun) a green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects | - |
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malacia | (noun) a state of abnormal softening of tissue | - |
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malacologist | (noun) a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks | - |
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malacology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks | - |
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malacophily | (noun) (botany) pollination of plants by snails. | - |
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malacopterygian | (noun) any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | Synonyms: soft-finned fish |
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maladjustment | (noun) the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability | - |
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maladroitness | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, slowness |
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malady | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, sickness, unwellness |
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(noun) any unwholesome or desperate condition | - |
malahini | (noun) a newcomer to Hawaii | - |
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malaise | (noun) physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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malamute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malemute |
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malanga | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: spoonflower, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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malaprop | (noun) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | Synonyms: malapropism |
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malapropism | (noun) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | Synonyms: malaprop |
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malar | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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malaria | (noun) an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever | - |
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malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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malathion | (noun) a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites | - |
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malcontent | (noun) a person who is discontented or disgusted | - |
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male | (noun) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | - |
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(noun) a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies | Synonyms: male person |
maleate | (noun) a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation | - |
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maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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malefactor | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw |
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maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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(noun) doing or causing evil | - |
malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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maleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: masculinity |
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maleo | (noun) Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches | Synonyms: Macrocephalon maleo |
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malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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malfeasant | (noun) one guilty of malfeasance | - |
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malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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(noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
malfunction | (noun) a failure to function normally | - |
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malice | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malevolency |
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(noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom |
maliciousness | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, spite, spitefulness, venom |
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malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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malignity | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignancy |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malevolence |
malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
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mall | (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: promenade |
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(noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, centre, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
mallard | (noun) wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed | Synonyms: Anas platyrhynchos |
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malleability | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: plasticity |
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mallee | (noun) any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts | - |
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mallet | (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: beetle |
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(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
(noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
malleus | (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: hammer |
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mallow | (noun) any of various plants of the family Malvaceae | - |
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malmsey | (noun) sweet Madeira wine | - |
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malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
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malnutrition | (noun) a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods | - |
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malocclusion | (noun) (dentistry) a condition in which the opposing teeth do not mesh normally | - |
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malodor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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malodorousness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, rankness, stinkiness |
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malodour | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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(noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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(noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
(noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
malted | (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
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maltha | (noun) a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt | Synonyms: mineral tar |
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maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
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maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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malvasia | (noun) grape used to make malmsey wine | - |
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malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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malware | (noun) malicious software, designed to break into a system | - |
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mama | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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mamba | (noun) arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | - |
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mambo | (noun) a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba | - |
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mamey | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mammee, mammee apple |
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(noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: Mammea americana, mammee, mammee apple, mammee tree |
mamilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mammilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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mamma | (noun) milk-secreting organ of female mammals | Synonyms: mammary gland |
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(noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
mammal | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammalian |
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mammalian | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
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mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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mammalogy | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies mammals | - |
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mammee | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple |
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(noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: marmalade plum, sapote |
(noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree |
(noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote |
mammilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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mammillaria | (noun) any cactus of the genus Mammillaria | - |
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mammogram | (noun) X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast | - |
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mammography | (noun) a diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays | - |
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mammon | (noun) wealth regarded as an evil influence | - |
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