| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
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| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| mattress | (noun) a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed | - |
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| maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
| maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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| matureness | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: maturity |
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| maturity | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: matureness |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: adulthood |
| (noun) the date on which an obligation must be repaid | Synonyms: due date, maturity date |
| matzah | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzo | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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| maul | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: sledge, sledgehammer |
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| mauler | (noun) a fighter who batters the opponent | - |
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| maulers | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: hooks, meat hooks |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maund | (noun) a unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries | - |
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| mausoleum | (noun) a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
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| mauve | (noun) a moderate purple | - |
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| maven | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| mavin | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| mavis | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos |
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| maw | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, trap, yap |
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| mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
| max | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, scoop, soap |
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| maxi | (noun) a long skirt ending below the calf | - |
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| maxilla | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxillary, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
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| maxillaria | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers | - |
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| maxillary | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
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| maxilliped | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: gnathopod |
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| maxim | (noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits | Synonyms: axiom |
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| maximation | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximisation, maximization |
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| maximisation | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximization |
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| maximization | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximisation |
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| (noun) the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function | - |
| maximum | (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, utmost, uttermost |
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| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right | - |
| (noun) the largest possible quantity | Synonyms: upper limit |
| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| may | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, whitethorn |
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| mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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| mayeng | (noun) Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree | Synonyms: maple-leaved bayur, Pterospermum acerifolium |
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| mayfish | (noun) black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States | Synonyms: Fundulus majalis, may fish, striped killifish |
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| mayflower | (noun) low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Epigaea repens, trailing arbutus |
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| mayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: dayfly, shadfly |
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| mayhaw | (noun) hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves | Synonyms: Crataegus aestivalis, summer haw |
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| mayhem | (noun) the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person | - |
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| (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: havoc |
| mayidism | (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, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| mayo | (noun) egg yolks and oil and vinegar | Synonyms: mayonnaise |
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| mayonnaise | (noun) egg yolks and oil and vinegar | Synonyms: mayo |
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| mayor | (noun) the head of a city government | Synonyms: city manager |
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| mayoralty | (noun) the position of mayor | - |
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| mayoress | (noun) a woman mayor | - |
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| (noun) the wife of a mayor | - |
| maypole | (noun) a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day | - |
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| maypop | (noun) of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg | Synonyms: Passiflora incarnata |
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| mayweed | (noun) widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs | Synonyms: Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed |
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| maze | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost | Synonyms: labyrinth |
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| (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: snarl, tangle |
| mazer | (noun) a large hardwood drinking bowl | - |
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| mazopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mastopathy |
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| mazurka | (noun) a Polish national dance in triple time | - |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the mazurka | - |
| mazzard | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: gean, mazzard cherry |
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| mcg | (noun) one millionth (1/1,000,000) gram | Synonyms: microgram |
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| mcmansion | (noun) a generic, mass-produced luxury home | - |
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| mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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| meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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| meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| meagreness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| meal | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: repast |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | - |
| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times | - |
| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| mealybug | (noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees | Synonyms: mealy bug |
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| mean | (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
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| meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
| meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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| meaning | (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
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| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
| meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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| meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
| meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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| mearstone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: meerestone, merestone |
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| measles | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: morbilli, rubeola |
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| measurability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: quantifiability |
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| measure | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, quantity |
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| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measurement, measuring, mensuration |
| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: step |
| (noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | Synonyms: measuring rod, measuring stick |
| (noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | - |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: bar |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, meter, metre |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: bill |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, standard, touchstone |
| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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| measurer | (noun) a person who makes measurements | - |
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| measuring | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, mensuration |
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| meat | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: kernel |
| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| meatloaf | (noun) a baked loaf of ground meat | Synonyms: meat loaf |
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| meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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| meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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| meatus | (noun) a natural body passageway | - |
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| mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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| mebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibits or 2^20 (1,048,576) bits | Synonyms: Mibit |
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| mebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, megabyte, MiB |
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| mecca | (noun) a place that attracts many visitors | - |
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| mechanic | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles | Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey |