| madake | (noun) large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere | Synonyms: giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides |
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| madam | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am |
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| (noun) a woman who runs a house of prostitution | Synonyms: brothel keeper |
| madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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| madcap | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, swashbuckler |
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| madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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| madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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| mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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| madhouse | (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit |
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| madman | (noun) a male insane person | - |
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| madnep | (noun) biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip | Synonyms: wild parsnip |
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| madness | (noun) unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm | Synonyms: rabidity, rabidness |
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| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolishness |
| (noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: fury, rage |
| (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: insaneness, lunacy |
| (noun) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | Synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies |
| madras | (noun) a light patterned cotton cloth | - |
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| madrasa | (noun) Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Synonyms: madrasah |
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| madrasah | (noun) Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Synonyms: madrasa |
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| madrepore | (noun) corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands | Synonyms: madriporian coral, stony coral |
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| madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| madrilene | (noun) a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled | - |
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| madrona | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrono, manzanita |
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| madrono | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, manzanita |
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| madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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| madwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: alyssum |
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