| magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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| magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| magniloquent | (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: grandiloquent, tall |
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| magniloquently | (adverb) in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner | Synonyms: grandiloquently |
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| magnitude | (noun) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) | - |
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| (noun) relative importance | - |
| (noun) a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| magnolia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms | - |
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| (noun) dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine | - |
| magnoliopsid | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, exogen |
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| magnum | (noun) a large wine bottle for liquor or wine | - |
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| magpie | (noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: pack rat, scavenger |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, prater, spouter |
| maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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| (noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
| magus | (noun) a magician or sorcerer of ancient times | - |
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| (noun) a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians | - |
| nonmagnetic | (adjective) not capable of being magnetized | - |
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| ohmage | (noun) the ohmic resistance of a conductor | - |
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| paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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| paramagnetic | (adjective) of or relating to a paramagnet | - |
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| paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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| phantasmagoria | (noun) a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream) | - |
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| phantasmagoric | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| pilgrimage | (noun) a journey to a sacred place | Synonyms: pilgrim's journey |
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| plumage | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plume |
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| plumaged | (adjective) having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form | - |
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| rummage | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: ransacking |
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| (noun) a jumble of things to be given away | - |
| (verb) search haphazardly | - |
| salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
| scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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| (noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
| (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
| scrummage | (noun) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | Synonyms: scrum |
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| termagant | (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: shrew |
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| undamaged | (adjective) not harmed or spoiled; sound | - |
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| unimaginable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, inconceivable, out of the question |
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| unimaginably | (adverb) to an unimaginable extent | Synonyms: unthinkably |
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| unimaginative | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical |
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| (adjective) dealing only with concrete facts | - |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, uninspired, uninventive |
| unimaginatively | (adverb) without imagination | - |
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| (adverb) in a matter-of-fact manner | Synonyms: prosaically |
| unimagined | (adjective) not imagined even in a dream | Synonyms: undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of |
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