| 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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| (verb) sing madrigals | - |
| 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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| maelstrom | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: vortex, whirlpool |
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| maenad | (noun) (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus | - |
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| (noun) an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman | - |
| maestro | (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: master |
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| maffia | (noun) any tightly knit group of trusted associates | Synonyms: mafia |
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| mafia | (noun) any tightly knit group of trusted associates | Synonyms: maffia |
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| mafioso | (noun) a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States | - |
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| (noun) a member of the Sicilian Mafia | - |
| mag | (noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: magazine |
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| magazine | (noun) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store |
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| (noun) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: mag |
| (noun) a business firm that publishes magazines | Synonyms: magazine publisher |
| magdalen | (noun) a reformed prostitute | - |
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| magenta | (adjective) of deep purplish red | - |
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| (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta | - |
| maggot | (noun) the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter | - |
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| maggoty | (adjective) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies | Synonyms: flyblown |
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| magic | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| (noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: thaumaturgy |
| magical | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| magically | (adverb) in a magical manner | Synonyms: as if by magic |
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| magician | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator |
| magilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: megilp |
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| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| magisterially | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: authoritatively |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, dictatorially |
| magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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| magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| maglev | (noun) high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction | Synonyms: magnetic levitation |
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| magma | (noun) molten rock in the earth's crust | - |
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| magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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| magnanimous | (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, large |
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| (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: greathearted |
| magnanimously | (adverb) in a magnanimous manner | - |
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| magnanimousness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, nobility, nobleness |
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| magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| magnesia | (noun) a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium | Synonyms: magnesium oxide, periclase |
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| magnesite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium | - |
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| magnesium | (noun) a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine) | Synonyms: atomic number 12, Mg |
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| magnet | (noun) (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field | - |
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| (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor |
| magnetic | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetised, magnetized |
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| (adjective) determined by earth's magnetic fields | - |
| (adjective) capable of being magnetized | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or caused by magnetism | - |
| (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: charismatic |
| magnetically | (adverb) as if by magnetism | - |
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| (adverb) by the use of magnetism | - |
| magnetics | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetism |
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| magnetisation | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetization |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetization |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetization |
| magnetise | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetised | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetized |
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| magnetism | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetics |
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| (noun) attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force | Synonyms: magnetic attraction, magnetic force |
| magnetite | (noun) an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets | Synonyms: magnetic iron-ore |
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| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetized | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetised |
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| magneto | (noun) a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine | Synonyms: magnetoelectric machine |
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| magnetograph | (noun) a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field) | - |
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| magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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| magnetometer | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: gaussmeter |
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| magneton | (noun) a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle | - |
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| magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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| magnetron | (noun) a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators | - |
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| magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
| (noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| magnificently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, splendidly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, resplendently, splendidly |
| magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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| magnified | (adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: enlarged, exaggerated |
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| 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 | - |
| mahagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahoe, majagua |
| maharaja | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharajah |
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| maharajah | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharaja |
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| maharanee | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharani |
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| maharani | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharanee |
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| mahatma | (noun) (Hinduism) term of respect for a brahmin sage | - |
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| mahimahi | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, dolphinfish |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphinfish |
| mahjong | (noun) Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles | Synonyms: Mah-Jongg |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| mahoe | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, majagua |
| mahogany | (noun) a shade of brown with a tinge of red | Synonyms: burnt sienna, reddish brown, sepia, Venetian red |
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| (noun) any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish | Synonyms: mahogany tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture | - |
| mahout | (noun) the driver and keeper of an elephant | - |
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| mahuang | (noun) Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine | Synonyms: Ephedra sinica |
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| maid | (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maiden |
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| (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maidservant |
| maiden | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory |
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| (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maid |
| (noun) (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored | Synonyms: maiden over |
| maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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| maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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| maidenhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidhood |
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| maidenlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenly |
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| maidenliness | (noun) behavior befitting a young maiden | - |
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