| maidenly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenlike |
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| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| maidism | (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, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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| maiger | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maigre, Sciaena aquila |
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| maigre | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maiger, Sciaena aquila |
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| maikoa | (noun) a South American plant that is cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers | Synonyms: angel's trumpet, Brugmansia arborea, Datura arborea |
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| mail | (noun) (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings | Synonyms: chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system | - |
| (noun) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office | Synonyms: mail service, post, postal service |
| (noun) the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service | - |
| (noun) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: post, send |
| (verb) send via the postal service | Synonyms: get off |
| mailbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: postbag |
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| (noun) pouch used in the shipment of mail | Synonyms: mail pouch |
| mailboat | (noun) a boat for carrying mail | Synonyms: mail boat, packet, packet boat |
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| mailbox | (noun) a private box for delivery of mail | Synonyms: letter box |
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| (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, postbox |
| maildrop | (noun) a drop where mail can be deposited | - |
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| mailed | (adjective) wearing protective mail | Synonyms: mail-clad |
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| mailer | (noun) a container for something to be mailed | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement that is sent by mail | - |
| (noun) a person who mails something | - |
| mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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| (noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
| maillot | (noun) tights for dancers or gymnasts | - |
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| (noun) a woman's one-piece bathing suit | Synonyms: tank suit |
| mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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| mailsorter | (noun) a sorter for sorting mail according to the address | - |
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| maim | (verb) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation | - |
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| maimed | (adjective) having a part of the body crippled or disabled | Synonyms: mutilated |
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| (noun) people who are wounded | Synonyms: wounded |
| maimer | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: mangler, mutilator |
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| main | (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: independent |
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| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, master, primary, principal |
| (adjective) of force; of the greatest possible intensity | - |
| (noun) a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage | - |
| (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: briny |
| mainframe | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, processor |
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| (noun) a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room | Synonyms: mainframe computer |
| mainland | (noun) the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula | - |
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| mainline | (verb) inject into the vein | - |
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| mainly | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, primarily, principally |
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| mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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| mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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| mainsheet | (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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| mainspring | (noun) the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism | - |
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| mainstay | (noun) the forestay that braces the mainmast | - |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: pillar |
| mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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| mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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| maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
| maintainable | (adjective) capable of being maintained | - |
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| maintained | (adjective) kept in good condition | Synonyms: kept up, well-kept |
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| (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: retained |
| maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| maiolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: majolica |
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| maisonette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonnette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonnette |
| maisonnette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonette |
| maize | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow |
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| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: corn, Indian corn, Zea mays |
| majagua | (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, mahoe, 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, mahoe |
| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| majestically | (adverb) in a majestic manner | - |
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| majesty | (noun) impressiveness in scale or proportion | Synonyms: loftiness, stateliness |
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| majolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: maiolica |
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| major | (adjective) greater in number or size or amount | - |
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| (adjective) greater in scope or effect | - |
| (adjective) of full legal age | - |
| (adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees | - |
| (adjective) of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes | - |
| (adjective) of greater importance or stature or rank | - |
| (adjective) of greater seriousness or danger | - |
| (adjective) of the elder of two boys with the same family name | - |
| (noun) the principal field of study of a student at a university | - |
| (noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain | - |
| (noun) a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject | - |
| (verb) have as one's principal field of study | - |
| majorette | (noun) a female drum major | Synonyms: drum majorette |
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| (noun) a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band | Synonyms: drum majorette |
| majority | (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: bulk |
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| (noun) (elections) more than half of the votes | Synonyms: absolute majority |
| (noun) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs | Synonyms: legal age |
| majors | (noun) the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) | Synonyms: big league, major league |
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| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| majuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries | - |
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| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, great |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| makagigi | (noun) cookies made with poppy seeds and honey; traditional Polish Christmas sweet treats. | - |
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| make | (noun) the act of mixing cards haphazardly | Synonyms: shuffle, shuffling |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: brand |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner | - |
| (verb) act in a certain way so as to acquire | - |
| (verb) give certain properties to something | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) put in order or neaten | Synonyms: make up |
| (verb) cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable | - |
| (verb) develop into | - |
| (verb) favor the development of | - |
| (verb) change from one form into another | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) consider as being | - |
| (verb) calculate as being | - |
| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: establish, lay down |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make believe, pretend |
| (verb) assure the success of | - |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: score, seduce |
| (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, produce |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, throw |
| (verb) create or design, often in a certain way | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, prepare, ready |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: cause, do |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) gather and light the materials for | - |
| (verb) make by shaping or bringing together constituents | - |
| (verb) perform, produce, or carry out | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, construct |
| (verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, reach |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, progress to, reach |
| (verb) head into a specified direction | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) proceed along a path | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) appear to begin an activity | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) engage in | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) form by assembling individuals or constituents | - |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: name, nominate |
| (verb) carry out or commit | - |
| (verb) be or be capable of being changed or made into | - |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, form |
| (verb) undergo fabrication or creation | - |
| (verb) amount to | - |
| (verb) add up to | - |
| (verb) be suitable for | - |
| (verb) constitute the essence of | - |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
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| (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
| 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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| maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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| maladjusted | (adjective) poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: disturbed |
| (adjective) not well adjusted | - |
| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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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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| maladroit | (adjective) not adroit | - |
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| maladroitly | (adverb) in a maladroit manner | - |
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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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| malapropos | (adjective) of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature | - |
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| (adverb) at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: inopportunely |
| 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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| malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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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 | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious |
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| (noun) a person who is discontented or disgusted | - |
| male | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: manful, manlike, manly, virile |
| (noun) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | - |
| (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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| maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
| 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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