| malefic | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malevolent, malign |
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| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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| maleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: masculinity |
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| maleo | (noun) Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches | Synonyms: Macrocephalon maleo |
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| malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
| malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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| malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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| (adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
| malevolently | (adverb) in a malevolent manner | - |
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| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malfeasant | (noun) one guilty of malfeasance | - |
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| malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
| malformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen |
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| malfunction | (noun) a failure to function normally | - |
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| (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| malice | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malevolency |
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| (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom |
| malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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| maliciously | (adverb) with malice; in a malicious manner | - |
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| maliciousness | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, spite, spitefulness, venom |
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| malign | (adjective) evil or harmful in nature or influence | - |
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| (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent |
| (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce |
| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| malignant | (adjective) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) | - |
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| malignantly | (adverb) in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads | - |
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| maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| malignity | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignancy |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malevolence |
| malignly | (adverb) in a malign and evil manner | - |
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| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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| malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
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| mall | (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: promenade |
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| (noun) mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace | Synonyms: center, centre, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall |
| mallard | (noun) wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed | Synonyms: Anas platyrhynchos |
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| malleability | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: plasticity |
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| malleable | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
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| (adjective) easily influenced | Synonyms: ductile |
| mallee | (noun) any of several low-growing Australian eucalypts | - |
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| mallet | (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: beetle |
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| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
| malleus | (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: hammer |
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| mallow | (noun) any of various plants of the family Malvaceae | - |
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| malmsey | (noun) sweet Madeira wine | - |
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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| malnourished | (adjective) not being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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| malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
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| malnutrition | (noun) a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods | - |
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| malocclusion | (noun) (dentistry) a condition in which the opposing teeth do not mesh normally | - |
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| malodor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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| malodorous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| malodorousness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, rankness, stinkiness |
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| malodour | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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| malodourous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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| malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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| malposed | (adjective) characterized by malposition | - |
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| malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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| malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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| (noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
| malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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| (noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
| (verb) convert into malt | - |
| (verb) turn into malt, become malt | - |
| (verb) convert grain into malt | - |
| (verb) treat with malt or malt extract | - |
| malted | (adjective) of grain that has been converted into malt | - |
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| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
| maltha | (noun) a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt | Synonyms: mineral tar |
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| maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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| maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
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| maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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| maltreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, mistreated |
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| maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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| maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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| malvasia | (noun) grape used to make malmsey wine | - |
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| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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| malware | (noun) malicious software, designed to break into a system | - |
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| mama | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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| mamba | (noun) arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | - |
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| mambo | (noun) a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba | - |
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| (verb) dance a mambo | - |
| mamey | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mammee, mammee apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: Mammea americana, mammee, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| mamilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mammilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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| mamma | (noun) milk-secreting organ of female mammals | Synonyms: mammary gland |
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| (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
| mammal | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammalian |
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| mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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| (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
| mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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| mammalogy | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies mammals | - |
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| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| mammee | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple |
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| (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: marmalade plum, sapote |
| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| (noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote |
| mammilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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| mammillaria | (noun) any cactus of the genus Mammillaria | - |
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| mammogram | (noun) X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast | - |
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| mammography | (noun) a diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays | - |
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| mammon | (noun) wealth regarded as an evil influence | - |
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| mammoth | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: gigantic |
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| (noun) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks | - |
| mammothermography | (noun) the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots) | - |
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| mammy | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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| (noun) an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. | - |
| mamo | (noun) black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct | - |
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| mamoncillo | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, ginep, honey berry, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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| man | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world |
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| (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: homo, human, human being |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) | Synonyms: adult male |
| (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: military man, military personnel, serviceman |
| (noun) the generic use of the word to refer to any human being | - |
| (noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, gentleman, valet, valet de chambre |
| (noun) an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) | - |
| (noun) a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman | - |
| (noun) a male subordinate | - |
| (verb) provide with workers | - |
| (verb) take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place | - |
| manacle | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, handlock |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| manageability | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageableness |
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| manageable | (adjective) capable of being managed or controlled | - |
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| (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, achievable, doable, realizable |
| manageableness | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageability |
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