| matronymic | (noun) a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor | Synonyms: metronymic |
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| matsyendra | (noun) (Hinduism) a religious posture | - |
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| matt | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matte, matted |
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| (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matte |
| matte | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matted |
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| (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt |
| (noun) a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted | - |
| (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte up |
| matted | (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: flat, mat, matt, matte |
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| (adjective) tangled in a dense mass | - |
| matter | (noun) that which has mass and occupies space | - |
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| (noun) (used with negation) having consequence | - |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, subject, topic |
| (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: affair, thing |
| (noun) a problem | - |
| (noun) written works (especially in books or magazines) | - |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, weigh |
| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
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| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| mattock | (noun) a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat blade set at right angles to the handle | - |
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| mattress | (noun) a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed | - |
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| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| mature | (adjective) having reached full natural growth or development | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of maturity | - |
| (adjective) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | Synonyms: fledged |
| (adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: ripe |
| (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: matured |
| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
| (verb) become due for repayment | - |
| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
| (verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
| matured | (adjective) fully considered and perfected | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) fully ripe; at the height of bloom | Synonyms: full-blown |
| maturely | (adverb) in a mature manner | - |
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| maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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| matureness | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: maturity |
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| maturity | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: matureness |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: adulthood |
| (noun) the date on which an obligation must be repaid | Synonyms: due date, maturity date |
| matutinal | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in the morning | - |
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| matzah | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzo | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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| maudlin | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| maul | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: sledge, sledgehammer |
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| (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: mangle |
| (verb) split (wood) with a maul and wedges | - |
| mauler | (noun) a fighter who batters the opponent | - |
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| maulers | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: hooks, meat hooks |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maund | (noun) a unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries | - |
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| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| mausoleum | (noun) a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
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| mauve | (adjective) of a pale to moderate greyish violet color | - |
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| (noun) a moderate purple | - |
| maven | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| mavin | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| mavis | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos |
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| maw | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, trap, yap |
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| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| mawkishly | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: drippily |
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| mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
| max | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, scoop, soap |
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| maxi | (adjective) used of women's clothing having a hemline at the ankle | - |
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| (noun) a long skirt ending below the calf | - |
| maxilla | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxillary, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
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| maxillaria | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers | - |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
| maxilliped | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: gnathopod |
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| maxillodental | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and its associated teeth | - |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| maxillomandibular | (adjective) relating to the upper and lower jaws | - |
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| maxim | (noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits | Synonyms: axiom |
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| maximal | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximum |
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| maximally | (adverb) to a maximal degree | - |
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| maximation | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximisation, maximization |
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| maximisation | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximization |
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| maximise | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximize |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximize |
| maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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| maximization | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximisation |
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| (noun) the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function | - |
| maximize | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximise |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximise |
| maximizing | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximising |
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| maximum | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximal |
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| (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, utmost, uttermost |
| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right | - |
| (noun) the largest possible quantity | Synonyms: upper limit |
| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| may | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, whitethorn |
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| mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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| maybe | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly |
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| mayeng | (noun) Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree | Synonyms: maple-leaved bayur, Pterospermum acerifolium |
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| mayfish | (noun) black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States | Synonyms: Fundulus majalis, may fish, striped killifish |
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| mayflower | (noun) low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Epigaea repens, trailing arbutus |
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| mayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: dayfly, shadfly |
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| mayhap | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly |
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| mayhaw | (noun) hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves | Synonyms: Crataegus aestivalis, summer haw |
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| mayhem | (noun) the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person | - |
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| (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: havoc |
| mayidism | (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, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| mayo | (noun) egg yolks and oil and vinegar | Synonyms: mayonnaise |
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| mayonnaise | (noun) egg yolks and oil and vinegar | Synonyms: mayo |
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| mayor | (noun) the head of a city government | Synonyms: city manager |
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| mayoral | (adjective) of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor | - |
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| mayoralty | (noun) the position of mayor | - |
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| mayoress | (noun) a woman mayor | - |
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| (noun) the wife of a mayor | - |
| maypole | (noun) a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day | - |
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| maypop | (noun) of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg | Synonyms: Passiflora incarnata |
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| mayweed | (noun) widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs | Synonyms: Anthemis cotula, dog fennel, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed |
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| maze | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost | Synonyms: labyrinth |
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| (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: snarl, tangle |
| mazed | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mixed-up |
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| mazer | (noun) a large hardwood drinking bowl | - |
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| mazopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mastopathy |
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| mazurka | (noun) a Polish national dance in triple time | - |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the mazurka | - |
| mazy | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, labyrinthine |
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| mazzard | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: gean, mazzard cherry |
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