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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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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