Words That Start With MA

man

Noun : An adult male human.

Noun : (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.

Noun : A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)

mark

Noun : (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.

Noun : (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.

Noun : (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence.

malevolent

Adjective : Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.

Adjective : Having an evil or harmful influence.

matter

Noun : (uncountable) Material; substance.

Noun : (physics) The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.

Noun : (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

market

Noun : A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.

Noun : City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.

Noun : A grocery store

make

Verb : (transitive) To create.

Verb : To build, construct, produce, or originate.

Verb : To write or compose.

machine

Noun : A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

Noun : (dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

Noun : (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

mass

Noun : (physical) Matter, material.

Noun : A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.

Noun : (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.

master

Noun : Someone who has control over something or someone.

Noun : The owner of an animal or slave.

Noun : (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.

matrix

Noun : The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.

Noun : (now rare) The womb.

Noun : The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.

manifest

Adjective : Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.

Adjective : Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.

Adjective : (rare, used with "of") Detected; convicted.

major

Adjective : (attributive):

Adjective : Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.

Adjective : Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

management

Noun : (uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.

Noun : The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.

Noun : (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

mandate

Noun : An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

Noun : (politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

Noun : (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

match

Noun : (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

Noun : Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

Noun : Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

map

Noun : A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

Noun : A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.

Noun : (mathematics) A function.

material

Adjective : Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.

Adjective : Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.

Adjective : (law, accounting) Significant.

maintain

Verb : To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

Verb : To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

Verb : To keep in good condition and working order.

maintenance

Noun : Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.

Noun : (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.

Noun : (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.

marriage

Noun : The state of being married.

Noun : A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.

Noun : (sometimes specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.

maker

Noun : Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.

Noun : (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God.

Noun : (now rare) A poet.

mail

Noun : (now regional) A bag or wallet.

Noun : A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

Noun : The material conveyed by the postal service.

mawl

mantle

Noun : A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.

Noun : (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

Noun : (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

manage

Verb : (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.

Verb : (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).

Verb : (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

mate

Noun : A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.

Noun : (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.

Noun : (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.

maneuver

Noun : (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.

Noun : Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.

Noun : A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.

may

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over).

Verb : (obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can.

Verb : (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.

marshal

Noun : An English and Scottish status surname from Middle English for someone who was in charge of the horses of a royal household, or an occupational surname for someone who looked after horses, or was responsible for the custody of prisoners.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.

Noun : (historical) A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.

mantra

Noun : (Hinduism) The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.

Noun : (originally Hinduism) A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation.

Noun : (by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated.

magic

Noun : The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.

Noun : A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.

Noun : The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.

mature

Adjective : Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

Adjective : Brought to a state of complete readiness.

Adjective : Profound; careful.

magnanimous

Adjective : Noble and generous in spirit.

mat

Noun : A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

Noun : A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.

Noun : (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.

manipulate

Verb : (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands

Verb : (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something

Verb : (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose

malaise

Noun : A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.

Noun : An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.

Noun : Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.

manifold

Adjective : Various in kind or quality; diverse.

Adjective : Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.

Adjective : Complicated.

martyr

Noun : One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.

Noun : (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.

Noun : (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.

makeup

Noun : (countable, uncountable) An item's composition.

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.

Noun : (manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.

margin

Noun : (typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.

Noun : The edge or border of any flat surface.

Noun : (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.

mask

Noun : A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.

Noun : That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

Noun : (poetic) Appearance, likeness.

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malice

Noun : Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.

Noun : (law) An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.

Verb : To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.

mandatory

Adjective : Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.

Adjective : Of, being or relating to a mandate.

Noun : (disc golf) A sign or line that require the path of the disc to be above, below or to one side of it.

marketing

Noun : Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).

Noun : (archaic or Philippines) Shopping, going to market as a buyer.

Noun : (dated) Attending market as a seller.

many

Noun : A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.

Noun : A considerable number.

Adjective : Existing in large number; numerous.

magnitude

Noun : (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.

Noun : (countable) An order of magnitude.

Noun : (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically

mary

Noun : A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew.

Noun : (religion) The mother of Jesus, believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin at his birth, and believed by some Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have ascended to Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intermediary for believers.

Noun : (biblical) Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably:

malfeasance

Noun : Wrongdoing.

Noun : (law) Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.

marine

Adjective : Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.

Adjective : Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces.

Adjective : Used or adapted for use at sea.

main

Adjective : Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

Adjective : Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.

Adjective : (archaic, of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.

mayhem

Noun : A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.

Noun : Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing.

Noun : (law) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection.

manager

Noun : (management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.

Noun : (baseball, soccer) The head coach.

Noun : (music) An administrator, for a singer or group.

malicious

Adjective : Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.

march

Noun : A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

Noun : A political rally or parade

Noun : Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)

macabre

Adjective : Representing or personifying death.

Adjective : Obsessed with death or the gruesome.

Adjective : Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

magnificent

Adjective : Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.

Adjective : Grand or noble in action.

Adjective : Exceptional for its kind.

manner

Noun : Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything

Noun : Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing

Noun : One's customary method of acting; habit.

marquee

Noun : (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.

Noun : (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.

Noun : (US, by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.

mall

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

Noun : An enclosed shopping centre.

Noun : (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

making

Noun : The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

Noun : Process of growth or development.

mater

Noun : (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.

Noun : (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

Noun : (biology) Someone or something that mates.

malign

Adjective : Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.

Adjective : Malevolent.

Adjective : (oncology) Malignant.

marvel

Noun : That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.

Noun : (archaic) wonder, astonishment.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To wonder at.

majority

Noun : More than half (50%) of some group.

Noun : The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.

Noun : (dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.

manifestation

Noun : The act or process of becoming manifest.

Noun : The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.

Noun : (medicine) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.

maple

Noun : A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

Noun : The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance

Noun : A surname.

marrow

Noun : (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.

Noun : (countable) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.

Noun : The pith of certain plants.

majestic

Adjective : Having qualities of splendor or royalty.

mast

Noun : (nautical, communication, aviation) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).

Noun : (naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.

Verb : To supply and fit a mast to (a ship).

manual

Noun : A handbook.

Noun : A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

Noun : (military) A drill in the use of weapons, etc.

mar

Verb : (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

Noun : A blemish.

Noun : A small lake.

maroon

Noun : An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.

Noun : A castaway; a person who has been marooned.

Adjective : Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.

manufacture

Noun : The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.

Noun : Anything made, formed or produced; product.

Noun : (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.

mawkish

Adjective : Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

Adjective : (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.

Adjective : (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

mainstream

Adjective : Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of a population or market.

Noun : The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air

Noun : (usually with the) That which is common; the norm.

massive

Adjective : Very large in size or extent.

Adjective : Very large or bulky and heavy and solid.

Adjective : (informal) To a very great extent; total, utter.

mandarin

Noun : (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

Noun : A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

Noun : (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

malignant

Adjective : Harmful, malevolent, injurious.

Adjective : (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.

Noun : A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.

mare

Noun : An adult female horse.

Noun : (UK, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.

Noun : (obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.

massage

Noun : The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.

Noun : The action of rubbing or kneading anything.

Verb : (transitive) To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).

malleable

Adjective : Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

Adjective : (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.

Adjective : (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

maiden

Noun : (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.

Noun : A female virgin.

Noun : (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.

mac

Noun : (US, informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Max.

Noun : (US, Canada) A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".

manifesto

Noun : A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.

Verb : (intransitive) To issue a manifesto.

mason

Noun : A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick

Noun : One who prepares stone for building purposes.

Noun : A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

masquerade

Noun : An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

Noun : The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball.

Noun : (figuratively) An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.

maria

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

Noun : Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.

Noun : A surname originating as a matronymic.

maw

Noun : (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.

Noun : The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.

Noun : (slang, derogatory) The mouth.

masse

Noun : A surname from French.

Noun : Obsolete form of mass. [(physical) Matter, material.]

manoeuvre

Noun : UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Verb : (transitive) UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

male

Adjective : Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.

Adjective : Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

Adjective : Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

mane

Noun : Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion

Noun : Long or thick hair of a person's head.

Noun : Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.

matte

Noun : (art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

Noun : (film) A background, often painted or created with computers

Noun : (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.

mania

Noun : Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

Noun : Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

Noun : 2013-07-20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

magnum

Noun : A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.

Noun : (firearms) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.

Noun : (by extension) A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.

marble

Noun : (uncountable, petrology) A metamorphic rock of crystalline limestone.

Noun : (countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.

Noun : (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble.

malady

Noun : Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

Noun : A moral or mental defect or disorder.

magi

Noun : (Christianity) Chiefly preceded by the (three): the wise men who visited and gave gifts to the baby Jesus at the Epiphany (traditionally considered to be three in number and sometimes named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior, but the Bible does not state how many there were or their names).

Noun : (astronomy, by extension) The three bright stars (Alnitak (ζ Ori), Alnilam (ε Ori), and Mintaka (δ Ori)) that form Orion's Belt in the Orion constellation.

marshall

Noun : An English and Scottish status surname from Middle English for someone who was in charge of the horses of a royal household, or an occupational surname for someone who looked after horses, or was responsible for the custody of prisoners.

Noun : A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

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