English words: major second to make like a banana and split

300 English words, part 14 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 12 have a page of their own.

English words major second to make like a banana and split

major second noun: An interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 9/8 or 10/9, less commonly 8/7.
major seventh noun: A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 15/8. It is one semitone wider than a minor seventh. In twelve-tone equal...
major seventh chord noun: a chord with the bass note and its major third, perfect fifth, and major seventh above it
major sixth noun: A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 5/3. It is one chromatic semitone wider than a minor sixth. In twelve-tone equal...
major suit noun: Either of the suits of spades (♠) and hearts (♥), which rank higher than the minor suits (diamonds and clubs).
major term noun: In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.
major third noun: A musical interval in Western music that is equal to or approximates a frequency ratio of 5/4. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of four...
major triad noun: a triad that has a major third between the root and the third and a minor third between the third and the fifth
majorally adverb: Synonym of majorly.
Majorana noun: Ellipsis of Majorana particle.
Majorana fermion noun: Synonym of Majorana particle.
Majorana particle noun: A fermion that is its own antiparticle and thus capable of self-annihilation.
majoranolide noun: The butanolide (3E,5S)-5-hydroxy-3-tetradecylideneoxan-2-one present in leaves of the tree Mezilaurus crassiramea
majorant noun /ˈmeɪ.d͡ʒəɹ.ənt/: A function, or an element of a set, that dominates others or is greater than all others.
majorat noun: primogeniture
majorate noun, verb: To augment; to increase.
majoration noun: Increase; enlargement.
Majorca proper noun /məˈjɔɹ.kə/: Alternative form of Mallorca: An island in the Mediterranean; largest of the Balearic Islands.
Majorcan adjective, noun: Alternative form of Mallorcan: of, from or relating to Mallorca, the largest island of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
majordomo noun /ˌmeɪ.d͡ʒəˈdəʊ.məʊ/: The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant...
Majorelle proper noun: A surname from French.
Majorelle blue noun: A clear, intense, fresh shade of deep blue.
majoress noun: A female major.
majorette noun /ˌmeɪ.d͡ʒəˈɹɛt/: A female dancer who twirls and performs stunts with a lightweight baton, whether as a solo, in a group of majorettes, or in the company of a marching band.
majoretting noun: The dance performance of a majorette.
majorino noun: A hypothetical elementary particle, the fermionic superpartner of the majoron.
majorisation noun: Alternative form of majorization.
majorise verb: Alternative form of majorize.
Majorism noun: The political and economic policies of the British Conservative prime minister Sir John Major.
Majorist noun: A proponent of the Lutheran theology of Georg Major.
Majoristic adjective: Supporting or relating to the Lutheran theology of Georg Major.
majoritarian adjective, noun /məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tɛə.ɹi.ən/: Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.
majoritarian democracy noun: A political system in which representatives are elected through winning votes of the majority of people.
majoritarianism noun: A form of democracy in which decisions are made by a simple majority of some organized group.
majoritarily adverb: mostly; predominantly.
majoritary adjective: Majority; relating to a majority.
majorite noun: A silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium, found in the upper mantle of the Earth, that stores oxygen when under intense pressure
majoritic adjective: Characteristic of, of containing, majorite.
majoritive adjective: Of or relating to a majority.
majoritively adverb: By means of a majority.
majoritization noun: The process or result of majoritizing.
majoritize verb: To make a majority.
majority noun /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/: More than half (50%) of some group.
majority decision noun: A decision that gains the acceptance of the majority of voters in a decision-making body, such as a parliament, municipal council or shareholders' meeting.
majority draw noun: an outcome in several full-contact combat sports where the majority of judges (usually two out of three) agree that neither fighter won, while the third...
majority government noun: Government by a political party or a coalition that has an absolute majority of seats or votes in parliament.
majority-minority adjective: Having a total minority population above 50%.
majority opinion noun: A judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of the members of a court.
majority rule noun: A decision rule whereby the decisions of the numerical majority of a group will be binding on the whole group, its parts, and each member.
majorityhood noun: The state of being in a majority.
majorizability noun: The quality of being majorizable.
majorizable adjective: Capable of being majorized.
majorization noun: A preorder on vectors of real numbers.
majorize verb: To subject to majorization.
majorizer noun: A majorization function
majorly adverb: significantly; very, very much
majoron noun: A hypothetical Goldstone boson.
majoronic adjective: Of or relating to majorons.
majorship noun: The position or office of major.
majoun noun: A paste originating in Morocco, made from marijuana and honey, and ingested as a recreational drug.
Majuli proper noun: A district of Assam, India.
majum noun: Alternative form of majoun.
Majumdar proper noun: A surname from Bengali.
majun noun: Alternative form of majoun.
Majuro proper noun /ˈmæd͡ʒəɹoʊ/: An atoll, the capital city of the Marshall Islands.
majusculae noun: capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier
majuscular adjective: uppercase, capitalized
majuscule noun /ˈmædʒəskjuːl/: A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts.
majuscule writing noun: Writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.
majusculed adjective: Written in majuscule; capitalized.
majzlanite noun: A grey monoclinic mineral, found in Russia.
mak verb /mæk/: Alternative form of make.
Mak'em noun: Alternative spelling of Mackem.
mak nyah noun /ˌmaʔ ˈɲah/: A trans woman.
maka noun /ˈmɑkə/: eye
makaasim noun: Alternative form of macaasim.
makability noun: Alternative form of makeability.
makable adjective, noun: Capable of being made.
makaf noun: Alternative form of maqaf.
Makah adjective, noun /məˈkɑː/: A member of an indigenous North American people in the northwestern Olympic Peninsula of Washington state in North America.
makai adverb, noun: seaward, towards the sea.
makakunya noun: An African who fought for the colonial government.
makalani palm noun: A palm tree of southern Africa, Hyphaene petersiana.
makaloa noun: Cyperus laevigatus, a species of sedge.
Makalu proper noun: A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border between Sankhuwasabha district, Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China; the...
makaluvamine noun: Any of a group of cytotoxic pyrroloquinoline alkaloids
makan noun, verb /ˈmɑkɑn/: To eat.
makanga noun: A tout; one who is hired to convince passengers to take a specific taxi or matatu.
makar noun /ˈmakə/: A poet writing in Scots.
Makar Sankranti noun: A Hindu harvest festival, usually observed on 15 January, marking the first day of the Sun's transit into Capricorn.
makara noun: An aquatic monster in Hindu mythology.
Makaraka noun: The Adio ethnic group of Central Africa.
makarapa noun: An elaborately decorated plastic helmet worn in South Africa by football fans.
makarism noun: Alternative spelling of macarism.
makarochkinite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, tantalum, and...
Makarov noun: A Soviet service pistol, the PM
Makarska proper noun: A city in Croatia.
Makassan adjective: Of or relating to the Makassar people of Indonesia.
Makassar proper noun: The capital and largest city of South Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Makassar ebony noun: Alternative form of macassar ebony
Makassar Indonesian adjective, noun: Relating to the speakers of Makassar Indonesian.
Makassarese adjective: Alternative spelling of Macassarese.
makataan noun: watermelon
makatea noun: A raised terrace of coral limestone surrounding a South Pacific atoll.
Makati proper noun /mɐˈka.tɪ/: An independent city in Metro Manila, Philippines.
makatite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
Makaton proper noun: A system of communication, including speech, signing, and writing, intended for use by and with people who have language or learning difficulties.
Makawao proper noun: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Makayla proper noun: A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
makdous noun: A Levantine dish of oil-cured stuffed eggplants.
make noun, verb /meɪk/: To build, construct, produce, or originate.
make a better door than a window verb: To obstruct someone's view, especially as a result of thoughtlessness.
make a big thing out of verb /ˈmeɪk ə ˈbɪɡ ˈθɪŋ aʊt əv/: To call attention to or publicize; to make a fuss about, especially unnecessarily.
make a bolt for it verb: Synonym of make a run for it.
make a book verb: To act as a bookmaker.
make a break for it verb: To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.
make a career of verb: To do something habitually, especially in such a way as to acquire a reputation for it.
make a career out of verb: Alternative form of make a career of
make a case verb: To argue for a set of facts or arguments in support of one side in a legal case.
make a case for verb: To present an argument in favor of.
make a cat laugh verb: To be extremely funny.
make a clean breast verb /ˈmeɪk ə ˈkliːn bɹɛst/: Often followed by of: to be honest about something; to confess.
make a dash for it verb: Synonym of make a run for it.
make a day of it phrase: To spend the day enjoying oneself by engaging in pleasurable activities.
make a decision verb: To decide.
make a dent verb: To make an impression; to have an effect on; to chip away at.
make a difference verb: To carry out an action, the result of which is a significant change, or an altered circumstance.
make a dollar out of fifteen cents verb: To spend one's money carefully and sparingly, so that it lasts; to be thrifty.
make a face verb: To make a facial expression, often for humor, as a taunt, or to indicate distaste.
make a fist of verb: To do (something) reasonably successfully.
make a fool of verb: To cause (someone) to seem foolish.
make a fool out of verb: Alternative form of make a fool of.
make a fortune verb: To make a significant amount of money; to become wealthy; to get rich.
make a go of verb: To succeed in (something); especially, to succeed in making a living.
make a good fist of verb: Alternative form of make a fist of.
make a grab verb: To try to take quickly.
make a habit of verb: To do often.
make a hash of verb: to do badly, particularly to make a mess while doing.
make a hole verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, hole.
make a joke of verb: Synonym of make light of.
make a killing verb: To win or earn a large amount of money.
make a leg verb: To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back.
make a light verb: When driving, to pass a traffic light before it changes to a color that prohibits passage.
make a lip verb: To pout in sullenness or contempt.
make a living verb: To earn enough income to support oneself and, if applicable, one's family.
make a long arm verb: To help oneself liberally to food at table.
make a mark verb: Alternative form of make one's mark.
make a meal of verb: To spend more time and energy on some task than it warrants; to make something overly complicated; to make a big thing out of.
make a meal out of verb: Alternative form of make a meal of.
make a mistake verb: To err, to be wrong. (This entry is a translation hub.)
make a mockery of verb: To mock; to ridicule or imitate, often to express contempt.
make a monkey of verb: Alternative form of make a monkey out of.
make a monkey out of verb: To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule.
make a mountain out of a molehill verb: To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial.
make a move verb: To take action.
make a muscle verb: To flex the biceps muscles in the upper arm as a show of muscular strength or development
make a name for oneself verb: To gain fame, to become well-known.
make a night of it verb: To continue a pleasurable social activity for the whole evening or night.
make a noise in the world verb: To attract great notoriety.
make a nuisance of oneself verb: To behave in an irritating way.
make a pass verb: To unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been involved with.
make a pig of oneself verb: To eat to excess; to overeat; to gorge.
make a pig out of oneself verb: Alternative form of make a pig of oneself.
make a pig's ear of verb: To do badly; to make a mess of.
make a pile verb: To make a lot of money.
make a play verb: To attempt to get or achieve.
make a point verb: To argue or promote an idea.
make a poor fist of verb: To perform a task badly, incompetently, or unsuccessfully.
make a production out of verb: To do (something) in a way that is unnecessarily complicated, elaborate, or public.
make a public spectacle of oneself verb: Alternative form of make a spectacle of oneself.
make a rabbit bite a bulldog phrase: Said of very strong or plentiful alcoholic drink.
make a run for it verb: To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.
make a scene verb: To bring unnecessary attention to oneself, especially through a public expression of tumultuous emotion.
make a show of oneself verb: To embarrass oneself or others in public.
make a silk purse of a sow's ear verb: To produce something refined, admirable, or valuable from something which is unrefined, unpleasant, or of little or no value.
make a spectacle of oneself verb: To conspicuously embarrass oneself or others in public.
make a splash verb: To do something that attracts attention.
make a stand verb: Alternative form of take a stand.
make a statement verb: To implicitly communicate an idea, often through one's fashion choices.
make a stick for one's own back verb: To make a decision that will have personally adverse consequences.
make a stink verb: To complain; to demand attention or remedy for a problem.
make a time verb: To make a fuss about something.
make a Virginia fence verb: To walk in a unstable manner due to being intoxicated.
make a virtue of necessity verb: To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was...
make a wrong turn at Albuquerque verb: Alternative form of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
make after verb: To chase.
make against verb: To be unfavourable to; to work against.
make-ahead adjective, noun: Of a recipe: designed to be prepared ahead of time, rather than immediately before eating.
make all the difference verb: To be a crucial or deciding factor; to have a very significant effect (often a positive one).
make all the running verb: Alternative form of make the running.
make amends verb: To repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.
make an appearance verb: To turn up to an event for a brief moment.
make an ass of verb: To cause (someone) to appear foolish.
make an effort verb: To try; to work towards a goal.
make an entrance verb: To enter the stage.
make an errand verb: To invent a pretext for going somewhere.
make an example of verb: To punish someone so as to give a warning to others; sometimes, to overpunish them for added deterrence.
make an exception verb: To permit something that does not follow the usual rules or standards.
make an exhibition of oneself verb: To embarrass oneself or others in public by behaving foolishly.
make an honest woman verb: To marry (a woman), especially if there is an existing sexual relationship.
make an impression verb: To affect someone strongly and often favorably.
make an offer verb: To bid or propose; to initiate a proposal.
make-and-break noun: circuit breaker
make and mend noun: An afternoon off work in the navy, giving sailors time to repair their uniforms etc.
make as if verb: Dated form of make like.
make away verb: To depart, leave; to make off.
make away with verb: To steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
make baby Jesus cry verb: To provoke a negative reaction due to being offensive, unpleasant, immoral, etc.
make bank verb: To make a lot of money.
make beautiful music together verb: To have a great romantic relationship with each other.
make-before-break adjective: Of a switch or other electronic device, that creates a new electrical connection before an older one is broken.
make belief noun: The abstract quality of making believe
make believe adjective, noun, verb /ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv/: To pretend or imagine.
make biscuits verb: Of a cat, to knead with the front paws.
make bold verb: To take the liberty; to make free.
make bones about verb: To do, indicate, or say something vaguely and with hesitation.
make book verb: To gamble, either by placing or taking bets.
make both ends meet verb: Synonym of make ends meet.
make bricks without clay verb: Synonym of make bricks without straw.
make bricks without straw verb: To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.
make bricks without straws verb: Alternative form of make bricks without straw.
make capital out of verb: to use to one's advantage; to capitalize on
make certain verb: Synonym of make sure.
make common cause verb: To cooperate, to enter into an alliance for a shared goal.
make conscience verb: To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
make contact with verb: to touch
make conversation verb: To talk with someone out of courtesy, to pass time, or in an effort to engage with them socially.
make-debate noun: Someone who instigates quarrels.
make default verb: To fail to appear or answer.
make do adjective, noun, verb: To survive, get by (with), or use whatever is available (due to lack of resources).
make do and mend verb /ˈmeɪk ˈduː ən ˈmɛnd/: To follow a philosophy, during World War II, of repairing clothes etc that would normally be discarded due to shortages and rationing.
make down verb: To rain or snow; to precipitate.
make due verb: Eggcorn of make do.
make ends meet verb: To have enough money to cover expenses; to get by financially; to get through the pay period (sufficient to meet the next payday).
make every effort verb: To do one's utmost
make eyes verb: To flirt with (someone) by making obvious glances.
make faces verb: Alternative form of make a face.
make fair weather verb: To conciliate; to flatter.
make fast verb: To tie reliably.
make fetch happen verb: To make something, especially a term or expression, catch on.
make file noun: A configuration file that describes the steps involved in building an application from its source code.
make fish of one and flesh of another verb: To make distinctions unfairly; to show undue partiality to one side.
make fish of one and fowl of another verb: Alternative form of make fish of one and flesh of another.
make for verb: To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards.
make foul water verb: To sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.
make-fray noun: Someone who instigates quarrels.
make free of verb: To use something that belongs to another person (often with permission)
make free with verb: To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)
make friendly verb: To act in a friendly or conciliatory way.
make friends verb /meɪk fɹɛn(d)z/: To form friendships with others.
make fun of verb: To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
make game of verb: To ridicule; to make fun of.
make garden verb: To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.
make good noun, verb: To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.
make good on verb: To fulfill or honor (a promise, prediction, etc).
make good one's running verb: To keep abreast with others.
make good time verb: To proceed at a good pace.
make ground verb: gain ground; make progress.
make happen verb: To realize, to cause or bring about a thing.
make hard work of verb: To do (something) in a way that makes it more difficult than it needs to be.
make haste verb: To hurry or hasten.
make haste slowly verb: To do things in a deliberate manner to reduce mistakes.
make-hawk noun: A trained and seasoned hawk flown with young birds to teach them to take the quarry.
make hay verb: To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed.
make hay while the sun shines verb: To act while an opportunity exists; to take action while a situation is favorable.
make head against verb: To attack or take up arms against (someone).
make head nor tail of verb: To fail to make head or tail of; not to understand at all.
make head or tail of verb: To understand even minimally.
make headway verb: To progress; to move forward.
make heavy going of verb: to make heavy weather of
make heavy weather verb: To make progress only with difficulty.
make heavy weather of verb: To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are.
make history verb: To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.
make interesting verb: To make a bet out of; to bet money on.
make into verb: To cause (the first object) to become (the second object); to change or transform.
make it verb: To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's...
make it big verb: To become famous and/or successful.
make it count verb: To make something have as useful and positive an effect as possible.
make it do or do without proverb: If you don't have a lot of money, extend the life of what you have.
make it interesting verb: To bet money: to lay a wager.
make it make sense phrase: Used to express the absurdity of a situation.
make it one's business verb: To undertake to accomplish something or see it done.
make it one's life verb: To dedicate effort to a task, often at great cost.
make it rain verb: To bring prosperity or work to an enterprise by selling, inventing or other productive or successful activity.
make it snappy verb: To do something quickly; to be quick about something.
make it so verb: To cause something to be the case, to cause something to happen.
make it so that verb: To cause something to be the case; to have something be the case.
make it up as one goes along verb: To improvise continuously.
make it up to verb: To pay back; to return someone a previous good deed.
make-king noun: A king-maker.
make known verb: To announce (some information) generally.
make-koshi noun: a majority of losses in a honbasho; reflects negatively on the rikishi's ranking
make land verb: Synonym of make landfall.
make landfall verb: (of a storm) To reach land.
make lemonade verb: To make the best of a difficult situation.
make light of verb: To regard without due seriousness; to joke about.
make light work of verb: To manage something without difficulty.
make like verb: To behave as though.
make like a baby and head out verb: To leave, depart, go out.
make like a banana and split verb: To leave, depart.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under M: 47,683 words, in 159 parts.