English words: Malay bear to Malhotra
300 English words, part 17 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 23 have a page of their own.
English words Malay bear to Malhotra
- Malay bear noun: Synonym of sun bear.
- Malay camphor noun: Synonym of camphor tree (“Dryobalanops aromatica”).
- Malay gate noun: A booby trap consisting of a bent sapling, with sharpened sticks or spear-tips attached, which, when activated, quickly straightens, impaling the victim.
- Malay kiss noun: The rubbing of noses as a sign of affection.
- Malay kite noun: Synonym of Eddy kite.
- Malaya proper noun /məˈleɪ.ə/: A peninsula and geographic region of Southeast Asia constituting the southern part of the Malay Peninsula and several nearby islands, currently forming the...
- malayaite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, oxygen, silicon, and tin.
- Malayalam proper noun /ˈmɐ.lɐ.ˈjɑː.ɭɐm/: A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep in India.
- Malayalee adjective, noun: Alternative form of Malayali.
- Malayali adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to Kerala or its people, or to those whose native language is Malayalam.
- Malayan adjective, noun /məˈleɪən/: A person of whatever ethnicity from the former Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia
- Malayan bear noun: Synonym of sun bear.
- Malayan giant squirrel noun: Synonym of black giant squirrel
- Malayan night heron noun: A medium-sized heron, Gorsachius melanolophus, distributed in southern and eastern Asia, and breeding in India, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines.
- Malayan slit-faced bat noun: A bat of species Nycteris tragata, found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
- Malayan tapir noun: Tapirus indicus, a blackish tapir with a broad white area on the middle part of the body, native to southern Myanmar and Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra.
- Malayanisation noun: Alternative spelling of Malayanization.
- Malayanist noun: Someone who studied Malaya (later, Malaysia).
- Malayanization noun: The act or process of making something Malayan.
- Malayanize verb: To make Malayan.
- Malayic adjective: Of or relating to a group of Austronesian languages including Malay, Minangkabau, Iban, and others.
- Malayisation noun: that which has been Malayised
- Malayise verb: Alternative spelling of Malayize.
- Malayization noun: the process of Malayizing
- Malayize verb: To make Malay; to give Malay traits to.
- Malayness noun: The quality of being Malay.
- Malayo-Polynesianist noun: A linguist who specialises in studying Malayo-Polynesian languages.
- malayophobe noun: Alternative letter-case form of Malayophobe.
- malayophobia noun: Fear, hatred of, or prejudice against Malays, a large ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.
- malayophobic adjective: Of, or pertaining to Malayophobia
- malayophone adjective, noun: Malay-speaking
- malayoside noun: A particular steroid glycoside.
- Malaysia proper noun /məˈleɪ̯ʒə/: A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Kuala Lumpur.
- Malaysian adjective, noun /məˈleɪ.zi.ən/: Pertaining to the country of Malaysia.
- Malaysian exploding ant noun: An ant found in Malaysia and Brunei that explodes suicidally as a defence mechanism, Colobopsis saundersi.
- Malaysian flying lemur noun: A Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegata)
- Malaysianise verb: Alternative form of Malaysianize.
- Malaysianism noun: Behaviour characteristic of the Malaysian people.
- Malaysianization noun: The act or process of making something Malaysian.
- Malaysianize verb: To make or become Malaysian.
- Malaysianness noun: Quality of being Malaysian.
- malaysianol noun: Any of a class of oligostilbenoids found in plants of the genus Dryobalanops.
- Malaysiaphobia noun: hatred and hostility towards the people and culture of Malaysia.
- malbau noun: Synonym of coastal Premna
- malbec noun /ˈmæl.bɛk/: A variety of grape used in making red wine, originally from France, but now predominantly grown in Argentina.
- malbehavior noun: Synonym of misbehavior.
- malbehaviour noun: Alternative form of malbehavior.
- malbranicin noun: An antibiotic quinone found in the fungus Malbranchea cinnamomea.
- malbrouck noun: An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.
- Malc proper noun: A diminutive of the male given name Malcolm.
- malcavernin noun: A signalling protein associated with cerebral cavernous malformations
- malchick noun: A young male; a lad.
- malchik noun: Alternative form of malchick.
- Malchow proper noun: A surname.
- malcirculation noun: Insufficient circulation of the blood, typically in the extremities
- malcode noun: malicious code
- Malcolm proper noun /ˈmæl.kəm/: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic or Goidelic, variant of Calum and Callum, feminine equivalent Malcolmina, equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim.
- Malcolm X-ism noun: Pressure and resistance against racism or xenophobic conditions.
- Malcolm X tea noun: A drink of water containing a large dose of nutmeg, taken as a recreational drug.
- Malcolmite noun: British colonialist John Malcolm.
- Malcolmson proper noun: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
- Malcom proper noun: A surname.
- malcommunication noun: Communication that isn't well-intended, or doesn't happen as intended; miscommunication.
- malcompensate verb: To compensate inappropriately
- malcompensation noun: Inappropriate compensation
- Malcomson proper noun: A surname transferred from the given name.
- malconceived adjective: Badly or wrongly conceived.
- malcondition noun: poor condition (used especially of animals)
- malconduct noun: Synonym of misconduct.
- malconformation noun: Imperfect, disproportionate, or defective formation, usually of body parts.
- malconstruction noun: Synonym of misconstruction.
- malcontent adjective, noun, verb /ˈmal.kən.tɛnt/: Dissatisfied with current conditions; disaffected, discontented, rebellious.
- malcontented adjective, verb: Synonym of malcontent.
- malcontentedly adverb: In a malcontented manner.
- malcontentedness noun: Quality of being malcontented.
- malcontentism noun: The attitude of a malcontent; rebellious disaffectedness.
- malcontently adverb: In a malcontent manner.
- malcontentment noun: The state or quality of being malcontent.
- malcoordinated adjective: Having poor coordination.
- malcreate adjective: Synonym of miscreate.
- malcreated adjective: Synonym of miscreate.
- malcultivation noun: Synonym of miscultivation.
- mald adjective, verb /mɔːld/: Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.
- Malda proper noun: A district of West Bengal, India.
- maldanid noun: Any polychete worm of the family Maldanidae.
- Malden proper noun: A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
- maldeployment noun: Incorrect deployment
- maldescended adjective: Marked by an abnormal descent process, typically of the testis.
- maldescent noun: The incomplete descent of the testicles.
- maldeveloped adjective: developed in an improper or faulty way
- maldevelopment noun: The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus").
- MALDI noun: Initialism of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization.
- maldifferentiation noun: Incorrect differentiation (typically of stem cells)
- maldigest verb: To digest poorly or in a less than perfect way.
- maldigested adjective, verb: Poorly digested.
- maldigestion noun: Bad or wrong digestion.
- maldigestive adjective: Relating to, or causing maldigestion
- maldin adjective: Pronunciation spelling of malding.
- malding adjective, verb: Angry about a game, especially of a sore loser.
- maldirection noun: Synonym of misdirection (“movement or tendency in the wrong direction”).
- maldison noun: The pesticide malathion.
- maldisposition noun: a complexion of humours or locational alignment or else in or of organs, joints etc. leading to a suffering
- maldistributed adjective: Badly or wrongly distributed.
- maldistribution noun: Bad or undesirable distribution of wealth, resources etc.
- Maldivan adjective, noun: Alternative form of Maldivian
- Maldives proper noun /ˈmɒl.diːvz/: An archipelago and country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of India. Official name: Republic of Maldives. Capital: Malé.
- Maldivian adjective, noun: Of, from, or pertaining to the Maldives, the Maldivian people or the Maldivian language.
- Maldon proper noun: A town and civil parish in Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8507).
- Maldonado proper noun: A surname from Spanish.
- maldonite noun: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing bismuth and gold.
- maldoxone noun: The tricyclic lactone methyl 4-chloro-7-hydroxy-3-methoxy-9-methyl-6-oxobenzo[b][1,4]benzodioxepine-1-carboxylate
- male adjective, noun, prefix /meɪl/: Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
- male alpha noun: Alternative form of alpha male.
- male as norm noun: The principle that holds that grammatical and lexical devices such as the use of the feminine suffix -ess and the use of man to mean human strengthen the...
- male-assigned adjective: Judged at birth to be male.
- male bot noun: Alternative form of malebot.
- male chauvinism noun: A belief in the innate superiority of men over women.
- male chauvinist noun: An advocate of male chauvinism.
- male circumcision noun: An operation involving the surgical removal of all or most of the foreskin (prepuce) and frenulum of the male genitalia.
- male condom noun: Synonym of external condom.
- male-dominated adjective: Where men, as opposed to women, are in control or form the majority.
- male enhancement noun: A method of enlarging the penis.
- male-fail verb /ˈmeɪlˌfeɪl/: Of a trans woman: to fail to pass as male; to make a successful male-to-female transition.
- male fern noun: Dryopteris filix-mas, of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, from which is derived a vermifuge preparation.
- male flight noun: An exodus of men from an occupation, an educational field or an activity as women enter it.
- male gaze noun: The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized...
- male-gazey adjective: Presenting women in a way which implicitly assumes the viewer or reader is a heterosexual man.
- male genital cutting noun: Circumcision, seen as mutilation.
- male genital mutilation noun: The complete amputation or partial cutting of the penis and scrotum, including circumcision, abbreviated as MGM.
- male-identified adjective: Self-identifying as male.
- male impersonator noun: A female entertainer who performs cross-dressed as a man.
- male liberation noun: The freedom of men from sexism; equal rights for men.
- male line noun: Synonym of male lineage.
- male lineage noun: Synonym of patrilineal lineage.
- male member noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see male, member.
- male menopause noun: Synonym of andropause.
- male menstruation noun: Bleeding in the urine or faeces, reported in some tropical countries, actually resulting from schistosomiasis.
- male organ noun: Penis.
- male pattern baldness noun: A genetically predisposed loss of hair from the scalp in males, theorized to be caused by an excessive response to androgens, specifically dihydrotestosterone.
- male pattern violence noun: Violent behavior thought to be characteristic of men.
- male rhyme noun: A rhyme in which only the last syllable agrees, as in "laid", "afraid", "dismayed".
- male tank noun: an armoured fighting vehicle on caterpillar tracks equipped with cannon.
- male-to-female adjective, noun: Transfeminine; transitioning or having transitioned (in gender identity or presentation, physically, etc) from being male to being female.
- male-to-male cable noun: Synonym of suicide cable
- male-to-male cord noun: Synonym of suicide cable
- maleamate noun: Any salt or ester of maleamidic acid NH₂-CO-CH=CH-COO-
- maleamic adjective: Of or pertaining to maleamic acid or its derivatives
- maleamic acid noun: The monoamide of maleic acid
- maleamide noun: The amide of maleic acid
- Malean adjective, noun: Of or relating to Malea (now Cape Maleas), one of the peninsulas in the southeast of the Peloponnese in Greece.
- malease noun: Maleate hydratase, a lyase enzyme that catalyzes the reaction (R)-malate ⇌ maleate + H₂O.
- maleate noun: Any salt or ester of maleic acid.
- malebait noun: An underage boy who is considered sexually attractive by adult women.
- maleberry noun: Synonym of he-huckleberry (“Lyonia ligustrina”).
- Malebolgian adjective /ˌmalɪˈbɒldʒən/: Of or relating to Malebolge.
- Malebolgic adjective /ˌmalɪˈbɒldʒɪk/: Of or relating to Malebolge.
- malebot noun: A male sexbot.
- Malebranche proper noun /malˈbɹɒnʃ/: A surname from French
- Malebranchian adjective, noun: Pertaining to the ideas of Nicolas Malebranche, a French philosopher of religion.
- Malebranchist noun /ˌmalɪˈbɹantʃɪst/: One who subscribes to Malebranchism.
- Malec proper noun: A surname from Czech, Slovak, or Polish.
- malecide noun: The killing of evil (as invoked in the Crusades)
- Malecite noun: Alternative form of Maliseet.
- Malecki proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- malectin noun: A membrane-anchored protein of the endoplasmic reticulum that recognises and binds glycans
- maledicency noun: The quality or practice of being maledicent or tending to speak evil or to slander.
- maledicent adjective: Reproachful in speech.
- maledict adjective, verb: accursed, cursed
- maledicta noun: Profane or blasphemous language.
- maledicta balloon noun: A comic graphic element used to enclose obscenities, oaths, and curses.
- malediction noun /ˌmæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən/: A curse.
- maledictive adjective: Of or relating to malediction.
- maledictology noun /ˌmælədɪkˈtɑləd͡ʒi/: The scientific study of insults and curses.
- maledictory adjective: Of or relating to malediction.
- maledight noun /ˈmæləˌdaɪt/: Synonym of malediction.
- maledom noun /ˈmeɪl.dəm/: Men considered as a group; mankind.
- maleducation noun: Education that is faulty or incomplete.
- maleducative adjective: That detracts from good education or leads to maleducation.
- maleevite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal white mineral containing barium, boron, oxygen, and silicon.
- malefactee noun: Synonym of maleficiary.
- malefaction noun: A crime, an offense, an evil deed.
- malefactive adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the person who is harmed or who loses out by an action.
- malefactivity noun: The quality of being malefactive.
- malefactor noun /ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/: A criminal or felon.
- malefactory adjective: Doing evil or wicked things.
- malefactress noun: A woman who violates the law or does evil; a female malefactor.
- malefacture noun: An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence.
- malefail verb: Alternative form of male-fail.
- maleffect noun: A bad or harmful effect.
- malefic adjective, noun /məˈlɛfɪk/: Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful.
- malefic planet noun: A planet thought to bring bad luck to those born within its radius.
- malefical adjective: Alternative form of malefic.
- malefically adverb: In a malefic manner.
- malefice noun /ˈmæləfɪs/: An evil deed; evilness; enchantment or sorcery.
- maleficence noun /məˈlɛfɪsəns/: harmfulness or mischief.
- maleficent adjective /məˈlɛfɪsənt/: Harmful or evil in intent or effect.
- maleficently adverb: In a maleficent manner.
- maleficial adjective /ˌmælɪˈfɪʃəl/: injurious, damaging
- maleficiary noun: One who suffers harm from something.
- maleficiate adjective, verb: cursed; bewitched
- maleficiation noun: A witching; a bewitchment.
- maleficience noun: Alternative form of maleficence.
- malefit noun: A detriment or disadvantage
- malefolk noun: Males collectively.
- Malegaon proper noun: A city and subdistrict of Nashik in Maharashtra, India
- maleic adjective /məˈleɪ.ɪk/: of or relating to maleic acid or its derivatives
- maleic acid noun: an unsaturated organic dicarboxylic acid, cis-butenedioic acid; HOOCCH=CHCOOH, the geometric isomer of fumaric acid; it is found in unripe fruit, and is...
- maleic anhydride noun: The cyclic acid anhydride of maleic acid
- maleic hydrazide noun: A plant growth regulator that reduces growth through preventing cell division but not cell enlargement, often applied to the foliage of potato, onion,...
- maleimide noun: The internal imide of maleic acid, or any of its derivatives; they have a number of industrial applications
- maleimidyl noun: A univalent radical derived from maleimide
- maleinanhydride noun: Synonym of maleic anhydride.
- Malek proper noun: A surname.
- Maleki noun: Alternative form of Maliki.
- Malekism noun: Alternative form of Malikism.
- Malekite noun: Alternative form of Malikite.
- maleless adjective /ˈmeɪl.ləs/: Devoid of males.
- malelessness noun: Absence of males.
- Malema proper noun: A surname.
- malemiut noun: Dated form of malamute.
- malemploy verb: To hire (somebody for work or a job) for which the person is overqualified or overeducated.
- malemployed adjective: Employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.
- malemployment noun: The state or condition of being malemployed.
- malemute noun: Alternative form of malamute.
- malender noun: Alternative form of malander.
- malenders noun: Alternative form of malanders.
- maleness noun: The characteristic, state or condition of being male.
- malengine noun /malˈɛndʒɪn/: Evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.
- Malenko proper noun: A surname from the Slavic languages.
- Malenkov proper noun: A surname from Russian; especially when referring to Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician and rival of Nikita Khrushchev.
- Malenkovism noun: The philosophy and politics espoused by Georgy Malenkov.
- maleo noun: Macrocephalon maleo, a species of turkey-like bird in the megapode family, endemic to Sulawesi.
- maleocracy noun: System of power dominated by males.
- maleolent adjective: malodorous, foul-smelling.
- maler adjective, noun: A people of northern India who speak the Malto language.
- maleruption noun: The abnormal eruption of a tooth.
- Malesia proper noun: A biogeographical region straddling the boundaries of the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones.
- Malesian adjective: Of or relating to Malesia.
- Maleskan adjective: Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.
- malestream adjective, noun: Mainstream and usual, from the point of view of the man, though actually biased towards men.
- malesub noun: A male submissive.
- maletolt noun: Alternative form of maletote.
- maletote noun /ˈmæl.təʊt/: An arbitrary tax; in particular, a levy imposed by the English monarch on a certain good beyond ordinary customs duties.
- Malevichian adjective: Of or relating to Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), Russian painter and art theoretician.
- malevolence noun /məˈlɛvələns/: Hostile attitude or feeling.
- malevolency noun: Malevolence, malice.
- malevolent adjective /məˈlɛvələnt/: Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
- malevolently adverb: In a malevolent manner; evilly.
- malevolous adjective: malicious, malevolent
- malewife noun: A man in a relationship with a dominant, assertive woman (a "girlboss"), taking on a traditionally feminine gender role (especially a stay-at-home dad).
- malexecution noun: Bad execution.
- Maley proper noun: A surname from Irish.
- maleyl noun: A divalent radical derived from maleic acid
- maleylacetoacetate noun: An intermediate in the metabolism of tyrosine.
- maleylacetoacetic acid noun: A chemical compound formed from the oxidation of homogentisic acid oxidase and isomerized into fumarylacetoacetic acid.
- maleylated adjective: Modified by reaction with maleic acid or a maleate derivative
- maleylation noun: Reaction with maleic acid or a maleate derivative
- maleylpyruvate noun: Any salt or ester of maleylpyruvic acid.
- maleylsulfathiazole noun: A sulfonamide antiinfective drug.
- malfatti noun: A type of hand-rolled dumpling, or gnocchi
- Malfatti circle noun: Any of the three circles inside a given triangle such that each circle is tangent to the others and to two sides of the triangle.
- malfeasance noun /ˌmælˈfiːzəns/: Wrongdoing.
- malfeasant adjective, noun: Of or relating to malfeasance or misconduct.
- malfeasor noun: A wrongdoer.
- malfeature noun: A bad feature (cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing).
- malfed adjective /mælˈfɛd/: Poorly fed; malnourished.
- malfixation noun: Incorrect fixation (typically, in the wrong place)
- malfolded adjective: Synonym of misfolded.
- malfolding noun: Incorrect folding (of a protein)
- malform noun, verb: To form badly or wrongly.
- malformation noun: An abnormal formation.
- malformational adjective: Synonym of malformative.
- malformative adjective: Causing or relating to a malformation.
- malformatted adjective: Poorly or incorrectly formatted.
- malformed adjective /ˌmælˈfɔːmd/: Not formed correctly; misshapen; deformed.
- malformedness noun: incorrect form; quality of being malformed
- malformin noun: Any of a group of bicyclic peptides, produced by Aspergillus niger or close relatives, that are mycotoxins.
- malformity noun: deviation or mistake in form; deformity
- malfortune noun /mælˈfɔːtjuːn/: misfortune
- malfouf noun: Ellipsis of malfouf salad.
- malfouf salad noun: A salad made from shredded cabbage, lemon juice, olive oil, and mint.
- Malfoycest noun: Any ship involving members of the Malfoy family from the Harry Potter series in an incestuous relationship.
- malfunction noun, verb /ˌmælˈfʌŋk.ʃən/: Faulty functioning.
- malfunction junction noun: Alternative letter-case form of Malfunction Junction.
- malfunction routine noun: Any program or subroutine responsible for troubleshooting problems.
- malfunctional adjective: Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioner noun: One who or that which malfunctions.
- malfunctioning noun, verb: A malfunction.
- malgender verb: To insincerely or disparagingly gender an individual correctly, particularly to do so by referencing gender stereotypes (e.g. telling a trans man he is...
- malgovernance noun: Poor governance.
- malgovernment noun: Bad government.
- malgre preposition: Alternative spelling of maugre.
- malgré lui adverb: Contrary to their desires or ambitions.
- malguzar noun: A landlord.
- Malham proper noun /ˈmaləm/: A village and civil parish (served by Kirkby Malhamdale Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD900629).
- malhamensilipin noun: Any of a class of chlorosulfolipids (such as hexachloro-14-hydroxy-tetracos-1-enol-1-sulfate) that inhibit protein tyrosine kinase.
- Malherbe proper noun: A surname from French.
- Malhi proper noun: A surname.
- malhmoodite noun: A phosphate mineral with the chemical formula FeZr(PO₄)·4H₂O.
- Malhotra proper noun: A surname from Punjabi, traditionally associated with the Khatri community
Part 16 · Part 18 · English words: M
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.