English words: Macbeth chart to macilence
300 English words, part 2 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 33 have a page of their own.
English words Macbeth chart to macilence
- Macbeth chart noun: An arrangement of squares of painted samples used to calibrate colors.
- Macbeth trap noun: A kind of stage trapdoor rigged to drop below floor level and slide to one side.
- Macbethan adjective: Alternative form of Macbethian.
- Macbethian adjective: Of or pertaining to William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (circa 1603–1607) about a regicide and the supernatural.
- MacBook noun: A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.
- MACC noun: Initialism of Master of Accounting.
- Macca noun /ˈmækə/: A McDonald′s restaurant.
- Macca's noun /ˈmæk.əz/: Food purchased at a McDonald's fast food restaurant.
- Maccabaic adjective: Relating to Judas Maccabeus
- maccabaw noun: Alternative form of maccaboy.
- MacCabe proper noun /məˈkeɪb/: A surname from Irish.
- Maccabean adjective /ˌmækəˈbɪən/: Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees.
- Maccabee noun /ˈmæ.kəˌbi/: A member of the Maccabees (a liberation movement in Israel who established Jewish independence in the Land of Israel in the second and first centuries BCE).
- Maccabi noun: Alternative form of Maccabee.
- maccaboy noun: A type of rose-scented snuff.
- maccaron noun: Alternative spelling of macaron.
- maccaroni noun: Alternative form of macaroni (“a type of pasta”).
- maccaronic adjective: Alternative spelling of macaronic (written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages)
- maccaronism noun: Alternative spelling of macaronism.
- Maccas proper noun: Alternative spelling of Macca's (“McDonald's”).
- maccheroni noun: Macaroni.
- macchi noun: Any of several white fish used in Indian cooking
- macchia noun /ˈmɑːkiə/: Any shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.
- macchiato noun /ˌmɑkiˈɑtoʊ/: Espresso topped with steamed milk.
- macchie noun: Alternative form of macchia (“shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries”).
- Maccies noun: McDonald's, or McDonald's food.
- Macclesfield proper noun /ˈmækəlzˌfiːld/: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.
- macco noun /ˈmækəʊ/: gambling game popular in the eighteenth century.
- maccoboy noun: Alternative form of maccaboy.
- maccocious adjective: Alternative form of macocious.
- MacColl proper noun: A surname.
- MacConkey agar noun: A culture medium designed to grow gram-negative bacteria and differentiate them for lactose fermentation.
- MacCormack proper noun: A surname.
- MacCormick proper noun: A surname.
- MacCormick's skua noun: Synonym of south polar skua (“Stercorarius maccormicki”).
- MacDermot proper noun: A surname.
- MacDiarmidian adjective: Of or relating to Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve; 1892–1978), Scottish poet and essayist.
- MacDonald proper noun /məkˈdɒnəld/: A surname from Scottish Gaelic common in Scotland.
- Macdonald polynomial noun: Any of a two-parameter family of orthogonal polynomials indexed by a positive weight of a root system.
- Macdonaldian adjective: Of or relating to Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815–1891), first prime minister of Canada.
- MacDonaldism noun: The centrist political policies of Ramsay MacDonald, especially after his split with the Labour Party in 1931.
- macdonaldite adjective, noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
- MacDonaldization noun: Alternative form of McDonaldization.
- Macdonell proper noun: A surname.
- MacDonnell proper noun: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- MacDougall proper noun: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- MacDowell proper noun /məkˈdaʊ.əl/: A surname.
- Macduff proper noun: A coastal town in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, originally in Banffshire (OS grid ref NJ7064).
- mace noun, verb /meɪs/: A heavy fighting club.
- mace-bearer noun: Someone who carries a mace.
- mace head noun: The blunt ball or ornament on the top of a mace, usually made of metal.
- macebearer noun: Alternative spelling of mace-bearer.
- Maceda proper noun: A surname from Galician.
- macedocin noun: A particular bacteriocin produced by the bacterium Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus.
- macedoine noun /ˌmæsəˈdwɑːn/: A mixture of diced vegetables or fruit served as a salad.
- Macedon proper noun: Ancient Macedonia.
- macedonia noun: Alternative form of macédoine.
- Macedonian adjective, noun /mæsəˈdəʊniən/: Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
- Macedonian pine noun: The tree Pinus peuce.
- Macedonian vimba noun: A cyprinid fish of species Vimba melanops.
- Macedonianism noun: An idiom or other feature borrowed from Macedonian.
- Macedonianist noun: A member of the Macedonianism religious movement.
- Macedonianization noun: the act or process of Macedonianizing.
- Macedonianize verb: to make Macedonian.
- Macedonianness noun: Quality of being Macedonian.
- Macedonic adjective: Relating to Ancient Macedonians.
- Macedonio proper noun: A surname.
- Macedonism noun: Ethnic Macedonian nationalism.
- Macedonist noun: A proponent of Macedonism.
- Macedonistics noun: Macedonian studies
- macedonite noun: A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing lead, oxygen, and titanium.
- macedovicin noun: A peptide lantibiotic produced by Streptococcus macedonicus
- macehead noun: Alternative form of mace head.
- macelike adjective: Resembling a mace.
- macellicephalin noun: Any polychaete worm of the subfamily Macellicephalinae
- maceman noun: A warrior who uses a mace as a weapon.
- macer noun: A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
- maceral noun: A component of coal or oil shale.
- Macerata proper noun: A province of Marche, Italy.
- macerate noun, verb /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/: To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by (or as if by) soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- macerater noun: One who, or that which, macerates.
- maceration noun /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/: Soaking and softening (in combination), plus or minus dissolving.
- macerative adjective: Causing or relating to maceration.
- macerator noun /ˈmæsəˌɹeɪtɚ/: A machine that reduces solids to small pieces.
- macerozyme noun: An enzyme used experimentally to digest cell walls prior to organelle isolation.
- MacEwen proper noun: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- Macey proper noun: A surname from Old French.
- macfallite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, copper, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.
- Macfarlane noun: A coat having a shoulder cape attached at the neck. In styles for women it may have two front slits near the waist through which a person's arms may be...
- macfarlanite noun: A mixture of sphalerite, silver, nickeline, galena and chalcopyrite.
- MacFarquhar proper noun: A surname.
- MacGibbon proper noun: A surname.
- MacGillivray's warbler noun: A small warbler of species Geothlypis tolmiei (syn. Oporornis tolmiei).
- MacGraw proper noun: A surname.
- MacGregor proper noun: A surname.
- MacGuffin noun /məˈɡʌf.ɪn/: A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the...
- MacGuffinite noun: Urban Dictionary, 2021: "A fictional material, not necessarily bad, that is used to patch up logic in a story
- macgyver noun, verb /məˈɡaɪvə/: Someone capable of improvising an ingenious solution from everyday objects or unsuitable resources.
- MacGyverism noun: An ingeniously improvised solution to a problem.
- MACH noun, phrase /mɑːk/: A ratio of the speed (of an object, etc.) to the speed of sound in the fluid or other medium through which the object travels. Usually used to describe...
- Mach angle noun: The angle at which shock waves separate from an object travelling supersonically. The angle is related to the Mach number of the supersonic object.
- Mach band noun: Any of a series of bands of slightly different shades of grey that make up an optical illusion where the contrast between the bands appears to be...
- mach bhaja noun: A Bengali dish of fried fish.
- Mach cone noun: The conical domain of influence of a Mach wave where the size of the object moving at the speed of sound is near zero.
- Mach diamond noun: Synonym of shock diamond.
- Mach front noun: Synonym of Mach stem.
- Mach number noun: The ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium.
- Mach stem noun: A shock wave formed by the fusion of incident and reflected shock waves from an explosion.
- Mach tuck noun, verb: A change in an aircraft's pitching tendency at transonic speeds, often manifesting as a strong tendency to pitch down into a dive.
- Mach wave noun: A pressure wave travelling at the speed of sound, caused by a slight change of pressure added to a compressible flow.
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer noun: A device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.
- macha adjective, noun /mətʃaː/: best friend
- Machabee noun: Alternative form of Maccabee.
- machaca noun: A dish of meat baked, simmered and then dried, originating from north Mexico.
- machaeridian noun: A fossil form of segmented (annelid) worm, of the class Machaeridia, that had a scaly armour of mineralised plates
- machaerotid noun: Any insect in the family Machaerotidae.
- machair noun: A type of calcareous sandy terrain formed mostly from seashells, found by the coast in areas of Scotland and Ireland.
- machaira noun: Alternative spelling of makhaira.
- machairodont noun: Any sabre-toothed animal of the subfamily Machairodontinae
- machairodontid noun: Any member of the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae of carnivoran felids.
- machairodontine noun: Any extinct carnivore of the subfamily Machairodontinae
- Machakos proper noun: A town, the capital of Machakos County, Kenya.
- Machala proper noun: A city, the capital of El Oro province, south-west Ecuador.
- macham preposition: Alternative spelling of macam.
- machan noun: A kind of safety platform in a tree, used when hunting large animals or to escape a flood; found most commonly in Indian jungles.
- machang noun /ˌmaʔ ˈt͡ʃaŋ/: zongzi
- machanka noun /ˈmɑːtʃənkə/: A traditional Eastern European dish that is somewhere between a stew and a soup and may be used as a sauce.
- Machaon proper noun /məˈkeɪ.ən/: A healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione.
- macharomancy noun: Divination by interpreting swords, daggers and knives. This was popular in Scotland where on July 31st it was performed to predict the deaths and marriages...
- machatschkiite noun: A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral colorless mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
- machbagral noun: A cat breed, the cross between a Bengal cat and an Asian fishing cat
- machboos noun: Synonym of kabsa.
- mache noun: Alternative spelling of mâche.
- Machead noun /ˈmækˌhɛd/: A fan of the Apple Macintosh computer.
- macheer noun: A type of saddle which covers from in front of the cattle's horns to behind the cantle.
- Machell proper noun: A surname.
- Machen proper noun: An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation].
- Machenian adjective: Of or relating to Arthur Machen (1863–1947), Welsh author and mystic, known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction.
- macheps noun /ˈmæʃˌɛps/: Abbreviation of machine epsilon.
- macher noun /ˈmɑxəɹ/: An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.
- machete noun, verb /məˈʃɛ.ti/: A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- machete beta noun: A harsh and exacting beta-read.
- machetelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a machete.
- macheteman noun: A man who uses a machete as a weapon.
- machetero noun: Someone who wields a machete.
- machhan noun: Alternative form of machan.
- machi noun: A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
- machiam preposition: Alternative spelling of macam.
- Machian adjective: Pertaining to the work or philosophical ideas of Ernst Mach, characterised by a system of mechanics based on extreme empiricism.
- Machias proper noun: A river in Maine, United States; in full, Machias River.
- Machiavel noun: A person who follows the principles laid down by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- Machiavelian adjective: Alternative form of Machiavellian.
- Machiavelianism noun: Alternative form of Machiavellianism.
- Machiavelism noun: Machiavellianism
- Machiavelli noun: Someone like Niccolò Machiavelli: a Machiavellian person
- machiavellian adjective, noun /ˌmæk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/: Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.
- Machiavellianism noun /ˌmækiəˈvɛliənɪzəm/: The political philosophy of Machiavelli, especially the realist doctrine which emphasizes the maintenance of the state above ethical concerns.
- Machiavellianist noun: A Machiavellian.
- Machiavellianly adverb: In a Machiavellian manner.
- Machiavellic adjective: Machiavellian
- machiavellise verb: Alternative form of Machiavellize.
- Machiavellism noun: Machiavellianism
- Machiavellist noun: A Machiavellian.
- Machiavellistic adjective: Machiavellian
- machiavellize verb: To behave in a Machiavellian manner; to be cunning and manipulative.
- machicolade noun: A machicolation.
- machicolate verb: To furnish with machicolations.
- machicolated adjective, verb: Having machicolations.
- machicolation noun /məˌt͡ʃɪkəˈleɪʃən/: An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which...
- machicotage noun: A style of singing, especially of sacred music, cultivated from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, centered on Paris, and derived from the...
- machicote noun /mætʃəˈkoːdi/: An underskirt worn by some Native American girls and women.
- machicoulis noun /ˌmɑːʃɪˈkuːliː/: A machicolation.
- Machida proper noun: A city in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.
- Machiguenga noun: A member of an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.
- machiku noun: Taiwan giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus latiflorus)
- machila noun: Synonym of macheer (“type of saddle”).
- machilid noun: A wingless insect in the Machilidae family, able to jump long distances when disturbed.
- Machilipatnam proper noun: A city in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
- machimos noun: A low-ranking Ancient Egyptian soldier.
- Machin noun /ˈmeɪt͡ʃɪn/: Any of a British series of definitive stamps designed by Arnold Machin, first issued in 1967 and featuring a side view portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Machin-like formula noun: Any of a number of variants or extensions of Machin's formula.
- machinability noun: The condition of being machinable
- machinable adjective: Able to be made or modified by machine.
- machinal adjective: Of, or pertaining to machines.
- machinate verb /ˈmækɪneɪt/: To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.
- machination noun /ˌmækɪˈneɪʃən/: A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
- machinator noun: One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- machinatrix noun: A woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.
- Machinda noun: A town in Litoral, Equatorial Guinea.
- machine noun, verb /məˈʃiːn/: A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- machine code noun: A system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.
- machine cycle noun: Synonym of instruction cycle.
- machine elf noun /məˈʃiːn ɛlf/: A kind of otherworldly humanoid figure sometimes seen during dimethyltryptamine (DMT) hallucinations.
- machine epsilon noun: An upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating-point arithmetic, denoted by the symbol ε.
- machine gun noun, verb /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/: A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.
- machine gunner noun: Someone who uses a machine gun.
- machine head noun: A geared apparatus for tuning stringed instruments by adjusting the tension of the strings.
- machine-hour noun: The amount of work that can be done by one machine in one hour; a billable hour for one machine. (Said of, for example, a piece of heavy equipment or a...
- machine instruction noun: Any of a set of discrete instructions, each with its own binary representation and associated assembly language mnemonic, that a CPU can execute; typically...
- machine intelligence noun: Synonym of artificial intelligence.
- machine lace noun: A style of lace that is made or replicated using mechanical means.
- machine language noun: The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level...
- machine learning noun: The ability of computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
- machine-made adjective: Produced or assisted by machinery.
- machine of government noun: A political machine
- machine operator noun: A person who operates machinery.
- machine-paced adjective: Having a starting time or duration set by the external environment (often specifically a machine) rather than by the worker performing the task.
- machine pistol noun: A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like...
- machine politician noun: A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
- machine politics noun: The kind of politics that involves a political machine.
- machine-readable adjective: Capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.
- machine room noun: A limited-access room in a larger building dedicated to HVAC equipment and other machinery.
- machine screw noun: A screw designed for metal or a similar material, usually with no point and a relatively fine thread, intended for prepared, threaded holes.
- machine shop noun: A facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and...
- machine taper noun: A system for securing cutting tools or toolholders in the spindle of a machine tool.
- machine that goes "ping" noun: A piece of medical equipment, especially a bedside monitor; particularly one perceived as superfluous.
- machine tool noun /məˈʃiːn ˈtuːl/: A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other...
- machine-translate verb: To translate using machine translation.
- machine translation noun: The act of translating something from one language to another by means of a machine, especially a computer.
- machine wash noun, verb: To wash using a machine; especially, to wash (clothes) in a washing machine.
- machine washable adjective: Capable of being washed in a washing machine without being damaged.
- machine word noun: A unit of information of a standard number of characters, appropriate for a fixed wordlength computer.
- machine zone noun: A trance-like state of immersion reached through intense interaction with gambling machines.
- machineability noun: Alternative form of machinability.
- machineable adjective: Alternative form of machinable.
- machined adjective, verb: Created by machine, or as though created by machine.
- machineful noun: Enough laundry to fill a washing machine.
- machinegun noun, verb: Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- machinegunner noun: Alternative form of machine-gunner.
- machineless adjective: Without a machine.
- machinelessness noun: Absence of machines.
- machinelike adjective: Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
- machinely adverb: By machine.
- machinema noun: Alternative form of machinima.
- machineman noun: A man who manages the working of a machine, especially in a printing office.
- machiner noun: One who operates a machine.
- machinery noun /məˈʃiːnəɹi/: The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
- machinga noun /məˈt͡ʃɪŋɡə/: A street vendor; a hawker.
- machinic adjective: Of or relating to machines.
- machinification noun: The process of turning something into a machine.
- machinify verb: To turn into a machine.
- machinima noun /məˈʃɪnɪmə/: The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D...
- machinimator noun: A person who creates machinima.
- machinimist noun: A person who creates machinima.
- machining noun, verb: The act or process of machining, of manufacturing or finishing by machine.
- machining center noun: Any of a class of machine tools with computerized control and actuation, usually and especially of the CNC type.
- machinise verb: Alternative form of machinize.
- machinism noun: The use of machines or machine-like systems of organization and production.
- machinist noun /məˈʃiː.nɪst/: A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.
- machinist block noun: Synonym of 1-2-3 block.
- machinistic adjective: Of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.
- machinization noun: The process or result of machinizing.
- machinize verb: To systematize; to create a well-defined process for.
- machinoclast noun: A person who destroys machines.
- machinofacture noun, verb: The production of goods through the use of machines.
- machinule noun: An instrument used by surveyors to find right angles.
- machiolate adjective: machicolated
- machiolated adjective: Rare spelling of machicolated.
- Machism noun: The logical positivism of Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Austrian physicist and philosopher.
- machismo noun /mɑːˈt͡ʃiz.moʊ/: An excessive masculine pride, exaggerated masculinity.
- Machist adjective, noun: A proponent of Machism.
- machloket noun /mɑxˈloʊkɛt/: a halachic dispute, disagreement
- machlomovirus noun: Any of the genus Machlomovirus of plant viruses, in the family Tombusviridae.
- machlovirus noun: maize chlorotic dwarf virus
- machmeter noun: An instrument that measures the speed of an aircraft relative to that of sound and displays it in Mach numbers.
- machmir adjective: Being the strictest interpretation of the law; following this interpretation.
- macho adjective, noun /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/: Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way. Very masculine.
- macho dancer noun: A male stripper who works in a strip club.
- macho-ish adjective: Somewhat macho.
- macho man noun: A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.
- macho up verb: To man up; to act in a tough or assertive way.
- machodom noun: The realm, sphere, or world of the macho; those who are macho, taken collectively
- machoflops noun: A deceptively inflated measure of the speed of a computer, as used in marketing materials.
- machohood noun: Quality of being macho.
- machoish adjective: Alternative form of macho-ish.
- machoism noun: machismo; exaggerated masculinity
- machoistic adjective: Prone to, in support of, or inspired by, machismo.
- machoistically adverb: In a macho or machoistic manner.
- machometer noun: Alternative form of Machmeter.
- Machon proper noun: A surname.
- machoness noun /ˈmɑ.tʃəʊˌnəs/: The quality of being macho; machismo.
- machos noun: Synonym of machismo.
- machosexual noun /ˌmæt͡ʃ.əʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/: A man who eschews modern trendy aesthetics in favor of pursuits traditionally considered more manly.
- machree noun: Term of endearment.
- Machrihanish proper noun: A village on the west coast of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR6320).
- Macht proper noun: A surname from German.
- machtesh noun: Alternative form of makhtesh.
- machtpolitik noun: Power politics.
- machua noun: Alternative form of mashua (“fishing vessel”).
- Machupo virus noun: A virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.
- machwa noun: Alternative form of mashua (“fishing vessel”).
- -machy suffix /məki/: Forming nouns with the sense of ‘battle, fight’.
- Machynlleth proper noun: A market town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SH7400).
- machzor noun /ˈmɑːxzəɹ/: A prayerbook for a Jewish holiday.
- maci noun /ˈma.t͡sɪ/: A traditional Chinese rice cake snack made of glutinous rice, peanuts, and sugar.
- Macie proper noun: A female given name transferred from the surname.
- Maciejewski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- macies noun: Emaciation; atrophy.
- macigno noun: A soft sandstone with calcareous cement.
- macilence noun: Leanness; emaciation.
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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.