English Words: M
36,575 words · Page 160 of 732
an illegal street racer, especially a young male biker who does stunts on a motorbike.
Syllabic abbreviation of Matanuska-Susitna: a valley and geographic region of south-central Alaska, United States.
A respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader.
A carnivalesque dance with swords and bucklers, traditionally performed in Spain by costumed troupes.
Belonging to a language family of northern Argentina, western Paraguay, and southeastern Bolivia.
A type of siege engine similar to a trebuchet, designed to fling rocks over long distances.
A plant lignan that occurs with secoisolariciresinol in numerous foods such as oil seeds, whole grains, vegetables, and fruits.
A shrub, of species Psychotria insularum, used for medicine and found in American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, and Tonga.
A place where animals are slaughtered, for their hides, meat, tallow, etc, particularly in a Latin American context; a slaughterhouse.
A yuca strainer or press (sebucan) in the form of a tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp.
The season, in late May or early June, when the Pleiades star cluster first rises, treated as the beginning of the new year by the Maori.
A form of exercise in which a rikishi sits on the ground with his legs wide apart, then lowers his torso to touch the ground between his legs.
A sport resembling kickball, but with larger bases (often gym mats) that can be occupied by more than one player.
A cooked dish of tomatoes and roasted bell peppers seasoned with garlic and chili pepper.
A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
The day when graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve as residents.
The act of losing, or playing to a pre-determined result, in sports matches after betting against oneself.
A relationship, such as a marriage, that is happy and successful, sometimes because the partners are very compatible.
A relationship that is likely to be unhappy or unsuccessful because the two partners are very incompatible with each other.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter M contains 36,575 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 732 pages, and you are currently viewing page 160. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "M" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.