English Words: M

36,575 words · Page 38 of 732

maghaznoun

brains as offal

maghemitenoun

A magnetic mineral with a grey blue, white, or brown shade.

Maghrebname

The predominantly Arabic-speaking geographic region comprising northwest Africa, particularly the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile; the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.

Maghrebiadj

Of or relating to the Maghreb or its people.

Maghrebianadj

Maghrebi

Maghrebinadj

of, or relating to the Maghreb or its people

maghribnoun

The sunset Islamic prayer.

Maghribiadj

Alternative form of Maghrebi.

Maghullname

A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3702).

maginoun

plural of mage

Magiannoun

One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia.

Magianismname

Zoroastrianism

magicnoun

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.

magic acidnoun

A superacid, FSO₃H-SbF₅, consisting of a mixture of fluorosulfonic acid and antimony pentafluoride, capable of protonating even weak bases.

magic asterisknoun

an unspecified future budget cut, especially an imaginary cut.

magic boxnoun

Television.

magic bulletnoun

A simple remedy for a difficult or complex problem, especially a cure for a disease.

magic carpetnoun

A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.

magic circlenoun

A circle marked on the ground by a practitioner of magic, used as magical protection or to form a magical area.

magic cubenoun

A Rubik's cube.

magic enoun

A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.

magic eyenoun

An autostereogram.

magic lanternnoun

An early light projector and precursor to the slide projector that could achieve simple animation by moving and merging images.

magic markernoun

A felt-tipped pen.

magic mirrornoun

A divinatory mirror in which a person sees images or scenes.

magic momentnoun

The initial experience of a customer in evaluating a product, in which its value or worth is appreciated.

magic money treenoun

Synonym of money tree (“an imaginary tree from which money can be plucked”).

magic niggernoun

A black individual who acts or behaves outside of the negative stereotype.

magic numbernoun

The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.

magic of diversificationnoun

The effective reduction of risk of a portfolio, achieved without reduction to expected returns through the combination of assets with low or negative correlations.

magic packetnoun

A specially crafted packet that will turn on a computer with wake-on-LAN support if it is received by the computer's network card in standby mode.

magic potionnoun

A colour morph of the common pill-bug (Armadillidium vulgare), characterised by a mostly white body that is dotted with yellow and black spots.

magic puddingnoun

A limitless or endlessly replenished resource.

magic realismnoun

A literary style or genre that combines naturalistic details and narrative with surreal or dreamlike elements.

magic roundaboutnoun

A ring junction.

magic slatenoun

A children's drawing toy with a sheet of plastic film laid over waxed paper, allowing pictures to be "drawn" by the pressure of a stylus and then wiped clean by lifting and replacing the sheet.

magic squarenoun

A palindromic square word arrangement, usually in the form of a magic amulet.

magic sugarnoun

sodium cyclamate

magic upverb

To create something or cause something to come forth, by magic or by some other unexplained means.

magic usernoun

One who uses (or has skill with) magic.

magic wandnoun

A wand, usually made of wood, that is used to perform magic.

magic wordnoun

Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.

magic wordsnoun

plural of magic word

magicaladj

Of, relating to, or by means of magic.

magical boynoun

A stock character in Japanese anime and manga, a young boy with superhuman abilities who must fight evil.

magical feminismnoun

A feminist subgenre of magic realism.

magical girlnoun

In Japanese anime and manga, a young girl with superhuman abilities who is called upon to fight evil.

magical thinkingnoun

The attribution of causal or synchronistic relationships between actions and events which seemingly cannot be justified by reason and observation.

magical wordnoun

Synonym of magic word.

magicalizationnoun

The act or process of magicalizing.

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 38. 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.

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