English Words: M
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An action that is not inherently evil, but is nevertheless illegal only because prohibited, as opposed to malum in se. A malum prohibitum offense is something that is wrong only because a statute makes it so, or by consensus that society agrees to prohibit the act, and is typically regulatory in nature and often result in no direct injury or danger to the person, entity, or property but only merely create the danger or probability of it which the statute attempts to minimize. Used to develop consensual crimes.
A tree with flavorful and nutritious leaves, the moringa or horseradish tree, Moringa oleifera.
Any bird of the family Maluridae, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.
The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.
An evil spirit or angel, seen as influencing a person's decisions in a malevolent way.
A variety of grape, originally from the region of the Aegean, now used to make malmsey wine.
A town and civil parish with a town council in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England. See also Great Malvern.
A suburban area in Malvern parish, Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7847).
A traditional English baked pudding made with apples or other seasonal fruit, with custard.
An advertisement, published on the Internet, that is infected with malicious code aiming to hijack the viewer's computer.
Internet advertising whose real intention is to deliver malware to the viewer's computer.
The Falkland Islands, the Falklands: An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, located in the South Atlantic.
A natural region in west-central northern India occupying a volcanic region of Vindhya range, the Malwa plateau.
A village and municipality in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.
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 85. 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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