English words starting with m - page 2

Meanings of Macerate:

verb

(especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid.

Usage examples:

Macerate the mustard seeds in vinegar

Meanings of Macerated:

verb

(especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid.

Usage examples:

Macerate the mustard seeds in vinegar

Meanings of Macerates:

verb

(especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid.

Usage examples:

Macerate the mustard seeds in vinegar

Meanings of Macerating:

verb

(especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid.

Usage examples:

Macerate the mustard seeds in vinegar

Meanings of Macers:

noun

(in scotland) an official who keeps order in a law court.

Usage examples:

The macer made room for the son of the presiding judge.

Meanings of Maces:

noun

A staff of office, especially that which lies on the table in the house of commons when the speaker is in the chair, regarded as a symbol of the authority of the house.

Usage examples:

The mace symbolises the authority of the speaker of the national assembly and its presence in the c…

verb

Spray (someone) with mace.

Usage examples:

Three individuals were maced by an unknown male

Meanings of Macfarlane:

noun

A type of overcoat with a shoulder cape and slits for access to pockets in clothing worn underneath.

Meanings of Mach:

noun

The ratio of the speed of a body to the speed of sound in the surrounding medium. it is often used with a numeral (as mach 1, mach 2, etc.) to indicate the speed of sound, twice the speed of sound, etc.

Usage examples:

A mach number is a measure of airspeed, and not of ground speed.

Meanings of Machair:

noun

(in scotland, especially the western isles) low-lying arable or grazing land formed near the coast by the deposition of sand and shell fragments by the wind.

Usage examples:

Machair is the focus of most hebridean crofting agriculture

Meanings of Machaira:

noun

A short single-edged sword, with a slightly curved convex blade, used by the ancient greeks.

Meanings of Machairodont:

adjective

Having long sabre-shaped upper canine teeth; sabre-toothed. also: of or relating to the subfamily machairodontinae, comprising fossil felids having such teeth.

noun

A machairodont felid.

Meanings of Machairodus:

noun

A genus of sabre-toothed fossil felids; (also machairodus) a felid of this genus.

Meanings of Machan:

noun

(in south asia) a platform erected in a tree, used originally for hunting large animals and now for watching animals in wildlife reserves.

Usage examples:

The estate forest has numerous waterholes, which have observation machans overlooking them, providi…

Meanings of Machera:

noun

A short single-edged sword, with a slightly curved convex blade, used by the ancient greeks.

Meanings of Machetes:

noun

A broad, heavy knife used as an implement or weapon, originating in central america and the caribbean.

Usage examples:

In one hundred days nearly a million people were to die from bullets, grenades, machetes, and knives.

Meanings of Machiavel:

noun

A person compared to machiavelli for favouring expediency over morality.

Usage examples:

The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a machiav…

Meanings of Machiavellian:

adjective

Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics.

Usage examples:

A whole range of outrageous machiavellian manoeuvres

noun

A person who schemes in a machiavellian way.

Usage examples:

As sartre admitted in his eulogy, ‘he reaffirmed the existence of moral fact within the heart of ou…

Meanings of Machiavellianism:

noun

The use of clever but often dishonest methods that deceive people in order to win power or control

Usage examples:

Saying that scientists misinform the press suggests a machiavellianism that is hard to support., a …

Meanings of Machiavellians:

noun

A person who schemes in a machiavellian way.

Usage examples:

As sartre admitted in his eulogy, ‘he reaffirmed the existence of moral fact within the heart of ou…

adjective

Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics.

Usage examples:

A whole range of outrageous machiavellian manoeuvres

Meanings of Machiavellic:

adjective

Machiavellian.

Meanings of Machiavellism:

noun

Machiavellianism.

Meanings of Machicolated:

adjective

(of a castle or other fortified building) provided with machicolations.

Usage examples:

A machicolated fortress

Meanings of Machicolation:

noun

(in medieval fortifications) an opening between the supporting corbels of a projecting parapet or the vault of a gate, through which stones or burning objects could be dropped on attackers.

Usage examples:

Known as a barbican, this part of the castle would have a drawbridge, a portcullis, arrow slits, ma…

Meanings of Machicolations:

noun

(in medieval fortifications) an opening between the supporting corbels of a projecting parapet or the vault of a gate, through which stones or burning objects could be dropped on attackers.

Usage examples:

Known as a barbican, this part of the castle would have a drawbridge, a portcullis, arrow slits, ma…

Meanings of Machicoulis:

noun

Machicolation.