English words starting with ma

Meanings of Ma:

noun

One's mother.

Usage examples:

I want my ma

abbreviation

Massachusetts (in official postal use).

Meanings of Maam:

noun

A term of respectful or polite address used for a woman.

Usage examples:

Excuse me, ma'am

Meanings of Maars:

noun

A broad, shallow crater, typically filled by a lake, formed by a volcanic eruption with little lava.

Usage examples:

Monogenetic volcanoes are small and occur as scoria cones, tuff cones and rings, and maars; they fo…

Meanings of Maat:

proper noun

The goddess of truth, justice, and cosmic order, daughter of the sun god ra. she is depicted as a young and beautiful woman, standing or seated, with a feather on her head.

Meanings of Mab:

noun

Monoclonal antibody.

Meanings of Mabela:

noun

Sorghum of a variety grown in southern africa, used for making porridge and beer.

Usage examples:

Other products obtained from sa include mabela meal, ting meal, sorghum malt, mnanti beer powder, k…

Meanings of Mabinogion:

proper noun

A collection of welsh prose tales of the 11th–13th centuries, dealing with celtic legends and mythology.

Meanings of Mac:

noun

Macaroni.

Usage examples:

His daily yearning for mac and cheese

Meanings of Macabre:

adjective

Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death.

Usage examples:

A macabre series of murders

Meanings of Macabrely:

adverb

In a macabre or gruesome manner.

Meanings of Macacus:

noun

A genus (now called macaca) of old world monkeys of the family cercopithecidae, originally comprising a large number of african and asian species, but later restricted to a smaller number of chiefly asian species; (also macacus) a member of this genus, a macaque.

Meanings of Macadam:

noun

Broken stone of even size, bound with tar or bitumen and used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths.

Usage examples:

How good a road is going to be depends on how the design is laid out initially vis-a-vis the layer …

Meanings of Macadamia:

noun

An australian rainforest tree with slender, glossy evergreen leaves and globular edible nuts.

Usage examples:

Saxby bridge has enthusiastically marketed all sorts of tax effective schemes involving things like…

Meanings of Macadamization:

noun

The action or process of macadamizing a road, the practice of making macadamized roads.

Meanings of Macadamizer:

noun

A person who makes macadamized roads.

Meanings of Macana:

noun

An ironwood sword or club used among some indigenous south american peoples.

Meanings of Macanese:

noun

A native or inhabitant of macao, especially one of mixed chinese and portuguese descent.

Usage examples:

The portuguese have seemed to close their ranks, although the macanese are in a more vulnerable pos…

adjective

Relating to macao or the macanese.

Usage examples:

As well as fielding chinese hopeful wang, the new team china, headed by macanese motorsport veteran…

Meanings of Macao:

proper noun

A special administrative region on the south-eastern coast of china on the west side of the pearl river estuary opposite hong kong; formerly a portuguese dependency and comprising the macao peninsula and the islands of taipa and cologne; population 588,000 (estimated 2015); official languages, portuguese and cantonese; capital, macao city. visited by vasco da gama in 1497, macao was developed by the portuguese as a trading post and became the chief centre of trade between europe and china in the 18th century. under the terms of a 1987 agreement sovereignty passed to china in 1999.

Meanings of Macaque:

noun

A medium-sized, chiefly forest-dwelling old world monkey which has a long face and cheek pouches for holding food.

Usage examples:

A lot more is known about cercopithecines, such as macaques, baboons and vervets, because many of t…

Meanings of Macaques:

noun

A medium-sized, chiefly forest-dwelling old world monkey which has a long face and cheek pouches for holding food.

Usage examples:

A lot more is known about cercopithecines, such as macaques, baboons and vervets, because many of t…

Meanings of Macaranga:

noun

A genus of trees and shrubs of the family euphorbiaceae, native to the old world tropics, some members of which have strikingly large leaves; (also macaranga) a tree or shrub of this genus.

Meanings of Macarism:

noun

The ascription of happiness to a person.

Meanings of Macarize:

verb

To account or call (a person, etc.) happy or blessed.

Meanings of Macarized:

verb

To account or call (a person, etc.) happy or blessed.

Meanings of Macarizing:

verb

To account or call (a person, etc.) happy or blessed.