10-letter words starting with m
- make a hit — If you make a hit with someone, they like you or are impressed by you when they meet you.
- make after — to set off in pursuit of; chase
- make as if — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make haste — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- make merry — celebrate, be festive
- make money — make a profit
- make peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- make sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- make up to — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make water — colloquial
- make waves — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- make-ahead — that can be prepared in advance: a make-ahead casserole.
- make-peace — a peacemaker.
- make-ready — Printing. the process of preparing a form for printing by overlays or underlays to equalize the impression.
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- makeweight — something put in a scale to complete a required weight.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- making out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- mal de mer — seasickness.
- mala fides — bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides (def 1).
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- malacology — the science dealing with the study of mollusks.
- maladapted — poorly suited or adapted to a particular condition or set of circumstances: maladapted to the demands of modern society.
- maladdress — awkwardness; tactlessness
- malaguetta — an aromatic African herb of the ginger family
- malaligned — Badly aligned; misaligned.
- malamalama — (Hawaii) enlightenment.
- malapropos — inappropriate; out of place; inopportune; untimely: a malapropos remark.
- malar bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- malar-bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- malaxation — The act of softening a mass by malaxating.
- malay bear — a small, black bear, Ursus (Helarctos) malayanus, of Southeast Asian forests, having a light muzzle and yellow chest markings.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- male model — a male who poses for a photographer, painter, or sculptor
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- maledicent — ((archaic)) one who enjoys using slanderous language.
- maledicted — Simple past tense and past participle of maledict.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- maleficial — abusive or hurtful
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malgré lui — in spite of himself
- malic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 6 O 5 , occurring in apples and other fruits and as an intermediate in animal metabolism.
- malignance — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- malignancy — the quality or condition of being malignant.