MADA
First name MADA's origin is Irish. MADA means "from mathilda". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MADA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mada.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with MADA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming MADA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MADA AS A WHOLE:
amadahy madalina ramadan amada madailein madalen madalena madalene madalyn madalyne madalynn madale semadarNAMES RHYMING WITH MADA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ada) - Names That Ends with ada:
dada zada milada arvada sharada mudada ada eada giada iluminada immaculada jada kada landrada nevada shada soledada kachada wada lada nada saada peada kuonradaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (da) - Names That Ends with da:
balinda makda makeda nehanda rashida saida sauda sroda ghayda huda mas'ouda nashida nida rida warda daghda oppida seda afreda belisarda clarimunda yolanda ciarda donalda albreda alda arnalda magnilda marelda mathilda romilda serilda andromeda dorinda elpida halimeda leda phillida rhoda varda darda chamunda chanda clorinda elda geltruda alida orenda wakanda wihakayda adelajda nadezhda sanda adelinda muenda penda alwalda dar-al-baida abda fida reda ferda jarda standa tonda balisarda abida shoda adalheida adda aethelreda ahuda aida alameda aleda alfredaNAMES RHYMING WITH MADA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (mad) - Names That Begins with mad:
mad maddalen maddalena maddalene maddalyn madden maddie maddielynn maddison maddisynne maddix maddock maddox maddy maddy-rose madeeha madel madelaine madeleina madeleine madelena madelene madelhari madelina madeline madelon madelynn madena madge madia madie madihah madilynn madina madisen madison madisyn madntyre madoc madolen mador madora madra madre madri mads madu maduley madyRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Begins with ma:
ma'isah ma'mun ma'n maahes maarouf maat mab mabbina mabel mabelle mabina mable mabon mabonagrain mabonaqain mabuz mabyn mac maca macadam macadhamh macaire macala macaladair macalister macalpin macalpine macandrew macario macartan macarthur macartur macaulay macauliffe macauslan macawi macayla macayle macbain macbean macbeth macbride maccallum macclennan maccoll maccormack maccus macdaibhidh macdhubh macdomhnall macdonaldNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MADA:
First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':
macha machara machayla machupa mackayla mackenna macmurra maelisa maertisa magda magdala magdalena magena magnhilda magnolia maha mahala mahalia mahila mahina maia maiana maida maira mairia mairona maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makala makarioa makela makemba makena makenna makya malaika malana maleka malia maliha malika malila malina malinda malita malmuira malva malvina mana manaba manara manauia manda mandisa manisha maniya mankalita manoela mantotohpa manuela manya maola mapiya mara maranda marcela marcella marcellia marcia marcsa marea mareesa marella marenka marga margareta margarita marhilda maria mariabella mariama mariana maribella marica maricela maricelia maricella mariela marietta marika marilda marilena marilla marinaEnglish Words Rhyming MADA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MADA AS A WHOLE:
amadavat | noun (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. |
hebdomadal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hebdomadary |
hebdomadary | noun (n.) A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors. |
adjective (a.) Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly. |
jamadar | noun (n.) Same as Jemidar. |
madam | noun (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir. |
madame | noun (n.) My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. |
muhammadan | noun (a. & n.) Alt. of Muhammedan |
muhammadanism | noun (n.) Mohammedanism. |
prickmadam | noun (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop. |
ramadan | noun (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month. |
noun (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month. |
rhamadan | noun (n.) See Ramadan. |
tripmadam | noun (n.) Same as Prickmadam. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MADA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ada) - English Words That Ends with ada:
abada | noun (n.) The rhinoceros. |
ca–ada | noun (n.) A small ca–on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. |
canada | noun (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. |
cassada | noun (n.) See Cassava. |
cicada | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada. |
gelada | noun (n.) A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male. |
haggada | noun (n.) A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. |
melada | noun (n.) Alt. of Melado |
mulada | noun (n.) A moor. |
noun (n.) A drove of mules. |
panada | noun (n.) Alt. of Panade |
pinnigrada | noun (n. pl.) Same as Pinnipedia. |
plantigrada | noun (n. pl.) A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. |
sparada | noun (n.) A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner. |
taeniada | noun (n. pl.) Same as Taenioidea. |
tardigrada | adjective (a.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3. |
adjective (a.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MADA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mad) - Words That Begins with mad:
mad | noun (n.) A slattern. |
noun (n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. | |
noun (n.) An earthworm. | |
superlative (superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. | |
superlative (superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. | |
superlative (superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. | |
superlative (superl.) Extravagant; immoderate. | |
superlative (superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog. | |
superlative (superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. | |
superlative (superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. | |
verb (v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden. | |
verb (v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. | |
() p. p. of Made. |
madding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mad |
adjective (a.) Affected with madness; raging; furious. |
madbrain | noun (n.) A rash or hot-headed person. |
adjective (a.) Hot-headed; rash. |
madbrained | adjective (a.) Disordered in mind; hot-headed. |
madcap | noun (n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person. |
adjective (a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. | |
adjective (a.) Wild; reckless. |
maddening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Madden |
madder | noun (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous. |
madderwort | noun (n.) A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder. |
maddish | adjective (a.) Somewhat mad. |
made | noun (n.) See Mad, n. |
adjective (a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar. | |
() imp. & p. p. of Make. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Make |
madecass | noun (n.) Alt. of Madecassee |
madecassee | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants. |
madefaction | noun (n.) Alt. of Madefication |
madefication | noun (n.) The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. |
madefying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Madefy |
madegassy | noun (n. & a.) See Madecassee. |
madeira | noun (n.) A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira. |
mademoiselle | noun (n.) A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. |
noun (n.) A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch. |
madge | noun (n.) The barn owl. |
noun (n.) The magpie. |
madhouse | noun (n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam. |
madia | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table. |
madid | adjective (a.) Wet; moist; as, a madid eye. |
madisterium | noun (n.) An instrument to extract hairs. |
madjoun | noun (n.) An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos. |
madly | adjective (a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly. |
madman | noun (n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person. |
madnep | noun (n.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium). |
madness | adjective (a.) The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy. |
adjective (a.) Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly. |
madonna | noun (n.) My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English. |
noun (n.) A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe). |
madoqua | noun (n.) A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare. |
madrague | noun (n.) A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose. |
madreperl | noun (n.) Mother-of-pearl. |
madrepora | noun (n.) A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched. |
madreporaria | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. |
madrepore | noun (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral. |
madreporian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Madreporic |
madreporic | adjective (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora. |
madreporiform | adjective (a.) Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure. |
madreporite | noun (n.) A fossil coral. |
noun (n.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms. |
madrier | noun (n.) A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes |
noun (n.) A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down. | |
noun (n.) A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications. |
madrigal | noun (n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought. |
noun (n.) An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee. |
madrigaler | noun (n.) A madrigalist. |
madrigalist | noun (n.) A composer of madrigals. |
madrilenian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Madrid. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants. |
madrina | noun (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. |
madroöa | noun (n.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroöa apples. |
madwort | noun (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual. |
madras | noun (n.) A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MADA:
English Words which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':
maa | noun (n.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull. |
maasha | noun (n.) An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee. |
maclurea | noun (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks. |
macroglossia | noun (n.) Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue. |
macroura | adjective (a.) Alt. of Macroural |
macrura | noun (n. pl.) A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda. |
mactra | noun (n.) Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf. |
macula | noun (n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. |
noun (n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color. |
magdala | adjective (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc. |
magenta | noun (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc. |
magma | noun (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. |
noun (n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol. | |
noun (n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency. | |
noun (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | |
noun (n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock. | |
noun (n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry. |
magnesia | noun (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium. |
magnolia | noun (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers. |
maha | noun (n.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo. |
mahabarata | noun (n.) Alt. of Mahabharatam |
mahonia | noun (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage. |
mahratta | noun (n.) One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. |
noun (n.) A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas. |
maia | noun (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado). |
noun (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia). |
majolica | noun (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century. |
mala | noun (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law. |
(pl. ) of Malum |
malacca | noun (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. |
malacobdella | noun (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha. |
malacopoda | noun (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora. |
malacostraca | noun (n. pl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca. |
malacozoa | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria. |
malaga | noun (n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines. |
malaria | noun (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma. |
noun (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals. |
mallophaga | noun (n. pl.) An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird. |
malma | noun (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet. |
malpighia | noun (n.) A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries. |
maltha | noun (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor. |
noun (n.) Mortar. |
mama | noun (n.) See Mamma. |
mamma | noun (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity. |
noun (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag. |
mammalia | noun (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother. |
mammilla | noun (n.) The nipple. |
manca | noun (n.) See Mancus. |
mandioca | noun (n.) See Manioc. |
mandragora | noun (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1. |
mania | noun (n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. |
noun (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. |
manila | adjective (a.) Alt. of Manilla |
manilla | noun (n.) A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa. |
noun (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city. | |
adjective (a.) Same as Manila. |
manna | noun (n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food. |
noun (n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food. | |
noun (n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe. |
manta | noun (n.) See Coleoptera and Sea devil. |
mantilla | noun (n.) A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like. |
noun (n.) A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc. |
mantissa | noun (n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic. |
mantra | noun (n.) A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm. |
mantua | noun (n.) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. |
noun (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown. |
manzanita | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear. |
mara | noun (n.) The principal or ruling evil spirit. |
noun (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions. | |
noun (n.) The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus). |
maranatha | noun (n.) "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema. |
maranta | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament. |
marena | noun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. |
marginalia | noun (n. pl.) Marginal notes. |
marginella | noun (n.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas. |
margosa | noun (n.) A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. |
marikina | noun (n.) A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin. |
marimba | noun (n.) A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. |
marimonda | noun (n.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America. |
marinorama | noun (n.) A representation of a sea view. |
marsala | noun (n.) A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily. |
marsdenia | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo. |
marshalsea | noun (n.) The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. |
marsipobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii. |
marsupialia | noun (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata. |
martineta | noun (n.) A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest. |
masora | noun (n.) A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. |
massasauga | noun (n.) The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, / Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley. |
massora | noun (n.) Same as Masora. |
mastigopoda | noun (n. pl.) The Infusoria. |
mastodynia | noun (n.) Alt. of Mastodyny |
matamata | noun (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers. |
matanza | noun (n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. |
mattowacca | noun (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring. |
maxilla | noun (n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw. |
noun (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible. | |
noun (n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods. |
maya | noun (n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion. |
mazama | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazame |
mazourka | noun (n.) Alt. of Mazurka |
mazurka | noun (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat. |
meandrina | noun (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. |
media | noun (n.) pl. of Medium. |
noun (n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute. | |
(pl. ) of Medium |
medialuna | noun (n.) See Half-moon. |
medulla | noun (n.) Marrow; pith; hence, essence. |
noun (n.) The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata. | |
noun (n.) A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith. |
medusa | noun (n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone. |
noun (n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish. |
megalomania | noun (n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions. |
melaena | noun (n.) A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood. |
melanaemia | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles. |
melancholia | noun (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas. |
melanorrhoea | noun (n.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish. |
melasma | noun (n.) A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease. |
melastoma | noun (n.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth. |
melena | noun (n.) See Melaena. |
melisma | noun (n.) A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation. |
noun (n.) A grace or embellishment. |
melissa | noun (n.) A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis). |
melodrama | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio". |
melop/ia | noun (n.) The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody. |
meminna | noun (n.) A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India. |
memorabilia | noun (n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them. |
memoria | noun (n.) Memory. |
menopoma | noun (n.) Alt. of Menopome |
menorrhagia | noun (n.) Profuse menstruation. |
noun (n.) Any profuse bleeding from the uterus; Metrorrhagia. |