Name Report For First Name MAY:
MAY
First name MAY's origin is English. MAY means "kinswomen". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MAY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of may.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with MAY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with MAY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming MAY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MAY AS A WHOLE:
maymunah mayyadah sumayyah maylea damayanti amayeta umayr mayo amayah charmayne elliemay maya mayana maycee mayde maykayla mayleen mayme mayra maysa mayte omayda shamay tamay humayd jermayne maynard tremayne mayir mayhew mayah maysoon maysun umayma mayfield mayda mayer mayne maynorNAMES RHYMING WITH MAY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ay) - Names That Ends with ay:
sisay adjatay barclay galloway bay aanjay anevay chantay chardonnay fay gay jeanay jenay jennay jonay kevay lindsay linsay lyndsay mishay nuray thursday ajay barday bodaway corday courtnay delray diondray dontay enapay finlay garroway gillivray gray hay jay kay lay macaulay macgillivray mackay macray montay murray o'shay otaktay ouray pay pranay ramsay ray shay tiernay treadway vernay galway tredway thay stanway clay tuesday suhay kenway ordway conway courtenayNAMES RHYMING WITH MAY (According to first letters):
Rhyming 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 macauliffe macauslan macawi macayla macayle macbain macbean macbeth macbride maccallum macclennan maccoll maccormack maccus macdaibhidh macdhubh macdomhnall macdonald macdonell macdougal macdoughall macdubhgall macduff mace macee macelroy macen macerio macewen macey macfarlane macfie macgowan macgregor macha machair machakw machaon machar machara machau machayla machiko machk machum machupa maci macie macinnes macintosh maciver mack mackaillyn mackayla mackaylie mackendrick mackenna mackenzie mackinley mackinnon mackintosh mackinzie macklin macklyn mackynsie maclachlan maclaine maclaneNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MAY:
First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'y':
macy maddy maduley mady maggy mahoney maisy majdy malachy mallory malloy maloney mandy manley manly manny margery marily markey marley marly marty mary matty mccoy mckinley melby melody mercy merry mickey mihaly miley millenny mindy misty molloy molly moly montgomery monty mooney moreley moriarty morly morrey morrisey morrissey mufidy mukonry mulcahy mundy murphey murphy murry murtadhyEnglish Words Rhyming MAY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MAY AS A WHOLE:
| almayne | noun (n.) Alt. of Alman |
| dismaying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismay |
| dismayedness | noun (n.) A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness. |
| dismayful | adjective (a.) Terrifying. |
| may | noun (n.) A maiden. |
| noun (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. | |
| noun (n.) The early part or springtime of life. | |
| noun (n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. | |
| noun (n.) The merrymaking of May Day. | |
| verb (v.) An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can. |
| maya | noun (n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion. |
| maybe | noun (n.) Possibility; uncertainty. |
| adjective (a.) Possible; probable, but not sure. | |
| adverb (adv.) Perhaps; possibly; peradventure. |
| maybird | noun (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap. |
| noun (n.) The knot. | |
| noun (n.) The bobolink. |
| maybloom | noun (n.) The hawthorn. |
| maybush | noun (n.) The hawthorn. |
| mayduke | noun (n.) A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality. |
| mayfish | noun (n.) A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow. |
| mayflower | noun (n.) In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants. |
| mayhem | noun (n.) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim. |
| maying | noun (n.) The celebrating of May Day. |
| mayonnaise | noun (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce. |
| mayor | noun (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge. |
| mayoral | noun (n.) The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd. |
| mayoralty | noun (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a mayor. |
| mayoress | noun (n.) The wife of a mayor. |
| mayorship | noun (n.) The office of a mayor. |
| maypole | noun (n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had. |
| maypop | noun (n.) The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple. |
| mayweed | noun (n.) A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States. |
| noun (n.) The feverfew. |
| mayan | adjective (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mayas. |
| namaycush | noun (n.) A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi. |
| patronomayology | noun (n.) That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics. |
| ramayana | noun (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MAY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ay) - English Words That Ends with ay:
| abay | noun (n.) Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. |
| allay | noun (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check. |
| noun (n.) Alloy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions. | |
| verb (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. | |
| verb (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. |
| alleyway | noun (n.) An alley. |
| archway | noun (n.) A way or passage under an arch. |
| array | noun (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array. |
| noun (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. | |
| noun (n.) An imposing series of things. | |
| noun (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. | |
| noun (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause. | |
| noun (n.) The panel itself. | |
| noun (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. | |
| noun (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. | |
| noun (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. | |
| noun (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. |
| assay | noun (n.) Trial; attempt; essay. |
| noun (n.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. | |
| noun (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. | |
| noun (n.) Tested purity or value. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin. | |
| noun (n.) The alloy or metal to be assayed. | |
| verb (v.) To try; to attempt; to apply. | |
| verb (v.) To affect. | |
| verb (v.) To try tasting, as food or drink. | |
| verb (v.) To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition. | |
| verb (v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor. |
| backstay | noun (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast. |
| noun (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion. |
| barway | noun (n.) A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts. |
| bay | noun (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character. |
| noun (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay. | |
| noun (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers. | |
| noun (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. | |
| noun (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel. | |
| noun (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. | |
| noun (n.) A tract covered with bay trees. | |
| noun (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water. | |
| adjective (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. | |
| verb (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking. | |
| verb (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bathe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back. |
| birthday | noun (n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement. |
| noun (n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities. |
| blay | adjective (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n. |
| bobstay | noun (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl. |
| bray | noun (n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound. |
| noun (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. | |
| verb (v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound. |
| byplay | noun (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds. |
| byway | noun (n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one. |
| breakaway | noun (n.) A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. |
| noun (n.) An animal that breaks away from a herd. |
| caraway | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative. |
| noun (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. |
| carpetway | noun (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. |
| carraway | noun (n.) See Caraway. |
| cartway | noun (n.) A way or road for carts. |
| castaway | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. |
| noun (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. | |
| adjective (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless. |
| cathay | noun (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) |
| causeway | noun (n.) Alt. of Causey |
| cay | noun (n.) See Key, a ledge. |
| clay | noun (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. |
| noun (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. |
| cokenay | noun (n.) A cockney. |
| coothay | noun (n.) A striped satin made in India. |
| countersway | noun (n.) A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence. |
| cray | noun (n.) Alt. of Crayer |
| crossway | noun (n.) See Crossroad. |
| cutaway | adjective (a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away. |
| chambray | noun (n.) A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish. |
| day | noun (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine. |
| noun (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below. | |
| noun (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work. | |
| noun (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. | |
| noun (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc. |
| decay | noun (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay. |
| noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
| noun (n.) Cause of decay. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy. |
| delay | noun (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. |
| noun (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. | |
| noun (n.) To allay; to temper. | |
| verb (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. |
| denay | noun (n.) Denial; refusal. |
| verb (v. t.) To deny. |
| deray | noun (n.) Disorder; merriment. |
| disarray | noun (n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. |
| noun (n.) Confused attire; undress. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe. |
| display | noun (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. |
| noun (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. | |
| verb (v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line. | |
| verb (v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type. | |
| verb (v. t.) To discover; to descry. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration. |
| domesday | noun (n.) A day of judgment. See Doomsday. |
| doomsday | noun (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. |
| noun (n.) The day of the final judgment. |
| doorway | noun (n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room. |
| dray | noun (n.) A squirrel's nest. |
| noun (n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of sledge or sled. |
| driftway | noun (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. |
| noun (n.) Same as Drift, 11. |
| driveway | noun (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven. |
| dugway | noun (n.) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land. |
| essay | noun (n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend. |
| noun (n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. | |
| noun (n.) An assay. See Assay, n. | |
| noun (n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try. | |
| noun (n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay. |
| estray | noun (n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray. |
| verb (v. i.) To stray. |
| everyday | adjective (a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. |
| fairway | noun (n.) The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MAY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ma) - Words That Begins with ma:
| maa | noun (n.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull. |
| maalin | noun (n.) The sparrow hawk. |
| noun (n.) The kestrel. |
| ma'am | noun (n.) Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation. |
| maasha | noun (n.) An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee. |
| maat | adjective (a.) Dejected; sorrowful; downcast. |
| 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. |
| mabby | noun (n.) A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes. |
| mabolo | noun (n.) A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince. |
| macaco | noun (n.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta). |
| macacus | noun (n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows. |
| macadamization | noun (n.) The process or act of macadamizing. |
| macadamizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Macadamize |
| macao | noun (n.) A macaw. |
| macaque | noun (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies. |
| macaroni | noun (n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste. |
| noun (n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant. | |
| noun (n.) A sort of droll or fool. | |
| noun (n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. | |
| noun (n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform. |
| macaronian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Macaronic |
| macaronic | noun (n.) A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble. |
| noun (n.) A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry. |
| macaroon | noun (n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar. |
| noun (n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni. |
| macartney | noun (n.) A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback. |
| macauco | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size. |
| macavahu | noun (n.) A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee. |
| macaw | noun (n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted. |
| maccabean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times. |
| maccabees | noun (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. |
| noun (n. pl.) The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint. |
| maccaboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Maccoboy |
| maccoboy | noun (n.) A kind of snuff. |
| macco | noun (n.) A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century. |
| mace | noun (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains. |
| noun (n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg. | |
| noun (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. | |
| noun (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority. | |
| noun (n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority. | |
| noun (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple. | |
| noun (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand. |
| macedonian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Macedonia. |
| noun (n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son. | |
| adjective (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia. |
| macedonianism | noun (n.) The doctrines of Macedonius. |
| macer | noun (n.) A mace bearer; an officer of a court. |
| macerating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Macerate |
| macerater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp. |
| maceration | noun (n.) The act or process of macerating. |
| machaerodus | noun (n.) Alt. of Machairodus |
| machairodus | noun (n.) A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers. |
| machete | noun (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. |
| machiavelian | noun (n.) One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty. |
| machiavelism | noun (n.) Alt. of Machiavelianism |
| machiavelianism | noun (n.) The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power. |
| machicolated | adjective (a.) Having machicolations. |
| machicolation | noun (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle. |
| noun (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures. |
| machicoulis | noun (n.) Same as Machicolation. |
| machinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to machines. |
| machinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Machinate |
| machination | noun (n.) The act of machinating. |
| noun (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. |
| machinator | noun (n.) One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. |
| machine | noun (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine. |
| noun (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. | |
| noun (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. | |
| noun (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. | |
| noun (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. | |
| noun (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. |
| machining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Machine |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine. |
| machiner | noun (n.) One who or operates a machine; a machinist. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MAY:
English Words which starts with 'm' and ends with 'y':
| machinery | noun (n.) Machines, in general, or collectively. |
| noun (n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. | |
| noun (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. | |
| noun (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. |
| macilency | noun (n.) Leanness. |
| macrology | noun (n.) Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words. |
| maculatory | adjective (a.) Causing a spot or stain. |
| madegassy | noun (n. & a.) See Madecassee. |
| madly | adjective (a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly. |
| maggoty | adjective (a.) Infested with maggots. |
| adjective (a.) Full of whims; capricious. |
| magisteriality | noun (n.) Magisterialness; authoritativeness. |
| magistery | noun (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. |
| noun (n.) A magisterial injunction. | |
| noun (n.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. |
| magistracy | noun (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate. |
| noun (n.) The collective body of magistrates. |
| magistrality | noun (n.) Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. |
| magnality | noun (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment. |
| magnanimity | noun (n.) The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects. |
| magnetotherapy | noun (n.) The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body. |
| maguey | noun (n.) The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave. |
| mahogany | noun (n.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America. |
| noun (n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture. | |
| noun (n.) A table made of mahogany wood. |
| mahometry | noun (n.) Mohammedanism. |
| maidenly | adjective (a.) Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved. |
| adverb (adv.) In a maidenlike manner. |
| mainstay | noun (n.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop. |
| noun (n.) Main support; principal dependence. |
| maistry | noun (n.) Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. |
| majesty | noun (n.) The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns. |
| noun (n.) Hence, used with the possessive pronoun, the title of an emperor, king or queen; -- in this sense taking a plural; as, their majesties attended the concert. | |
| noun (n.) Dignity; elevation of manner or style. |
| majority | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. |
| noun (n.) The military rank of a major. | |
| noun (n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs. | |
| noun (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast. | |
| noun (n.) Ancestors; ancestry. | |
| noun (n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality. |
| malacology | noun (n.) The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks. |
| malacostracology | noun (n.) That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology. |
| malady | noun (n.) Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. |
| noun (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder. |
| malagasy | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language. |
| malashaganay | noun (n.) The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens). |
| malay | noun (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Malayan |
| maledicency | noun (n.) Evil speaking. |
| malignancy | noun (n.) The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart. |
| noun (n.) Unfavorableness; evil nature. | |
| noun (n.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being a malignant. |
| malignity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. |
| noun (n.) Virulence; deadly quality. | |
| noun (n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. |
| malingery | noun (n.) The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering. |
| malleability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. |
| malmsey | noun (n.) A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc. |
| malty | adjective (a.) Consisting, or like, malt. |
| mammalogy | noun (n.) The science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia. |
| mammary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins. |
| mammetry | noun (n.) See Mawmetry. |
| mammillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid. |
| adjective (a.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances. |
| mammology | noun (n.) Mastology. See Mammalogy. |
| mammy | noun (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother. |
| manageability | noun (n.) The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness. |
| managery | noun (n.) Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. |
| noun (n.) Husbandry; economy; frugality. |
| mandatary | noun (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice. |
| noun (n.) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. |
| mandatory | noun (n.) Same as Mandatary. |
| adjective (a.) Containing a command; preceptive; directory. |
| manducatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing. |
| mamgabey | noun (n.) Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black. |
| manipulatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to manipulation. |
| mannerly | adjective (a.) Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. |
| adverb (adv.) With good manners. |
| manoscopy | noun (n.) The science of the determination of the density of vapors and gases. |
| manovery | noun (n.) A contrivance or maneuvering to catch game illegally. |
| mansionary | adjective (a.) Resident; residentiary; as, mansionary canons. |
| mansionry | noun (n.) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy as a dwelling place. |
| mantology | noun (n.) The act or art of divination. |
| manuary | noun (n.) An artificer. |
| adjective (a.) Manual. |
| manufactory | noun (n.) Manufacture. |
| noun (n.) A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to manufacturing. |
| manutenency | noun (n.) Maintenance. |
| manway | noun (n.) A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through. |
| many | noun (n.) A retinue of servants; a household. |
| noun (a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few. | |
| adjective (a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community. | |
| adjective (a.) A large or considerable number. |
| mappery | noun (n.) The making, or study, of maps. |
| marbly | adjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, marble. |
| marcidity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being withered or lean. |
| margay | noun (n.) An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat. |
| mariolatry | noun (n.) The worship of the Virgin Mary. |
| marquetry | noun (n.) Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors. |
| marriageability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being marriageable. |
| marrowy | adjective (a.) Full of marrow; pithy. |
| marshy | adjective (a.) Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. |
| martyrology | noun (n.) A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs. |
| mary | noun (n.) Marrow. |
| (interj.) See Marry. |
| maryolatry | noun (n.) Mariolatry. |
| masculinity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness. |
| mashy | noun (n.) A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches. |
| adjective (a.) Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash. |
| maskery | noun (n.) The dress or disguise of a maske/; masquerade. |
| masonry | noun (n.) The art or occupation of a mason. |
| noun (n.) The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry. | |
| noun (n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar. | |
| noun (n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry. |
| masterly | adjective (a.) Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. |
| adjective (a.) Imperious; domineering; arbitrary. | |
| adverb (adv.) With the skill of a master. |
| mastery | noun (n.) The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. |
| noun (n.) Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. | |
| noun (n.) Contest for superiority. | |
| noun (n.) A masterly operation; a feat. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, the philosopher's stone. | |
| noun (n.) The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered. |
| masticatory | noun (n.) A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva. |
| adjective (a.) Chewing; adapted to perform the office o/ chewing food. |
| mastodyny | noun (n.) Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia. |
| mastology | noun (n.) The natural history of Mammalia. |
| masty | adjective (a.) Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc. |
| mateology | noun (n.) A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry. |
| mateotechny | noun (n.) Any unprofitable science. |
| materiality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. |
| noun (n.) Importance; as, the materiality of facts. |
| maternity | noun (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother. |
| matrimony | noun (n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. |
| noun (n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons. |
| matronly | adjective (a.) Advanced in years; elderly. |
| adjective (a.) Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate. |
| mattery | adjective (a.) Generating or containing pus; purulent. |
| adjective (a.) Full of substance or matter; important. |
| maturity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. |
| noun (n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run. |
| matutinary | adjective (a.) Matutinal. |
| maty | noun (n.) A native house servant in India. |
| maungy | adjective (a.) Mangy. |
| mawky | adjective (a.) Maggoty. |
| mawmetry | noun (n.) The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet. |
| maxillary | noun (n.) The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla. |
| noun (n.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. |
| mazology | noun (n.) Same as Mastology. |
| mazy | adjective (a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error. |
| meadowy | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow. |
| meandry | adjective (a.) Winding; flexuous. |
| measelry | noun (n.) Leprosy. |
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