Name Report For First Name MIA:
MIA
First name MIA's origin is Latin. MIA means "mine". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mia.(Brown names are of the same origin (Latin) with MIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with MIA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming MIA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MƯA AS A WHOLE:
kamia artemia cosimia eunomia euphemia hippodamia lamia laodamia academia germian bemia beomia damia damiana damiane efthemia jamia miakoda nimiane sha-mia yasmia gremian jamian jeramiah jeremias nehemiah jeremiah damian romia karmia thenomia neomia carmia hamia trymian geremia hieremias amiaNAMES RHYMING WITH MƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:
afia aminia ashia efia fowsia kamaria safia tawia beornia bernia odelia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia melodia saskia nubia tabia berengaria bethia cambria ingria abelia adalia aloysia agalaia agalia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia aspasia athanasia basilia callia calligenia cassiopeia castalia celosia cynthia demetria dionysia egeria eileithyia elefteria erytheia eulallia eurycleia filia gelasia georgia harmonia hedia helia hesperia hestia hygeia hypatia idalia iphegenia lampetia lelia lethia obelia oleisia orithyia ortygia parthenia pelagia pelicia pelopia polyhymnia pythia sinovia sophia sophronia stasia terentia thalia theophania theophilia titania urania xenia xylia zelia zenia zenobia halia kaiolohia melia anasztaizia rozalia viktoria zsofia albiniaNAMES RHYMING WITH MƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (mi) - Names That Begins with mi:
micaden micaela micah micaiah mical michael michaela michaele michaelina michaeline michaelyn michal michalin michayla micheal micheala micheil michel michela michele micheline michella michelle michie michiko michio michon mick mickey micole midas mide midori mieko mielikki mieze migina migisi mignon mignonette miguel mihaela mihai mihaly mika mika'il mikael mikaela mikaia mikala mikayla mike mikeal mikel mikele mikella mikelle mikenna mikeya mikhail mikhaila mikhalis mikhos miki mikil mikio mikkah mikkel mikki mikko mikolas mikolaus mila milaan milada milagritos milagros milagrosa milan milana milani milap milburn milbyrne milcah mildraed mildread mildred mildri mildrid mildryd miles miley milford miliani milintica milka milla millana millardNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MƯA:
First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':
mabbina mabina maca macala macayla macha machara machayla machupa mackayla mackenna macmurra mada madalena madalina maddalena madeeha madeleina madelena madelina madena madia madina madora madra maelisa maertisa magda magdala magdalena magena magnhilda magnilda magnolia maha mahala mahalia mahila mahina maia maiana maida maira mairia mairona maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makala makarioa makda makeda 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 mareldaEnglish Words Rhyming MIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MƯA AS A WHOLE:
| academial | adjective (a.) Academic. |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| acromial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the acromion. |
| adynamia | noun (n.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. |
| amia | noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin. |
| amiability | noun (n.) The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. |
| amiable | adjective (a.) Lovable; lovely; pleasing. |
| adjective (a.) Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas. | |
| adjective (a.) Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman. | |
| adjective (a.) Done out of love. |
| amiableness | noun (n.) The quality of being amiable; amiability. |
| amianth | noun (n.) See Amianthus. |
| amianthiform | adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus in form. |
| amianthoid | adjective (a.) Resembling amianthus. |
| amianthus | noun (n.) Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus. |
| anaemia | adjective (a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity. |
| anomia | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment. |
| anosmia | noun (n.) Loss of the sense of smell. |
| antinomian | noun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory. |
| antinomianism | noun (n.) The tenets or practice of Antinomians. |
| aphemia | noun (n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin. |
| artemia | noun (n.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp. |
| astronomian | noun (n.) An astrologer. |
| acetonaemia | noun (n.) Alt. of -nemia |
| ankylostomiasis | noun (n.) A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anaemia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis. |
| asemia | noun (n.) Loss of power to express, or to understand, symbols or signs of thought. |
| atmiatry | noun (n.) Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation. |
| binomial | noun (n.) An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root. | |
| adjective (a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs. |
| bohemia | noun (n.) A country of central Europe. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. |
| bohemian | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy. |
| noun (n.) A native of Bohemia. | |
| noun (n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family. | |
| noun (n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2. |
| bohemianism | noun (n.) The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. |
| bulimia | noun (n.) Alt. of Bulimy |
| cacaemia | noun (n.) Alt. of Cachaemia |
| cachaemia | noun (n.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Cachemia |
| cacochymia | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacochymy |
| noun (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, esp. of the blood. |
| cadmia | noun (n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine. |
| cadmian | adjective (a.) See Cadmean. |
| cimia | noun (n.) See Cimbia. |
| clysmian | adjective (a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes. |
| cnemial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the shin bone. |
| cryptogamia | noun (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds. |
| cryptogamian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamous |
| cachemia | noun (n.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. |
| cacostomia | noun (n.) Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth. |
| damiana | noun (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac. |
| damianist | noun (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. |
| didynamia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length. |
| didynamian | adjective (a.) Didynamous. |
| dochmiac | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius. |
| encomiast | noun (n.) One who praises; a panegyrist. |
| encomiastic | noun (n.) A panegyric. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Encomiastical |
| encomiastical | adjective (a.) Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - English Words That Ends with ia:
| abdominalia | noun (n. pl.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. |
| acacia | noun (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals. |
| noun (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates. | |
| noun (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic. |
| acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
| acinesia | noun (n.) Same as Akinesia. |
| aconitia | noun (n.) Same as Aconitine. |
| acontia | noun (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated. |
| acrania | noun (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull. |
| noun (n.) The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists. |
| acrasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrasy |
| acrisia | noun (n.) Alt. of Acrisy |
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| actinia | noun (n.) An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidae. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.]. |
| noun (n.) A genus in the family Actinidae. |
| adansonia | noun (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. |
| adelphia | noun (n.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc. |
| adenalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Adenalgy |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| aegicrania | noun (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. |
| aerophobia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aerophoby |
| aesthesia | noun (n.) Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anaesthesia. |
| agalactia | noun (n.) Alt. of Agalaxy |
| agraphia | noun (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia. |
| akinesia | noun (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| alleluia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alleluiah |
| almadia | noun (n.) Alt. of Almadie |
| alopecia | noun (n.) Alt. of Alopecy |
| alpia | noun (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. |
| amblyopia | noun (n.) Alt. of Amblyopy |
| ambrosia | noun (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. |
| noun (n.) An unguent of the gods. | |
| noun (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows. |
| amentia | noun (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding. |
| ametropia | noun (n.) Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. |
| ammonia | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn. |
| amnesia | noun (n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. |
| amphibia | noun (n. pl.) One of the classes of vertebrates. |
| (pl. ) of Amphibium |
| anaesthesia | noun (n.) Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic. |
| analgesia | noun (n.) Absence of sensibility to pain. |
| anaphrodisia | noun (n.) Absence of sexual appetite. |
| anesthesia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anesthetic |
| anglomania | noun (n.) A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. |
| anglophobia | noun (n.) Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. |
| anopsia | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anopsy |
| anorexia | noun (n.) Alt. of Anorexy |
| anthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris. |
| anthomania | noun (n.) A extravagant fondness for flowers. |
| antlia | noun (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera. |
| antonomasia | noun (n.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero. |
| aphakia | noun (n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. |
| aphasia | noun (n.) Alt. of Aphasy |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (mi) - Words That Begins with mi:
| miamis | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers. |
| miargyrite | noun (n.) A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver. |
| mias | noun (n.) The orang-outang. |
| miascite | noun (n.) A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite. |
| miasm | noun (n.) Miasma. |
| miasma | noun (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria. |
| miasmal | adjective (a.) Containing miasma; miasmatic. |
| miasmatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Miasmatical |
| miasmatical | adjective (a.) Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases. |
| miasmatist | noun (n.) One who has made a special study of miasma. |
| miasmology | noun (n.) That department of medical science which treats of miasma. |
| miauling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Miaul |
| miaul | noun (n.) The crying of a cat. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul. |
| mica | noun (n.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer. |
| micaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica. |
| mice | noun (n.) pl of Mouse. |
| (pl. ) of Mouse |
| micella | noun (n.) A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature. |
| michaelmas | noun (n.) The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn. |
| micher | noun (n.) One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc. |
| michery | noun (n.) Theft; cheating. |
| miching | adjective (a.) Hiding; skulking; cowardly. |
| mickle | adjective (a.) Much; great. |
| micmacs | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. |
| mico | noun (n.) A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety. |
| micracoustic | adjective (a.) Same as Microustic. |
| micraster | noun (n.) A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows. |
| microampere | noun (n.) One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampere. |
| microbacteria | noun (n. pl.) In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. |
| microbe | noun (n.) Alt. of Microbion |
| microbion | noun (n.) A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera. |
| microbian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease. |
| microbic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a microbe. |
| microbicide | noun (n.) Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms. |
| microcephalic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Microcephalous |
| microcephalous | adjective (a.) Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic. |
| microchronometer | noun (n.) A chronoscope. |
| microcline | noun (n.) A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form. |
| micrococcal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci. |
| micrococcus | noun (n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus. |
| microcosm | noun (n.) A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. |
| microcosmic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Microcosmical |
| microcosmical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the microcosm. |
| microcosmography | noun (n.) Description of man as a microcosm. |
| microcoulomb | noun (n.) A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb. |
| microcoustic | noun (n.) An instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing. |
| microcrith | noun (n.) The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith. |
| microcrystalline | adjective (a.) Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline. |
| microcyte | noun (n.) One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia. |
| microdont | adjective (a.) Having small teeth. |
| microfarad | noun (n.) The millionth part of a farad. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MƯA:
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. |
| madeira | noun (n.) A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| melada | noun (n.) Alt. of Melado |
| 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. |
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