First Names Rhyming MARCELUS
English Words Rhyming MARCELUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MARCELUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MARCELUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (arcelus) - English Words That Ends with arcelus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (rcelus) - English Words That Ends with rcelus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (celus) - English Words That Ends with celus:
| sphacelus | noun (n.) Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (elus) - English Words That Ends with elus:
| angelus | noun (n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. |
| | noun (n.) The Angelus bell. |
| obelus | noun (n.) A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lus) - English Words That Ends with lus:
| abaculus | noun (n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| aeolus | noun (n.) The god of the winds. |
| alveolus | noun (n.) A cell in a honeycomb. |
| | noun (n.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil |
| | noun (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc. |
| annulus | noun (n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space. |
| | noun (n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other. |
| | noun (n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it. |
| | noun (n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals. |
| argulus | noun (n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura. |
| arillus | noun (n.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. |
| articulus | noun (n.) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage. |
| asilus | noun (n.) A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly. |
| astragalus | noun (n.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus. |
| | noun (n.) See Astragal, 1. |
| bacillus | noun (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism. |
| bolus | noun (n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill. |
| baetulus | noun (n.) A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin. |
| bucephalus | noun (n.) The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any riding horse. |
| calculus | noun (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. |
| callus | noun (n.) Same as Callosity |
| | noun (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. |
| | noun (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. |
| canaliculus | noun (n.) A minute canal. |
| carolus | noun (n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. |
| cauliculus | noun (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian. |
| clitellus | noun (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes. |
| convolvulus | noun (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |
| crotalus | noun (n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes. |
| cumulus | noun (n.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud. |
| cucullus | noun (n.) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals. |
| | noun (n.) A color marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood. |
| discobolus | noun (n.) A thrower of the discus. |
| | noun (n.) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it. |
| dolus | noun (n.) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa. |
| dracunculus | noun (n.) A fish; the dragonet. |
| | noun (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis). |
| embolus | noun (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. |
| | noun (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism. |
| entellus | noun (n.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor. |
| fasciculus | noun (n.) A little bundle; a fascicle. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a book. |
| flocculus | noun (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe. |
| funambulus | noun (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer. |
| funiculus | noun (n.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord. |
| | noun (n.) A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion. |
| | noun (n.) In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema. |
| gladiolus | noun (n.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily. |
| | noun (n.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum. |
| glomerulus | noun (n.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney. |
| gryllus | noun (n.) A genus of insects including the common crickets. |
| hamulus | noun (n.) A hook, or hooklike process. |
| | noun (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather. |
| hectocotylus | noun (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes. |
| hilus | noun (n.) Same as Hilum, 2. |
| homunculus | noun (n.) A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. |
| hydrocaulus | noun (n.) The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea. |
| hydrocephalus | noun (n.) An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously. |
| iulus | noun (n.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha. |
| julus | noun (n.) A catkin or ament. See Ament. |
| lienculus | noun (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. |
| limulus | noun (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot. |
| loculus | noun (n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. |
| | noun (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament. |
| malleolus | noun (n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external. |
| | noun (n.) " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through. |
| merithallus | noun (n.) Same as Internode. |
| modiolus | noun (n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear. |
| modulus | noun (n.) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MARCELUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (marcelu) - Words That Begins with marcelu:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (marcel) - Words That Begins with marcel:
| marceline | noun (n.) A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (marce) - Words That Begins with marce:
| marcescent | adjective (a.) Withering without/ falling off; fading; decaying. |
| marcescible | adjective (a.) Li/ble to wither or decay. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (marc) - Words That Begins with marc:
| marc | noun (n.) The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes. |
| | noun (n.) A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. |
| | noun (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence. |
| | noun (n.) A German coin and money of account. See Mark. |
| marcantant | noun (n.) A merchant. |
| marcasite | noun (n.) A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. |
| marcasitic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Marcasitical |
| marcasitical | adjective (a.) Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite. |
| marcassin | noun (n.) A young wild boar. |
| marcato | adjective (a.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction. |
| march | noun (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. |
| | noun (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. |
| | noun (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops. |
| | noun (n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement. |
| | noun (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form. |
| | verb (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily. |
| | verb (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France. |
| | verb (v. t.) TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force. |
| marching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of March |
| | () a. & n., fr. March, v. |
| marcher | noun (n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory. |
| marchet | noun (n.) Alt. of Merchet |
| marchioness | noun (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. |
| marchman | noun (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales. |
| marchpane | noun (n.) A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. |
| marcian | adjective (a.) Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. |
| marcid | adjective (a.) Pining; lean; withered. |
| | adjective (a.) Characterized by emaciation, as a fever. |
| marcidity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being withered or lean. |
| marcionite | noun (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. |
| marcobrunner | noun (n.) A celebrated Rhine wine. |
| marcor | noun (n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay. |
| marcosian | noun (n.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician. |
| marconi | adjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aerial, coherer, station, system, etc. |
| marconigram | noun (n.) A Marconi wireless message. |
| marconigraph | noun (n.) The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy. |
| marconism | noun (n.) The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mar) - Words That Begins with mar:
| mar | noun (n.) A small lake. See Mere. |
| | noun (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement. |
| | verb (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. |
| | verb (v.) To spoil; to ruin. |
| marring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mar |
| 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). |
| marabou | noun (n.) A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. |
| | noun (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of thrown raw silk, nearly white naturally, but capable of being dyed without scouring; also, a thin fabric made from it, as for scarfs, which resembles the feathers of the marabou in delicacy, -- whence the name. |
| marabout | noun (n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally. |
| maracan | noun (n.) A macaw. |
| marai | noun (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean. |
| 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. |
| maraschino | noun (n.) A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia. |
| marasmus | noun (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. |
| marauding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maraud |
| maraud | noun (n.) An excursion for plundering. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. |
| maravedi | noun (n.) A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin. |
| marble | noun (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles. |
| | noun (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles. |
| | noun (n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper. |
| | adjective (a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper. |
| | adjective (a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart. |
| marbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marble |
| | noun (n.) The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble. |
| | noun (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance. |
| | noun (n.) Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects. |
| marbled | adjective (a.) Made of, or faced with, marble. |
| | adjective (a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. |
| | adjective (a.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Marble |
| marbleizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marbleize |
| marbler | noun (n.) One who works upon marble or other stone. |
| | noun (n.) One who colors or stains in imitation of marble. |
| marbly | adjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, marble. |
| marbrinus | noun (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
| mardi gras | noun (n.) The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking. |
| mare | noun (n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds. |
| | noun (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. |
| marena | noun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. |
| mareschal | noun (n.) A military officer of high rank; a marshal. |
| margarate | noun (n.) A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base. |
| margaric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. |
| margarin | noun (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin. |
| marasritaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. |
| margarite | noun (n.) A pearl. |
| | noun (n.) A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster. |
| margaritic | adjective (a.) Margaric. |
| margaritiferous | adjective (a.) Producing pearls. |
| margarodite | noun (n.) A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite. |
| margarone | noun (n.) The ketone of margaric acid. |
| margarous | adjective (a.) Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid. |
| margay | noun (n.) An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat. |
| marge | noun (n.) Border; margin; edge; verge. |
| margent | noun (n.) A margin; border; brink; edge. |
| | verb (v. t.) To enter or note down upon the margin of a page; to margin. |
| margin | noun (n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing. |
| | noun (n.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article. |
| | noun (n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty. |
| | noun (n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with a margin. |
| | verb (v. t.) To enter in the margin of a page. |
| marginging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Margin |
| marginal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a margin. |
| | adjective (a.) Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss. |
| marginalia | noun (n. pl.) Marginal notes. |
| marginate | noun (n.) Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with a distinct margin; to margin. |
| marginated | adjective (a.) Same as Marginate, a. |
| margined | adjective (a.) Having a margin. |
| | adjective (a.) Bordered with a distinct line of color. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Margin |
| marginella | noun (n.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas. |
| marginicidal | adjective (a.) Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits. |
| 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. |
| margravate | noun (n.) Alt. of Margraviate |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MARCELUS:
English Words which starts with 'mar' and ends with 'lus':
English Words which starts with 'ma' and ends with 'us':
| macacus | noun (n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows. |
| 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. |
| macrencephalous | adjective (a.) Having a large brain. |
| macrocephalous | adjective (a.) Having a large head. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body. |
| macrodactylous | adjective (a.) Having long toes. |
| macropetalous | adjective (a.) Having long or large petals. |
| macrophyllous | adjective (a.) Having long or large leaves. |
| macropodous | adjective (a.) Having long legs or feet. |
| macropterous | adjective (a.) Having long wings. |
| macropus | noun (n.) genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo. |
| macrotous | adjective (a.) Large-eared. |
| macrurous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail. |
| magnanimous | adjective (a.) Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror. |
| | adjective (a.) Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish. |
| magnetiferous | adjective (a.) Producing or conducting magnetism. |
| magniloquous | adjective (a.) Magniloquent. |
| magnoliaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples. |
| malacopterygious | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Malacopterygii. |
| malacostomous | adjective (a.) Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes. |
| malacostracous | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Malacostraca. |
| malapterurus | noun (n.) A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric. |
| malarious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. |
| malevolous | adjective (a.) Malevolent. |
| malgracious | adjective (a.) Not graceful; displeasing. |
| malicious | adjective (a.) Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. |
| | adjective (a.) Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief. |
| | adjective (a.) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act. |
| malleus | noun (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far. |
| | noun (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell. |
| mallotus | noun (n.) A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod. |
| malpighiaceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests. |
| malvaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it. |
| mammaliferous | adjective (a.) Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata. |
| mammiferous | adjective (a.) Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia. |
| mancus | noun (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money. |
| mandamus | noun (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty. |
| manducus | noun (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage. |
| manganesious | adjective (a.) Manganous. |
| manganesous | adjective (a.) Manganous. |
| manganiferous | adjective (a.) Containing manganese. |
| manganous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide. |
| manus | noun (n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand. |
| | (pl. ) of Manus |
| marigenous | adjective (a.) Produced in or by the sea. |
| marlaceous | adjective (a.) Resembling marl; partaking of the qualities of marl. |
| marmoraceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, marble. |
| marvelous | noun (n.) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. |
| | noun (n.) Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible. |
| masterous | adjective (a.) Masterly. |
| mastodonsaurus | noun (n.) A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks. |
| materious | adjective (a.) See Material. |
| matrimonious | adjective (a.) Matrimonial. |
