MONA
First name MONA's origin is Europe. MONA means "lady". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MONA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mona.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with MONA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming MONA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MONA AS A WHOLE:
monaeka desmona simona anemona ramona desdemona rimonaNAMES RHYMING WITH MONA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ona) - Names That Ends with ona:
epona abellona cairistiona catriona ilona kekona keona kona dona winona ivona napona alastriona aldona allona alona avarona briona brona carona caylona deona devona diona ejona fiona gliona halona kiona leona mairona ona oona riona rona saxona senona wenona wilona yona xylona solona iliona lona iona albiona tivona tziyona yarkonaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (na) - Names That Ends with na:
abena adanna asmina ayana crispina fana hasana hasina makena tarana uchenna urenna zahina zena zwena alhena hana rihana sana' thana' aitana agana inina nena raina bozena jana jirina gelsomina fukayna levina jaakkina jaana katariina durandana falerina methena nanna ghleanna kyna armina johanna katharina luana aegina aetna akilina alcina aretina athena celenaNAMES RHYMING WITH MONA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (mon) - Names That Begins with mon:
monca moncha moncreiffe monette mongo mongwau monica monifa monika moniqua monique monohan monroe montae montague montaigu montaine montaro montay monte montel montes montez montgomery month montie montrel montrell montrelle monty monyyakRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (mo) - Names That Begins with mo:
moana mochni modesta modeste modig modraed modred modron moerae mogens mogue mohamad mohamed mohamet mohammad mohammed moibeal moin moina moira moirai moire moireach moises mokatavatah moke moketavato moketaveto moketoveto moki mokovaoto molan molara molimo molli mollie molloy molly molner moly momoztli momus momuso mooney moor moore moosa mopsus mor mora morag morain moran moraunt morcades mordecai mordechai mordehai mordke mordrain mordrayans mordred more moreen moreland moreley morell morella morenikeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MONA:
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 maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makala makarioa makda makeda makela makemba 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 marelda marella marenkaEnglish Words Rhyming MONA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MONA AS A WHOLE:
antimonarchist | noun (n.) An enemy to monarchial government. |
antimonate | noun (n.) A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. |
apneumona | noun (n. pl.) An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes. |
ammonal | noun (n.) An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered aluminium and nitrate of ammonium. |
commonable | adjective (a.) Held in common. |
adjective (a.) Allowed to pasture on public commons. |
commonage | noun (n.) The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. |
commonalty | noun (n.) The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. |
noun (n.) The majority or bulk of mankind. |
cremona | noun (n.) A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy. |
dipneumona | noun (n. pl.) A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs. |
intercommonage | noun (n.) The right or privilege of intercommoning. |
lemonade | noun (n.) A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened. |
metantimonate | noun (n.) A salt of metantimonic acid. |
mona | noun (n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches. |
monachal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic. |
monachism | noun (n.) The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism. |
monacid | adjective (a.) Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; -- said of bases, and of certain metals. |
monad | noun (n.) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. |
noun (n.) The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena. | |
noun (n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera. | |
noun (n.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid. | |
noun (n.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen. |
monadaria | noun (n. pl.) The Infusoria. |
monadelphia | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family. |
monadelphian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Monadelphous |
monadelphous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments. |
monadic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Monadical |
monadical | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n. |
monadiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young. |
monadology | noun (n.) The doctrine or theory of monads. |
monal | noun (n.) Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant. |
monamide | noun (n.) An amido compound with only one amido group. |
monamine | noun (n.) A basic compound containing one amido group; as, methyl amine is a monamine. |
monander | noun (n.) One of the Monandria. |
monandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen. |
monandrian | adjective (a.) Same as Monandrous. |
monandric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage. |
monandrous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen. |
monandry | noun (n.) The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry. |
monanthous | adjective (a.) Having but one flower; one-flowered. |
monarch | noun (n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. |
noun (n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest. | |
noun (n.) A patron deity or presiding genius. | |
noun (n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly. | |
adjective (a.) Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling. |
monarchal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial. |
monarchess | noun (n.) A female monarch. |
monarchial | adjective (a.) Monarchic. |
monarchian | noun (n.) One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian. |
monarchic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Monarchical |
monarchical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. |
monarchism | noun (n.) The principles of, or preference for, monarchy. |
monarchist | noun (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy. |
monarchizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Monarchize |
monarchizer | noun (n.) One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist. |
monarcho | noun (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. |
monarchy | noun (n.) A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch. |
noun (n.) A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. | |
noun (n.) The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom. |
monas | noun (n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MONA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ona) - English Words That Ends with ona:
anona | noun (n.) A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceae, including the soursop. |
bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
cinchona | noun (n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. |
noun (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark. |
corona | noun (n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. |
noun (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column. | |
noun (n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown. | |
noun (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin. | |
noun (n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon. | |
noun (n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil. | |
noun (n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ. | |
noun (n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon. | |
noun (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle. | |
noun (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis. | |
noun (n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold. |
gymnophiona | noun (n. pl.) An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha. |
monopneumona | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. |
persona | noun (n.) Same as Person, n., 8. |
pomona | noun (n.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees. |
tetraneumona | noun (n. pl.) A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale. |
trona | noun (n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum. |
zircona | noun (n.) Zirconia. |
zona | noun (n.) A zone or band; a layer. |
wenona | noun (n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MONA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mon) - Words That Begins with mon:
monasterial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life. |
monastery | noun (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females. |
monastic | noun (n.) A monk. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Monastical |
monastical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules. |
adjective (a.) Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. |
monasticism | noun (n.) The monastic life, system, or condition. |
monasticon | noun (n.) A book giving an account of monasteries. |
monaxial | adjective (a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development. |
monazite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals. |
monday | noun (n.) The second day of the week; the day following Sunday. |
monde | noun (n.) The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. |
mone | noun (n.) The moon. |
noun (n.) A moan. |
monecian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Monecious |
monecious | adjective (a.) See Monoecian, and Monoecious. |
monembryony | noun (n.) The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. |
moner | noun (n.) One of the Monera. |
monera | noun (n. pl.) The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus. |
(pl. ) of Moneron |
moneral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monera. |
moneran | noun (n.) One of the Monera. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monera. |
moneron | noun (n.) One of the Monera. |
monerula | noun (n.) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner. |
monesia | noun (n.) The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent. |
monesin | noun (n.) The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a medicine. |
monetary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary. |
moneth | noun (n.) A month. |
monetization | noun (n.) The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver. |
money | noun (n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. |
noun (n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling. | |
noun (n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money. | |
verb (v. t.) To supply with money. | |
() Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms. |
moneyage | noun (n.) A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. |
noun (n.) Mintage; coinage. |
moneyer | noun (n.) A person who deals in money; banker or broker. |
noun (n.) An authorized coiner of money. |
moneyless | adjective (a.) Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. |
moneywort | noun (n.) A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils. |
mongcorn | noun (n.) See Mangcorn. |
monger | noun (n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger. |
noun (n.) A small merchant vessel. | |
verb (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic. |
mongol | noun (n.) One of the Mongols. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols. |
mongolian | noun (n.) One of the Mongols. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols. |
mongolic | adjective (a.) See Mongolian. |
mongoloid | adjective (a.) Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols. |
mongols | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Mongolians |
mongolians | noun (n. pl.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks. |
mongoose | noun (n.) Alt. of Mongoos |
noun (n.) A Madagascan lemur (Lemur mongos). |
mongoos | noun (n.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). |
mongrel | noun (n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. |
adjective (a.) Not of a pure breed. | |
adjective (a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language. |
monied | adjective (a.) See Moneyed. |
monifier | noun (n.) A fossil fish. |
moniliform | adjective (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna. |
moniment | noun (n.) Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record. |
monisher | noun (n.) One who monishes; an admonisher. |
monishment | noun (n.) Admonition. |
monism | noun (n.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism. |
noun (n.) See Monogenesis, 1. | |
noun (n.) The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure. |
monist | noun (n.) A believer in monism. |
monistic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MONA:
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. |