Name Report For First Name MILA:
MILA
First name MILA's origin is Other. MILA means "industrious". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MILA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mila.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with MILA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with MILA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming MILA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MİLA AS A WHOLE:
ludmila milada jamila kamilah camila camilah jamilah jemila kamila milagritos milagros milagrosa milana milani sharmila milaan milan milap wemilatNAMES RHYMING WITH MİLA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ila) - Names That Ends with ila:
nangila ndila adila laila akila panphila phila lajila mahila adsila malila teofila attila aila akeila dalila danila delila eila gaila galila gavrila gila kaila leila lila mikhaila neila odila ottila sharongila sheila vevila tila daliila kalila ilaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (la) - Names That Ends with la:
adeola fayola fola hola layla ramla sela cala najla donella alula bela pavla svetla arabella sybylla karola alala anatola eustella idola iola neola onella pamela philomela scylla suadela thecla alaula akela kaikala keala lahela makala ola adiella leela bella borbala gisella akshamala apala behula kamala shitala upala agnella agnola gabriella isabella leola natala paola fala kimimela posala sitala soyala takala zitkala angela costelaNAMES RHYMING WITH MİLA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (mil) - Names That Begins with mil:
milburn milbyrne milcah mildraed mildread mildred mildri mildrid mildryd miles miley milford miliani milintica milka milla millana millard millen millenny miller millian millicent millicente millie millman milman milo milosh miloslav milton milwardRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (mi) - Names That Begins with mi:
mia miakoda 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 mikhalis mikhos miki mikil mikio mikkahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MİLA:
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 mahina maia maiana maida maira mairia mairona maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makarioa makda makeda makela makemba makena makenna makya malaika malana maleka malia maliha malika 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 marenka margaEnglish Words Rhyming MILA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MİLA AS A WHOLE:
| assimilability | noun (n.) The quality of being assimilable. |
| assimilable | adjective (a.) That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated. |
| assimilating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assimilate |
| assimilation | noun (n.) The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. |
| noun (n.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. |
| assimilative | adjective (a.) Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance. |
| assimilatory | adjective (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. |
| demilance | noun (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer. |
| demilancer | noun (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance. |
| disassimilation | noun (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism. |
| disassimilative | adjective (a.) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation. |
| dissimilar | adjective (a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. |
| dissimilarity | noun (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. |
| dissimilation | noun (n.) The act of making dissimilar. |
| malassimilation | noun (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food. |
| noun (n.) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood. |
| milage | noun (n.) Same as Mileage. |
| milanese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Milan; people of Milan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. |
| milady | noun (n.) Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman. |
| semilapidified | adjective (a.) Imperfectly changed into stone. |
| similar | noun (n.) That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like. | |
| adjective (a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness. | |
| adjective (a.) Homogenous; uniform. |
| similarity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. |
| similary | adjective (a.) Similar. |
| similative | adjective (a.) Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance. |
| smilacin | noun (n.) See Parrilin. |
| smilax | noun (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. |
| noun (n.) A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. |
| verisimilar | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MİLA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ila) - English Words That Ends with ila:
| aquila | noun (n.) A genus of eagles. |
| noun (n.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. |
| caffila | noun (n.) See Cafila. |
| cafila | noun (n.) Alt. of Cafileh |
| geophila | noun (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs. |
| manila | adjective (a.) Alt. of Manilla |
| mochila | noun (n.) A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. |
| strobila | noun (n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae. |
| noun (n.) A mature tapeworm. |
| tequila | noun (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MİLA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mil) - Words That Begins with mil:
| milch | adjective (a.) Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts. |
| adjective (a.) Tender; pitiful; weeping. |
| mildew | noun (n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. |
| verb (v. t.) To taint with mildew. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become tainted with mildew. |
| mildewing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mildew |
| mildness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter. |
| mile | noun (n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. |
| mileage | noun (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile. |
| noun (n.) Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc. |
| milepost | noun (n.) A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place. |
| milesian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Miletus. |
| noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Ireland. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants. | |
| adjective (a.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish. |
| milestone | noun (n.) A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost. |
| milfoil | noun (n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. |
| miliaria | noun (n.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever. |
| miliary | noun (n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini. |
| adjective (a.) Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption. | |
| adjective (a.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever. | |
| adjective (a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini. |
| milice | noun (n.) Militia. |
| miliola | noun (n.) A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers. |
| miliolite | noun (n.) A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola. |
| adjective (a.) The same Milliolitic. |
| miliolitic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites. |
| militancy | noun (n.) The state of being militant; warfare. |
| noun (n.) A military spirit or system; militarism. |
| militant | adjective (a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier. |
| militar | adjective (a.) Military. |
| militarism | noun (n.) A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system. |
| noun (n.) The spirit and traditions of military life. |
| militarist | noun (n.) A military man. |
| military | noun (n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. | |
| adjective (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition. |
| militating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Militate |
| militia | noun (n.) In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies. |
| noun (n.) Military service; warfare. |
| militiaman | noun (n.) One who belongs to the militia. |
| milk | noun (n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. |
| noun (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex. | |
| noun (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water. | |
| noun (n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. | |
| verb (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery. |
| milking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Milk |
| milken | adjective (a.) Consisting of milk. |
| milker | noun (n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows. |
| noun (n.) A cow or other animal that gives milk. |
| milkful | adjective (a.) Full of milk; abounding with food. |
| milkiness | noun (n.) State or quality of being milky. |
| milkmaid | noun (n.) A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy. |
| milkman | noun (n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers. |
| milksop | noun (n.) A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. |
| milkweed | noun (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge. |
| milkwort | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. |
| milky | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk. |
| adjective (a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." | |
| adjective (a.) Yielding milk. | |
| adjective (a.) Mild; tame; spiritless. |
| mill | noun (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
| noun (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. | |
| noun (n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. | |
| noun (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. | |
| noun (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. | |
| noun (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. | |
| noun (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. | |
| noun (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. | |
| noun (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. | |
| noun (n.) A pugilistic. | |
| noun (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. | |
| noun (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. | |
| noun (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin. | |
| noun (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. | |
| noun (n.) To beat with the fists. | |
| noun (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. | |
| noun (n.) Short for Treadmill. | |
| noun (n.) The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. | |
| verb (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. | |
| verb (v. i.) To undergo hulling, as maize. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take part in a mill; to box. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle. |
| milling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mill |
| noun (n.) The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. |
| millboard | noun (n.) A kind of stout pasteboard. |
| milldam | noun (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel. |
| milled | adjective (a.) Having been subjected to some process of milling. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Mill |
| millenarian | noun (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians. |
| millenarianism | noun (n.) Alt. of Millenarism |
| millenarism | noun (n.) The doctrine of Millenarians. |
| millenary | noun (n.) The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of a thousand; millennial. |
| millennial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness. |
| millennialist | noun (n.) One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period. |
| millennialism | noun (n.) Alt. of Millenniarism |
| millenniarism | noun (n.) Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MİLA:
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. |
| 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. |
| melisma | noun (n.) A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation. |
| noun (n.) A grace or embellishment. |
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