Name Report For First Name META:
META
First name META's origin is Other. META means "danish form of margaret (pearl)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with META below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of meta.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with META and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with META - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming META
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES META AS A WHOLE:
almeta admeta metaniraNAMES RHYMING WITH META (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eta) - Names That Ends with eta:
leta nasheeta alzbeta agneta aleta kineta rheta zeta vineeta amayeta peta antoaneta elisabeta georgeta margareta nicoleta voileta beta marjeta aneta antonieta areta arleta clareta cocheta coleta dorbeta eleta elisaveta elizaveta enriqueta greta julieta laqueta loleta loreta neta oleta seleta veta waneta yelysaveta zaneta akecheta reta nireta meleta melleta voleta fletaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ta) - Names That Ends with ta:
aminata binata binta fanta ismitta nashita bixenta adsaluta bricta nantosuelta amista paharita serenata vlasta gjerta gusta alberta elberta hrothbeorhta fusberta atalanta baptista delta errita giancinta irta jocasta minta panagiota zyta gitta amrita anahita jaganmata jarita jivanta samvarta shanta sita vinata aletta annuziata antonietta battista benedetta brunetta concetta donata edita elisabettaNAMES RHYMING WITH META (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (met) - Names That Begins with met:
metea methena methina metis mettabel mette meturatoRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (me) - Names That Begins with me:
mead meade meadghbh meadhbh meadhra meadow meagan mealcoluim meara mearr mecatl meccus meda medb medea medina medora medoro medr medredydd medrod medus medusa medwin medwine medwyn meeda meena megan megane megara megdn megedagik meghan mehadi mehdi mehemet mehetabel meheytabel mehitabelle mehitahelle meht-urt mei-yin meika meilseoir meinhard meinke meino meinrad meinyard meir meira mejra meka mekhi mekledoodum mekonnen mel melaina melaine melampus melanee melania melanie melanippus melantha melanthe melanthius melantho melborn melbourne melburn melby melbyrne melchoir meldon meldri meldrick meldrik meldryk mele meleagant meleager melecertes melechan melek melena melesse meletios meli melia meliadus melinaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH META:
First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'a':
mabbina mabina maca macala macayla macha machara machayla machupa mackayla mackenna macmurra mada madalena madalina maddalena madeeha madeleina madelena madelina madena madia madina madora madra maelisa maertisa magda magdala magdalena magena magnhilda magnilda magnolia maha mahala mahalia mahila mahina maia maiana maida maira mairia mairona maitea maitena maitilda maiya majeeda majella majida maka makala makarioa makda makeda makela makemba makena makenna makya malaika malana maleka malia maliha malika malila malina malinda malita malmuira malva malvina mana manaba manara manauia manda mandisa manisha maniya mankalita manoela mantotohpa manuela manya maola mapiya mara maranda marcela marcella marcellia marcia marcsa marea mareesa mareldaEnglish Words Rhyming META
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES META AS A WHOLE:
| ametabola | noun (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametabolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis. |
| ametabolic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ametabolous |
| ametabolous | adjective (a.) Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects. |
| antimetabole | noun (n.) A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order. |
| antimetathesis | noun (n.) An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order. |
| bimetallic | adjective (a.) Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency. |
| adjective (a.) Composed of two different metals; formed of two parts, each of a different metal; as, bimetallic wire; bimetallic thermometer, etc. |
| bimetallism | noun (n.) The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism. |
| bimetallist | noun (n.) An advocate of bimetallism. |
| castrametation | noun (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp. |
| cometarium | noun (n.) An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun. |
| cometary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet. |
| experimetalist | noun (n.) One who makes experiments; an experimenter. |
| hemimetabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis. |
| hemimetabolic | adjective (a.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches. |
| holometabola | noun (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. |
| holometabolic | adjective (a.) Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees. |
| hydrometallurgical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores. |
| hydrometallurgy | noun (n.) The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents. |
| hypermetamorphosis | noun (n.) A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth. |
| intermetacarpal | adjective (a.) Between the metacarpal bones. |
| intermetatarsal | adjective (a.) Between the metatarsal bones. |
| mahometan | noun (n.) See Mohammedan. |
| mahometanism | noun (n.) See Mohammedanism. |
| mahometanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mahometanize |
| mahumetan | noun (n.) Alt. of Mahumetanism |
| mahumetanism | noun (n.) See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism. |
| metabasis | noun (n.) A transition from one subject to another. |
| noun (n.) Same as Metabola. |
| metabola | noun (n.) Alt. of Metabole |
| noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Metabolia |
| metabole | noun (n.) A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment. |
| metabolia | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis. |
| metabolian | noun (n.) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis. |
| metabolic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force. |
| metabolisis | noun (n.) Metabolism. |
| metabolism | noun (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism). |
| noun (n.) The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated. |
| metabolite | noun (n.) A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea. |
| metabranchial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae. |
| metacarpal | noun (n.) A metacarpal bone. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the metacarpus. |
| metacarpus | noun (n.) That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
| metacenter | noun (n.) Alt. of -tre |
| metacetone | noun (n.) A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone. |
| metachloral | noun (n.) A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral. |
| metachronism | noun (n.) An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time. |
| metachrosis | noun (n.) The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc. |
| metacinnabarite | noun (n.) Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color. |
| metacism | noun (n.) A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it. |
| metacrolein | noun (n.) A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor. |
| metacromion | noun (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals. |
| metadiscoidal | adjective (a.) Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH META (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eta) - English Words That Ends with eta:
| beta | noun (n.) The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, /. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. |
| excreta | noun (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted. |
| hyperotreta | noun (n. pl.) An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. |
| keta | noun (n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of inferior value, which in the autumn runs up all the larger rivers between San Francisco and Kamchatka. |
| martineta | noun (n.) A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest. |
| nepeta | noun (n.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy. |
| oligochaeta | noun (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species. |
| pallometa | noun (n.) A pompano. |
| peseta | noun (n.) A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos. |
| pieta | noun (n.) A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels. |
| polychaeta | noun (n. pl.) One of the two principal groups of Chaetopoda. It includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setae. See Illust. under Parapodia. |
| seta | noun (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss. |
| noun (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form. | |
| noun (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds. |
| spirochaeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Spirochaete |
| taffeta | noun (n.) Alt. of Taffety |
| theta | noun (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. |
| zeta | noun (n.) A Greek letter corresponding to our z. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH META (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (met) - Words That Begins with met:
| metagastric | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs. |
| metagenesis | noun (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation. |
| noun (n.) Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy. |
| metagenetic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to metagenesis. |
| metagenic | adjective (a.) Metagenetic. |
| metagnathous | adjective (a.) Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill. |
| metagrammatism | noun (n.) Anagrammatism. |
| metagraphic | adjective (a.) By or pertaining to metagraphy. |
| metagraphy | noun (n.) The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. |
| metal | noun (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc. |
| noun (n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners. | |
| noun (n.) A mine from which ores are taken. | |
| noun (n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper. | |
| noun (n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle. | |
| noun (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads. | |
| noun (n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war. | |
| noun (n.) Glass in a state of fusion. | |
| noun (n.) The rails of a railroad. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road. |
| metaling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Metal |
| metalammonium | noun (n.) A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen. |
| metalbumin | noun (n.) A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin. |
| metaldehyde | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same. |
| metalepsis | noun (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word. |
| metalepsy | noun (n.) Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. |
| metaleptic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. |
| adjective (a.) Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. |
| metaleptical | adjective (a.) Metaleptic. |
| metallic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy. |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. |
| metallical | adjective (a.) See Metallic. |
| metallifacture | noun (n.) The production and working or manufacture of metals. |
| metalliferous | adjective (a.) Producing metals; yielding metals. |
| metalliform | adjective (a.) Having the form or structure of a metal. |
| metalline | noun (n.) A substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of machines for obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. | |
| adjective (a.) Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. |
| metallist | noun (n.) A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals. |
| metallization | noun (n.) The act or process of metallizing. |
| metallizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Metallize |
| metallochrome | noun (n.) A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity. |
| metallochromy | noun (n.) The art or process of coloring metals. |
| metallograph | noun (n.) A print made by metallography. |
| metallographic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography. |
| metallographist | noun (n.) One who writes on the subject of metals. |
| metallography | noun (n.) The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals. |
| noun (n.) A method of transferring impressions of the grain of wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action. | |
| noun (n.) A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. |
| metalloid | noun (n.) Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined. |
| noun (n.) Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the appearance of a metal. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative. |
| metalloidal | adjective (a.) Metalloid. |
| metallorganic | adjective (a.) Metalorganic. |
| metallotherapy | noun (n.) Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body. |
| metallurgic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Metallurgical |
| metallurgical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to metallurgy. |
| metallurgist | noun (n.) One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy. |
| metallurgy | noun (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores. |
| metalman | noun (n.) A worker in metals. |
| metalogical | adjective (a.) Beyond the scope or province of logic. |
| metalorganic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc. |
| metamer | noun (n.) Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. |
| metamere | noun (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva. |
| metameric | adjective (a.) Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation. |
| metamerism | noun (n.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres. |
| noun (n.) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds. |
| metamorphic | adjective (a.) Subject to change; changeable; variable. |
| adjective (a.) Causing a change of structure. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks. |
| metamorphism | noun (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble. |
| metamorphist | noun (n.) One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH META:
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. |
| 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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