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- madrassas — Plural form of madrassa.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- madrigals — Plural form of madrigal.
- madrilene — a consommé flavored with tomato, frequently jelled and served cold.
- madrileno — a native or inhabitant of Madrid, Spain.
- main road — principal street
- make head — to make progress
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- maladroit — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- marienbad — a spa and resort town in the Czech Republic.
- marinaded — a seasoned liquid, usually of vinegar or wine with oil, herbs, spices, etc., in which meat, fish, vegetables, etc., are steeped before cooking.
- marinades — Plural form of marinade.
- marmalade — a jellylike preserve in which small pieces of fruit and fruit rind, as of oranges or lemons, are suspended.
- marmalady — Covered with marmalade.
- marmolada — a mountain in N Italy: highest peak of the Dolomites, 11,020 feet (3360 meters).
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- mastheads — Plural form of masthead.
- me decade — the decade of the 1970s thought of as characterized by narcissism, self-indulgence, and a lack of social concern in many, esp. younger, people (the Me Generation)
- meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
- meadville — a city in NW Pennsylvania.
- meatheads — Plural form of meathead.
- megadeath — a unit of one million deaths: used in estimating or predicting the fatalities that would occur in a nuclear war.
- megadoses — Plural form of megadose.
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- menadione — a synthetic yellow crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 8 O 2 , insoluble in water, used as a vitamin K supplement.
- menhadens — Plural form of menhaden.
- metalhead — Slang. a fan of heavy metal music; headbanger.
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- miltiades — c540–488? b.c, Athenian general.
- misadjust — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- misadvice — to give bad or inappropriate advice to.
- misadvise — to give bad or inappropriate advice to.
- misleaded — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of mislead.
- misleader — One who leads into error.
- misloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misload.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- monadnock — Physical Geography. a residual hill or mountain standing well above the surface of a surrounding peneplain.
- montadale — one of a breed of white-faced, hornless sheep developed in the U.S. by crossing Cheviot rams and Columbia ewes, noted for their meat and heavy fleece.
- moonglade — (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- moradabad — a city in N Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- mossadegh — Mohammed, 1880–1967, Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53.
- motorcade — a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- mouse pad — mouse mat
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscavado — muscovado.
- muscovado — raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses.