7-letter words starting with m
- make up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- make-up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- makedoc — A program from Carleton University, Ottawa that generates documentation for Objective C programs. It will also generate a class hierarchy diagram. The output format is similar to that used by StepStone.
- makeing — Misspelling of making.
- makemie — Francis, 1658?–1708, American Presbyterian clergyman, born in Ireland: founded the first Presbyterian church in America.
- makeout — Of, involving, or suited to making out.
- makeups — Plural form of makeup.
- makings — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- makonde — a member of a people living in northeastern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania, renowned as woodcarvers.
- makurdi — a port in E central Nigeria, capital of Benue State on the Benue River: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 259 000 (2005 est)
- malacca — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula: formerly a part of the British Straits Settlements and of the Federation of Malaya. 640 sq. mi. (1658 sq. km).
- malachi — a Minor Prophet of the 5th century b.c.
- malachy — Saint. 1094–1148, Irish prelate; he became Archbishop of Armagh (1132) and founded (1142) the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland. Feast day: Nov 3
- malacia — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- malaco- — denoting softness
- malaise — a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
- malakal — a city in E Sudan, on the White Nile.
- malamud — Bernard, 1914–86, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- malanga — a thick, fleshy-leaved South American plant, Xanthosoma atrovirens, of the arum family, having leaves up to 3 feet (90 cm) long and nearly 2 feet (60 cm) wide.
- malange — a city in N Angola.
- malanje — a city in N Angola.
- mälaren — Lake, a lake in S Sweden, extending W from Stockholm. 440 sq. mi. (1140 sq. km).
- malaria — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malarky — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- malatya — a city in central Turkey.
- malayan — of or relating to Malaya or its inhabitants
- malayo- — Malay and
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malcolm — a male given name: from a Gaelic word meaning “disciple of Saint Columba.”.
- maleate — a salt or ester of maleic acid.
- malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- malicho — mischief or wrongdoing
- maligns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malign.
- malinda — a female given name.
- malines — French name of Mechlin.
- malinke — a member of an agricultural people living in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Ivory Coast.
- malison — a curse.
- malkins — Plural form of malkin.
- mallams — Plural form of mallam.
- mallard — a common, almost cosmopolitan, wild duck, Anas platyrhynchos, from which the domestic ducks are descended.
- mallees — Plural form of mallee.
- mallets — Plural form of mallet.
- malleus — the outermost of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of mammals. Also called hammer. Compare incus (def 1), stapes.
- malling — the overbuilding of shopping malls in a region: the malling of America.
- mallory — Stephen Russell, 1813?–73, U.S. lawyer and politician.
- mallows — Plural form of mallow.
- mallrat — Alternative spelling of mall rat.
- malmedy — Eupen and Malmédy.