7-letter words starting with m
- malmsey — a strong, sweet wine with a strong flavor, originally made in Greece but now made mainly in Madeira.
- malodor — an unpleasant or offensive odor; stench.
- malonic — of or derived from malonic acid; propanedioic.
- malonyl — containing the malonyl group.
- malosol — A lightly-salted Russian caviar.
- malpais — Southwestern U.S. an extensive area of rough, barren lava flows.
- malraux — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
- maltase — an enzyme that converts maltose into glucose and causes similar cleavage of many other glucosides.
- malteds — Plural form of malted.
- maltese — of or relating to Malta, its people, or their language.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- malting — germinated grain, usually barley, used in brewing and distilling.
- maltman — Someone who works in a malthouse.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- malvern — an urban area in W England, SW of Birmingham: mineral springs; incorporated into Malvern Hills 1974.
- malvine — a female given name.
- malware — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- mamaguy — (transitive, Trinidad) To dupe or deceive.
- mamasan — A woman in a position of authority, especially one in charge of a geisha house or bar in Japan or East Asia.
- mamboed — Simple past tense and past participle of mambo.
- mamelon — A hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.
- mamilla — (anatomy) The small projection of a mammary gland, a nipple.
- mammals — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
- mammary — of or relating to the mamma or breast.
- mammate — having breasts
- mammies — Informal. mother1 .
- mammock — a fragment; scrap.
- mammoth — any large, elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Mammuthus, from the Pleistocene Epoch, having hairy skin and ridged molar teeth.
- mammula — a small nipplelike process or protuberance.
- mampara — a foolish person; idiot
- mampoer — a home-distilled brandy made from peaches, prickly pears, etc
- man flu — a case of the common cold as suffered by a man, implying that he is exaggerating the debilitating effects of the illness
- man-bag — a small bag, usually with a shoulder strap, carried by a man and designed to contain personal articles
- man-bun — a man’s hair gathered into a bun at the back or top of the head.
- man-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of man-hours in a day of work.
- manacle — a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- managee — Someone who is managed, a subordinate of a manager.
- manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- manages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manage.
- managua — a republic in Central America. 57,143 sq. mi. (148,000 sq. km). Capital: Managua.
- manakin — any of several small, songless passerine birds of the family Pipridae, of the warmer parts of the Americas, usually having brilliantly colored plumage.
- manatee — any of several plant-eating aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, of West Indian, Floridian, and Gulf Coast waters, having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail: all species are endangered.
- manband — an all-male vocal pop group which was formed as a boy band, but whose members have reached maturity
- manbote — a sum of money paid to a lord whose vassal was murdered.
- mancala — (games, board games) A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
- manchet — a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- mandala — Oriental Art. a schematized representation of the cosmos, chiefly characterized by a concentric configuration of geometric shapes, each of which contains an image of a deity or an attribute of a deity.
- mandapa — (in south India, architecture) A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.