9-letter words starting with m
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make book — to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- make eyes — to ogle amorously
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- make head — to make progress
- make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- make nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make sail — to sail upon, over, or through: to sail the seven seas.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- make talk — to talk idly, as in an effort to pass time
- make time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make-nice — pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- makeovers — Plural form of makeover.
- makeready — the final adjustment of the printing surfaces on a press by the use of leveling devices, overlays, underlays, etc.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- makeyevka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of the Sea of Azov.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- malachite — a green mineral, basic copper carbonate, Cu 2 CO 3 (OH) 2 , an ore of copper, used for making ornamental articles.
- malacotic — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- 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.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
- malanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
- malarious — 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.
- malatesta — an Italian family that ruled Rimini from the 13th to the 16th century
- malathion — an organic phosphate insecticide, C 10 H 19 O 6 S 2 P, of relatively low toxicity for mammals.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- malayalam — a Dravidian language spoken in extreme southwestern India.
- malaysian — a native or inhabitant of Malaysia.
- malcolm x — (Malcolm Little) 1925–65, U.S. black-rights activist and religious leader.
- maldivian — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
- male alto — countertenor.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- maleberry — swamp andromeda.
- maledicts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maledict.
- maleffect — an undesirable effect
- malengine — a wicked plan or deceit
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.