| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| malabar | noun | A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. |
| malacca | noun | A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. |
| malaise | noun | An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease. |
| malambo | noun | A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo. |
| malamic | adjective | Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts. |
| malaria | noun | 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., 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. |
| malayan | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country., The Malay language. |
| maleate | noun | A salt of maleic acid. |
| malefic | adjective | Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful. |
| malicho | noun | Mischief. |
| malison | noun | Malediction; curse; execration. |
| malling | present participle & vb. noun | of Mall |
| mallard | adjective | A drake; the male of Anas boschas., A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead. |
| malleal | adjective | Pertaining to the malleus. |
| malleus | noun | The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far., One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax., A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell. |
| mallows | noun | A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous. |
| malmsey | noun | A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc. |
| malodor | noun | An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. |
| malonic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid. |
| malonyl | noun | A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid. |
| malting | present participle & vb. noun | of Malt, The process of making, or of becoming malt. |
| maltese | adjective | Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants., A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta. |
| maltine | noun | The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt. |
| maltmen | plural | of Maltman |
| maltman | noun | A man whose occupation is to make malt. |
| maltose | noun | A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power. |