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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

marupa
Simarouba amara noun tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack

Marut
noun any of a group of storm gods; offspring of Rudra

Marvell
Andrew Marvell noun English poet (1621-1678)

marvelous
marvellous adjective being or having the character of a miracle

Marx
Groucho noun United States comedian; oldest of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1890-1977)

Marx Brothers
noun a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor

Marxism
noun the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism

Marxist
adjective following the ideas of Marx and Engels

Marxist-Leninist
adjective following the ideas of Marx expanded to include those of Lenin

Mary
Virgin Mary noun the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics

Mary I
Mary Tudor noun daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)

Mary II
noun Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694)

Mary Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey noun English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

Mary Magdalene
St. Mary Magdalene noun sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus

Mary Martin
noun United States actress (1913-1990)

Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy noun United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)

Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart noun queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)

Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley noun English writer who created Frankenstein`s monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

Maryland
Old Line State noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Maryland chicken
noun chicken fried than oven-baked and served with milk gravy

Maryland golden aster
Chrysopsis mariana noun perennial golden aster of southeastern United States

Marylander
noun a native or resident of Maryland

marzipan
marchpane noun almond paste and egg whites

Masa
noun an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages

Masai
noun a Nilotic language

mascara
noun makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes

mascarene grass
Korean velvet grass noun Asiatic creeping perennial grass; introduced in southern United States as a drought-resistant lawn grass

mascarpone
noun soft mild Italian cream cheese

mascot
noun a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure

masculine
adjective (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; `a masculine cadence`; `the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy``

masculinization
masculinisation noun the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

masdevallia
noun any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube

Masefield
John Masefield noun English poet (1878-1967)

maser
noun an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation

mash
noun mixture of ground animal feeds

mashed potato
noun potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed

masher
noun a kitchen utensil used for mashing (e.g. potatoes)

Mashi
noun a Bantu language

mashie
five iron noun middle-distance iron

mashie niblick
seven iron noun iron with a lofted face for hitting high shots to the green

Mashriq
noun Arabic name for the Middle East

masjid
musjid noun (Islam) a Muslim place of worship

mask
noun activity that tries to conceal something; `no mask could conceal his ignorance`; `they moved in under a mask of friendship`

mask
verb shield from light

masked ball
masquerade ball noun a ball at which guests wear costumes and masks

masked shrew
Sorex cinereus noun commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America

masking piece
masking noun scenery used to block the audience`s view of parts of the stage that should not be seen

masking tape
masking paper noun adhesive tape used to cover the part of a surface that should not be painted

masochism
noun sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological)

masochist
noun someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment

masochistic
adjective deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated

masochistically
adverb in a masochistic manner; `masochistically he insisted on an even greater workload`

mason
stonemason noun a craftsman who works with stone or brick

Mason
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason noun English writer (1865-1948)

mason bee
noun any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand

Mason City
noun a town in north central Iowa

Mason jar
noun a glass jar with an air-tight screw top; used in home canning

mason`s level
noun a level longer than a carpenter`s level

Mason-Dixon line
Mason and Dixon line noun the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War

Masonic
adjective of or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry; `Masonic lodge`

Masonite
noun a type of fiberboard

masonry
noun the craft of a mason

Masorah
Masora noun a vast body of textual criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures including notes on features of writing and on the occurrence of certain words and on variant sources and instructions for pronunciation and other comments that were written between AD 600 and 900 by Jewish scribes in the margins or at the end of texts

Masorete
Massorete noun a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah)

Masoretic
adjective of or relating to the Masorah

Masoud
Ahmad Shah Masoud noun Afghan leader of forces opposed to the Taliban; won fame by successfully resisting the Soviets in the 1980s; was assassinated by men posing as journalists (1953-2001)

masquerade
masquerade party noun a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

masquerader
masker noun a participant in a masquerade

Mass
noun (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

Mass card
noun (Roman Catholic Church) a card sent to a bereaved family that says the sender has arranged for a Mass to be said in memory of the deceased

mass culture
noun the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media

mass defect
mass deficiency noun the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent particles

mass energy
noun (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy

mass hysteria
epidemic hysertia noun a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation

mass medium
noun (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public

mass murderer
noun a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident

mass noun
noun a noun that does not form plurals

mass number
nucleon number noun the sum of the number of neutrons and protons in an atomic nucleus

mass production
noun the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques)

mass spectrograph
noun a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum

mass spectrometer
spectrometer noun spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer

mass spectroscopic
adjective relating to or involving mass spectroscopy

mass spectroscopy
noun the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles

mass spectrum
noun a distribution of ions as shown by a mass spectrograph or a mass spectrometer

mass unit
noun a unit of measurement for mass

mass-action principle
mass action noun (neruology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning

mass-energy equivalence
noun (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy

mass-spectrometric
adjective relating to or involving a mass spectrometer

Massachuset
Massachusetts noun the Algonquian language of the Massachuset

Massachusetts
Bay State noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

Massachusetts
noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States

Massachusetts Bay
noun an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south

Massachusetts Bay Colony
noun one of the British colonies that formed the United States

Massachusetts fern
Parathelypteris simulata noun delicate feathery shield fern of the eastern United States; sometimes placed in genus Thelypteris

massacre
mass murder noun the savage and excessive killing of many people

massage
noun kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation

massage parlor
noun a business establishment that offers therapeutic massage

massager
noun someone who rubs or kneads parts of the body to stimulate circulation and promote relaxation

massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus noun pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the Great Lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians

massasauga rattler
Sistrurus catenatus noun pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the Great Lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians