majordomos
plural of majordomo

majorship
The position or office of major.

makery
a place where things are made

makhtesh
A geological landform having steep walls of resistant rock surrounding a deep closed valley, usually drained by a single wadi.

maktab
A traditional Islamic elementary school, primarily teaching literacy and the Qur'an.

maktabs
plural of maktab

malacofauna
The molluscs of an area

maleness
The characteristic, state or condition of being male.

malenesses
plural of maleness

mallemocke
Alternative form of mollymawk.

mallemoke
Alternative form of mollymawk.

mallemuck
A mollymawk.

mallification
Transformation into a shopping mall.

malmock
Alternative form of mollymawk.

malocas
plural of maloca

malpais
Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.

malpaises
plural of malpais

malwapa
plural of lolwapa

mamad
A reinforced safe room in an Israeli building.

mamads
plural of mamad

mamelon
A hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.
A structure resembling a small bump found on the outer surface of stromatoporoids.
A protrusion on a newly erupted tooth.

mamelons
plural of mamelon

mammisi
a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god

mammisis
plural of mammisi

manatiq
plural of mintaqah

mandamento
mandamento (former type of Italian administrative district; territory ruled by a praetor)
mandamento (territory ruled by a Sicilian Mafia clan, under a capomandamento (“family boss”))

mandamentos
plural of mandamento

mandir
A Hindu temple.

mandirs
plural of mandir

maneaba
A meeting house in Kiribati and other South Pacific island naitons

maneabas
plural of maneaba

maneapas
plural of maneapa

mangenue
A young, inexperienced, guileless man or boy, especially in film and theater.

mangenues
plural of mangenue

manlock
An airlock through which workers pass into a chamber of compressed air, especially used in mines.

manlocks
plural of manlock

manoir
A type of manor or country house.

manoirs
plural of manoir

manorway
A roadway, typically a dead end, giving access from a manor or village to marshy common land, often near a river.

manorways
plural of manorway

manuport
A natural (not man-made) object of an excavation site, which was originally brought into the site by humans.

manuports
plural of manuport

mappery
cartography

maqtab
Alternative form of maktab.

maqtabs
plural of maqtab

marae
A Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.
The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house, seen as a cultural and spiritual focal point; (by extension) the buildings and people around it; a spiritual or cultural centre.

maraes
plural of marae

marai
Alternative form of marae.

marais
A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.

maraises
plural of marais

marakapas
The tropical forest tree Pterocymbium tinctorium.

marchland
Land comprising the marches of a territory; borderland.

marchlands
plural of marchland

marchmount
A tall mountain, in particular one of the Five Great Mountains of China.

marchmounts
plural of marchmount

mareel
Phosphorescence on the ocean.

maremma
A marshy coastal plain in Italy.
A Maremma Sheepdog or Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog.

maremmas
plural of maremma

maremme
plural of maremma

margravate
The status or rank of a margrave.
A territory governed by a margrave or margravine.

maricon
An effeminate homosexual male in a Spanish-speaking region, especially Central America.

maricones
plural of maricon

maricons
plural of maricon

marigot
A side-stream or tributary rivulet in West Africa.

marigots
plural of marigot

marinescape
A view of the sea.

marinescapes
plural of marinescape

marinorama
A representation of a sea view.

marinoramas
plural of marinorama

marisma
A tidal or saltwater marsh.

marismas
plural of marisma

maritality
The marital state; being married.
Fondness of a wife for her husband.

marketabilities
plural of marketability

marketability
The likelihood that something will sell; market appeal.

marketisation
Alternative spelling of marketization.

marketisations
plural of marketisation

marketization
The exposure of service industries to market forces.
A restructuring process that enables state enterprises to operate as market-oriented firms by changing the legal environment in which they operate.

marketizations
plural of marketization

marketplace
An open area in a town housing a public market.
The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
The world of commerce and trade.
A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.

marketplaces
plural of marketplace

marketspace
A virtual marketplace on the Internet.

marketspaces
plural of marketspace

marketstead
A marketplace.

marketsteads
plural of marketstead

marlpit
A pit where marl has been dug.

marlpits
plural of marlpit

marqueter
A woodworker who produces marquetry.

marqueters
plural of marqueter

marqueteur
Alternative form of marqueter.

marqueteurs
plural of marqueteur

marquisate
The territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness.
The state or rank of a marquis.

marquisates
plural of marquisate

marsh
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants.

marshalship
The position or role of a marshal.

marshes
plural of marsh

marshland
Marshy land; bog or fen.

marshlands
plural of marshland

marshsnake
Alternative form of marsh snake.

marshsnakes
plural of marshsnake

martello
Alternative form of Martello.

martellos
plural of martello

martyria
plural of martyrium

martyries
plural of martyry

martyrion
A church that contains relics of martyrs or marks the site of the grave of a martyr; a martyry.

martyrions
plural of martyrion

martyrium
A tomb or other edifice erected in homage to a martyr.

martyriums
plural of martyrium

martyry
A shrine in honor of a (usually religious, notably Christian) martyr, possibly at his grave.
A shrine at a site which "bears witness" to a crucial religious event not related to a tomb.

marzbanate
Alternative form of marzpanate.

marzbanates
plural of marzbanate

marzpanate
a border province of the Sassanian Empire ruled by the marzpan
the office of the marzpan
the period in Armenian history after the fall of the Arshakuni Dynasty of Armenia in 428, when the eastern part of Armenia was governed as a marzpanate by Sassanian-nominated marzpans

marzpanates
plural of marzpanate

masajid
plural of masjid

masgid
Alternative form of masjid.

masgids
plural of masgid

masjed
Alternative form of masjid.

masjeds
plural of masjed

masjeed
Alternative form of masjid.

masjeeds
plural of masjeed

masjid
A mosque.

masjids
plural of masjid

maskeeg
Archaic form of muskeg.

maskeegs
plural of maskeeg

maskeg
Alternative form of muskeg.

maskegs
plural of maskeg

masl
Abbreviation of meters above sea level (“elevation”).

masotla
A field cultivated as tribute for the chief.

massif
A principal mountain mass.
A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists.

massifs
plural of massif

masslessness
Absence of mass; the state or condition of being massless.

massymore
The dungeon of a castle.

massymores
plural of massymore

mastaba
A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.

mastabah
Alternative form of mastaba.

mastabahs
plural of mastabah

mastabas
plural of mastaba