mace
A heavy fighting club.
A ceremonial form of this weapon.
A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
A billiard cue.

maced
simple past and past participle of mace

macehead
Alternative form of mace head.

maceheads
plural of macehead

maceman
A warrior who uses a mace as a weapon.

macemen
plural of maceman

maces
plural of mace

macharomancy
Divination by interpreting swords, daggers and knives. This was popular in Scotland where on July 31st it was performed to predict the deaths and marriages of the following year.

macing
present participle and gerund of mace

macuahuitl
An Aztec obsidian sword or club.

macuahuitls
plural of macuahuitl

magazine
A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
An ammunition storehouse.
An ammunition storehouse.
A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
A country or district especially rich in natural products.
A city viewed as a marketing center.
A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
A collection of Teletext pages.

magazines
plural of magazine

magnum
A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.

magnums
plural of magnum

manchette
An ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance.
A sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
A special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand.
A paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat.
An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
A vertical heading within a newspaper article.
A sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.

manchettes
plural of manchette

manstopper
A weapon, bullet, dog, etc. that can quickly and reliably incapacitate a person.

manstoppers
plural of manstopper

maquahuitl
Alternative form of macuahuitl.

maquahuitls
plural of maquahuitl

matachin
A carnivalesque dance with swords and bucklers, traditionally performed in Spain by costumed troupes.
A dancer who performs this dance.

matachina
Alternative form of matachin (“type of dance”).
A female dancer of the matachin dance.

matachinas
plural of matachina

matachine
Alternative form of matachin.

matachines
plural of matachin
plural of matachine

matachins
plural of matachin

matchets
plural of matchet

matchlock
Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match.

matchlockman
A soldier trained to use a matchlock as a primary weapon.

matchlockmen
plural of matchlockman

matchlocks
plural of matchlock

maxim
A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

maxims
plural of maxim

meatshot
A shot, from a shotgun or scattergun, all of whose bullets strike the enemy, usually from a very short to point-blank range.

meatshots
plural of meatshot

megaweapon
An extremely powerful weapon.

megaweapons
plural of megaweapon

menaulion
A heavy spear with a length of 2.7 to 3.6 m, featuring a thick shaft

menuki
A decorative grip swell on a Japanese sword.

menukis
plural of menuki

meristele
Each of the apparently isolated units of a dictyostele.

meristeles
plural of meristele

merryings
merrymaking

mesistele
A conical plated coupling between the proxistele and the dististele of some homoiosteles.

mesisteles
plural of mesistele

messer
Someone or something who messes.

messers
plural of messer

methanotrophy
The bacterial use of methane as a source of carbon and of energy

methylphosphonofluoridate
Any of a class of highly toxic organophosphorus compounds characterized by the methylphosphonofluoridate chemical structure, including sarin and soman. They are potent cholinesterase inhibitors, often used as chemical weapons.

mg
Abbreviation of meaning.

mgs
plural of mg

mickies
plural of micky

micky
Alternative spelling of mickey.

microdagger
A form of microknife

microdaggers
plural of microdagger

microknife
A knife used in microsurgery

micronuke
A hypothetical nuclear weapon built on a very small scale.

micronukes
plural of micronuke

microslicer
A microtome.

microslicers
plural of microslicer

microstamp
A microscopic marking on a firearm cartridge, made by microstamping.

microstamps
plural of microstamp

microswords
plural of microsword

microweapon
A very small weapon, generally in the realm of high technology.

microweapons
plural of microweapon

midshaft
The midpoint of a shaft.

midshafts
plural of midshaft

mildot
Alternative form of mil-dot.

mildots
plural of mildot

milsurp
Obsolete, unneeded, or retired military equipment, often rifles, sold to individuals or businesses.

milsurps
plural of milsurp

mindey
Alternative spelling of mindy (“knife”).

mindeys
plural of mindey

mindi
Alternative spelling of mindy (“knife”).

mindies
plural of mindy

mindis
plural of mindi

mindy
Knife.

minelaying
The laying of mines (explosive devices).

minings
plural of mining

minuity
A trifle; a thing of little importance or worth; something small.
Smallness; meanness.

miserere
Alternative letter-case form of Miserere (“the 51st/50th Psalm”).

misereres
plural of miserere

misericord
Relaxation of monastic rules.
The room in a monastery for monks granted such relaxation.
A ledge, sometimes ornately carved, attached to a folding church seat to provide support for a person standing for long periods; a subsellium.
A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe.

misericordia
An amercement.
A misericord, a thin-bladed dagger, used in the Middle Ages to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary.
An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
A charitable institution, established by royal foundation and managed by a religious order for providing care to the poor, the sick, prisoners, orphans, etc.
One or all of the members of the religious order that operates a misericordia.
A song that is sung as part of a service asking for God's mercy.
Compassionate mercy.

misericordias
plural of misericordia

misericords
plural of misericord

missile
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.

missiles
plural of missile

missle
Misspelling of missile.

miswordings
plural of miswording

miswords
third-person singular simple present indicative of misword

mitrailleur
A rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
The person in charge of such a weapon.

mitrailleurs
plural of mitrailleur

mixotrophy
The derivation of metabolic energy from a combination of photosynthesis and an external energy source.

montante
A type of longsword used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

montantes
plural of montante

morgenstern
morning star (spiked weapon)

morgensterns
plural of morgenstern