University Vocabulary
367,698 words and 113,531 expressions at the university level.
plural of m'lovely
simple past and past participle of M'Naught
present participle and gerund of M'Naught
Censored spelling of motherfucker.
plural of m*therfucker
The practice of running business transactions and applications on mobile devices.
The use of mobile technology in commerce.
Initialism of Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers
Initialism of Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
plural of ma'abara
Alternative form of mamzelle.
plural of ma'amselle
A species of edible mackerel (Trachurus trachurus).
plural of maasbanker
A city and capital of Limburg province, Netherlands.
A native or inhabitant of Maastricht.
Of or pertaining to Maastricht.
A barangay of San Carlos, Pangasinan, Philippines.
The earliest prose literature of Britain, compiled in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions by medieval Welsh authors.
A coastal town in Mablethorpe and Sutton parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF5085).
aminoprofen
Alternative form of mac 'n' cheese.
macabre
plural of macaberesque
The state or condition of being macabre.
macabre
plural of macadamia
present participle and gerund of macadam
Alternative form of macadamize.
simple past and past participle of macadamise
third-person singular simple present indicative of macadamise
present participle and gerund of macadamise
To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
simple past and past participle of macadamize
One who surfaces a road with macadam.
plural of macadamizer
third-person singular simple present indicative of macadamize
present participle and gerund of macadamize
simple past and past participle of macadam
present participle and gerund of macadam
plural of Macaddict
leftovers from a meal, historically eaten by the cook and butler after their master's meal
plural of macahuitl
A surname.
plural of macambira
plural of Macapagal
plural of macaranga
A barangay of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.
A barangay of Bangued, Abra, Philippines.
present participle and gerund of macarise
present participle and gerund of macarize
The step in making macarons where the wet and dry ingredients are carefully folded together.
A group of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Azores (part of Portugal), Madeira (also part of Portugal), the Canary Islands (part of Spain) and the independent country of Cape Verde.
Of, or pertaining to, Macaronesia.
Synonym of macaronic.
macaronic
In a macaronic way.
The use of macaronic language; The mixing of two or more languages in a single work.
plural of macaronicism
Obsolete form of macaronic.
plural of macaronick
plural of macaronic
plural of macaroni
Macaronic language.
plural of macaronism
macaronic
resembling a macaroon
plural of MacArthur
plural of Macartney
Treated with macassar oil.
Of or relating to Macassar in Indonesia.
Of or relating to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), British poet, historian and Whig politician.
Characteristic of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
The act of westernization of upper class Indians using educational reform.
A monoclinic blood red mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and silicon.
A surname from Irish [in turn from Old Norse].
plural of MacAuliffe
plural of macavirus
Of or pertaining to William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (circa 1603-1607) about a regicide and the supernatural.
Alternative spelling of macaronic (written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages)
plural of maccaroni
Alternative spelling of macaronism.
Macaroni.
plural of macchiato
A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.
A surname.
plural of MacCloskey
Alternative form of macocious.
A surname.
plural of MacCormack
A surname.
Of or relating to Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve; 1892–1978), Scottish poet and essayist.
Of or relating to Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815–1891), first prime minister of Canada.
The centrist political policies of Ramsay MacDonald, especially after his split with the Labour Party in 1931.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
plural of MacDonaldite
plural of Macdonald.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
plural of MacDougall
Someone who carries a mace.
plural of mace-bearer
Alternative spelling of mace-bearer.
plural of macebearer
plural of macedoine
Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
A fourth-century Christian heresy that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit (also called Pneumatomachi).
A member of the Macedonianism religious movement.
to make Macedonian.
plural of Macedonian
plural of macedonia
plural of Macedonio
Ethnic Macedonian nationalism.
plural of Macedonism
A proponent of Macedonism.
Macedonian studies
plural of Macedonist
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing lead, oxygen, and titanium.
A peptide lantibiotic produced by Streptococcus macedonicus
Archaic form of massaranduba.
plural of macerater
present participle and gerund of macerate
The act or process of macerating.
plural of maceration
Causing or relating to maceration.
plural of macerator
An enzyme used experimentally to digest cell walls prior to organelle isolation.
plural of macerozyme
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, copper, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.
A surname, an alternative form of MacFarlane.
plural of Macfarlane
A mixture of sphalerite, silver, nickeline, galena and chalcopyrite.
A surname.
plural of MacFarquhar
plural of MacGregor
Urban Dictionary, 2021: "A fictional material, not necessarily bad, that is used to patch up logic in a story
plural of MacGuffin
simple past and past participle of MacGyver
present participle and gerund of MacGyver
An ingeniously improvised solution to a problem.
plural of MacGyverism
A fossil form of segmented (annelid) worm, of the class Machaeridia, that had a scaly armour of mineralised plates
plural of machaeridian
Any insect in the family Machaerotidae.
plural of machaerotid
Any sabre-toothed animal of the subfamily Machairodontinae
plural of machairodont
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.
A cat breed, the cross between a Bengal cat and an Asian fishing cat
plural of machbagral
present participle and gerund of machete
Resembling or characteristic of a machete.
A man who uses a machete as a weapon.
plural of macheteman.
plural of machetero
Alternative form of Machiavellian.
Machiavellianism
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.
Machiavellian
plural of Machiavelli
Alternative form of Machiavellize.
Machiavellianism
A Machiavellian.
To behave in a Machiavellian manner; to be cunning and manipulative.
plural of Machiavel
A machicolation.
To furnish with machicolations.
Having machicolations.
third-person singular simple present indicative of machicolate
present participle and gerund of machicolate
An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
A style of singing, especially of sacred music, cultivated from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, centered on Paris, and derived from the Gallican ritual; in this style vocal lines are decorated with improvised ornamentation, and differentiated from each other in a polyphonic composition also by tone color.
plural of machicote
A machicolation.
plural of machicoulis
A member of an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.
plural of Machiguenga
A city in Krishna district, Coastal Andhra, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The condition of being machinable
Able to be made or modified by machine.
simple past and past participle of machinate
third-person singular simple present indicative of machinate
present participle and gerund of machinate
plural of machination
One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
plural of machinator
plural of machinatrix
A woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.
To fire a machine gun.
third-person singular simple present indicative of machine-gun
The amount of work that can be done by one machine in one hour; a billable hour for one machine. (Said of, for example, a piece of heavy equipment or a machine tool.)
plural of machine-hour
Produced or assisted by machinery.
Of an action or task, using a work method that utilizes technology to increase productivity, while reducing costs.
Alternative form of machine wash.
Alternative form of machinable.
Enough laundry to fill a washing machine.
plural of machineful
simple past and past participle of machinegun
Alternative form of machine-gunner.
plural of machinegun
Without a machine.
Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
A man who manages the working of a machine, especially in a printing office.
plural of machineman
plural of machinery
simple past and past participle of machinify
third-person singular simple present indicative of machinify
present participle and gerund of machinify
plural of machinima
A person who creates machinima.
plural of machinimator
A person who creates machinima.
plural of machinimist
plural of machining
simple past and past participle of machinise
third-person singular simple present indicative of machinise
present participle and gerund of machinise
Of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.
plural of machinist
The process or result of machinizing.
simple past and past participle of machinize
third-person singular simple present indicative of machinize
present participle and gerund of machinize
A person who destroys machines.
plural of machinoclast
plural of machinule
machicolated
Rare spelling of machicolated.
Any of the genus Machlomovirus of plant viruses, in the family Tombusviridae.
maize chlorotic dwarf virus
plural of machlovirus
plural of Machmeter
Prone to, in support of, or inspired by, machismo.
Alternative form of Machmeter.
plural of machometer
A man who eschews modern trendy aesthetics in favor of pursuits traditionally considered more manly.
plural of machosexual
A village on the west coast of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR6320).
Power politics.
A market town and community with a town council in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SH7400).
A surname from Polish.
plural of Maciejewski
Wearing a macintosh.
plural of macintosh
Resembling or characteristic of a Macintosh computer.
plural of MacIntyre
Of or pertaining to the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025).
An endothelin receptor antagonist used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.
plural of mackayite
plural of MacKellar
A surname.
plural of Mackenzie
A boat used for fishing mackerel
plural of mackereler
Alternative form of mackerelling.
Having a pattern resembling the scales on a mackerel.
fishing for mackerel
Resembling or characteristic of mackerel.
Clad in garments made of mackinaw.
A tetragonal iron nickel sulfide mineral that occurs as opaque bronze to grey-white tabular crystals and anhedral masses.
plural of mackinawite
Of or relating to Catharine A. MacKinnon (born 1946), American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author.
A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth.
Wearing a mackintosh.
plural of mackintosh
Synonym of thorogummite.
plural of MacKnight
plural of Mackowski
A surname
A minor city in Stafford County, Kansas, United States, named after George Mack.
A surname.
plural of Macloskey
Any plant virus of the genus Macluravirus
chondrodite
plural of maclureite
Any extinct gastropod in the family Macluritidae.
plural of macluritid
A surname.
plural of MacMaster.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Synonym of Macmillan (“member of Scottish sect”).
plural of Macmillanite
plural of Macmillan
plural of MacMurray
A surname.
Of or pertaining to Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Irish poet and playwright, or to his works, characterized by a humane and emotional style in opposition to totalitarianism.
A tinned stew of sliced turnips, carrots, and potatoes in a thin broth, a widely-used food ration for British soldiers in front-line trenches during World War I.
A tree of species Chiranthodendron pentadactylon.
A surname, alternative form of MacPherson, including in Singapore.
Of or relating to James Macpherson (1736–1796), Scottish poet.
An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and sulfur.
plural of MacPherson
A macrolide isolated from Thioploca bacteria.
plural of Macquarie
Any of a group of microbial metabolites that have antibiotic and antiinflammatory activity
An aquarium (fish tank) constructed using the case of a defunct Macintosh personal computer.
plural of Macquarium
A surname.
plural of Macquarrie
A monoclinic-prismatic orange mineral containing chromium, copper, hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and silicon.
Having large glands.
present participle and gerund of macrame
present participle and gerund of macramé
Having antheridia formed on normal-sized male vegetative filaments.
A particular ellagitannin.
Any of a group of glycoside saponins present in Lonicera macranthoides
A particular steroid glycoside.
A member of family Macraucheniidae of extinct South American ungulates.
plural of macrauchene
Any extinct hoofed mammal of the family Macraucheniidae.
The condition of having an enlarged brain, usually as a component of any of various congenital syndromes of altered development.
An unusually large worker ant.
plural of macrergate
plural of macrinite
Any fish in the obsolete family Macristiidae, which turned out to be a collection of misidentified larval aulopiforms.
plural of macristiid
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
plural of MacRitchie
A proposed language family that would extend Altaic to include Korean, Jeju, Japanese, and the Ryukyuan languages.
Fiction that has a greater than normal length
Alternative spelling of macrolevel
plural of macro-level
Alternative form of macromoth.
plural of macro-moth
An equivalence class of sequences of one or more microactions that all have the same starting state and the same terminal state.
plural of macroaction
An adenoma that is larger than about a centimetre.
plural of macroadenoma
plural of macroalga
Of, or pertaining to, macroalga.
Any organism that eats macroalgae
A high-molecular weight form (that is, a macroenzyme form) of amylase that is bound as a complex to a globulin and is therefore not excreted in the urine.
plural of macroamylase
plural of macroanalysis
large-scale analysis
One who carries out macroanalysis.
plural of macroanalyst
Alternative form of macroanatomical.
Synonym of gross anatomy.
A relatively large aneurysm
A transient hole in endothelial cell walls
plural of macroarea
A large array, especially one of DNA probes that is used in genetic analysis.
plural of macroarray
A relatively large-scale artefact
A relatively large-scale assembly
plural of macrobacterium
Any extinct turtle of the family †Macrobaenidae
plural of macrobaenid
plural of macroband
Having a shaft over four times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.
A relatively large basin (typically, of a large river system)
plural of macrobasin
plural of macrobead
Relatively large-scale behavior.
Relating to the macrobenthos
benthic organisms that are big enough to be seen with the naked eye
plural of Macrobian
Any bicyclic macrocycle
plural of macrobicycle
Having two macrocyclic rings
The study of large living organisms.
Macrofauna or macroflora, taken as a whole; that part of the biome composed of larger organisms.
plural of macrobiome
Long life.
The macroscopic flora and fauna of a region.
plural of macrobiota
One who lives for a long time.
plural of macrobiote
Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
The art or science of prolonging life, of living a long life.
Any tardigrade of the family Macrobiotidae
plural of macrobiotid
megaloblast
plural of macroblast
A relatively large lesion
plural of macrobleed
A block of adjacent pixels, typically a rectangular 16×16 block
A visual artifact in compressed video etc. where similar adjacent pixels appear as a contiguous block of colour.
plural of macroblock
Any macroorganism that bores into a substrate
plural of macroborer
That functions as a macroborer
plural of macroboring
Alternative form of macrobotanical.
The study of plant remains from archaeological sites that are large enough to be viewed with the naked eye or with a low-powered microscope.
simple past and past participle of macrobrew
A large-scale commercial brewer, contrasted with smaller microbrewers.
plural of macrobrewer
A large-scale commercial brewery, contrasted with smaller microbreweries.
present participle and gerund of macrobrew
plural of macrobrew
A macroscopic bubble
plural of macrobubble
A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
plural of macroburst
A relatively large capsule (when compared to a microcapsule)
plural of macrocapsule
The Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa.
Any of a group of cyclic aromadendrane sesquiterpenoids, present in Eucalyptus macrocarpa that has antibacterial activity
plural of macrocarpal
plural of macrocarpa
Any of a particular class of cytotoxic nortriterpenoid alkaloids
plural of macrocarpin
Synonym of longiborneol.
The structure that contains the microparticles in a gene gun
plural of macrocarrier
A category that is made up of multiple smaller microcategories.
A relatively large catheter
plural of macrocell
Composed of reasonably large cells
Macrocephaly.
Having an abnormally large or elongated head.
The condition of having an abnormally large head.
A condition in which the head is abnormally large.
A large chaeta found in certain organisms
plural of macrochaeta
Alternative form of macrochaeta.
plural of macrochaete
A relatively large chamber, especially when compared to a microchamber
plural of macrochamber
A relatively large channel
plural of macrochannel
Relatively large pieces of charcoal in the fossil record
A medical condition resulting in very large lips
Alternative form of macrochiria.
Any mite in the family Macrochelidae.
plural of macrochelid
Relating to macrochemistry
Abnormal largeness of the hands.
A fossil nautiloid of the family Macrochoanites
(of nautiloids) Having septal necks longer than the length of one chamber of the phragmocone
plural of macrocilium
Relating to the macrocilium.
A compound ciliary feeding organelle in ctenophores
An electrical circuit composed of macroscale components
plural of macrocircuit
The climate of a relatively large geographic area.
plural of macroclimate
Relating to macroclimate
An abnormally enlarged clitoris.
A relatively large clump
The formation of macroclumps
plural of macroclump
A relatively large-scale cluster
plural of macrocluster
Any tiger moth of the genus Macrocneme
plural of macrocneme
Of or pertaining to a macrococcus.
plural of macrococcus
A bacterium of the genus Macrococcus.
simple past and past participle of macrocode
plural of macrocode
present participle and gerund of macrocode
A variety of paper in Ancient Rome, measuring a foot and a half in width.
plural of macrocolony
A relatively large-scale colony (of bacteria etc)
Alternative form of macrocollum.
A relatively large-scale column
plural of macrocolumn
A relatively large complex
A mainframe, as opposed to a microcomputer.
The female form of an ammonite (that has a larger shell than the male (the microconch).
plural of macroconch
plural of macroconch
Describing a confocal macro lens
plural of macroconidium
relating to a macroconidium
A relatively large conidium, but especially the larger of a pair of conidia in the same organism
A relatively large heterotrophic consumer
A broad and wide-ranging context.
plural of macrocontext
macroeconomic control
plural of macrocontrol
macroscale and convex
plural of macrocopy
Having a long torso in relation to the length of the lower limbs.
Alternative form of macrocosmic.
Of or pertaining to the macrocosm (universe).
Alternative form of macrocosmic.
plural of macrocosm
A large-scale crack in a material caused by stress.
That has macrocracks
the formation of macrocracks
plural of macrocrack
The condition of having an abnormally large or thick skull.
A relatively large crystal occurring in a mineral deposit, usually defined as one between 0.5 mm and 10 mm in size.
A relatively large crystal
plural of macrocrystal
plural of macrocryst
Of or pertaining to a macroculture.
The dominant culture in a society, its overculture; a collection of related microcultures
plural of macroculture
An electric current greater than about one milliamp, especially when used in physiotherapy
plural of macrocurrent
a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule
plural of macrocycle
Of an organic compound: having a closed ring of more than about twelve atoms.