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6,580 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

majorquin: Majorcan, Mallorcan
majusculation: the act or practice of beginning a word with a capital letter when it is not the beginning of a sentence
majuscule: capital letter (uppercase letter)
makher: macher
makhzen: the government of the King of Morocco during the French protectorate; the establishment
maki: maki (ring-tailed lemur, Lemur catta)
maki: ellipsis of makizushi
makila: blood
makimono: makimono
making-of: making-of
makizushi: makizushi: rolled sushi
mal: trouble, difficulty; pain; evil; damage, harm
mal: badly
mal: bad
mal aigu des montagnes: altitude sickness, mountain sickness
mal amanché: badly arranged or adjusted; in a difficult situation
mal baisé: in need of a good seeing-to; irritable, frustrated from lack of sex
mal barré: in bad shape (of a person, situation, etc.)
mal dans sa peau: not comfortable in one's own skin, not comfortable with who one is, feeling ill at ease with oneself
mal de Naples: French disease, French pox (syphilis)
mal de chien: great pain; great difficulty
mal de débarquement: disembarkment syndrome
mal de gorge: sore throat
mal de l'air: airsickness
mal de la route: carsickness
mal de mer: seasickness
mal de pierres: renal calculus disease
mal de raquette: snowshoe evil
mal de train: trainsickness
mal de tête: headache
mal de vivre: lingering unhappiness
mal des transports: motion sickness, travel sickness
mal du pays: homesickness
mal du siècle: mal du siècle: apathy and world-weariness, involving pessimism towards the current state of the world, often along with nostalgia for the past; Weltschmerz
mal embouché: foul-mouthed
mal en cour: out of royal favour; in disgrace
mal en point: in a bad state, unwell, ailing, beleaguered
mal luné: moody, grumpy (in a bad mood)
mal luné: grouch
mal léché: surly, gruff
mal nécessaire: necessary evil
mal portant: unhealthy
mal à l'aise: ill at ease, uncomfortable, uneasy
mal à propos: inappropriately
mal élevé: rude, bad-mannered, ill-mannered
mal élevé: ill-mannered person
mal-aimé: poorly loved
mal-aimé: poorly loved one
mal-baisé: unpleasant person (implying that this is because of sexual frustration)
mal-vivant: synonym of rabat-joie (“killjoy”)
mal-être: malaise, ill feeling, emotional suffering
malabar: bruiser (very large, muscular man)
malabsorption: malabsorption
malachite: malachite
malacie: malacia
malacologie: malacology
malacophage: molluscivore
malacophage: molluscivorous
malacophile: malacophilous
malacoptérygien: malacopterygian