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mauvaise langue: mauvaise langue: a gossip
mauvaise passe: bad spell, rough patch, tough time, difficult time, dire straits
mauvaise volonté: unwillingness, unreadiness
mauvaisement: badly, wrongly; wickedly
mauvaises manières: bad manners
mauvaises terres: alternative letter-case form of Mauvaises Terres
mauvaiseté: wickedness
mauve: mallow
mauve: mew, gull, seagull
mauve: mauve
mauve: mauve
mauviette: Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis); wimp, candy-ass
mauvis: redwing (bird)
mauvéine: mauveine
maxentien: Maxentian
maxi: maximum; maximally
maxidiscompte: discount, low-cost (used especially to describe shops that sell basic items at a heavy discount)
maxidiscompteur: discount store
maxillaire: maxillary
maxillaire: maxilla
maximal: maximal
maximaliser: to maximize
maximalisme: maximalism
maximaliste: maximalist
maxime: maxim
maximisation: maximization
maximiser: to maximize
maximum: maximum
maxwell: maxwell
maya: Mayan (relating to the Mayans); Mayan (relating to the Mayan language)
mayennais: of Mayenne
mayeur: a kind of judicial officer in a feudal manor; synonym of bourgmestre (“mayor”); synonym of maire (“mayor”)
mayonnaise: mayonnaise; milkshake (accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine)
mayoral: alternative spelling of maïoral
mayorat: alternative spelling of maïorat
mazandarani: Mazanderani (language)
mazarinade: mazarinade
mazdéen: Mazdean
mazette: duffer (incompetent person)
mazette: Expression of surprise or amazement, in either a positive or negative sense
mazourke: Francised form of mazurka
mazout: heating oil; a cocktail made with beer and cola; a cocktail made with pastis and cola
mazouter: to pollute with petrol or oil
mazouté: polluted with oil
mazurka: mazurka
mazurker: to dance the mazurka
mazurkeur: mazurka-dancer, mazurkist
mazurkiste: mazurkist
mazurque: Francised form of mazurka
mazzinien: Mazzinian
maçon: bricklayer, mason, builder; Mason, Freemason
maçonner: to face, render (a wall, etc.); to brick up
maçonnerie: masonry: the art, profession, work, or product of a mason, or a thing constructed of stone, brick, or the like
maçonnique: masonic, Masonic
maçonné: masoned
maëlstrom: maelstrom
maître: master; Military rank in the Navy, usually equivalent to the rank of sergent-chef in the Army, or petty officer first class in the United States Navy; leader; teacher (in a primary school); holder of a master's degree
maître d'armes: fencing master, fencing instructor
maître d'hôtel: the person in charge of the team of waiters in a restaurant or hotel; a headwaiter; major-domo
maître d'ouvrage: client, customer, user; project leader, process manager; contracting authority