English to English Dictionary

Manager-ad-interim

A person appointed to manage an organization temporarily until a permanent manager is found.

Mandible

The jaw or a jawbone, specifically the lower jawbone in mammals and vertebrates.

Mania

An excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession.

Manipulate

To handle or control skillfully, typically with the hands or by mechanical means.

Mankini

A type of minimal, one-piece men's swimwear featuring a thong bottom connected to shoulder straps resembling a suspender design.

Mannered

Having manners of a specified kind; behaving in a specified way, often used in compound words.

Marrano

A Jew in Spain or Portugal who converted to Christianity but continued to practice Judaism in secret.

Masochism

The tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation.

Masochist

A person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation.

Masochistic

Deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to physical or mental pain or humiliation; broadly, finding pleasure in self-inflicted suffering or hardship.

Masticatory

Relating to the process of chewing.

Materialism

A theory that physical matter is the only or primary reality and that all phenomena can be explained in terms of material interactions.