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Word Unit: mandibulo-, mandibul-, mandibuli- (Latin: jaw, lower jaw; from mandere, "to chew").

Word Unit: mane-, mans- (Latin: to stay, to remain, to abide).

Word Unit: mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally + (Greek: 1. A specific mental disorder or obsessive preoccupation with something; madness, frenzy; obsession, or abnormal desire for or with something or someone. 2. Excessive enthusiasm or fondness for something).

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; rab-, rav-.

Word Unit: mano-, man- + (Greek: sparse, thin, rare; slack, loose; by extension, "gas, vapor").

Word Unit: manu-, man-, mani-, mandat-, manda- (Latin: hand or hands).

Word Unit: mare, mari- + (Latin: sea).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "sea" and the "ocean" bodies of water: abysso- (bottomless); Atlantic; batho-, bathy- (depth); bentho- (deep, depth); halio-, halo- (salt or "the sea"); necto-, nekto- (swimming); oceano-; pelago- (sea, ocean); plankto- (drifting); thalasso- (sea, ocean).

Word Unit: margarito- (Latin: pearls).

Word Unit: marito-, marit- (Latin: pertaining to a husband or marriage; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: Mars (Ares), words from myths (Mars [Greek: Ares], Roman god of war; fourth planet from the sun).

Word Unit: marsup- (Greek: pouch, purse).

Word Unit: martyr- (Greek: (martus, martur-); Late Greek: (martur); Late Ecclesiastical Latin (martyr), Old English (martyr), Middle English (martir); witness).

Word Unit: masca- + (Latin: specter, witch, mask, nightmare > Italian mascera > French, masque [covering to hide or to protect the face]).

Word Unit: maschal- (Greek: armpit).

Word Unit: mascu-, mas- (Latin: male, manly, of or relating to men or boys; of the male sex and gender; bold, courageous).

Word Unit: Masochism (preoccupation with the sexual pleasures of pain inflicted upon oneself).

Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units: aphrodi-; -cest; eroto-; lagneuo-; -lagnia; porno-; Sadism-; satyr-; sex-; sodom-; whore.

Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algesi-; algo-; angina-; dolor-; noci-; odyno-; poen-; pono- (toil, work; pain); Sadism.

Word Unit: massac- (Latin > French: wholesale slaughter, carnage; slaughterhouse, butchery; possibly from Latin macellum, provisions store, butcher shop).

Word Unit: mastico-, mastic-, masti- + (Latin: to chew; Greek: to gnash the teeth).

Word Unit: mastig-, mastigo- + (Greek: whip, flog, scourge).

Word Unit: masto-, mast-, -mastia, -masty + (Greek: breast; the front of the human chest and either of two soft rounded organs on each side of the chest in women and men; however, with women the organs are more prominent and produce milk after childbirth; also, a milk-producing gland in mammals that corresponds to the human breast).

Cross references of word families that are related, partially or totally, to: "breast, breasts, chest": mammill-; mammo-; mastoido-; mazo-; pectoro-; pleuro-; sterno-; stetho-; thorac-.

Word Unit: mastoido-, mastoid- + (Greek: breast; used in the specialized sense as "of or pertaining to the breast-shaped mastoid process of the temporal bone).

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