Words That End With: MATA

• The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

• A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.

• Any soft doughy mass.

• The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

• a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount

• (music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest

• a small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis

• A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

• The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.

• (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.

• The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.

• One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

• swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities