| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| meadowsweet | noun | Alt. of Meadowwort |
| measureless | adjective | Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. |
| measurement | noun | The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required., The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres. |
| mechanician | noun | One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. |
| mechanizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mechanize |
| mechitarist | noun | One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians. |
| mediaevally | adverb | In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediaevalism. |
| mediastinal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a mediastinum. |
| mediastinum | noun | A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels. |
| mediateness | noun | The state of being mediate. |
| mediatizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mediatize |
| mediatorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. |
| medicinable | adjective | Medicinal; having the power of healing. |
| medicinally | adverb | In a medicinal manner. |
| medievalism | Alt. of Medievalist | |
| medievalist | Same as Medi/val, Medi/valism, etc. | |
| medioxumous | adjective | Intermediate. |
| megacoulomb | noun | A million coulombs. |
| megalomania | noun | A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions. |
| megalopolis | noun | A chief city; a metropolis. |
| megasthenic | adjective | Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes. |
| megatherium | noun | An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America. |
| megatheroid | noun | One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc. |
| mekhitarist | noun | See Mechitarist. |
| melainotype | noun | See Melanotype. |
| melampyrite | noun | The saccharine substance dulcite; — so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite. |
| melanagogue | noun | A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. |
| melancholia | noun | A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas. |
| melancholic | adjective | Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy., One affected with a gloomy state of mind., A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. |
| melanochroi | noun pl. | A group of the human race, including the dark whites. |
| melanoscope | noun | An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit. |
| melanosperm | noun | An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp. |
| melanterite | noun | A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol. |
| melic grass | A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance. | |
| melicratory | noun | A meadlike drink. |
| meliorating | present participle & vb. noun | of Meliorate |
| melioration | noun | The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. |
| meliphagous | adjective | Eating, or feeding upon, honey. |
| melissylene | noun | See Melene. |
| melliferous | adjective | Producing honey. |
| mellifluent | adjective | Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous. |
| mellifluous | adjective | Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice. |
| melligenous | adjective | Having the qualities of honey. |
| melliphagan | noun | See Meliphagan. |
| meloplastic | adjective | Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek. |
| membraneous | adjective | See Membranous. |
| memorabilia | noun pl. | Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them. |
| memorandums | plural | of Memorandum |
| memorialist | noun | One who writes or signs a memorial. |
| memorialize | verb t. | To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. |
| menaccanite | noun | An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite. |
| mendacities | plural | of Mendacity |
| mendication | noun | The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. |
| menispermic | adjective | Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus. |
| menorrhagia | noun | Profuse menstruation., Any profuse bleeding from the uterus; Metrorrhagia. |
| menostation | noun | Same as Menostasis. |
| men-pleaser | noun | One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. |
| menstruated | imp. & past participle | of Menstruate |
| mensuration | noun | The act, process, or art, of measuring., That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles. |
| mentionable | adjective | Fit to be mentioned. |
| mercenarian | noun | A mercenary. |
| mercenarily | adverb | In a mercenary manner. |
| mercenaries | plural | of Mercenary |
| merchandise | noun | The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities., The act or business of trading; trade; traffic., To trade; to carry on commerce., To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. |
| merchantmen | plural | of Merchantman |
| merchantman | noun | A merchant., A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war. |
| mercurially | adverb | In a mercurial manner. |
| mercurified | imp. & past participle | of Mercurify |
| merithallus | noun | Same as Internode. |
| meritmonger | noun | One who depends on merit for salvation. |
| meritorious | adjective | Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. |
| meroblastic | adjective | Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; — opposed to holoblastic. |
| merostomata | noun pl. | A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus. |
| merovingian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France., One of the kings of this dynasty. |
| merrymaking | adjective | Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly., The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity. |
| mesalliance | noun | A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance. |
| mesmerizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mesmerize |
| mesoblastic | adjective | Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer. |
| mesogastric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach., Of or pertaining to the mesogaster., Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab. |
| mesometrium | noun | The fold of the peritoneum supporting the oviduct. |
| mesomyodian | noun | A bird having a mesomyodous larynx. |
| mesomyodous | adjective | Having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings. |
| mesonephric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct. |
| mesonephros | noun | The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body. |
| mesophyllum | noun | The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces. |
| mesopodiale | noun | One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus. |
| mesoscapula | noun | A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula. |
| mesosternal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the mesosternum. |
| mesosternum | noun | The middle portion, or body, of the sternum., The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects. |
| mesothelium | noun | Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the c/lum. |
| mesotrochal | adjective | Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; — said of the larvae of certain marine annelids. |
| messiahship | noun | The state or office of the Messiah. |
| metabolisis | noun | Metabolism. |
| metachloral | noun | A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral. |
| metachrosis | noun | The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc. |
| metacrolein | noun | A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor. |
| metacromion | noun | A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals. |
| metagastric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs. |
| metagenesis | noun | The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation., Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; — in distinction from heterogamy. |
| metagenetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to metagenesis. |
| metagraphic | adjective | By or pertaining to metagraphy. |
| metaldehyde | noun | A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same. |
| metalliform | adjective | Having the form or structure of a metal. |
| metallizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Metallize |
| metalloidal | adjective | Metalloid. |
| metallurgic | adjective | Alt. of Metallurgical |
| metalogical | adjective | Beyond the scope or province of logic. |
| metamorphic | adjective | Subject to change; changeable; variable., Causing a change of structure., Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; — especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks. |
| metanephros | noun | The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. |
| metapeptone | noun | An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter. |
| metaphorist | noun | One who makes metaphors. |
| metaphrased | adjective | Translated literally. |
| metaphrasis | noun | Metaphrase. |
| metaphysics | noun | The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles., Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. |
| metapodiale | noun | One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus. |
| metasilicic | adjective | Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid. |
| metastannic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance. |
| metasternal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the metasternum. |
| metasternum | noun | The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum., The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects. |
| metatitanic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid. |
| metavanadic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid. |
| metempirics | noun | The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience. |
| metemptosis | noun | The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years. |
| meteoroidal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids. |
| meteorolite | noun | A meteoric stone; an aerolite; a meteorite. |
| meteorology | noun | The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc. |
| methodistic | adjective | Alt. of Methodistical |
| methodizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Methodize |
| methodology | noun | The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. |
| methylamine | noun | See Methyl amine, under Methyl. |
| methysticin | noun | A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; — called also kanakin. |
| metonymical | adjective | Used by way of metonymy. |
| metopomancy | noun | Fortune telling by physiognomy. |
| metoposcopy | noun | The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face. |
| metrochrome | noun | An instrument for measuring colors. |
| metromaniac | noun | One who has metromania. |
| metropolite | noun | A metropolitan. |
| mezzotinter | noun | One who engraves in mezzotint. |