| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| meal-mouthed | adjective | See Mealy-mouthed. |
| mechanically | adverb | In a mechanical manner. |
| mechanograph | noun | One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically. |
| mediaevalism | noun | The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages. |
| mediaevalist | noun | One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. |
| mediatorship | noun | The office or character of a mediator. |
| medicamental | adjective | Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. |
| medico-legal | adjective | Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts. |
| medina epoch | A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology. | |
| medium-sized | adjective | Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man. |
| meetinghouse | noun | A house used as a place of worship; a church; — in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters. |
| megacephalic | adjective | Alt. of Megacephalous |
| megalopsychy | noun | Greatness of soul. |
| megalosaurus | noun | A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere. |
| melancholian | noun | A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic. |
| melancholily | adverb | In a melancholy manner. |
| melancholist | noun | One affected with melancholy or dejection. |
| melancholize | verb i. | To become gloomy or dejected in mind., To make melancholy. |
| melanochroic | adjective | Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the Melanochroi. |
| melanocomous | adjective | Having very dark or black hair; black-haired. |
| melanorrhoea | noun | An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish. |
| mellifluence | noun | A flow of sweetness, or a sweet, smooth flow. |
| melliloquent | adjective | Speaking sweetly or harmoniously. |
| melliphagous | adjective | See Meliphagous. |
| melodiograph | noun | A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon. |
| melodramatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. |
| membraniform | adjective | Having the form of a membrane or of parchment. |
| membranology | noun | The science which treats of membranes. |
| memorability | noun | The quality or state of being memorable. |
| memorialized | imp. & past participle | of Memorialize |
| memorializer | noun | One who petitions by a memorial. |
| menispermine | noun | An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; — called also menispermina. |
| menobranchus | noun | A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills. |
| menstruating | present participle & vb. noun | of Menstruate |
| menstruation | noun | The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating. |
| merchandised | imp. & past participle | of Merchandise |
| merchandiser | noun | A trader. |
| merchantable | adjective | Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class. |
| mercurialist | noun | One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character., A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice. |
| mercurialize | verb t. | To affect with mercury., To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury., To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious. |
| mercurifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Mercurify |
| meretricious | adjective | Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic., Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. |
| meridionally | adverb | In the direction of the meridian. |
| merry-andrew | noun | One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. |
| merrymeeting | noun | A meeting for mirth. |
| merrythought | noun | The forked bone of a fowl’s breast; — called also wishbone. See Furculum. |
| mesitylenate | noun | A salt of mesitylenic acid. |
| mesobronchia | plural | of Mesobronchium |
| mesocephalic | adjective | Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure., Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic., Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic. |
| mesocephalon | noun | The pons Varolii. |
| mesocoracoid | noun | A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals. |
| mesocuniform | noun | One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform. |
| mesogastrium | noun | The umbilical region., The mesogaster. |
| mesognathous | adjective | Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. |
| mesopodialia | plural | of Mesopodiale |
| mesoscapular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula. |
| mesosiderite | noun | See the Note under Meteorite. |
| mesotartaric | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid. |
| mesothoracic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the mesothorax. |
| metachronism | noun | An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time. |
| metagnathous | adjective | Cross-billed; — said of certain birds, as the crossbill. |
| metaleptical | adjective | Metaleptic. |
| metallograph | noun | A print made by metallography. |
| metallurgist | noun | One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy. |
| metalorganic | adjective | Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc. |
| metamorphism | noun | The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble. |
| metamorphist | noun | One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended. |
| metamorphize | verb t. | To metamorphose. |
| metamorphose | verb t. | To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute., Same as Metamorphosis. |
| metanauplius | noun | A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages. |
| metantimonic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3)., Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid. |
| metaphorical | adjective | Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. |
| metaphrastic | adjective | Alt. of Metaphrastical |
| metaphysical | adjective | Of or pertaining to metaphysics., According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning., Preternatural or supernatural. |
| metapodialia | plural | of Metapodiale |
| metapophyses | plural | of Metapophysis |
| metapophysis | noun | A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr/; a mammillary process. |
| metasilicate | noun | A salt of metasilicic acid. |
| metasomatism | noun | An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; — opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. |
| metastannate | noun | A salt of metastannic acid. |
| metathetical | adjective | Of or pertaining to metathesis. |
| metathoracic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the metathorax. |
| metatungstic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid. |
| metavanadate | noun | A salt of metavanadic acid. |
| metempirical | adjective | Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. |
| meteorograph | noun | An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions. |
| meteoroligic | adjective | Alt. of Meteorological |
| meteoromancy | noun | A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans. |
| meteorometer | noun | An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc. |
| meteoroscope | noun | An astrolabe; a planisphere., An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star. |
| metoposcopic | adjective | Alt. of Metoposcopical |
| metrological | adjective | Of or pertaining to metrology. |
| metropolitan | adjective | Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury., Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority., The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province., An archbishop., A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. |
| metrorrhagia | noun | Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period. |
| metrosideros | noun | A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood. |
| mezzotintoed | imp. & past participle | of Mezzotinto |
| messeigneurs | plural | of Monseigneur |