| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| mealy-mouthed | adjective | Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. |
| mean-spirited | adjective | Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. |
| mechanicalize | verb t. | To cause to become mechanical. |
| mechanography | noun | The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art. |
| mediatization | noun | The act of mediatizing. |
| mediterranean | adjective | Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa., Inland; remote from the ocean., Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage. |
| megacephalous | adjective | Large headed; — applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads. |
| megalophonous | adjective | Having a loud voice. |
| melostemonous | adjective | Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla. |
| meistersinger | noun | See Mastersinger. |
| melancholious | adjective | Melancholy. |
| melanochroite | noun | A mineral of a red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; — called also phoenicocroite. |
| mellification | noun | The making or production of honey. |
| mellifluently | adverb | In a mellifluent manner. |
| melodramatist | noun | One who acts in, or writes, melodramas. |
| membranaceous | adjective | Same as Membranous., Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar. |
| memorializing | present participle & vb. noun | of Memorialize |
| mensurability | noun | The quality of being mensurable. |
| menticultural | adjective | Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. |
| mercenariness | noun | The quality or state of being mercenary; venality. |
| merchandising | present participle & vb. noun | of Merchandise |
| mercurialized | imp. & past participle | of Mercurialize |
| meridionality | noun | The state of being in the meridian., Position in the south; aspect toward the south. |
| mesencephalic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain. |
| mesencephalon | noun | The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain. |
| mesmerization | noun | The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized. |
| mesobranchial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region. |
| mesobronchium | noun | The main bronchus of each lung. |
| mesocephalous | adjective | Mesocephalic. |
| mesocuneiform | noun | Alt. of Mesocuniform |
| mesologarithm | noun | A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent. |
| mesopterygium | noun | The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes. |
| metabranchial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae. |
| metadiscoidal | adjective | Discoidal by derivation; — applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta. |
| metalammonium | noun | A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen. |
| metalliferous | adjective | Producing metals; yielding metals. |
| metallization | noun | The act or process of metallizing. |
| metallochrome | noun | A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity. |
| metallochromy | noun | The art or process of coloring metals. |
| metallography | noun | The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals., A method of transferring impressions of the grain of wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action., A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. |
| metallorganic | adjective | Metalorganic. |
| metallurgical | adjective | Of or pertaining to metallurgy. |
| metamerically | adverb | In a metameric manner. |
| metamorphosed | imp. & past participle | of Metamorphose |
| metamorphoser | noun | One who metamorphoses. |
| metamorphosic | adjective | Changing the form; transforming. |
| metamorphoses | plural | of Metamorphosis |
| metamorphosis | noun | Change of form, or structure; transformation., A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation., The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism. |
| metanephritic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the metanephros. |
| metantimonate | noun | A salt of metantimonic acid. |
| metaphosphate | noun | A salt of metaphosphoric acid. |
| metaphysician | noun | One who is versed in metaphysics. |
| metapterygium | noun | The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes. |
| metatungstate | noun | A salt of metatungstic acid. |
| metempiricism | noun | The science that is concerned with metempirics. |
| metempsychose | verb t. | To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. |
| metencephalon | noun | The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten. |
| meteorography | noun | The registration of meteorological phenomena. |
| meteorologist | noun | A person skilled in meteorology. |
| methodistical | adjective | Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. |
| methodization | noun | The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized. |
| metoposcopist | noun | One versed in metoposcopy. |
| metric system | See Metric, a. | |
| metrification | noun | Composition in metrical form; versification. |
| mezzo-relievo | noun | Mezzo-rilievo. |
| mezzo-rilievo | noun | A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief., Sculpture in this kind of relief. See under Alto-rilievo. |
| mezzo-soprano | adjective | Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; — said of the voice of a female singer., A mezzo-soprano voice., A person having such a voice. |
| mezzotintoing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mezzotinto |