English Words: M

36,575 words · Page 1 of 732

mcharacter

The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

M$FTname

Microsoft.

M&Mname

A small milk chocolate candy piece with an artificially colored sugar coating, produced by Mars Incorporated.

M'Clure Straitname

A strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories, forming the northwestern end of the Parry Channel which extends east all the way to Baffin Bay and is thus a possible route for the Northwest Passage.

m'dearnoun

An affectionate term of address.

M'Donaldname

Alternative form of McDonald.

m'kayintj

Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now sometimes used in an ironic or condescending sense.

m'ladcontraction

Contraction of my + lad.

m'ladynoun

My Lady (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc).

m'learned friendsnoun

Lawyers.

m'lordnoun

My Lord (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc).

m'lovenoun

Alternative form of milove

m'lovelynoun

An affectionate term of address.

m'ludnoun

Pronunciation spelling of m'lord.

M'Nairname

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

M'Naughtname

A surname.

M'rashtraname

Abbreviation of Maharashtra.

m'sieurnoun

Syncopic form of monsieur.

m'sorryphrase

Informal form of I'm sorry.

m'yesparticle

Yes.

m*lknoun

Any nondairy milk.

m*therfuckernoun

Censored spelling of motherfucker.

M-1noun

The Garand semiautomatic rifle, also named the United States Rifle, Caliber .30, M1.

M-16noun

A lightweight assault rifle, originating from the Vietnam War period.

M-16snoun

plural of M-16

M-4noun

Alternative form of M4 (firearm)

M-businessnoun

The practice of running business transactions and applications on mobile devices.

m-commercenoun

The use of mobile technology in commerce.

M-popnoun

Malay pop music.

M-rationoun

A measure of the health of one's stack: the stack divided by the sum of the small blind, the big blind and the antes of each player. The result (M) is the time (the number of orbits) it would take for one's chips to deplete if the player only passively places their forced bets and otherwise folds.

M-She-Uname

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, perceived by fans to be too feminist or left-wing.

m-specadj

On, or relating to, the multisexual spectrum (bisexual, pansexual, etc).

M-theorynoun

A generalized theory of eleven-dimensional supergravity that attempts to unify the five superstring theories

M-waynoun

Abbreviation of motorway.

M-wordnoun

Alternative letter-case form of m-word.

M.A.noun

Initialism of Master of Arts.

M.B. coatnoun

Synonym of pygostole (“Tractarian curate's surtout”).

M.C.noun

Initialism of master of ceremonies.

m.d.noun

Initialism of Frenchmain droite or Italianmano destra, indicating use of the right hand when use of the left hand is expected.

m.p.noun

Abbreviation of melting point.

m.p.h.noun

Abbreviation of mile(s) per hour.

M.Y.O.B.phrase

Alternative spelling of MYOB.

M/Kname

The ship of characters Fox Mulder and Alex Krycek from the television series The X-Files.

m/onoun

Abbreviation of month(s) old.

M/Sname

The ship of characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the television series The X-Files.

M25name

An orbital motorway surrounding Greater London.

M3noun

an ISO metric screw thread size for screws with a nominal outer diameter of 3 millimetres

M4Aphrase

Of audio, a masculine or male voice using non-identifying pronouns; audio spoken by a man intended for a listener of any sex or gender.

M4Fphrase

Initialism of male for female.

M4Mphrase

Initialism of male for male.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter M contains 36,575 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 732 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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