English words: Mercosur to Merlin's grass
300 English words, part 60 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 33 have a page of their own.
English words Mercosur to Merlin's grass
- Mercosur proper noun: A trade bloc formed by Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and formerly Venezuela (2006–2017).
- mercow noun: Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong; sea-cow.
- mercreature noun: A creature of the sea, especially one which is mythical.
- mercuhydrin noun: Synonym of meralluride.
- mercurammonium noun: The cation Hg(NH₄)₂⁴⁺
- mercurate noun: Any oxyanion of mercury; any salt containing such an ion
- Mercure proper noun: A surname from French.
- Mercurean adjective, noun: Alternative form of Mercurian.
- mercurial adjective, noun /məːˈkjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/: Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
- mercurial finger noun: The little finger.
- mercurial phosphorus noun: a glow produced by friction when mercury is shaken in an evacuated glass vessel; the luminous barometer
- mercurialine noun: A volatile oil found in Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), consisting mostly of methylamine.
- mercurialisation noun: Alternative spelling of mercurialization
- mercurialise verb: Alternative form of mercurialize.
- mercurialism noun: Chronic mercury poisoning.
- mercurialist noun: A doctor who uses mercury or supports its use in medicine.
- mercuriality noun: Mercurial behaviour.
- mercurialization noun: A treatment with the metal mercury (now known to be toxic).
- mercurialize verb: To treat with mercury (the metal).
- mercurially adverb: In a mercurial manner.
- mercurialness noun: Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
- mercurian adjective, noun /mɜː(ɹ)ˈkjʊəɹ.i.ən/: Of or relating to the planet Mercury.
- mercuriation noun: Any reaction that introduces a covalent mercury bond into a compound
- mercuric adjective: Pertaining to or derived from mercury.
- mercuric chloride noun: The salt of mercury and hydrochloric acid, HgCl₂
- mercuric sulfide noun: The sulfide of mercury, HgS, that occurs as the mineral cinnabar.
- mercuricals noun: Medicines made from mercury, generally used for purgative purposes from the 17th to the 19th century in European and American medicine.
- mercurico- prefix: mercuric
- mercuriferous adjective: Containing or producing mercury.
- mercurification noun: The process or operation of obtaining mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
- mercurify verb: To obtain mercury from (a mineral, etc.).
- Mercurio proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- mercuriocyclization noun: Any reaction that involves both cyclization and mercuriation
- mercuriousness noun: The quality of being mercurious (like Mercury in celerity).
- mercurise verb: Alternative spelling of mercurize
- mercurism noun: mercury poisoning
- Mercurius noun: A male given name from Latin.
- mercurization noun: The process of treating with mercury.
- mercurize verb: To treat with mercury.
- mercuroan adjective: Containing univalent mercury.
- mercurochrome noun: merbromin
- mercurocuprate noun: Any of several cuprates that contain mercury
- mercurophen noun: The germicide sodium oxymercury orthonitrophenolate.
- mercurous adjective: Pertaining to or derived from mercury.
- mercurous chloride noun: Synonym of calomel.
- mercurous iodide noun: Synonym of mercury(I) iodide.
- mercury noun, verb /ˈmɜːkjʊ.ɹi/: A silvery-coloured, metallic chemical element with the atomic number 80; it is liquid at room temperature, and toxic.
- mercury arc rectifier noun: A rectifier which converts alternating current to direct current, using a cathode tube with a pool of liquid mercury. Now superseded by solid-state rectifiers.
- mercury barometer noun: A barometer which indicates the atmospheric pressure by measuring the height of a column of mercury in a vertical, evacuated tube.
- Mercury dime noun: A ten-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from late 1916 to 1945, bearing on its obverse the depiction of a young Liberty in a winged Phrygian cap.
- mercury fulminate noun: An explosive crystalline compound of mercury with the chemical formula Hg(ONC)₂.
- mercury gilding noun: amalgam gilding
- mercury(I) iodide noun: A chemical compound of mercury and iodine, Hg₂I₂.
- mercury of life noun: butter of antimony, antimony trichloride
- Mercury retrograde problem noun: A concept that communication, travel, and technology are prone to disruptions, delays, and misinterpretations when the planet Mercury appears to move...
- Mercury's staff noun: A caduceus.
- mercury soap noun: Synonym of quicksilver plaster.
- mercury sulfide noun: A binary compound of sulfur and mercury that occurs naturally as cinnabar
- mercury sulphide noun: Alternative spelling of mercury sulfide.
- mercury switch noun: A switch that opens and closes an electric circuit through a small amount of liquid mercury.
- mercury-vapor lamp noun: Alternative spelling of mercury-vapour lamp.
- mercury-vapour lamp noun: a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet...
- mercuryless adjective: Lacking mercury.
- mercuryquake noun: A quake on the planet Mercury.
- Mercutian adjective, noun: Synonym of Mercurian (“of or relating to the planet Mercury”).
- Mercutio proper noun: One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
- mercy interjection, noun, verb /ˈmɜːsi/: Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
- mercy bucket phrase: Pronunciation spelling of merci beaucoup.
- mercy buckets phrase: Thanks very much.
- mercy chair noun: A small, ornately carved wooden protrusion in a cathedral wall, allowing a person to rest against it without actually sitting during long religious services.
- mercy flush noun: An additional toilet flush to reduce odor or decrease the likelihood of the toilet pipes becoming clogged.
- mercy killer noun: A person who commits a mercy killing.
- mercy killing noun, verb: Alternative form of mercy killing.
- mercy me interjection: Expressing surprise or alarm.
- mercy rule noun: A rule that ends a one-sided contest prior to its natural conclusion.
- mercy sake's alive interjection: A mild oath.
- mercy seat noun: The lid of the Ark of the Covenant, on which God is said to have been enthroned; taken to represent the throne in heaven.
- merdaughter noun: A mermaid daughter.
- merdeka noun /mɜːˈdɛkə/: Alternative letter-case form of Merdeka.
- merdiban noun: A traditional accounting method used in the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere, with amounts recorded in descending order.
- merdivorous adjective /mɜːˈdɪvəɹəs/: Dung-eating, coprophagous.
- merdog noun /ˈmɝˌdɔɡ/: A mermaid dog.
- merdurinous adjective: Consisting of excrement and urine.
- mere adjective, noun, suffix, verb /mɪə̯/: Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
- mere exposure effect noun: The phenomenon whereby people tend to develop a preference for something merely because they are familiar with it.
- mere mortal noun: One who is not a god; a human being.
- mere pool noun: A mere or pond.
- Meredith proper noun /məˈɹɛdɪθ/: A male given name from Welsh.
- Meredithian adjective: Of or pertaining to George Meredith (1828-1909), English poet and novelist.
- mereheadite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.
- mereing noun: An administrative or property boundary on a map.
- mereiterite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic pale yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.
- mereletinib noun: The drug osimertinib.
- merels noun: nine men's morris
- merely adverb /ˈmɪəli/: Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more.
- merenchyma noun /ˌmɛɹɪŋˈkaɪmə/: tissue composed of spheroidal cells
- merenchymatous adjective: Of or relating to merenchyma.
- merengue noun, verb /məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/: A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
- merenguito noun: A meringue cookie.
- merenskyite noun: A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal white mineral containing bismuth, palladium, platinum, and tellurium.
- mereological adjective /ˌmɪəɹiəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/: Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.
- mereologically adverb: In mereological terms.
- mereologist noun: One who studies mereology.
- mereology noun /ˌmɪəɹiˈɒləd͡ʒi/: The discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes.
- mereotopological adjective: Relating to mereotopology.
- mereotopology noun /ˌmɛɹɪətəˈpɒləd͡ʒi/: A theory combining mereology and topology, investigating relations between parts and wholes and boundaries between them.
- merese noun: A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot.
- meresman noun: An officer who ascertained marks and meres (boundaries) on maps.
- merestake noun: A pollard or tree standing as a mark or boundary for the division of parts or parcels in a grove, thicket, or woods.
- merestead noun: The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.
- merestone noun: A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone.
- mereswine noun /ˈmɪə(ɹ)ˌswaɪn/: A porpoise or dolphin.
- meretricious adjective /ˌmɛɹɪˈtɹɪʃəs/: Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- meretriciously adverb: In a meretricious manner.
- meretriciousness noun: The property of being meretricious.
- meretrix noun: A prostitute in Ancient Rome.
- Merewether proper noun: A surname.
- merfamily noun: A family of merfolk.
- merfather noun: A father merman.
- merfold noun: A Hungarian mile, a unit of distance varying from 8.3790 to 8.9374 kilometres before being standardized as 8.3536 km.
- merfolk noun: Mythical creatures that are human from the waist up and fish from the waist down.
- merfolks noun: Alternative form of merfolk.
- merfriend noun: A friend who is a merperson.
- merfur noun: A furry character with an anthro upper half and a piscine lower half; a furry merperson.
- merganser noun /məˈɡænsə/: Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
- merge noun, verb /mɜːd͡ʒ/: To combine into a whole.
- merge game noun: A puzzle genre in which the player combines two or more identical items on a game board to create a new, higher-level object.
- merge lane noun: Synonym of acceleration lane.
- merge-purge verb: To combine two lists of data, removing any duplicate entries.
- merge request noun: Synonym of pull request.
- merge sort noun, verb: Synonym of mergesort.
- mergeability noun: The quality of being mergeable.
- mergeable adjective: Capable of being merged.
- mergeburst noun: An outburst of energy following a merger of two stars.
- merged adjective, verb: joined by merging
- mergee noun: One who or that which undergoes a merge.
- Mergen proper noun: A surname.
- mergence noun: The act of merging.
- Mergenthaler proper noun: A surname from German.
- merger noun /ˈmɜː.d͡ʒə/: One that merges.
- mergerless adjective: Without a merger.
- mergers and acquisitions noun: Business transactions in which the ownership of companies are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.
- mergesort noun, verb: A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them together.
- merging noun, verb: The act, or the result, of being merged.
- mergirl noun: A mermaid.
- mergism noun: The condition of being a mergist; the condition of favoring merging over other actions.
- mergist noun: Someone who generally favors merging.
- merguard noun: A merperson guard.
- merguez noun /mɛəˈɡɛz/: A red, spicy sausage from North Africa, made with lamb or beef.
- Mergui proper noun /mɚˈɡwi/: A city in southern Burma; modern Myeik.
- merguy noun: A male merperson.
- merhorse noun: A seahorse.
- merhusband noun: A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.
- Meriah noun: A victim of human sacrifice by the Khond people of India.
- Meriam noun: A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.
- meribendan noun: A cardiotonic drug.
- Merica noun: Alternative form of 'Murica.
- mericarp noun: An individual carpel of a schizocarp, having a single seed
- mericarpal adjective: Of or relating to a mericarp.
- mericarpic adjective: Relating to a mericarp.
- mericarpium noun: Synonym of mericarp.
- mericarpous adjective: Relating to a mericarp.
- mericitabine noun: A particular antiviral drug.
- Mericle proper noun: A surname.
- mericlinal adjective: partially periclinal
- mericlone noun: A plant (especially an orchid) that has been cloned via meristem propagation
- Merida proper noun /ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ.ɪ.də/: A city in Spain’s western region Estremadura, in Badajoz province
- meridamycin noun: A macrolide present in Streptomyces hygroscopicus
- meride noun: An interval of pitch equal to 1/43 of an octave.
- Meriden proper noun: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England, historically in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2482).
- Merideth proper noun: A surname.
- meridian adjective, noun, verb /məˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/: In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.
- meridian fennel noun: Synonym of caraway (Carum carvi)
- meridian termite noun: magnetic termite
- meridianal adjective: Alternative form of meridional.
- meridianally adverb: Along the lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridianed adjective, verb /məˈɹɪ.dɪ.ənd/: Having one or more meridians.
- meridic adjective: of which only some of its components are chemically defined
- meridiem noun: Midday, noon.
- meridienne noun: An asymmetrical daybed with a high head-rest, and a lower foot-rest, joined by a sloping piece.
- meridiolestidan noun: Any extinct mammal of the clade †Meridiolestida
- meridional adjective, noun /mɪˈɹɪdɪənəl/: located in the south, southern; later especially, often pertaining to the southern parts of Europe.
- meridional ray noun: A ray that passes through the axis of the optical fiber.
- meridional wind noun: The component of a wind along a particular meridian
- meridionality noun: The state of being in the meridian.
- meridionalization noun: The movement of fish to warmer, more southern waters
- meridionally adverb: In a meridional manner
- Meridith proper noun: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Meredith.
- meridiungulate noun: Any of the South American mammals of the extinct clade †Meridiungulata.
- meriki noun: Alternative form of moeriki.
- Merikin noun: One of the African-American refugees of the War of 1812: freed black slaves who fought for the British against the USA in the Corps of Colonial Marines and...
- Merillat proper noun: A surname from French.
- merils noun: Alternative spelling of merels.
- Merimbula proper noun: A town in the Bega Valley Shire council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia
- merimepodib noun: A particular antiviral drug.
- Merina noun: A member of the a highlander Malagasy ethnic group in Madagascar whose core territory corresponds to the former Antananarivo Province in the centre of the...
- meringue noun, verb /məˈɹæŋ/: A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and either sugar or other flavorings; it is often baked to brown the surface and may be used as a topping or in...
- meringue glacé noun: ice cream with a casing of meringue
- meringue horn noun: A pastry similar to a cream horn but filled with meringue.
- meringuelike adjective: Resembling meringue.
- meringuey adjective: meringuelike
- merino noun /məˈɹiːnəʊ/: A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.
- Meriones proper noun: A hero of the Trojan War, the Cretan son of Molus and Melphis or Euippe.
- Merioneth proper noun: Synonym of Merionethshire.
- Merionethshire proper noun /ˌmɛɹiˈɒnɛθʃə(ɹ)/: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Caernarfonshire, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Montgomeryshire and...
- merisa noun: a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan
- merisis noun: Any form of growth; specifically, growth by increase in number of cells.
- merism noun /ˈmɛrɪz(ə)m/: A reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low".
- merismatic adjective: Dividing into cells or segments.
- merismoid adjective: Having a branched or laciniate pileus.
- merismus noun /məˈɹɪzməs/: A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.
- merispore noun: A secondary spore resulting from division of another spore.
- Merissa proper noun: A female given name, variant of Marissa.
- meristele noun: Each of the apparently isolated units of a dictyostele.
- meristelic adjective: Of or relating to a meristele.
- meristem noun: The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
- meristematic adjective: Of or pertaining to the meristem
- meristematically adverb: In a meristematic way.
- meristemic adjective: Of or pertaining to the meristem
- meristemless adjective: That lacks a meristem
- meristemoid adjective, noun: A small, triangular stomatal precursor cell that functions temporarily as a stem cell in a meristem.
- meristemoidal adjective: Relating to a meristemoid
- meristic adjective, noun: Relating to meristics.
- meristically adverb: In terms of meristics.
- meristics noun /məˈɹɪstɪks/: The counting of quantitative features of a fish, such as its number of fins or of scales.
- meristoderm noun: A meristem layer on the surface of brown algae.
- meristogenetic adjective: Produced from the meristem.
- meristogenous adjective: Synonym of meristogenetic.
- merit noun, verb /ˈmɛɹɪt/: A claim to commendation or a reward.
- merit badge noun /ˈmɛɹɪt ˌbæd͡ʒ/: An embroidered cloth patch awarded to a youth member of the Boy Scouts of America or other scouting organization who successfully completes an activity...
- merit badge college noun: Synonym of merit badge university.
- merit badge university noun: A usually annual event, held in many areas of the United States, where educational courses are hosted with the purpose of helping Boy Scouts to achieve...
- merit badger noun: A Boy Scout who is pursuing a certain merit badge or merit badges.
- merit badging noun: The act of pursuing merit badges.
- merit-based adjective: Derived from one's academic or extracurricular achievements rather than one's financial need.
- merit field noun: a pictorial representation, usually represented on a thangka, of the triratna and lama for the purpose of veneration when taking Refuge.
- merit good noun: A commodity that an individual or society should have on the basis of some concept of need, rather than ability and willingness to pay.
- merit-monger noun: Alternative form of meritmonger.
- meritable adjective /ˈmɛɹɪtəbl̩/: Deserving of reward.
- Meritage noun /ˈmɛɹɪtɪd͡ʒ/: A red or white Bordeaux-style wine, usually from the United States.
- merited adjective, verb: deserved
- meritedly adverb: By merit; deservedly; meritously
- meritedness noun: The state or condition of being merited; deservedness.
- meriter noun /ˈmɛɹɪtə/: Someone or something that merits.
- meritful adjective: Full of merit; meritorious.
- merithal noun: merithallus
- merithallus noun: An internode.
- meritious adjective: Having merit.
- meritless adjective /ˈmɛɹɪtlɪs/: Without merit.
- meritlessly adverb: In a meritless fashion.
- meritlessness noun: The state or condition of being meritless.
- meritmonger noun: One who depends on merit for salvation.
- meritocracy noun /mɛɹɪˈtɒkɹəsi/: Rule by merit and talent.
- meritocrat noun: An advocate of meritocracy.
- meritocratic adjective: Pertaining to a meritocracy.
- meritocratically adverb: In a meritocratic way.
- meritocratism noun: Advocacy or partisanship in support of meritocracy.
- meritorious adjective /ˌmɛɹɪˈtɔɹi.əs/: Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward.
- meritorious mast noun: A modern version of the mast (naval disciplinary hearing) in which the commanding officer singles out a crewmember for formal discipline.
- meritoriously adverb: In a meritorious manner.
- meritoriousness noun: The property of being meritorious.
- meritory adjective: meritorious; deserving
- merits noun, verb /ˈmɛɹ.ɪts/: plural of merit
- Meritt proper noun: A surname.
- Meriwether proper noun: A surname.
- meriyasu noun: A style of instrumental music used as scoring in kabuki
- merjet noun: Alternative form of merkhet.
- merk noun, verb: Obsolete spelling of mark.
- Merkabah proper noun: A school of early Jewish mysticism, circa 100 BCE – 1000 CE, based around visions.
- Merkava proper noun /mɛɹˈkɑvə/: A tank developed and used by the Israeli Defense Forces.
- merked adjective, verb: ugly, unattractive.
- Merkel proper noun /ˈmɜː.kəl/: A surname from German; variant form Merkley.
- Merkel cell noun: An oval receptor cell having synaptic contacts with somatosensory afferents, found in the skin of vertebrates and associated with the sense of light touch...
- Merkel-Ranvier cell noun: A Merkel cell.
- Merkelian adjective: Of or pertaining to Angela Merkel (born 1954), German politician and chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
- Merkelism noun: The politics of German politician Angela Merkel (born 1954).
- Merkelvellian adjective: Pertaining to the tactics of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
- Merker proper noun: A surname.
- merkhet noun: An ancient surveying and timekeeping instrument, consisting of a bar with a plumb line, attached to a handle.
- merkid noun: A young merperson.
- merkin adjective, noun /ˈmɜːkɪn/: A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now...
- merking noun: A mermaid king; the king of the merfolk.
- merkingdom noun: A kingdom of merfolk.
- merkland noun: Alternative form of markland.
- Merkle proper noun: A surname.
- Merkle-Patricia tree noun: A tree data structure that combines properties of Merkle trees and Patricia trees.
- Merkle tree noun: A binary hash tree.
- Merkley proper noun /ˈmɜː(ɹ)kli/: A surname from German.
- merknight noun: A merperson knight.
- Merkur proper noun: A defunct automobile brand produced by the Ford Motor Company in the late 1980s.
- merl noun: Alternative form of merle (blackbird)
- merlad noun: A young male merperson, male equivalent of mermaid
- merlady noun: A mermaid.
- merle noun /mɜːl/: A Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
- Merleau-Pontian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1898–1983), French phenomenological philosopher.
- merled adjective: With a coat in a merle pattern.
- merlette noun /məːˈlɛt/: In French heraldry, a depiction of a mythological bird without beak or feet.
- merlin noun /ˈmɝlɪn/: A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia.
- Merlin chair noun: A type of early wheelchair, which the occupant propels by means of crank-handles in the armrests.
- Merlin's grass noun: lake quillwort, Isoetes lacustris
Part 59 · Part 61 · English words: M
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under M: 47,683 words, in 159 parts.