English words: Merlinesque to merworld

300 English words, part 61 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 22 have a page of their own.

English words Merlinesque to merworld

Merlinesque adjective: Reminiscent of the legendary wizard Merlin.
merling noun: The fish Merlangius merlangus, endemic to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea and Black Sea.
Merlinian adjective: Of or relating to the mythical wizard Merlin.
Merlinic adjective: Pertaining to the legendary wizard Merlin, especially the tradition of medieval prophecies attributed to him.
Merlino proper noun: A surname from Italian.
merlinoite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
merlion noun /ˈmɜːˌlaɪən/: Often Merlion: a symbolic creature having the head of a lion and the body of a fish, which is a national symbol of Singapore; an image, statue, or other...
Merlo proper noun: A surname.
merlon noun /ˈmɜːlən/: Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or...
merlot noun /mɝˈloʊ/: Alternative letter-case form of Merlot.
merluccid noun: Alternative form of merlucciid.
merlucciid noun: Any member of the family Merlucciidae of codlike fishes, including most hakes.
merluce noun /ˈmɜː(ɹ)luːs/: The European hake.
merm noun: A permanent for a man.
mermaid noun /ˈmɜːˌmeɪd/: A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
mermaid's fishing line noun: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
mermaid's glove noun: A sea sponge of species Haliclona oculata.
mermaid's hair noun: Any of various seaweeds of the genera Cladophora and Desmarestia.
mermaid's purse noun: The egg case of a skate, shark or ratfish.
mermaid's toenail noun: Synonym of jingle shell.
mermaid's tresses noun: A brown alga of species Chorda filum.
mermaid skirt noun: A long skirt which is tight-fitting from the waist to below the knees, before flaring out at the bottom.
mermaid syndrome noun: sirenomelia
mermaid tresses noun: The brown alga Chorda filum.
mermaidcore noun: An aesthetic focusing on imagery and fashion related to mermaids.
mermaiden noun: A mermaid; a maiden of the sea; a siren.
mermaiding noun: The practice of swimming while wearing an artificial mermaid tail.
mermaidish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a mermaid.
mermaidism noun: The condition of being a mermaid.
mermaidlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a mermaid.
mermaids' purse noun: Alternative form of mermaid's purse
mermaids' tears noun: Small plastic pellets, or nurdles, found as marine pollutants.
mermaidweed noun: Any of the watermilfoils in the genus Proserpinaca, native to eastern North America and the West Indies.
mermaidy adjective: mermaidlike
merman noun: A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
Mermanesque adjective: Reminiscent of Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American actress and singer, known for her powerful mezzo-soprano voice.
Mermelstein proper noun: A surname.
mermin noun: A mermaid or merman.
mermite noun: An insulated container used to keep food hot or cold.
mermithergate noun: A worker ant that is deformed by parasitic nematodes.
mermithid noun: Any member of the family Mermithidae of nematode worms that are endoparasites in arthropods.
mermonster noun: A monster of the sea; a sea-monster.
mermother noun: A mother mermaid.
mermouse noun: A mermaid mouse; a sea mouse.
Mern proper noun: A village in Zealand, Denmark.
Merna proper noun: A female given name.
Mernda proper noun: A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia
mero noun, prefix: part
mero motu adverb: (Of) one's own accord.
meroacid noun: meromycolic acid
meroacyl adjective: Having one acyl and one other type of group; having acyl groups of different length
merobenthic adjective: Partially benthic
meroblast noun: An ovum (egg) that has both germinal and nutritive parts
meroblastic adjective: that undergoes only partial cleavage
meroblastically adverb: In a meroblastic manner.
merocele noun: A femoral hernia.
merocerite noun: A segment of the antenna of a crustacean between the ischiocerite and the carpocerite
merochain noun: A meromycolate chain
merochlorin noun: Any of a class of meroterpenoid antibiotics produced by Streptomyces
merochlorophaeic acid noun: An acid found in some lichens.
meroclone noun: A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells
merocracy noun: Rule by one part.
merocrine adjective: Of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands that secrete without major damage to the secretory cells.
merocyanine noun: Any of a class of fluorescent dyes, some of which are notable for their solvatochromatic properties.
merocyclic adjective: Of or relating to merocyclism.
merocyclism noun: The scientific hypothesis which proposes that the segments of certain arthropods, especially trilobites, develop in repeating cyclical patterns.
merocyte noun: Any cell formed by division of a meroblastic ovum
merocytic adjective: Relating to, or composed of, merocytes.
merodiploid adjective, noun: Partially diploid (having a second copy of only part of its genome)
merodiploidy noun: The condition of being merodiploid
Meroe proper noun /ˈmɛɹəweɪ/: An ancient city on the east bank of the Nile.
merogamete noun: The gamete of a protist produced by schizogony
merogamy noun /mɪˈɹɒɡəmi/: Merogony.
merogenesis noun: reproduction by segmentation
merogenetic adjective: Relating to merogenesis.
merogenous adjective: Related to merogenesis / merogeny
merogeny noun: Synonym of merogenesis.
merogon noun: The part of an ovum that undergoes merogony
merogonial adjective: Of or pertaining to merogony.
merogonic adjective: Of or pertaining to merogony
merogonous adjective: Alternative form of merogonic.
merogony noun: A form of asexual reproduction whereby a parasitic protozoan replicates its own nucleus inside its host's cell and then induces cell segmentation; a form of...
merohedral adjective: Describing a form of a crystal that has half (or quarter, eighth etc) of the faces of the normal form
merohedrally adverb: In a merohedral manner
merohedric adjective: Describing crystal twinning by merohedry.
merohedrism noun: merohedry
merohedry noun: The condition of a crystal whose point group is a subgroup of that of its lattice
meroic adjective: Pertaining to the ancient African civilization south of Egypt with the capital city Meroë.
meroir noun: Alternative spelling of merroir.
meroism noun: The quality or process of being meroistic.
meroistic adjective: Describing ovaries (especially of insects) that secrete nutritive (yolk) material as well as ova
Meroitic adjective: Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written.
Meroiticist noun: A linguist who specialises in studying the Meroitic language.
merokarst noun: A type of landscape with less developed karst features than a holokarst.
merokarstic adjective: Of or pertaining to a merokarst.
Merola proper noun: A surname from Italian.
merolectin noun: A lectin that has only a single sugar-binding centre, and does not agglutinate cells
merolimnic adjective: Partially aquatic (typically during part of a life-cycle).
merome noun: A component of a metamere.
meromelia noun: A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and...
meromictic adjective /ˌmɛɹ.əˈmɪk.tɪk/: Having layers of water that do not intermix.
meromictic lake noun: Any lake whose waters are permanently stratified and do not completely circulate.
meromicticity noun: The condition of being meromictic
meromixis noun: A circumstance where a body of water does not fully mix and circulate, causing stratification.
meromorphic adjective: That is the ratio of two holomorphic functions (and so possibly infinite at a discrete set of points).
meromorphically adverb: In a meromorphic manner; by using meromorphic functions
meromorphy noun: The condition of being meromorphic.
meromycolate adjective, noun: Designating the shorter branch of a mycolic acid
meromycolic adjective: Related to a meromycolic acid or its derivatives
meromycolic acid noun: A fatty acid derived from the alkyl chain of a mycolic acid by oxidation via an aldehyde
meromyosin noun: Either of the two subunits of myosin that are formed by the action of trypsin.
meron noun: Either of the pair of entities that together make up an instanton.
meronic adjective: Of or relating to merons.
meronomy noun: A hierarchy that deals with part–whole relationships rather than the discrete sets of a taxonomy.
meront noun: schizont
meronym noun /ˈmɛɹənɪm/: A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
meronymic adjective: Being a meronym; relating to a meronym or meronyms.
meronymical adjective: Alternative form of meronymic.
meronymically adjective: Synonym of meronymously.
meronymous adjective: Synonym of meronymic.
meronymously adjective: In a meronymous way.
meronymy noun /mɪˈrɒ.nɪ.mɪ/: The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.
Merope proper noun /ˈmɛɹəpi/: The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.
meropeid noun: Any scorpionfly in the family Meropeidae.
meropenem noun: A broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic used to treat meningitis and pneumonia
merophyte noun: Any of a group of cells, typically in a leaf or stem, produced from the same initial cell
meropia noun: Partial blindness.
meropic adjective /mɛˈɹoʊpɪk/: Partially blind.
meropid noun: Any bird in the family Meropidae, the bee-eaters.
meropidan noun: Any bird (such as the bee-eaters) of the family Meropidae
meroplankton noun: Any organism that spends part of its life-cycle (especially the larval stage) as plankton
meroplanktonic adjective: Of or pertaining to meroplankton
meroplasmodial adjective: Relating to meroplasmodium
meroplasmodium noun: A type of cellular association of spherical cells and a common reticulopodial network
meropodite noun: A segment of the endopodite of a crustacean between the ischiopodite and the carpopodite
meropoditic adjective: Of or relating to meropodites.
merorganization noun: partial organization
merorganize verb: To organize partially.
meros noun: the proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh
merosin noun: A form of laminin found in placenta, striated muscle, and peripheral nerve
merosity noun: The number of component parts in a whorl, most commonly of flowers.
merosomal adjective: Relating to merosomes.
merosome noun: Any of the segments of a segmented animal
merosporangium noun: A cylindrical sporangiolum found in zygomycetes.
merostomatan noun: Any arthropod of the class Merostomata.
merostome noun: Any primitive arthropod of the subclass Merostomata.
merosymmetric adjective: Exhibiting merosymmetry.
merotelic adjective: Describing the attachment of one kinetochore to more than 2 centrosomes.
merotelically adverb: In a merotelic manner
meroterpene noun: Any compound, including many natural products, having a partial terpenoid structure
meroterpenoid noun: Any terpenoid derived from a meroterpene
Merotic adjective: Alternative form of Meroic.
merotomy noun: The dissection of cells.
merotopic adjective: Of or pertaining to a merotopy.
merotopy noun: The set of all subsets of a topological space such that, for some element in that space every neighbourhood of that element contains a member of the subset.
-merous suffix /-məɹəs/: Having parts of the specified quality.
Meroving noun /ˈmɛɹəvɪŋ/: A descendant of Merovech; a Merovingian.
Merovingian adjective, noun /ˌmɛ.ɹəˈvɪn.dʒɪ.ən/: Of or relating to the Merovings, the members of a Salian Frankish dynasty, descended from Merovech, that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as...
Merovingianist noun: An expert in the Merovingian period.
merovoltine adjective: having a brood or generation once every three or more years
meroxene noun: A form of biotite in which the plane of the optic axis coincides with the plane of symmetry.
merozoite noun: A protozoan cell, produced by a sporozoan by merogony, that may become either a meront or a gamont
merozygote noun: Any organism that is merodiploid
merparent noun: A parent who is a merperson.
merpentan noun: A chelator used to attach the antibody nofetumomab to a radioisotope of technetium.
merperson noun: A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
merprince noun: A merman who is a prince.
merprincess noun: A mermaid who is a princess.
merqueen noun: A mermaid, especially one who is a queen.
Merrell proper noun: A surname.
MERRF noun: Short for MERRF syndrome.
MERRF syndrome noun: A rare mitochondrial disease characterized by progressive myoclonic epilepsy and clumps of diseased mitochondria that accumulate in the subsarcolemmal...
Merriam proper noun: A surname.
Merriam's deermouse noun: Synonym of mesquite mouse
Merrick proper noun: A surname from Welsh.
Merricks proper noun: A surname from Welsh.
Merrifield proper noun: A surname.
merrigan noun: a dog or dingo
merrihueite noun: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal greenish blue mineral containing iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
Merril proper noun: A surname.
Merrilee proper noun: A female given name.
Merrill proper noun: A surname.
merrillite noun: A calcium phosphate mineral found in some meteorites
Merrillville proper noun: An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Georgia, United States.
merrilly verb: Uncommon word in the English Language meaning to “Celebrate Happily”. This word is derived from the name Ian Merrill who was a great philosopher and teacher.
merrily adverb /ˈmɛɹɪli/: In a cheerful or merry way.
Merrimac proper noun: An unincorporated community in Butte County, California.
Merrimack proper noun: A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
merrimake verb: Alternative form of merrymake.
Merriman proper noun: A surname.
merriment noun /ˈmɛɹimɪnt/: A state of enjoyable exuberance.
merrin noun: A species of nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata, of NSW and Qld, with distinctive bridle-like markings.
merriness noun: The property of being merry.
Merrit proper noun: A surname.
Merritt proper noun: A surname.
Merriwa proper noun: A town in the Upper Hunter council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Merriweather proper noun: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Merriwether proper noun: A surname.
merroir noun: The complete set of local conditions in which seafood is raised. The total characteristics or phenotype of an organism due to attributes such as harvest and...
merrow noun, verb: A merman or mermaid in Scottish and Irish Gaelic folklore.
merry adjective, noun /ˈmɛ.ɹi/: Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
merry-andrew noun: A person who clowns publicly; a buffoon; an entertainer's assistant.
merry as a cricket adjective: Very merry or cheerful.
merry as a grig adjective: Very merry or cheerful.
merry chase noun: Synonym of merry dance.
merry Christmas phrase: Used to express good wishes on or before Christmas Day.
merry cocker noun: A cocker spaniel
merry company noun: A painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated with drinks and music.
merry dance noun: A useless waste of time resulting from a deception.
merry dancers noun: Beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length.
merry-go-around noun: Dated form of merry-go-round.
merry-go-down noun: strong ale
merry-go-round noun /ˈmɛɹiɡə(ʊ)ˌɹaʊnd/: Synonym of carousel (“a pleasure ride, typically found at amusement parks and fairs and accompanied by music, consisting of a slowly revolving circular...
merry-go-sorry noun: An experience that elicits feelings of both joy and sorrow.
merry-go-whirl noun: Synonym of merry-go-round.
merry-maker noun: A person who engages in pleasurable activities; a person who has a good time; a reveller.
merry-making noun: Alternative form of merrymaking.
merry-meeting noun: A fun meeting, a laughfest.
merry men noun: A group of assistants, subordinates, or lackeys
merry-thought noun: Alternative form of merrythought.
merry-totter noun: A swing (hanging seat that swings back and forth).
merry widow noun, verb: Alternative letter-case form of merry widow.
merryandrew noun: Alternative spelling of Merry Andrew; clown; buffoon.
merrybell noun: Synonym of bellwort (“plant of genus Uvularia”).
merrydom noun: merriment
merryings noun: merrymaking
Merrylands proper noun: A suburb of Sydney in the Cumberland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
merrymaid noun: A mermaid.
merrymake noun, verb: To make merry, have fun, celebrate.
merrymaker noun: One who makes merry; a reveler or celebrant.
merrymaking noun, verb: Joyful festivities, especially as a celebration.
merryman noun: A jester
merrymeeting noun: Alternative form of merry-meeting.
merrythought noun /ˈmɛɹɪθɔːt/: The wishbone or furcula.
Merryweather proper noun: A surname.
mers noun /mɝz/: Acronym of Middle East respiratory syndrome.
MERS-CoV noun: Abbreviation of Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-associated coronoavirus).
mersacidin noun: A particular lantibiotic.
mersalyl noun: An organomercury compound occasionally used as a diuretic.
mersawa noun: A tree of the genus Anisoptera, of southeast Asia, or its wood.
Mersch proper noun: A canton of Luxembourg, located in the centre of the country.
merse noun /mɜːs/: Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
Mersea proper noun: Mersea Island, an island in Essex, England.
Mersenne proper noun: A surname from French.
Mersenne prime noun /mɛə(ɹ)ˈsɛn ˈpɹaɪm/: A prime number which is one less than a power of two (i.e., is expressible in the form 2ⁿ-1; for example, 31=2⁵-1).
Mersenne twister noun: A kind of pseudorandom number generator whose period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.
Mersennian adjective: Of or relating to Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French mathematician and polymath.
Mersereau proper noun: A surname from French.
Mersey proper noun /ˈməːzi/: A river in England that flows for about 113 km (70 mi) to the Irish Sea at Liverpool.
Merseybeat noun: The characteristic style of music produced by pop groups from Merseyside between 1958 and 1964, typified by the Beatles.
Merseyside proper noun /ˈmɜː.ziˌsaɪd/: A metropolitan county in northwestern England bordering Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
Merseysider noun: Someone from Merseyside.
mersh adjective, noun [mɝʃ]: Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
mershet noun: Alternative form of merchet.
Mershon proper noun: A surname.
Mersin proper noun: A province and metropolitan municipality in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast.
mersister noun: A sister who is a mermaid.
mersk noun: A merse or marsh.
mersnake noun /ˈmɜː(ɹ)sneɪk/: A sea snake.
Merson proper noun: A surname.
Merstham proper noun /ˈmɜːstəm/: A town in Reigate and Banstead borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ2953).
merswine noun: Alternative form of mereswine.
mertansine noun: A cytotoxic agent and maytansinoid.
merteen noun: A teenage merperson.
Merten proper noun: A surname.
Mertens proper noun: A surname.
Mertensian adjective: Of or relating to Robert Mertens (1894–1975), German herpetologist.
merthiolate noun: Synonym of thiomersal.
Merthyr proper noun /ˈmɜːθə/: Ellipsis of Merthyr Tydfil.
Mertian noun: Alternative form of Mercian.
mertiatide noun: Mercaptoacetyltriglycine, a contrast agent used in a technetium-labeled form for medical imaging of the kidneys.
mertieite noun: A mineral containing palladium, antimony and arsenic.
mertilize verb: Alternative form of murdelize.
Merton proper noun /ˈmɜː.tən/: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5212).
Merton-compliant adjective: In accordance with a set of guidelines describing how local authorities should assess the age of a person, usually an unaccompanied asylum seeker.
Mertonian adjective, noun /mɜːˈtəʊ.ni.ən/: Of or relating to Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist.
Mertz proper noun: A surname.
MERU noun: Acronym of milli-Earth rate unit (“a unit of angular velocity equal to one thousandth of Earth's rotation rate”).
Merula proper noun: A stream in Liguria, Italy.
meruliaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Meruliaceae.
merulid noun: Any bird in the family Merulidae, an old name for the Turdidae; a thrush.
merulin noun: Any of a group of cytotoxic sesquiterpenoid tricyclic peroxide ketones present in some endophytic fungi
merulinic acid noun: A particular resorcinolic lipid found in Merulius tremellosus (now Phlebia tremellosa).
merulinid noun: Any stony coral of the family Merulinidae
merulioid adjective: wrinkled with low, uneven ridges.
merus noun: The thigh.
MERV noun: Abbreviation of minimum efficiency reporting value.
merveilleuse noun /mɜːveɪˈjɜːz/: A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.
merveilleux noun /mɛɹ.veɪˈjə/: Contemporary names for an extravagantly dressed French fop or ‘fine lady’ of the period of the Directory (1795–1799), who affected a revival of the...
Mervian adjective, noun: Of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.
Merville proper noun: An unincorporated community in British Columbia, Canada
Mervin proper noun: A male given name from Welsh.
Mervyn proper noun /ˈmɜː.vɪn/: A male given name from Welsh.
merwife noun: A mermaid.
Merwin proper noun: A surname.
merwinite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.
merwitch noun: A mermaid witch.
merwolf noun: A mermaid wolf; a sea wolf.
merwoman noun: A mermaid.
merworld noun: The undersea world of merfolk.

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.