English words: metallurgical to metaplasmic

300 English words, part 68 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 25 have a page of their own.

English words metallurgical to metaplasmic

metallurgical adjective /ˌmɛtəˈlɜː(ɹ)dʒɪkəl/: Of or relating to metallurgy, the study of metals and their properties.
metallurgical coal noun: The type of coal used for the making of steel.
metallurgically adverb: In terms of metallurgy.
metallurgist noun /ˌməˈtæləd͡ʒɪst/: A person who works in metal (the type of material).
metallurgy noun /mɪˈtæl.ə.d͡ʒi/: The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working.
metally adjective: metallic
metalmaking noun: The manufacture of metal.
metalman noun: A man who works with metals.
metalmark noun: Any butterfly of the family Riodinidae.
metalmark moth noun: Any moth of the family Choreutidae.
metalmonger noun: One who trades in metals.
metalness noun: The quality or degree of being metallic.
metalodevite noun: A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, oxygen, uranium, and zinc.
metalog noun: A flexible continuous probability distribution designed for ease of use.
metalogic noun: The metatheory of logic; the study of properties of logical systems.
metalogical adjective: Of or pertaining to metalogic.
metalogician noun: One who studies metalogic.
metaloph noun: A crest attaching the paracone to the hypocone.
metalophid noun: A crest attaching the metaconid to the protoconid or the anterior murid.
metalophular adjective: Relating to a metalophule
metalophule noun: A small crest attached to the front side of the metacone
metalophulid noun: A small crest attached to the back side of the metaconid.
metalorganic adjective, noun: organometallic
metaloscope noun: Alternative form of metalloscope.
metaloscopy noun: Alternative form of metalloscopy.
metals noun, verb: The rail tracks owned by a company or organisation; a rail network.
metalsmith noun: A craftsman fashioning objects such as tools or works of art out of various metals; one who engages in metalsmithing.
metalsmithing noun: The craft of fashioning objects out of metals; the craft or work of a metalsmith.
metaltail noun: Any hummingbird of the genus Metallura
metaltelline noun: Any spider of the subfamily Metaltellinae.
metaluminous adjective: Having an alumina content approximately equal to that of alkaline oxides
metalware noun: Any wares made out of metal, such as pots and pans.
metalwork noun: Objects made of metal.
metalworker noun: A person who shapes metal.
metalworking noun: The art and craft of shaping metal.
metalworks noun: A factory where metal is processed.
metalwright noun: A metalworker.
metalymnion noun: Alternative form of metalimnion.
metam sodium noun: Alternative spelling of metham sodium.
metamachine noun: In metacomputation, a computing machine that controls the running of another computing machine.
metamagic noun /ˌmɛtəˈmæd͡ʒɪk/: Modification of the fundamental attributes of magical spells.
metamagnet noun: A metamagnetic region or material
metamagnetic adjective: Describing the transition from an antiferromagnetic to a ferromagnetic state
metamagnetism noun: Any of several effects in which a small change in an applied magnetic field causes a sharp change in magnetization
metamagnetization noun: The formation of a metamagnet by making a material metamagnetic
metamale noun: Synonym of supermale (“male with XYY syndrome”).
metamarket noun: A group of businesses that offer products that are related from a consumer's perspective but which have no institutional connections.
metamarketing noun: The use of techniques from marketing in other areas, such as the nonprofit sector.
metamaterial noun: Any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials; especially
metamathematical adjective: Pertaining to metamathematics, a branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
metamathematician noun: A mathematician who studies metamathematics.
metamathematics noun: A branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
metamatic noun: Any of a series of machines built in the mid-1950s by Jean Tinguely, able to produce drawings by means of a motor-driven arm.
metamedia noun: The new relationships between form and content that arise from the development of new media and technologies.
metamedial adjective: Relating to metamedia.
metamediality noun: The quality of being metamedial.
metamediary noun: A person or business that helps consumers obtain goods and services from suppliers within a metamarket, as well as offering services such as advice,...
metamelanopsin noun: A form of melanopsin containing the all-trans isomer of retinal
metamemorial adjective: Relating to metamemory
metamemory noun: A type of metacognition, encompassing both the introspective knowledge of one's own memory capabilities (and strategies that can aid memory) and the...
metamer noun /ˈmɛt.ə.mər/: Any of a number of molecules that mutually exhibit metamerism
metameral adjective: metameric
metamere noun: One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate...
metameric adjective: Exhibiting metamerism.
metamerically adverb: In a metameric manner, by metamerism.
metamerisation noun: Alternative form of metamerization.
metamerism noun: The segmentation of the body into similar discrete units.
metamerization noun: The condition of being, or process of becoming, metameric.
metamerize verb: To undergo, or subject to, metamerization.
metamerous adjective: metameric
metamery noun: metamerism
metamessage noun: An implicit message that could be inferred or implied from a message.
metametabolic adjective: Relating to metametabolism
metametabolism noun: The study of the metabolism of related organisms
metametabolome noun: The combined metabolome of related organisms
metametabolomic adjective: Relating to metametabolomics
metametabolomics noun: The study of the relationships of the metabolomics of related organisms
metametalanguage noun: A language used to define, analyze, or describe a metalanguage.
metametalinguistic adjective: Relating to metametalanguage.
metametametaphysics noun: The philosophical study of the nature of metametaphysics.
metametaphysical adjective: Pertaining to metametaphysics.
metametaphysics noun: The part of philosophy that studies the nature of metaphysics.
metamethod noun: A method belonging to a metatable.
metamfetamine noun: Alternative spelling of methamphetamine. (This is the international non-proprietary name.)
metamict adjective, noun: Having a disrupted crystal structure due to radiation damage; metamictic
metamictic adjective: Having a disrupted crystal structure due to radiation damage
metamictization noun: A natural process in which the radiation emitted by a mineral gradually destroys the mineral's crystal structure, leaving it amorphous.
metamictize verb: To gradually destroy the mineral's crystal structure through the radiation emitted by the mineral itself, leaving it amorphous.
metamictness noun: The condition of being metamict
metamirror noun: A surface composed of single planar array of electrically small bianisotropic inclusions
metamizol noun: Alternative form of metamizole.
metamizole noun: A non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used as a painkiller and fever reducer.
metamnemonic adjective: Relating to metamemory
metamobilome noun: The mobilome of a metagenome
metamodal adjective: Relating to abstract neurological processing that does not reference a sensory modality
metamodel noun: A model of the modelling process itself.
metamodeling noun: The design, construction and use of metamodels
metamodelization noun: Conversion into, or treatment as, a metamodel.
metamodelling noun: Alternative spelling of metamodeling.
metamoderate verb: To moderate a moderation process.
metamoderation noun: The process of metamoderating.
metamoderator noun: One who metamoderates.
metamodern adjective: Of or relating to metamodernism.
metamodernism noun: A movement combining elements of modernism and postmodernism.
metamodernist adjective: Of or relating to metamodernism.
metamodernity noun: Synonym of metamodernism.
metamodulation noun: The control and modulation of neuromodulation
metamodulatory adjective: Relating to metamodulation
metamolecule noun: A grouping of atoms held together by a magnetic field rather than by interatomic forces
metamolybdate noun: Synonym of tetramolybdate.
metamonad noun: Any of a large group of flagellate amitochondriate protozoa, including the retortamonads and diplomonads and possibly also the parabasalids and oxymonads.
metamontmorillonite noun: A dehydrated form of montmorillonite.
metamorph noun, verb: An organism that has undergone metamorphosis
metamorphic adjective, noun /ˌmɛt.əˈmɔɹ.fɪk/: Characterised by or exhibiting a change in form or character.
metamorphic rock noun: one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth; consists of pre-existing rock mass in which new minerals or textures are formed at...
metamorphical adjective: metamorphic
metamorphically adverb: In a metamorphic manner.
metamorphiclastic adjective: Being a clastic rock chiefly composed of metamorphic materials.
metamorphism noun /mɛtəˈmɔːfɪz(ə)m/: The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
metamorphist adjective, noun: One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into God when he ascended.
metamorphization noun: Process or action of metamorphizing.
metamorphize verb: To transform or change; metamorphose.
metamorphogenic adjective: Producing metamorphism.
metamorphological adjective: Relating to metamorphology.
metamorphopsia noun: A visual distortion, associated with macular degeneration, in which a grid of straight lines appears wavy and parts of the grid may appear blank.
metamorphosable adjective: Able to undergo metamorphosis
metamorphosality noun: A major change in style of a painter
metamorphose verb /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːˌfəʊz/: Of a moth or insect, to undergo metamorphosis.
metamorphoser noun: One who metamorphoses.
metamorphosic adjective: Changing form; transforming.
metamorphosical adjective: Alternative form of metamorphosic.
metamorphosis noun /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/: A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
metamorphosise verb: Non-Oxford British English spelling of metamorphosize.
metamorphosist noun /mɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪst/: Someone who causes or undergoes a metamorphosis.
metamorphosize verb: To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
metamorphotic adjective: Of or relating to metamorphosis.
metamorphous adjective: metamorphic
metamorphy noun: The quality of being metamorphic.
metamour noun /ˈmɛ.tə.mʊə/: In a polyamorous relationship, one's partner's partner, with whom one is not directly involved.
metamudstone noun: A mudstone that has undergone metamorphism to some degree.
metamunirite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal colorless mineral containing oxygen, sodium, and vanadium.
metamyelocyte noun: A cell undergoing granulopoiesis, derived from a myelocyte, and leading to a band cell; it is characterized by the appearance of a bent nucleus, cytoplasmic...
metamylene noun: eicosene
metamyoglobin noun: Alternative form of metmyoglobin.
metamystic adjective /ˌmɛtəˈmɪstɪk/: Based on mystical beliefs.
metamystical adjective: Synonym of metamystic.
metanalyse verb: To undergo metanalysis.
metanalysis noun /mɛtəˈnaləsɪs/: Meta-analysis.
metanalytic adjective: Relating to metanalysis
metanalytical adjective: Relating to metanalysis
metanalyze verb: Alternative form of metanalyse.
metanarration noun: A narrative text about narration (storytelling).
metanarrative adjective, noun: A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of...
metanarratively adverb: In terms of a metanarrative.
metanatrolite noun: A metamorphosed variety of natrolite.
metanatural adjective: Supernatural; above or beyond what is natural.
metanaupliar adjective: Relating to a metanauplius
metanauplius noun: A krill larva in the stage following the nauplius.
metanavigation noun: A means of navigating from one website to a related one
metandienone noun: Alternative form of methandienone.
metanephric adjective: Of or pertaining to the metanephros.
metanephridial adjective: Relating to the metanephridium.
metanephridium noun: A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
metanephrine noun: A metabolite of epinephrine (adrenaline) created by the action of catechol-O-methyl transferase on epinephrine.
metanephrogenic adjective: That gives rise to metanephroses
metanephron noun: Alternative form of metanephros.
metanephros noun: The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
metaness noun: Self-referentiality and self-awareness, especially of tropes in art and fiction.
metanetwork noun: A network of networks.
metania noun: prostration as an expression of reverence in a church
metanil yellow noun: An azo dye used as a pH indicator and sometimes as an illegal adulterant in food products.
metanode noun: A node, in a graph, that represents a subgraph that is at a lower level of abstraction
metanoete noun /ˌmɛtənəʊˈiːti/: Metanoia.
metanogenic adjective: Alternative form of methanogenic.
metanoia noun /ˌmɛtəˈnɔɪə/: A fundamental change of mind.
metanopirone noun: The drug tandospirone.
metanorite noun: metamorphosed norite
metanorm noun: A nonabelian norm
metanotal adjective: Relating to a metanotum
metanotum noun: The dorsal portion of the metathorax of insects
metantimonate noun: A salt of metantimonic acid.
metanym noun /ˈmɛtənɪm/: A name that is rejected because a valid name (based on another member) already exists for the same group.
metaobject noun: Any entity that manipulates, creates, describes, or implements others
metaoidioplasty noun: Alternative form of metoidioplasty.
metaontological adjective: Of or relating to metaontology.
metaontology noun: The philosophical study of the nature of ontology as a whole.
metaoperator noun: In the Perl and Raku programming languages, an operator that can combine with other operators.
metaophiolite noun: Alternative form of meta-ophiolite.
metaorder noun: A large trading order that is split into small pieces and executed incrementally
metaorganism noun: Any multicellular organism together with the microbes etc that it hosts
metapackage noun: A software package that contains no software itself, but serves to install a particular set of other packages.
metaparable noun: A parable about parables.
metaparadigm noun: The most general and overarching framework for a discipline that represents its core concepts.
metaparameter noun: A parameter that controls the value of one or more others.
metaparapteral adjective: Relating to a metaparapteron
metaparapteron noun: A small dorsolateral sclerite of the metathorax of some insects
metapath noun: metabolic pathway
metapatriarchal adjective: Relating to transcendence over the patriarchy.
metapattern noun: A large-scale pattern of other patterns.
metapectic acid noun: An acid obtained from pectin, possibly identical to other acids.
metapectin noun: A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, occurring in overripe fruits.
metapedian noun: A Wikipedia editor who focuses on the social side of the project, such as participating in discussions or community events, rather than editing articles and...
metapelet noun: A female caregiver in Jewish culture.
metapelite noun: A metamorphosed pelite rock
metapelitic adjective: Relating to metapelites.
metapeltidium noun: A free segment of a peltidium
metapeptone noun: An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
metaperception noun: metacognition of a perception
metaperceptive adjective: Relating to metaperception.
metaperceptual adjective: Relating to metaperception.
metaperidotite noun: A metamorphosed peridotite.
metaperiodate noun: The oxyanion IO₄⁻ or any salt containing this anion
metaperspectival adjective: Of or pertaining to metaperspective.
metaperspective noun: The perspective that one believes another person to attribute to him or her.
metaph adjective, noun: Abbreviation of metaphorical.
metaphase noun: The stage of mitosis and meiosis that follows prophase and comes before anaphase, during which condensed chromosomes become aligned before being separated.
metaphasic adjective: Relating to metaphase.
metaphasis noun /məˈtæfəsɪs/: The accidental transposition of part of the sounds of two words in a phrase; the production of spoonerisms.
metaphedrone noun: The recreational drug 3-methylmethcathinone, related to mephedrone.
metaphen noun: Synonym of nitromersol.
metaphenomenal adjective: That can only be perceived through abstract thought rather than by the senses.
metaphenomenon noun: Something that can only be perceived through abstract thought rather than by the senses.
metaphenotype noun: A theoretical construct created by a linear combination of several phenotypes
metaphery noun: The displacement of organs, as when alternate become opposite, etc.
metaphier noun: The literal, familiar subject described in a metaphor by word or phrase, which then by analogic similitude implies the metaphrand to which the metaphor alludes.
metaphilosopher noun: One who is involved in metaphilosophy.
metaphilosophical adjective: Of or pertaining to metaphilosophy.
metaphilosophically adverb: In terms of metaphilosophy.
metaphilosophy noun: The study of the subject matter, methods, and aims of philosophy.
metaphloem noun: The mature form of phloem that has larger cells than the protophloem
metaphone noun: Either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together
metaphoneme noun: Synonym of metaphone.
metaphonic adjective: Relating to metaphony.
metaphonical adjective: Alternative form of metaphonic.
metaphonically adverb: By means of, or in terms of, metaphony.
metaphonize verb: To undergo metaphony.
metaphonolite noun: A metamorphosed phonolite.
metaphonological adjective: Relating to metaphonology
metaphonology noun: An awareness of phonology
metaphony noun /məˈtæfəni/: A sound change in which a vowel's pronunciation is affected by another.
metaphor noun, verb /ˈmɛt.ə.fə/: The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the...
metaphoreme noun: A non-literal expression with a relatively fixed lexicogrammatical form and specific semantics and pragmatics, associated with metaphoric language.
metaphoric adjective: Synonym of metaphorical.
metaphorical adjective /ˌmɛtəˈfɒɹɪkəl/: Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.
metaphoricality noun: The quality of being metaphorical.
metaphorically adverb: In a metaphorical manner; not literally; by means of metaphor.
metaphoricalness noun: The quality of being metaphorical.
metaphorician noun: One who employs metaphors.
metaphoricity noun: The quality of being metaphorical.
metaphoricness noun: The quality of being metaphoric.
metaphorics noun: The use of metaphor generally.
metaphorisation noun: Alternative form of metaphorization.
metaphorise verb: Alternative spelling of metaphorize.
metaphorist noun: Someone who makes, or uses metaphors.
metaphorization noun: The process of metaphorizing.
metaphorize verb: To describe using metaphors.
metaphorology noun: The study of how metaphor is used in language.
metaphosphate noun: Any salt or ester of metaphosphoric acid.
metaphosphoric adjective: Of or pertaining to metaphosphoric acid
metaphosphoric acid noun: an anhydrous form of phosphoric acid that exists as a polymeric glassy solid, (HPO₃)ₙ; used as a drying agent and in dental cement
metaphotography noun: Any photographic process that transcends photographic processes, comments on photographic practices, or critiques photographic processes.
metaphragma noun: The hindmost phragma of the thorax in an insect
metaphragmal adjective: Relating to a metaphragma
metaphrand noun: The meaning or object referred to by a metaphor: thus being that meaning which goes beyond the metaphor's literal meaning; which, having been denoted by the...
metaphrase noun, verb: A literal, word-for-word translation.
metaphrased adjective, verb: Translated literally.
metaphrasis noun: metaphrase; direct word-for-word translation
metaphrast noun: A person who uses metaphrase to re-cast a text in a different form, for example from poetry to prose.
metaphrastic adjective: of, relating to, or produced using metaphrase; literal in translation
metaphrastical adjective: Alternative form of metaphrastic.
metaphrastically adverb: In a metaphrastic manner.
metaphylactic adjective: Relating to metaphylaxis.
metaphylactically adverb: With regard to metaphylaxis
metaphylaxis noun: Mass medication of a group of animals, in advance of an expected outbreak of disease.
metaphyseal adjective: Of or pertaining to the metaphysis
metaphysial adjective: Relating to a metaphysis
metaphysic adjective, noun: Metaphysical.
metaphysical adjective /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪkəl/: Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
metaphysical naturalism noun: Philosophical worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences.
metaphysicality noun: The quality of being metaphysical.
metaphysically adverb: In a metaphysical manner.
metaphysicalness noun: The quality of being metaphysical; metaphysicality.
metaphysician noun: A philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics.
metaphysicianism noun: A metaphysical approach to a subject.
metaphysicist noun: A philosopher specializing in metaphysics. Alternative to metaphysician.
metaphysicize verb: To treat metaphysically.
metaphysics noun /mɛtəˈfɪzɪks/: The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by...
metaphysiological adjective: Relating to metaphysiology
metaphysiology noun: Questions concerning the mind and life as opposed to the physical body
metaphysis noun /məˈtæfɪsɪs/: The part of a long bone that grows during development.
metaphyte noun /ˈmɛtəfʌɪt/: Any multicellular plant
metaphytic adjective: Relating to metaphytes.
metaphyton noun: Any metaphytic filamentous alga.
metapipeline noun: A kind of pipeline that exploits nested parallelism.
metapipelining noun: The use of a metapipeline.
metaplasia noun: The conversion of one type of tissue into another.
metaplasic adjective: Relating to metaplasia.
metaplasis noun: Metaplasia: the conversion of one type of tissue into another.
metaplasm noun: Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
metaplasmic adjective: Relating to metaplasm.

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.