English Words: M
36,575 words · Page 134 of 732
The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.
In Optimality Theory, universal features that languages prefer to keep unviolated.
A three-step synthetic route in steroid chemistry, used for the production of cortisone and mammalian sex hormones from plant steroids.
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
A list of items used specifically to track the progress of inflation in an economy or specific market.
The privileged status of anyone exploiting the specific individual rights of the European single market, having effectively a kind of depoliticized citizenship as a form of purely economic communitarization.
A commodity, usually produced on farms and part of a larger category. Products within a market class have similar physical characteristics, are grown or raised under similar conditions, and are bought and sold under similar terms and conditions.
The forces in a free market which tend to control and limit the riskiness of a financial institution's investment and lending activities, such as the concern of depositors for the safety of their deposits and the concern of bank investors for the safety and soundness of their institutions.
A situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.
A strong, dogmatic belief in the ability of laissez-faire free market policies to solve economic and social problems.
A rule in English law that overrode the general rule that the purported sale of stolen goods would not transfer ownership, if the goods were openly sold at a designated market between sunrise and sunset.
The price at which a product, financial instrument, service or other tradable item can be bought and sold at an open market; the going price.
A small market town and civil parish with a well-known racecourse, in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1089).
The percentage of some market held by a company, country, (sub)sector or any other actor or aggregate.
A typically immobile, temporary structure erected by merchants to display their merchandise in a street market.
The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
A market town and civil parish with a town council in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8741).
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 134. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "M" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.