English Words: M
36,575 words · Page 143 of 732
A triclinic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.
A carnivorous marsupial that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene, of the extinct genus Thylacoleo
Any of several small carnivorous marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, especially in the genera Sminthopsis and Antechinus.
The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
To convert (e.g. a cyst) into a pouch and suture to the nearby tissue, to make a permanent wide opening to the exterior to allow successful drainage.
A large glazed pottery vessel of a kind exported from Martaban, used to hold water, rice, fish, etc.
A game played at court in the 15th and 16th centuries, involving marble-sized variously colored ivory balls and a board with holes.
A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed, used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armour.
Strongly accented, or hammered out; used of notes played on bowed string instruments, handbells, or the piano.
A short sturdy round masonry fort, especially one constructed at various coastal points in the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
A percussive bow stroke, usually produced by holding the bow against the string with pressure, then releasing it explosively to produce a sharp, biting attack with a rest between strokes.
To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
Of, containing, or relating to martensite, a certain crystalline structure that can occur in steel under some conditions and can also occasionally occur naturally in meteoric matter or mineral veins.
An island of Dukes County, Massachusetts, famous for once being home to one of the earliest known deaf communities.
A sign language, now extinct, which developed on Martha's Vineyard (an island in Massachusetts).
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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 143. 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.
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