English Words: M
36,575 words · Page 271 of 732
Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
A volatile oil found in Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), consisting mostly of methylamine.
The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
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 Now superseded by solid-state rectifiers.
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.
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 radiation
An additional toilet flush to reduce odor or decrease the likelihood of the toilet pipes becoming clogged.
An act of sexual intercourse performed out of pity for the other person's inadequate sex life.
The lid of the Ark of the Covenant, on which God is said to have been enthroned; taken to represent the throne in heaven.
The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy.
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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 271. 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.
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