English Words: M

36,575 words · Page 272 of 732

merdivorousadj

Dung-eating, coprophagous.

merdognoun

A mermaid dog.

merdurinousadj

Consisting of excrement and urine.

mereadj

Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.

mere mortalnoun

One who is not a god; a human being.

mere poolnoun

A mere or pond.

Meredithname

A male given name from Welsh.

Meredithianadj

Of or pertaining to George Meredith (1828-1909), English poet and novelist.

Merefaname

A city in Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.

mereheaditenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen.

Mereiname

A commune and village in Buzău County, Romania.

mereingnoun

An administrative or property boundary on a map.

mereiteritenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic pale yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur.

merelsnoun

nine men's morris

merelyadv

Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more.

merenchymanoun

tissue composed of spheroidal cells

Merendaname

A surname from Italian.

Merendinoname

A surname from Italian.

merenguenoun

A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.

Mereniname

A commune of Constanța County, Romania.

merenskyitenoun

A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal white mineral containing bismuth, palladium, platinum, and tellurium.

mereologicaladj

Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.

mereologicallyadv

In mereological terms.

mereologistnoun

One who studies mereology.

mereologynoun

The discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes.

mereotopologicaladj

Relating to mereotopology.

mereotopologynoun

A theory combining mereology and topology, investigating relations between parts and wholes and boundaries between them.

meresenoun

A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot.

meresmannoun

An officer who ascertained marks and meres (boundaries) on maps.

merestadj

superlative form of mere: most mere

merestakenoun

A pollard or tree standing as a mark or boundary for the division of parts or parcels in a grove, thicket, or woods.

meresteadnoun

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead.

merestonenoun

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone.

mereswinenoun

A porpoise or dolphin.

meretriciousadj

Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

meretriciouslyadv

In a meretricious manner.

meretriciousnessnoun

The property of being meretricious.

meretrixnoun

A prostitute in Ancient Rome.

Merewethername

A surname.

merfamilynoun

A family of merfolk.

merfathernoun

A father merman.

Merfeldname

A surname from German.

merfolknoun

Mythical creatures that are human from the waist up and fish from the waist down.

merfolksnoun

Synonym of merfolk.

merfriendnoun

A friend who is a merperson.

merfurnoun

A furry character with an anthro upper half and a piscine lower half; a furry merperson.

mergansernoun

Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.

mergeverb

To combine into a whole.

merge sortnoun

Synonym of mergesort.

mergeabilitynoun

The quality of being mergeable.

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