English Words: M
36,575 words · Page 6 of 732
A particular bacteriocin produced by the bacterium Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus.
A geographic region in Southeast Europe in the Balkans which includes the Republic of North Macedonia, the region of Macedonia in Greece, the Pirin region of Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.
A fourth-century Christian heresy that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit (also called Pneumatomachi).
A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing lead, oxygen, and titanium.
To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, copper, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.
A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the storyline.
Urban Dictionary, 2021: "A fictional material, not necessarily bad, that is used to patch up logic in a story
The angle at which shock waves separate from an object travelling supersonically. The angle is related to the Mach number of the supersonic object.
Any of a series of bands of slightly different shades of grey that make up an optical illusion where the contrast between the bands appears to be exaggerated as soon as they contact one another.
The principle that the inertia of a body arises from its relation to the totality of all other bodies in the universe.
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 6. 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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