| mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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| meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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| meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| meagreness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| meal | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: repast |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | - |
| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times | - |
| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| mealybug | (noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees | Synonyms: mealy bug |
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| mean | (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
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| meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
| meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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| meaning | (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
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| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
| meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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| meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
| meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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| mearstone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: meerestone, merestone |
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| measles | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: morbilli, rubeola |
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| measurability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: quantifiability |
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| measure | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, quantity |
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| (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measurement, measuring, mensuration |
| (noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: step |
| (noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | Synonyms: measuring rod, measuring stick |
| (noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | - |
| (noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: bar |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, meter, metre |
| (noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: bill |
| (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, standard, touchstone |
| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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| measurer | (noun) a person who makes measurements | - |
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| measuring | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, mensuration |
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| meat | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: kernel |
| meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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| meatloaf | (noun) a baked loaf of ground meat | Synonyms: meat loaf |
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| meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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| meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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| meatus | (noun) a natural body passageway | - |
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| mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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| mebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibits or 2^20 (1,048,576) bits | Synonyms: Mibit |
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| mebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes | Synonyms: M, MB, megabyte, MiB |
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| mecca | (noun) a place that attracts many visitors | - |
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| mechanic | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles | Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey |
| mechanics | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanism |
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| (noun) the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference | - |
| mechanisation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanization |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanization |
| mechanism | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanics |
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| (noun) device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function | - |
| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes | - |
| (noun) a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function | - |
| (noun) the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction | Synonyms: chemical mechanism |
| mechanist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism | - |
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| mechanization | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: automation, mechanisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having a highly technical implementation | Synonyms: mechanisation |
| meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| meconium | (noun) thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child | - |
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| mecopteran | (noun) any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | - |
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| medal | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medallion, palm, ribbon |
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| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medallion | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, palm, ribbon |
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| (noun) an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) | - |
| (noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) "medallions of veal" | - |
| (noun) any of various large ancient Greek coins | - |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
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| meddling | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
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| medevac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medical evacuation, medivac |
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| medfly | (noun) small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit | Synonyms: Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly |
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| mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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| median | (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
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| mediant | (noun) (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | - |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| mediateness | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediacy |
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| mediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: intermediation |
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| (noun) a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party | - |
| mediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator |
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| mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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| medic | (noun) a medical practitioner in the armed forces | Synonyms: medical officer |
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| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medick, trefoil |
| medical | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: checkup, health check, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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| medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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| medication | (noun) the act of treating with medicines or remedies | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medicinal drug, medicine |
| medicine | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries | Synonyms: practice of medicine |
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| (noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: music |
| (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medication, medicinal drug |
| (noun) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | Synonyms: medical specialty |
| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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| (noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
| mediety | (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: moiety |
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| medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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| medina | (noun) the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa | - |
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| mediocrity | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: averageness |
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| (noun) a person of second-rate ability or value | Synonyms: second-rater |
| meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
| meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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| medium | (noun) an occupation for which you are especially well suited | Synonyms: metier |
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| (noun) an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication | - |
| (noun) a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public | Synonyms: mass medium |
| (noun) the surrounding environment | - |
| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: sensitive, spiritualist |
| (noun) a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position | - |
| (noun) (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms | Synonyms: culture medium |
| (noun) (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed | - |
| (noun) a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter | - |
| (noun) an intervening substance through which something is achieved | - |
| medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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| medlar | (noun) crabapple-like fruit used for preserves | - |
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| (noun) a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste | - |
| (noun) small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples | Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica |
| (noun) small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit | Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree |
| medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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| medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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| medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
| medusa | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusan, medusoid |
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| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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| medusoid | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusan |
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| meed | (noun) a fitting reward | - |
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| meekness | (noun) a disposition to be patient and long suffering | Synonyms: subduedness |
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| (noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: submission |
| meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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| meerkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: mierkat |
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| meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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| (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
| meet | (noun) a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held | Synonyms: sports meeting |
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| meeter | (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, attender |
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| meeting | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, congress |
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| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, merging |
| (noun) a casual or unexpected convergence | Synonyms: encounter |
| (noun) a formally arranged gathering | Synonyms: group meeting |
| (noun) a small informal social gathering | Synonyms: get together |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: confluence |
| meetinghouse | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: conventicle |
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| mefloquine | (noun) an antimalarial drug (trade name Lariam and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people | Synonyms: Lariam, mefloquine hydrochloride, Mephaquine |
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| meg | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000, million, one thousand thousand |
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