| 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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