| 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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