| meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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| merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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| mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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| (noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
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| mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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| merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
| merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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| merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
| mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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| (noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) something for which to be thankful | - |
| mere | (noun) a small pond of standing water | - |
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| merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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| merger | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, unification |
| merging | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: confluence, conflux |
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| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
| merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| meridian | (noun) an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator | Synonyms: line of longitude |
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| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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| meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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| merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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| (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| merl | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| merle | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| merlin | (noun) small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco columbarius, pigeon hawk |
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| merlon | (noun) a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement | - |
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| mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| merobenthos | (noun) benthos consisting of organisms in pre-adult stages that later become adult in the plankton. | - |
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| meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
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| meronym | (noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole | Synonyms: part name |
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| meronymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole | Synonyms: part to whole relation |
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| merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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| merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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| (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| merriness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity |
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| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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