6-letter words containing a, m, e
- medial — situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- median — a Mede.
- medias — Plural form of media.
- medina — a city in W Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad was first accepted as the supreme Prophet from Allah and where his tomb is located.
- medlar — a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
- medusa — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- medway — a river in SE England, flowing through Kent and the Medway towns (Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham) to the Thames estuary. Length: 110 km (70 miles)
- megara — a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- megass — bagasse.
- meghan — a female given name.
- mehari — A type of fast-running dromedary camel, which can be used for racing or transport.
- meidan — Alternative spelling of maidan An urban open space.
- melaka — Malacca (defs 1, 2).
- melan- — melano-
- melena — the discharge of black, tarry, bloody stools, usually resulting from a hemorrhage in the alimentary tract.
- melian — a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the SW Aegean: statue, Venus de Milo, found here 1820. 51 sq. mi. (132 sq. km).
- menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menado — a seaport on NE Sulawesi, in NE Indonesia.
- menage — a domestic establishment; household.
- mencap — a charity that helps people with learning difficulties and promotes their interests in society
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- menora — Alternative spelling of menorah.
- mensae — Irregular plural form of mensa.
- mensal — of, relating to, or used at the table.
- mensan — an international fellowship organization for people with IQ's in the top 2 percent of the general population.
- mental — of or relating to the chin.
- mentat — (language) (After the human computers in Frank Herbert's SF classic, "Dune") An object-oriented distributed language developed at the University of Virginia some time before Dec 1987. Mentat is an extension of C++ and is portable to a variety of MIMD architectures. By 1994 Mentat was available for Sun-3, Sun-4, iPSC/2 with plans for Mach, iPSC860, RS/6000 and Iris. The language is now (May 1998) supported in a new project, Legion. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- merano — a town and resort in NE Italy, in the foothills of the central Alps: capital of the Tyrol (12th–15th century); under Austrian rule until 1919. Pop: 33 656 (2001)
- mercia — an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- merida — a peninsula in SE Mexico and N Central America comprising parts of SE Mexico, N Guatemala, and Belize.
- merina — a member of a Malagasy-speaking people who primarily inhabit the interior plateau of Madagascar.
- merman — (in folklore) a male marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a man and the tail of a fish.
- mesail — a pivoted piece on a helmet between a visor and a beaver.
- mescal — an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
- meseta — a plateau
- mesiad — relating to or situated at the middle or centre
- mesial — medial.
- messan — a lap dog; small pet dog.
- meta 5 — Early syntax-directed compiler-compiler, used for translating one high-level language to another. Versions: META II, META-3.
- metage — the official measurement of contents or weight.
- metals — Plural form of metal.
- metaph — metaphor
- metate — a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- metepa — a substance, C9H18N3OP, that is used in pest control to sterilize male insects
- mezail — mesail.
- mezair — a movement in which the horse makes a series of short jumps forward while standing on its hind legs.
- mezcal — Alternative form of mescal.
- mezuza — a small piece of parchment inscribed with the Shema, from Deuteronomy (6:4-9 & 11:13-21), rolled and put into a case and attached to the doorpost of the home, as commanded in the Biblical passages
- micate — to add mica to