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  • malocclusion — faulty occlusion; irregular contact of opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.
  • malonic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 3 H 4 O 4 , easily decomposed by heat: used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of barbiturates.
  • marconi mast — an elaborately stayed mast.
  • marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
  • marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
  • markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
  • mastications — Plural form of mastication.
  • matinée coat — a short coat for a baby
  • matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
  • matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
  • mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
  • megalomaniac — a person afflicted with megalomania.
  • melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
  • melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
  • melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • melanochroic — Melanochroid
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • mesoamerican — Alternative form of Mesoamerican.
  • metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
  • metachronism — An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
  • metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
  • metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
  • metagenomics — (genetics) The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
  • metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
  • metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
  • metronomical — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
  • mexican onyx — a translucent, banded variety of calcite, used for ornamental and decorative pieces.
  • michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
  • michelangelo — (Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
  • microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
  • microanatomy — the branch of anatomy dealing with microscopic structures (distinguished from gross anatomy).
  • microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
  • microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
  • microgranite — an igneous rock with an identical composition and mineral content to granite, but having a finer texture
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
  • micromanager — One who micromanages.
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microstation — (application)   A full-featured 2-D and 3-D CAD program for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix workstations from Bentley Systems, Inc. Created in 1984, MicroStation is a high-end package used worldwide in environments where many designers work on large, complex projects. MicroStation Modeler is a superset of MicroStation that provides solid modelling, and MasterPiece is MicroStation's rendering and animation program.
  • microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
  • minification — The reduction in apparent size of objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
  • minor arcana — one of the two divisions of a pack of tarot cards
  • minor tenace — the king and jack of a suit held by one player.
  • mirror canon — a canon in which the parts are written as though seen in a mirror placed between them: one part or set of parts is the upside-down image of the other
  • misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
  • miscreations — Plural form of miscreation.
  • miseducation — to educate improperly.
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