6-letter words starting with m
- melons — the fruit of any of various plants of the gourd family, as the muskmelon or watermelon.
- melted — Simple past tense and past participle of melt.
- melter — a person or thing that melts.
- melton — a heavily fulled cloth, often of wool, tightly constructed and finished with a smooth face concealing the weave, used for overcoats, hunting jackets, etc.
- melvin — a male given name.
- member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
- memnon — Colossus of, (in ancient Egypt) a colossal statue near Thebes said to produce a musical sound when the rays of the early morning sun struck it. Compare Vocal Memnon.
- memoir — a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- memory — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- 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
- menchu — Rigoberta [ree-guh-ber-tuh] /ˌri gəˈbɛr tə/ (Show IPA), born 1959, Guatemalan author and social reformer: Nobel prize 1992.
- mended — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- mendel — Gregor Johann [greg-er yoh-hahn;; German grey-gawr yoh-hahn] /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn;; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
- mender — a person or thing that mends.
- mendes — a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- meneer — Mynheer.
- menger — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1840–1921, Austrian economist.
- mengzi — Mencius.
- menhir — an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany.
- menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- meninx — A membrane, especially one of the three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates.
- 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.
- mensch — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- menses — propriety; discretion.
- 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]>.
- mentee — a person who is guided by a mentor.
- mentes — (in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- mentha — (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
- menton — a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: winter resort.
- mentor — (in the Odyssey) a loyal adviser of Odysseus entrusted with the care and education of Telemachus.
- mentos — Plural form of mento.
- mentum — Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- menudo — a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and hominy.
- meowed — Simple past tense and past participle of meow.
- mequon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- 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)
- merced — a city in central California.
- mercer — a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
- mercia — an early English kingdom in central Britain.
- merckx — Eddy, born 1945, Belgian cyclist with five victories (1969–72, 1974) in the Tour de France.
- merely — only as specified and nothing more; simply: merely a matter of form.
- merese — (on a stemmed glass) a flat, sharp-edged knop joining the stem to the bowl or foot.
- merest — Superlative form of mere.