12-letter words starting with me
- menai strait — a strait between Anglesey Island and the mainland of NW Wales. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- mendel's law — law of segregation.
- meningococci — Plural form of meningococcus.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mental block — inability to recall
- mental image — sth imagined
- mentally ill — having a mental illness.
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.
- mercantilist — Of, pertaining to, or believing in mercantilism.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
- merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercurialism — poisoning by mercury.
- mercurialist — a person born under the planet Mercury
- mercuriality — Mercurial behaviour.
- mercurialize — to make mercurial, especially in temperament.
- mercury mass — blue mass (def 1).
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mergenthaler — Ottmar [ot-mahr;; German awt-mahr] /ˈɒt mɑr;; German ˈɔt mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1854–99, U.S. inventor of the Linotype, born in Germany.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- meristematic — consisting of or having the properties of meristem.
- meristically — in a meristic manner
- merit system — a system or policy whereby people are promoted or rewarded on the basis of ability and achievement rather than because of seniority, quotas, patronage, or the like.
- meritocratic — an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
- mermaid weed — any of several North American, aquatic plants of the genus Proserpinaca, having pinnately dissected leaves either above or below the water.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- merrillville — a town in NE Indiana.
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
- merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- mesabi range — a range of low hills in NE Minnesota, noted for major iron-ore deposits mined by the open-pit method.
- mesenteritis — inflammation of the mesentery.
- meshrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
- mesmerically — In a mesmeric manner; by, or as if by, hypnotism.
- mesoamerican — Alternative form of Mesoamerican.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesocortical — Of or pertaining to the mesocortex.