9-letter words starting with me
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- merengues — Plural form of merengue.
- mereology — the formal study of the logical properties of the relation of part and whole
- merestone — A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
- merganser — any of several fish-eating diving ducks of the subfamily Merginae, having a narrow bill hooked at the tip and serrated at the edges.
- meridians — Plural form of meridian.
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- meristems — Plural form of meristem.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- meritable — Deserving of reward.
- meritious — Having merit.
- meritless — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- mermithid — (zoology) Any member of the Mermithidae.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- meromelia — A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- merozoite — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a schizont that parasitizes a red blood cell in the host.
- merpeople — Plural form of merperson.
- merperson — A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
- merrimack — a town in S New Hampshire.
- merriment — cheerful or joyful gaiety; mirth; hilarity; laughter.
- merriness — The property of being merry.
- merry men — a person's assistants or followers
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- mertensia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- mesangial — Of or pertaining to the mesangium.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mescaline — a white, water-soluble, crystalline powder, C 1 1 H 1 7 NO 3 , obtained from mescal buttons, that produces hallucinations.
- mescalism — addiction to mescal, an alcoholic spirit
- mesentery — the membrane, consisting of a double layer of peritoneum, that invests the intestines, attaching them to the posterior wall of the abdomen, maintaining them in position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, especially the part of this membrane investing the jejunum and ileum.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- mesmerise — to hypnotize.
- mesmerism — hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
- mesmerist — hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
- mesmerize — to hypnotize.
- mesmorise — Misspelling of mesmerise.
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocecum — the mesentery of the cecum.
- mesocolon — the mesentery of the colon.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- mesoderms — Plural form of mesoderm.
- mesogleal — relating to the mesoglea