mehtarship
The role or status of a mehtar.

meiobenthos
A group of marine or freshwater benthic organisms that are intermediate in terms of size between macrobenthos and microbenthos, and which can pass through a 1 mm sieve, but are retained by a 45 μm sieve.

meiofauna
A group of marine or freshwater, typically benthic organisms that are intermediate in terms of size between macrofauna and microfauna, and which can pass through a 1 mm sieve, but are retained by a 45 μm sieve.

meiofaunae
plural of meiofauna

meiofaunas
plural of meiofauna

meioses
plural of meiosis

meiosis
A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

meiotaxy
The suppression of entire whorls.

meishi
A Japanese business card.

meishis
plural of meishi

meism
Egotism; a focus on, or obsession with, oneself.

meisms
plural of meism

meitnium
(obsolete) A rejected name for protactinium.

meizothrombin
A particular intermediate in thrombin metabolism.

mejlis
Alternative form of majlis.

mejlises
plural of mejlis

mekometer
A kind of precision rangefinder.

mekometers
plural of mekometer

mela
A Hindu religious festival.
A South Asian fair.

melabasanite
A black basanite

melachah
Alternative form of melakhah.

melagabbro
A form of gabbro that is relatively darkly colored.

melagabbros
plural of melagabbro

melakhah
Any of the types of work forbidden on Shabbat.
Labor in general.

melakhot
plural of melakhah

melalgia
Pain in a limb.

melancholia
Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

melancholias
plural of melancholia

melancholiness
The quality of being melancholy.

melanephelinite
A dark nephelinite.

melanephelinites
plural of melanephelinite

melange
A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

melanges
plural of melange

melaninization
melanization

melaninogenesis
The formation of melanin.

melanofilament
A coil of melanin that develops into a melanotubule and finally a melanosome

melanofilaments
plural of melanofilament

melanoheliophobia
The irrational fear of (astrophysical) black holes.

melanolipofuscin
A form of melanosome that contains lipofuscin

melanolipofuscins
plural of melanolipofuscin

melanomatosis
A condition in which multiple melanomas are present on the body.

melanophage
A phagocyte that engulfs melanin

melanophages
plural of melanophage

melanophagy
The loss (by "eating away") of melanin

melanophobia
Fear, hate, or dislike of black people.

melanorite
A dark norite

melanorites
plural of melanorite

melanosity
The condition of being melanous; darkness of complexion.

melanotype
Alternative form of melainotype.

meldub
Abbreviation of melodic dubstep.

melengket
A soft form of copal.

melengkets
plural of melengket

melilitite
A form of melilite containing less than 10% olivine

melilitites
plural of melilitite

meliorability
The ability to be improved.

melioration
Archaic form of amelioration.

meliorations
plural of melioration

meliorism
The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism).

meliorisms
plural of meliorism

meliority
The state or quality of being better; melioration.

melissopalynology
The study of pollen from bees and in their honey

melissophobia
A morbid fear of bees.

melittology
The study of bees

melittophily
pollination by bees

meliturgy
The practice of bee-keeping or the preparation of honey. The word became uncommon after the introduction of refined sugar and the subsequent decline in popularity of beekeeping. Derived from the Greek word for honey. Possibly coined by Thomas Granger circa 1620. Uncountable, no known plural.

mellification
The production of honey by honey bees.
The preservation of something in honey.

mellifluence
The quality of sounding mellifluous; that is, the quality of sounding very smooth or pleasant.

mellifluences
plural of mellifluence

mellifluousness
The property of being mellifluous.

mellifluousnesses
plural of mellifluousness

mellowedness
The state or condition of being mellowed.

mellowness
The property of being mellow.

mellownesses
plural of mellowness

melodeclamation
The practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.

melodicity
The quality of being melodic.

melodiograph
A form of melograph.

melodiographs
plural of melodiograph

melodiousness
The property of being melodious.

melodization
The process or result of melodizing.

melodizations
plural of melodization

melodramaticism
Melodramatic behaviour.

melodramaticisms
plural of melodramaticism

melodramaticness
The quality of being melodramatic.

melodramatics
Overemotional, exaggerated behavior calculated for effect.

melodramatisation
Alternative form of melodramatization.

melodramatisations
plural of melodramatisation

melodramatism
Alternative form of melodramaticism.

melodramatisms
plural of melodramatism

melodramatization
The process or result of melodramatizing.

melodramatizations
plural of melodramatization

melodramaturgy
The art of creating melodrama.

melology
The study of music; musicology.

melomania
An abnormal love of music.

melophilia
Love of music

melophobia
Aversion to music.

meloplasties
plural of meloplasty

meloplasty
The operation of restoring or repairing a cheek which has been wholly or partially destroyed.
The surgical lifting and repositioning the tissues in the cheeks and lower eyelids to create a more youthful appearance.

meloschisis
A congenital fissure of the face or cheek.

melotragedies
plural of melotragedy.

melotragedy
A genre of theatrical tragedy featuring music.
A work in this genre.

meltabilities
plural of meltability

meltability
The state or quality of being meltable.

meltage
The process of melting.

meltages
plural of meltage

meltdown
Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
A tantrum or emotional outburst.
An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.

meltedness
The quality of being melted.

meltiness
The quality of being melty.

meltingness
The property of melting or seeming to melt.

meltoff
The melting of snowpack at the end of winter.
The water produced by the melting of the snowpack.

memadmittance
Memory admittance; the reciprocal of memimpedance

memberlessness
Absence of members.

membership
The state of being a member of a group or organization.
The body of members of an organization.
The fact of being a member of a set.

membershipped
simple past and past participle of membership

membrance
remembrance, recollection

membrances
plural of membrance

membranelle
One of a set of structures found around the mouth, or cytostome, in ciliate protists, and from which the cilia emerge.

membranelles
plural of membranelle

membranotropism
The condition of being membranotropic

membranousness
The state or condition of being membranous.

membrification
The formation of members or limbs.

membrifications
plural of membrification

memcapacitance
The capacitance of a memcapacitor.

memcapacitances
plural of memcapacitance

memeability
The quality or degree of being memeable.

memedom
The state or quality of being a meme.
The world of memes.

memehood
The state of being a meme.

memeification
The process of forming an Internet meme out of something.

memeifications
plural of memeification

memeplex
A set of memes which interact to reinforce each other.

memeplexes
plural of memeplex

memesmith
A creator of Internet memes.