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megalith

noun · memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)

megalithic structure

noun · memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)

mellisonant

adjective · pleasing to the ear

Example: the dulcet tones of the cello

mellow out

verb · become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

Example: With age, he mellowed

mellowingly

adverb · so as to mellow

Example: the rays of the sun struck the earth mellowingly

mellowly

adverb · (obsolete) in a mellow manner

melodically

adverb · with respect to melody

Example: melodically interesting themes

melodious

adjective · containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody

Example: the melodious song of a meadowlark

melodiously

adverb · in a melodious manner

Example: she sang melodiously

melodramatically

adverb · in an overly emotional manner

Example: she acted melodramatically when she called for help

melting

adjective · becoming liquid

memel

noun · a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League

memorialise

verb · be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

Example: This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps

memorialize

verb · be or provide a memorial to a person or an event

Example: This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps

memorise

verb · commit to memory; learn by heart

Example: Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?

menacing

adjective · threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Example: a baleful look

menacingly

adverb · in a menacing manner

Example: the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly

mendacious

adjective · given to lying

Example: a mendacious child

mendaciously

adverb · in a mendacious and untruthful manner

Example: I told him, quite untruthfully, that I had just returned from leave

mendeleyev

noun · Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)

menial

adjective · used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

menninger

noun · United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953)

menstruate

verb · undergo menstruation

Example: She started menstruating at the age of 11

mentally

adverb · in your mind

Example: he suffered mentally

mentally retarded

noun · people collectively who are mentally retarded

Example: he started a school for the retarded

mercerise

verb · treat to strengthen and improve the luster

Example: mercerize cotton

mercifully

adverb · in a compassionate manner

Example: he dealt with the thief mercifully

mercury

noun · temperature measured by a mercury thermometer

Example: the mercury was falling rapidly

meretriciously

adverb · in a meretricious manner

Example: the boat is meretriciously decorated

merging

adjective · flowing together

merited

adjective · properly deserved

Example: a merited success

meritoriously

adverb · in a meritorious manner

Example: he served his country meritoriously

merrily

adverb · in a joyous manner

Example: they shouted happily

mess around

verb · do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

Example: The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house

messily

adverb · in a messy, untidy manner

Example: Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card

metabolically

adverb · involving metabolism

Example: metabolically important substances

metagrobolized

adjective · totally perplexed and mixed up- Wall Street Journal

Example: all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized

metameric

adjective · having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters

metamorphose

verb · change in outward structure or looks

Example: He transformed into a monster

metaphysically

adverb · in a metaphysical manner

Example: he thinks metaphysically

metastasise

verb · spread throughout the body

Example: the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved

methodically

adverb · in a methodical manner

Example: she worked methodically

methodologically

adverb · in a methodical manner

Example: let us proceed methodologically

methyl

noun · the univalent radical CH3- derived from methane

meticulously

adverb · in a meticulous manner

Example: the set was meticulously authentic

metonymic

adjective · using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated

Example: to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works

metrically

adverb · with regard to meter

Example: metrically, these poems are matched

metrify

verb · convert from a non-metric to the metric system

meuniere butter

noun · clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley

miasmal

adjective · filled with vapor

Example: miasmic jungles

miasmic

adjective · filled with vapor

Example: miasmic jungles