Index to letter M
Fighting.
Long; large.
Magnetism or a magnet.
Large; great.
Improperly; badly; wrongly.
Abnormal softening of a tissue.
Soft.
Malay; Malay and …
A breast or breasts.
A male person of a specified type.
Divination.
Manganese.
Mental abnormality or obsession; extreme enthusiasm or admiration.
Skill in a subject or activity.
Breast.
A mother.
Very large or long.
The jaw.
Mechanical.
Medicine plus another field.
Middle.
Large or great; a factor of one million; a factor of 220.
Abnormal enlargement of part of the body.
Less or fewer.
A person regarded as skilled or prominent in a specified activity.
Black.
An abnormal condition of a limb.
The meninges.
Menstruation.
Forming nouns.
Part or segment.
The chemical radical —SH.
Partly or partial.
A midline.
Middle; intermediate.
Change of position or condition; behind, after, or beyond; of a higher or second-order kind; chemical substitution.
A metal.
Measuring instrument; unit of measurement.
The methyl radical, —CH3.
The methoxyl radical, CH3O—
Measurement.
The uterus.
Measurement.
A capital city or other large urban area.
A condition of the eye.
Small; a factor of one millionth.
Middle; medium; half.
Medium-sized; of medium length.
One thousandth; a thousand.
Very small of its kind.
Various senses with negative implications.
Hatred for or a hater of something.
Book sizes.
Simple microorganisms.
A dealer or trader.
One; alone; single.
Forming nouns.
A specified form or character.
Animal groupings.
Form or character.
Superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Mucus.
More than one; many.
Muscle.
Bacteria or fungi.
An antibiotic compound derived from fungi.
Fungi or fungal.
Bone marrow; the spinal cord.
Muscle.
The eardrum.
An ant or ants.
Myth.
Mucus.
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