| ménage à trois |
household of three (French); a household consisting of a married couple and a single person who is the lover of one of the spouses. [2 definitions] |
| menagerie |
a collection of usu. wild or exotic animals, or the place where they are exhibited. |
| menarche |
the first menstrual cycle of a girl. |
| mend |
to repair (something damaged or worn). [4 definitions] |
| mendable |
combined form of mend. |
| mendacious |
untruthful. [2 definitions] |
| mendacity |
a tendency to lie; untruthfulness. [2 definitions] |
| mendelevium |
a synthetic radioactive chemical element that has 101 protons in each nucleus. (symbol: Md) |
| Mendel's laws |
the basic principles of heredity discovered by Mendel, showing that certain characteristics are inherited separately as units, that cells contain pairs of such unit characters, and that in every individual there is a pair, one from each parent, of determining factors for each unit character. |
| mendicancy |
the act of soliciting money by begging. [2 definitions] |
| mendicant |
living on charity; begging. [4 definitions] |
| Menelaus |
in Greek mythology, king of Sparta during the Trojan War, brother to Agamemnon, and husband to Helen of Troy. |
| menfolk |
men in general or men of a specific family or community. |
| menhaden |
an inedible fish related to the herring, found in the western Atlantic Ocean and used for bait and for making oil and fertilizer. |
| menhir |
a large upright monolith standing alone or erected as part of an aligned grouping of such stones, found esp. in parts of England and France and usu. prehistoric in origin. |
| menial |
of, relating to, or suitable to a servant. [3 definitions] |
| meninges |
the three membranes covering the brain or spinal cord in vertebrates. |
| meningitis |
an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, usu. because of an infection. |
| meningococcal |
of or relating to the meningococcus bacterium, which is the causative agent of meningitis. |
| meningococcus |
the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which is the causative agent of meningitis. |
| meninx |
one of the three membranes covering the brain or spinal cord in vertebrates. |