Words in english starting with M

• Morgan — Noun – English ～ a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
• Morgan — Noun – English ～ United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)
• Morgan le Fay — Noun – English ～ (Arthurian legend) a wicked enchantress who was the half sister and enemy of King Arthur
• Morgan City — Noun – English ～ a town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton Rouge
• Morgan — Noun – English ～ soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)
• Morgan — Noun – English ～ United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
• morganatic — Adjective – English ～ (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior
• morganite — Noun – English ～ a kind of pink beryl used as a gemstone
• morgantown — Noun – English ～ a city in northern West Virginia on the Monongahela river near the Pennsylvania border; site of the University of West Virginia
• morgen — Noun – English ～ a South African unit of measure equal to about 2 acres
• morgue — Noun – English ～ a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
• memento mori — Noun – English ～ a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality
• moribund — Adjective – English ～ not growing or changing; without force or vitality
• moribund — Adjective – English ～ being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"
• morion — Noun – English ～ a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century
• Morlett's crocodile — Noun – English ～ a variety of crocodile
• Morley — Noun – English ～ United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923)
• Michelson-Morley experiment — Noun – English ～ a celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity
• mormon cricket — Noun – English ～ large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
• Mormon Church — Noun – English ～ church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah

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