Words in english starting with M

• Mary Therese McCarthy — Noun – English ～ United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
• mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer — Noun – English ～ a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body; graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature
• mercury-in-glass thermometer — Noun – English ～ thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
• mercury thermometer — Noun – English ～ thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
• maximum and minimum thermometer — Noun – English ～ thermometer that records the highest and lowest temperatures reached during a period of time
• meat thermometer — Noun – English ～ a thermometer that is inserted into the center of a roast (with the top away from the heat source); used to measure how well done the meat is
• mid-thirties — Noun – English ～ the time of life between 30 and 40
• melancholy thistle — Noun – English ～ perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers
• milk thistle — Noun – English ～ any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
• milk thistle — Noun – English ～ tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
• musk thistle — Noun – English ～ Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
• Mysore thorn — Noun – English ～ spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers
• mother-of-thousands — Noun – English ～ eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
• move through — Verb – English ～ make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs"; "Some travelers pass through the desert"
• mocking thrush — Noun – English ～ thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
• mistletoe thrush — Noun – English ～ large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries
• mistle thrush — Noun – English ～ large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries
• missel thrush — Noun – English ～ large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries
• miller's-thumb — Noun – English ～ small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America
• Maundy Thursday — Noun – English ～ the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper

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