Nouns starting with M

• match play — Noun – English ～ golf scoring by holes won
• mystery play — Noun – English ～ a medieval play representing episodes from the life of Christ
• minister plenipotentiary — Noun – English ～ a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
• mesenteric plexus — Noun – English ～ a plexus of autonomic nerves
• myenteric plexus — Noun – English ～ a plexus of unmyelinated fibers and postganglionic autonomic cell bodies in the muscular coat of the esophagus and stomach and intestines
• mouldboard plough — Noun – English ～ plow that has a moldboard
• moldboard plow — Noun – English ～ plow that has a moldboard
• male plug — Noun – English ～ an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
• marmalade plum — Noun – English ～ brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
• Madagascar plum — Noun – English ～ small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums
• myrobalan plum — Noun – English ～ small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit
• moxie plum — Noun – English ～ slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds
• Mammillaria plumosa — Noun – English ～ a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico
• mycoplasmal pneumonia — Noun – English ～ an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults
• Mexican pocket mouse — Noun – English ～ large pocket mouse of Mexico
• monkey pod — Noun – English ～ large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
• melting point — Noun – English ～ the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid
• McBurney's point — Noun – English ～ a point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus; the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitis
• match point — Noun – English ～ (tennis) the final point needed to win a match (especially in tennis)
• mercury poisoning — Noun – English ～ a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death

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