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6,580 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

mégariche: megarich
mégarique: Megaric
mégascope: megascope
mégastore: megastore
mégastructure: megastructure
mégasème: megaseme
mégasécheresse: megadrought
mégaséisme: megaseism
mégathère: megathere
mégathérium: megathere
mégatonne: megaton (all senses)
mégatsunami: megatsunami (an extremely large tsunami-like wave caused by an avalanche or landslide displacing large amounts of water very quickly)
mégavolt: megavolt
mégawatt: megawatt
mégawattheure: megawatt-hour
mégaélectronvolt: megaelectron volt
mégenrer: to misgender
méger: sharecropper
mégestion: maladministration, mismanagement
mégissier: tawer
mégohm: megohm
mégohmmètre: megohmmeter
mégot: cigarette butt, fag end
mégoter: to be stingy, to nitpick, to skimp
mégrélien: Mingrelian (language)
mégère: shrew, vixen (ill-tempered woman); wall brown
méhaigné: maimed, crippled
méhari: mehari (kind of dromedary)
méhariste: a dromedary rider, especially of a mehari, sometimes as part of camelry
méharée: a journey on camelback, especially on meharis
méiose: meiosis (cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes)
méiotique: meiotic
méjuger: to misjudge
mél: an email message
mélam: melam
mélamine: melamine
mélampyre: cow-wheat (plant of genus Melampyrum)
mélanchyme: melanchyme
mélancolie: melancholy, black bile (one of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen and to cause melancholy and sadness when present in excess); melancholy (sadness or depression)
mélancolique: melancholic
mélancoliquement: gloomily, melancholically
mélange: mixture, blend
mélangeable: mixable, blendable
mélanger: to mix, to mix up
mélanger des choux et des carottes: to mix apples and oranges, to compare apples and oranges
mélanger les torchons et les serviettes: to mix apples and oranges, to compare apples and oranges (literally, "to mix tea towels and napkins")
mélangeur: mixer (device); mixer tap
mélanine: melanin
mélanique: melanic
mélanisation: melanization
mélaniser: to melanize
mélanisme: melanism
mélanodermie: melanoderma
mélanome: melanoma
mélanose: melanosis
mélanostimuline: melanostimulin
mélantérite: melanterite
mélanésien: Melanesian
mélasma: melasma
mélasse: molasses; treacle; a sticky situation