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mémoire à long terme: long-term memory
mémoire épisodique: episodic memory
mémoires: memoirs
mémorable: memorable
mémorablement: memorably
mémorandum: memorandum (short note serving as a reminder)
mémoration: remembrance
mémorial: memorial
mémorialiste: memorialist
mémoriel: memorial
mémorisable: memorizable
mémorisation: memorizing, memorization
mémoriser: to memorize (to fix in one's memory)
mémère: affectionate name for a female; honey, sweetie, baby; grandmother
mémé: grandma, granny, nana; an old woman, old lady.
mémétique: meme; memetic
mémétique: the study of memes; memetics
ménade: maenad (follower of Dionysus)
ménadiol: menadiol
ménadione: menadione
ménage: housework, housekeeping; household
ménage de printemps: spring clean
ménage à trois: ménage à trois; ménage à trois; a household of three; a trio
ménagement: care and attention; circumspection
ménager: household; cleaning
ménager: househusband
ménager: to husband, to conserve; to treat gently, treat nicely; to conserve, go easy on; to go easy, take it easy
ménager la chèvre et le chou: to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds; to keep both parties sweet; to tread a fine line
ménagerie: menagerie (a collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept)
ménagère: female equivalent of ménager: housewife; canteen (of cutlery)
ménaquinone: menaquinone
ménatétrénone: menatetrenone
ménechme: ringer, spitting image, doppelganger
ménestrel: minstrel
méninge: meninges
méningiome: meningiom
méningite: meningitis
méningitique: meningitic
méningocoque: meningococcus
méniscal: meniscal
ménisectomie: meniscectomy
ménisique: meniscus (all senses)
ménisperminique: menispermic
ménisque: meniscus (all senses)
ménologe: menologium, a monthly record, particularly in certain Christian contexts
ménopause: menopause (period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether)
ménopausique: menopausal
ménopausé: menopaused (having been through the menopause)
ménorragie: menorrhagia
ménotropine: menotropin
ménétrier: fiddler (one who plays the fiddle)
méphistophélique: Mephistophelean
méphitique: mephitic
méphitisme: mephitism
méplat: plane
méplat: flat
méprendre: to mistake [with sur] (to confuse someone for another); to make a mistake; to misunderstand
mépris: scorn; contempt, disdain
méprisable: despicable, contemptible; good-for-nothing
méprisablement: despicably, contemptibly