Nouns

Words that name people, places, things, or ideas

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maurois

noun

French writer best known for his biographies (1885-1967)

mavin

noun

someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

mawkishness

noun

insincere pathos

mayakovski

noun

Soviet poet; leader of Russian futurism (1893-1930)

mayapple

noun

North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible tho...

mayenne

noun

a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire...

mayoralty

noun

the position of mayor

maypop

noun

of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size...

mayweed

noun

widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower head...

mazdaism

noun

system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC b...

mazopathy

noun

any pathology of the breast

mazzard

noun

wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting

mcallen

noun

a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande

mccullers

noun

United States novelist (1917-1967)

mcguffey

noun

United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Re...

mckim

noun

United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909)

mcmaster

noun

United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of t...

meagerness

noun

the quality of being meager

mealie

noun

an ear of corn

mealworm

noun

the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae

meaningfulness

noun

the quality of having great value or significance

meatman

noun

a retailer of meat

meccano

noun

a child's construction set for making mechanical models

mechanist

noun

a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism

meclizine

noun

an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prev...

meconium

noun

thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of...

medan

noun

a city in Indonesia; located in northeastern Sumatra

medawar

noun

British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue tra...

meddlesomeness

noun

aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yours...

mediacy

noun

the quality of being mediate

mediant

noun

(music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between t...

mediastinum

noun

the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that conta...

mediatrix

noun

a woman who is a mediator

medicament

noun

(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates t...

medick

noun

any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having...

medlar

noun

small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that...

medoc

noun

red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern Fr...

medusoid

noun

one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swi...

meed

noun

a fitting reward

meerschaum

noun

a white clayey mineral

megabit

noun

a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,...

megadeath

noun

the death of a million people

megacycle

noun

one million periods per second

megaera

noun

one of the three Furies

megalocardia

noun

an abnormal enlargement of the heart

megalosaurus

noun

gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or ear...

megapode

noun

large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds...

megaspore

noun

larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous p...

megasporophyll

noun

in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasp...

megathere

noun

gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Plioce...