mesa :: high, flat-topped hill metamorphosis :: change of form metaphor :: implied comparison metropolis :: large city mettle :: courage; spirit mews :: group of stables built around a courtyard miasma :: swamp gas; odor of decaying matter microcosm :: small world mien :: demeanor; bearing milieu :: environment; means of expression millennium :: thousand-year period; period of happiness and prosperity minaret :: slender tower attached to a mosque minion :: a servile dependent mirage :: unreal reflection; optical illusion misadventure :: mischance; ill luck misanthrope :: one who hates mankind misapprehension :: error; misunderstanding miscegenation :: intermarriage between races miscellany :: mixture of writing on various subjects mischance :: ill luck miscreant :: wretch; villain misdemeanor :: minor crime misgivings :: doubts mishap :: accident misnomer :: wrong name; incorrect designation misogynist :: hater of women missile :: object to be thrown or projected mite :: very small object or creature; small coin mode :: prevailing style modicum :: limited quantity modulation :: toning down; changing from one key to another moiety :: half; part molecule :: the smallest part of a homogeneous substance momentum :: quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus moodiness :: fits of depression or gloom moor :: marshy wasteland moratorium :: legal delay of payment mores :: customs mortician :: undertaker mote :: small speck motif :: theme mountebank :: charlatan; boastful pretender mugwump :: defector from a party multiplicity :: state of being numerous murkiness :: darkness; gloom murrain :: plague; cattle disease myriad :: very large number nadir :: lowest point natation :: swimming nave :: main body of a church navet?:: quality of being unsophisticated |