Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z mercy Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. merd Ordure; dung, shit, excrement. merdaughter A mermaid daughter. merde Shit. merdeka Freedom or independence, chiefly of a nation or people. MerDer The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy. merdiban A traditional accounting method used in the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere, with amounts recorded in descending order. merdivorous Dung-eating, coprophagous. merdog A mermaid dog. merdurinous Consisting of excrement and urine. mere Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. Meredith A male given name from Welsh. Meredithian Of or pertaining to George Meredith (1828-1909), English poet and novelist. Merefa A city in Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. mereheadite A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine, hydrogen, lead, and oxygen. Merei A commune and village in Buzău County, Romania. mereing An administrative or property boundary on a map. mereiterite A monoclinic-prismatic pale yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, and sulfur. mereletinib The drug osimertinib. merels nine men's morris merely Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. merenchyma tissue composed of spheroidal cells merenchymatous Of or relating to merenchyma. Merenda A surname from Italian. Merendino A surname from Italian. merengue A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic. merenguito A meringue cookie. Mereni A commune of Constanța County, Romania. merenskyite A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal white mineral containing bismuth, palladium, platinum, and tellurium. mereological Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes. mereologically In mereological terms. mereologist One who studies mereology. mereology The discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes. Mereon A surname, recorded for three families in the USA and Canada. mereotopological Relating to mereotopology. mereotopology A theory combining mereology and topology, investigating relations between parts and wholes and boundaries between them. merese A flat, sharp-edged button, often a disc-shaped knob, separating the stem of a drinking-glass from the foot. meresman An officer who ascertained marks and meres (boundaries) on maps. merestake A pollard or tree standing as a mark or boundary for the division of parts or parcels in a grove, thicket, or woods. merestead The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead. merestone A stone designating a limit or boundary; a boundary stone. mereswine A porpoise or dolphin. meretricious Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring. meretriciously In a meretricious manner. meretriciousness The property of being meretricious. meretrix A prostitute in Ancient Rome. Merevale A hamlet and civil parish (served by Bentley and Merevale Parish Council) in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2997). Mereweather A surname. Merewether A surname. Mereworth A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6553). merfamily A family of merfolk. merfather A father merman. Merfeld A surname from German. merfold A Hungarian mile, a unit of distance varying from 8.3790 to 8.9374 kilometres before being standardized as 8.3536 km. merfolk Mythical creatures that are human from the waist up and fish from the waist down. merfriend A friend who is a merperson. merfur A furry character with an anthro upper half and a piscine lower half; a furry merperson. Mergal A surname. merganser Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill. merge To combine into a whole. mergeability The quality of being mergeable. mergeable Capable of being merged. mergeburst An outburst of energy following a merger of two stars. merged joined by merging mergee One who or that which undergoes a merge. Mergen A surname. mergence The act of merging. Mergenthaler A surname from German. Mergentheim Former name of Bad Mergentheim. merger One that merges. mergerless Without a merger. mergesort A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them together. merging The act, or the result, of being merged. mergirl A mermaid. mergism The condition of being a mergist; the condition of favoring merging over other actions. mergist Someone who generally favors merging. merguard A merperson guard. merguez A red, spicy sausage from North Africa, made with lamb or beef. Mergui A city in southern Burma; modern Myeik. merguy A male merperson. merhorse A seahorse. merhusband A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband. meri A language of Cameroon. Meriah A victim of human sacrifice by the Khond people of India. Meriam A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia. meribendan A cardiotonic drug. Merica A surname. mericarp An individual carpel of a schizocarp, having a single seed mericarpal Of or relating to a mericarp. mericarpic Relating to a mericarp. mericarpium Synonym of mericarp. mericarpous Relating to a mericarp. mericitabine A particular antiviral drug. Mericle A surname. mericlinal partially periclinal mericlone A plant (especially an orchid) that has been cloned via meristem propagation Merida A female given name originating as a coinage. meridamycin A macrolide present in Streptomyces hygroscopicus meride An interval of pitch equal to 1/43 of an octave. Meriden A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England, historically in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2482). Merideth A surname. meridian In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface. meridianally Along the lines of meridian, longitudinally. meridianed Having one or more meridians. meridic of which only some of its components are chemically defined meridiem Midday, noon. meridiolestidan Any extinct mammal of the clade †Meridiolestida meridional located in the south, southern; later especially, often pertaining to the southern parts of Europe. meridionality The state of being in the meridian. meridionalization The movement of fish to warmer, more southern waters meridionally In a meridional manner Meridith A female given name from Welsh, variant of Meredith. meridiungulate Any of the South American mammals of the extinct clade †Meridiungulata. Merikin One of the African-American refugees of the War of 1812: freed black slaves who fought for the British against the USA in the Corps of Colonial Marines and then, after post-war service in Bermuda, were established as a community in the south of Trinidad in 1815–16. Merillat A surname from French. Merimbula A town in the Bega Valley Shire council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia merimepodib A particular antiviral drug. Merina A member of the a highlander Malagasy ethnic group in Madagascar whose core territory corresponds to the former Antananarivo Province in the centre of the island. Meringo A locality in the Eurobodalla council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia. meringue A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and either sugar or other flavorings; it is often baked to brown the surface and may be used as a topping or in other ways, most often as a dessert. meringuelike Resembling meringue. meringuey meringuelike Meringur A locality in the Rural City of Mildura, north western Victoria, Australia merino A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair. Meriones A hero of the Trojan War, the Cretan son of Molus and Melphis or Euippe. Merioneth Synonym of Merionethshire. Merionethshire A maritime traditional county of Wales, bounded to the north by Caernarfonshire, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, and to the west by Cardigan Bay. merisa a form of millet beer popular in South Sudan merisis Any form of growth; specifically, growth by increase in number of cells. merism A reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low". merismatic Dividing into cells or segments. merismoid Having a branched or laciniate pileus. merismus A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole. merispore A secondary spore resulting from division of another spore. Merissa A female given name, variant of Marissa. meristele Each of the apparently isolated units of a dictyostele. meristelic Of or relating to a meristele. meristem The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth. meristematic Of or pertaining to the meristem meristematically In a meristematic way. meristemic Of or pertaining to the meristem meristemless That lacks a meristem meristemoid A small, triangular stomatal precursor cell that functions temporarily as a stem cell in a meristem. meristemoidal Relating to a meristemoid meristic Relating to meristics. meristically In terms of meristics. meristics The counting of quantitative features of a fish, such as its number of fins or of scales. meristoderm A meristem layer on the surface of brown algae. meristogenetic Produced from the meristem. meristogenous Synonym of meristogenetic.