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 merit A claim to commendation or a reward. meritable Deserving of reward. Meritage A red or white Bordeaux-style wine, usually from the United States. merited deserved meritedly By merit; deservedly; meritously meritedness The state or condition of being merited; deservedness. meriter Someone or something that merits. meritful Full of merit; meritorious. merithal merithallus merithallus An internode. meritious Having merit. meritless Without merit. meritlessly In a meritless fashion. meritlessness The state or condition of being meritless. meritmonger One who depends on merit for salvation. meritocracy Rule by merit and talent. meritocrat An advocate of meritocracy. meritocratic Pertaining to a meritocracy. meritocratically In a meritocratic way. meritocratism Advocacy or partisanship in support of meritocracy. meritorious Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward. meritoriously In a meritorious manner. meritoriousness The property of being meritorious. meritory meritorious; deserving merits Intrinsic advantages, as opposed to political or procedural advantages. Meritt A surname. Meriwether A surname. meriyasu A style of instrumental music used as scoring in kabuki merk To run. Merkabah A school of early Jewish mysticism, circa 100 BCE – 1000 CE, based around visions. Merkava A tank developed and used by the Israeli Defense Forces. merked ugly, unattractive. Merkel A surname from German; variant form Merkley. Merkelian Of or pertaining to Angela Merkel (born 1954), German politician and chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. Merkelism The politics of German politician Angela Merkel (born 1954). Merkelvellian Pertaining to the tactics of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merker A surname. merkhet An ancient surveying and timekeeping instrument, consisting of a bar with a plumb line, attached to a handle. merkid A young merperson. merkin A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item. merking A mermaid king; the king of the merfolk. merkingdom A kingdom of merfolk. Merkle A surname. Merkley A surname from German. Merkman A surname. Merkmann A surname from German. merknight A merperson knight. Merkozy The (personification of the) unified position of France and Germany during the early 21st century European sovereign debt crisis. Merksemian An age from ~2.5 to ~2 million years ago, a subdivision of the Pleistocene. Merkulov A surname from Russian Merkur A defunct automobile brand produced by the Ford Motor Company in the late 1980s. Merkwan A surname. merlad A young male merperson, male equivalent of mermaid merlady A mermaid. merland A mythical land of mermaids and merfolk. merle A Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. merled With a coat in a merle pattern. merlette In French heraldry, a depiction of a mythological bird without beak or feet. merlin A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. Merlinesque Reminiscent of the legendary wizard Merlin. merling The fish Merlangius merlangus, endemic to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea and Black Sea. Merlinian Of or relating to the mythical wizard Merlin. Merlinic Pertaining to the legendary wizard Merlin, especially the tradition of medieval prophecies attributed to him. Merlino A surname from Italian. merlinoite An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium. merlion Often Merlion: a symbolic creature having the head of a lion and the body of a fish, which is a national symbol of Singapore; an image, statue, or other depiction of this creature. Merlo A surname. merlon Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons. merlot A dark-blue variety of wine grape. merlucciid Any member of the family Merlucciidae of codlike fishes, including most hakes. merluce The European hake. merm A permanent for a man. mermaid A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish. mermaidcore An aesthetic focusing on imagery and fashion related to mermaids. mermaiden A mermaid; a maiden of the sea; a siren. mermaiding The practice of swimming while wearing an artificial mermaid tail. mermaidish Resembling or characteristic of a mermaid. mermaidism The condition of being a mermaid. mermaidlike Resembling or characteristic of a mermaid. mermaidweed Any of the watermilfoils in the genus Proserpinaca, native to eastern North America and the West Indies. mermaidy mermaidlike merman A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down. Mermanesque Reminiscent of Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American actress and singer, known for her powerful mezzo-soprano voice. Mermelstein A surname. mermin A mermaid or merman. mermite An insulated container used to keep food hot or cold. mermithergate A worker ant that is deformed by parasitic nematodes. mermithid Any member of the family Mermithidae of nematode worms that are endoparasites in arthropods. mermonster A monster of the sea; a sea-monster. mermother A mother mermaid. mermouse A mermaid mouse; a sea mouse. MERN A village in Zealand, Denmark. Merna A female given name. Mernda A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia Mernot A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia. mero Any of several large groupers of warm seas. meroacid meromycolic acid meroacyl Having one acyl and one other type of group; having acyl groups of different length merobenthic Partially benthic meroblast An ovum (egg) that has both germinal and nutritive parts meroblastic that undergoes only partial cleavage meroblastically In a meroblastic manner. merocele A femoral hernia. merocerite A segment of the antenna of a crustacean between the ischiocerite and the carpocerite merochain A meromycolate chain merochlorin Any of a class of meroterpenoid antibiotics produced by Streptomyces meroclone A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells merocracy Rule by one part. merocrine Of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands that secrete without major damage to the secretory cells. merocyanine Any of a class of fluorescent dyes, some of which are notable for their solvatochromatic properties. merocyclic Of or relating to merocyclism. merocyclism The scientific hypothesis which proposes that the segments of certain arthropods, especially trilobites, develop in repeating cyclical patterns. merocyte Any cell formed by division of a meroblastic ovum merocytic Relating to, or composed of, merocytes. merodiploid Partially diploid (having a second copy of only part of its genome) merodiploidy The condition of being merodiploid Meroe An ancient city on the east bank of the Nile. merogamete The gamete of a protist produced by schizogony merogamy Merogony. merogenesis reproduction by segmentation merogenetic Relating to merogenesis. merogenous Related to merogenesis / merogeny merogeny Synonym of merogenesis. merogon The part of an ovum that undergoes merogony merogonial Of or pertaining to merogony. merogonic Of or pertaining to merogony merogony A form of asexual reproduction whereby a parasitic protozoan replicates its own nucleus inside its host's cell and then induces cell segmentation; a form of schizogony. merohedral Describing a form of a crystal that has half (or quarter, eighth etc) of the faces of the normal form merohedrally In a merohedral manner merohedric Describing crystal twinning by merohedry. merohedrism merohedry merohedry The condition of a crystal whose point group is a subgroup of that of its lattice meroic Pertaining to the ancient African civilization south of Egypt with the capital city Meroë. meroism The quality or process of being meroistic. meroistic Describing ovaries (especially of insects) that secrete nutritive (yolk) material as well as ova Meroitic Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written. Meroiticist A linguist who specialises in studying the Meroitic language. merokarst A type of landscape with less developed karst features than a holokarst. merokarstic Of or pertaining to a merokarst. Merola A surname from Italian. merolectin A lectin that has only a single sugar-binding centre, and does not agglutinate cells merolimnic Partially aquatic (typically during part of a life-cycle). merome A component of a metamere. meromelia A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity. meromictic Having layers of water that do not intermix. meromicticity The condition of being meromictic meromixis A circumstance where a body of water does not fully mix and circulate, causing stratification. meromorphic That is the ratio of two holomorphic functions (and so possibly infinite at a discrete set of points). meromorphically In a meromorphic manner; by using meromorphic functions meromorphy The condition of being meromorphic.