Word origins

• mangelwurzelA root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.
• männleinA little man; a dwarf, a mannikin.
• MantheA surname from German.
• MantheiA surname from German.
• marbled crayfishProcambarus virginalis; an all-female species of crayfish that reproduces without sex.
• margaroditeA hydrous potash mica related to muscovite.
• mariengroschenAn obsolete coin from Germany, higher in value than a pfennig.
• market citizenThe privileged status of anyone exploiting the specific individual rights of the European single market, having effectively a kind of depoliticized citizenship as a form of purely economic communitarization.
• market citizenshipThe state or status of being a market citizen.
• MarohlA surname from German.
• MarohnA surname from German.
• MarolfA surname from German.
• MarschkeA surname from German.
• märzenA lager originating in Bavaria, which has a medium to full body and may vary in color from pale through amber to dark brown and is traditionally served at the Munich Oktoberfest.
• märzenbierSynonym of märzen.
• MasonerA surname from German.
• masskrugstemmenSynonym of steinholding.
• MassmannA surname from German.
• mast cellA resident cell of connective tissue that contains many granules rich in histamine and heparin.
• master of the woodsSynonym of waldmeister (“type of herb”).
• master raceA race of people who are superior to others.
• mastersingerA German lyric poet of the late Middle Ages.
• mastocytemast cell
• MatheisA surname from German.
• maulstickA short stick with a pad on one end, used by a painter to steady their hand, and to prevent it from accidentally touching the painting.
• MayhornA surname from German.
• MaylanderA denizen of Mayland
• mealy-mouthedProne to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.
• MechlerA surname from German.
• Mecklenburg-VorpommernSynonym of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
• MeesdorfAn urban district of Buer at the city of Melle in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.
• MehrerA surname from German.
• MeingastA surname from German.
• MeisslA surname from German.
• -meisterAn expert on the specified subject.
• MemellandThe region around Klaipėda (Memel), historically part of East Prussia and today within Lithuania.
• MenckeA surname.
• MenkerA surname from German.
• Menschanschauungthe set of ideas and presumptions one has about humans
• Mercedes-BenzA car of a particular brand manufactured by Daimler AG.
• mercy seatThe lid of the Ark of the Covenant, on which God is said to have been enthroned; taken to represent the throne in heaven.
• MerkmannA surname from German.
• MeschedeA town in Hochsauerland district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• MeschkeA surname from German.
• MeskeA surname from German.
• Middle FranconiaAn administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Ansbach.
• Middle KingdomChina.
• MilbrathA surname from German.
• MiltnerA surname from German.
• milzbrandanthrax
• minenwerferA type of trench mortar used by German forces especially during the First World War, or the shells fired by such a mortar.
• miner's figureA wooden figure of a miner, usually bearing one or two candles, traditionally used as a Christmas decoration in the Ore Mountains of central Europe.
• mini-jobIn Germany, a part-time employment so low in volume that it legally avoids contributions to social security and taxation.
• minikinA young person, especially a young woman.
• minnesingerA peripatetic musician in Germany in the 12th to the 14th centuries, often performing songs of courtly love.
• minoratA custom or right, analogous to borough English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, by which certain entailed estates, such as a homestead and adjacent land, descended to the youngest male heir.
• mischlingIn certain (especially Nazi) racial theories, someone of mixed race; especially one who is partly of Jewish descent.
• miserabilismA tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.
• MiskeA surname from German.
• mispickelThe mineral arsenopyrite
• mitgehenAn extreme form of mitmachen, where very slight pressure exerted on a body will cause a movement in any direction.
• mitmachenA state in which a person's body can be put into any posture, although the person has been instructed to resist any movement.
• mittelschmerzLower abdominal and pelvic pain that occurs roughly midway through the menstrual cycle, during ovulation.
• MittelstadtA surname from German.
• MittenpunktA triangle center defined as the symmedian point of the triangle formed by the centers of the three excircles.
• mixoscopicPertaining to mixoscopy; voyeuristic.
• mixoscopyThe attainment of sexual pleasure from watching other people have sex.
• mnemePersisting effect of memory of past events.
• MöbiusA surname from German.
• modal particleA word class that indicates the mood of an utterance.
• mode of productionA combination of productive forces such as labour power and means of production, and social and technical relations of production such as property, power, laws and regulations, etc.
• moderlieschenLeucaspius delineatus, a species of freshwater fish found throughout temperate continental Europe.
• MoeckelA surname from German.
• MoedeA surname from German.
• MoehleA surname from German.
• MoermannA surname from German.
• MohlmanA surname from German.
• momentary godA specific phenomenon, such as a lightning bolt, interpreted and experienced as a deity.
• mondmilchSynonym of moonmilk (limestone precipitate in caves)
• MonnigA surname from German.
• MonschauA town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• MonseesA surname from German.
• MormannA surname from German.
• morning-landThe Orient; the East.
• morphogenyThe study of the evolution of forms by observing the supposed ontogenic recapitulation of that phylogeny.
• morphophylyThe direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
• MorschA surname from German.
• Moselle FranconianOne of two subgroups of the Central Franconian dialects; spoken in the north-western half of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Siegerland, and parts of eastern Belgium; distinguished from the northern Ripuarian by a number of fairly parallel isoglosses, especially the Dorf-Dorf-Linie and also the Moselle Franconian diphthongization of Germanic -ī-, -ū-.
• moss-folkA type of wood spirit that wears a covering of moss, lichen, and leaves.
• moss-maidenA young female of the moss-folk.
• moss-peoplemoss-folk
• moss-womanA female of the moss-folk.
• mottephobiaAn irrational fear of moths or butterflies.
• mox nixit doesn't matter; no worries
• MuehlhauserA surname from German.
• MuellnerA surname from German.
• MuffleyA surname from German.
• MuhlesteinA surname from German.
• mulmThe sludge that collects at the bottom (or walls) of an aquarium, consisting of fish excrement, decaying plant matter, and other assorted detritus
• MummeyA surname from German.