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meilleur ami: best friend
meilleur ami de l'homme: man's best friend (the dog)
meilleure amie: best (female) friend
meilleurs vœux: best wishes! happy New Year!
meistre: archaic spelling of maître
meitnérium: meitnerium
melchior: obsolete spelling of maillechort
melchite: Melchite
melilitique: melilitic
melkite: alternative spelling of melchite
mellah: Moroccan ghetto (area inhabited by Jews)
mellification: mellification
mellifère: melliferous
mellite: mellite
mellonure: mellonide
melon: melon (fruit)
melon d'eau: watermelon
melon de France: cantaloupe
melon de Montréal: Montreal melon
melonnière: melon field; melon dish
melting pot: melting pot
melvillien: Melvillian
membranacé: membranaceous
membranaire: membrane; membranal
membrane: membrane
membrane clignotante: nictitating membrane
membrane déciduale: decidua
membrane haptogène: haptogenic membrane
membrane plasmique: cell membrane
membraneux: membrane; membranous
membranule: membranule
membre: member (of a group or organization); limb, member; member, penis
membre fondateur: founding member, founder member, charter member
membre viril: male member, virile member (penis)
membron: a line of lead or zinc that protects the bottom of a mansard roof
membru: well-endowed person
membru: well-endowed
membrure: frame (of a person); spars of a vessel
membré: hung
menace: threat
menacer: to threaten; to endanger, to jeopardise
menacer ruine: to be on the verge of collapsing, to totter, to be crumbling, to be very decayed
menaçant: menacing, threatening
menchevik: Menshevik
mendelssohnien: Mendelssohnian
mendiant: a beggar; a traditional Christmas confection, a chocolate disc studded with nuts and dried fruits representing the various mendicant monastic orders; a pastry from Alsace and Franche-Comté
mendicité: begging, panhandling
mendier: to beg (plead for money or goods)
mendigot: beggar
mendélien: Mendelian
mendélisme: Mendelism
mendélévium: mendelevium
meneau: mullion
mener: to lead, to take; to lead, to run, to take charge; to lead, to be leading, to be in the lead
mener de front: to juggle several activities at once, to handle several tasks simultaneously
mener en bateau: to mislead; to trick; to dupe
mener grand train: to live the high life, to live high on the hog, to live in style, to live large
mener la barque: to hold the reins, to lead the way; to run the show
mener la danse: to call the shots, to call the tune
mener la vie à grandes guides: to live the high life, to live high on the hog, to live in style, to live large