maudlin (en)

(adjective) drunk enough to be emotionally silly / (adjective) weakly and effusively sentimental

maundering (en)

rambling OR meandering

mawkish (en)

(adjective) having an insipid often unpleasant taste / (adjective) sickly or puerilely sentimental

maxillofacial (en)

relating to the jaws and face

mealy (en)

covered with meal or with fine granules

mediated (en)

intervened with, through an intermediary

mediatization (en)

the theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place

meliorism (en)

(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

melisma (en)

(noun) a group of notes or tones sung on one syllable in plainsong / (noun) melodic embellishment / (noun) cadenza

membra disjecta (la)

scattered fragments

memento mori (en)

(noun) a reminder of mortality / (noun) death's-head

mendacity (en)

untruthfulness

mendicant (en)

(noun) beggar / (noun) a member of a religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property; friar

mendicity (en)

(noun) the condition or activities of a beggar.

Menippean satire (en)

a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities

mensch (en)

(North American) a person of integrity and honor

mephitic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or resembling mephitis; foul-smelling

mercado (en)

the Spanish word for a public market or any kind of market

meretricious (en)

(adjective) of or relating to a prostitute; having the nature of prostitution / (adjective) tawdrily and falsely attractive / (adjective) superficially significant; pretentious

meristematic (en)

(noun) a formative plant tissue usually made up of small cells capable of dividing indefinitely and giving rise to similar cells or to cells that differentiate to produce the definitive tissues and organs

mesas (en)

the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs

meta-ironic (en)

awareness of irony

metabolic rift (en)

Marx's notion of the "irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism," i.e., his conception of ecological crisis tendencies under capitalism

metafiction (en)

(noun) fiction which refers to or takes as its subject fictional writing and its conventions

metaleptic (en)

(from Greek) a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context