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List of Words for Letter 'M'

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  • manufacturing making large amounts of goods in factories
  • mayor the elected head of a city government
  • megalopolis an urban area formed by several smaller cities
  • meridian a line of longitude
  • mesa a hill or mountain with a flat top and steep sides; a high plateau
  • Missouri Compromise a law passed by Congress allowing Maine to join the Union as a free state and Missouri to join as a slave state
  • mound a large pile of earth made by humans
  • mountain men trappers who lived in the Rocky Mountains
  • mouth the place where a river empties into an ocean, a lake, or a larger river
  • municipal the local or city government


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