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List of Words for Letter 'M'

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  • manor a large piece of land that the owner rents in smaller plots to a number of farmers
  • manufacturer someone who produces goods in factories
  • map a kind of picture of Earth
  • map scale the measurement a map uses to indicate the real size of a place on Earth
  • market economy an economy in which people decide for themselves what to sell or buy
  • mayor a head of a city government
  • megalopolis a large urban area in which several cities run into each other
  • merchant a person who buys and sells goods
  • meridian a line of longitude
  • metropolitan area a large city and its surrounding suburbs
  • militia a group of volunteers who fought in an emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution
  • mouth the place where a river empties into another body of water
  • municipal government a local or city government

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