| mentalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness | - |
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| mentality | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, wit |
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| (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mind-set, mindset, outlook |
| mentation | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| mentee | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentoree |
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| menthol | (noun) a lotion containing menthol which gives it the smell of mint | - |
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| (noun) a crystalline compound that has the cool and minty taste and odor that occurs naturally in peppermint oil; used as a flavoring and in medicine to relieve itching, pain, and nasal congestion | - |
| mention | (noun) an official recognition of merit | Synonyms: honorable mention |
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| (noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: reference |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, quotation, reference |
| mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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| mentor | (noun) a wise and trusted guide and advisor | Synonyms: wise man |
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| mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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| mentum | (noun) a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin | - |
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| (noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: chin |
| (noun) a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids | - |
| menu | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: fare |
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| (noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte, carte du jour |
| (noun) (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user | Synonyms: computer menu |
| (noun) the dishes making up a meal | - |
| merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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| (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| mettlesomeness | (noun) courageous high-spiritedness | - |
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| militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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| misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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| misstatement | (noun) a statement that contains a mistake | - |
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| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| moment | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, import |
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| (noun) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value | - |
| (noun) a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) | - |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, minute, second |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, second |
| (noun) at this time | Synonyms: here and now, present moment |
| momentousness | (noun) utmost importance | - |
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| momentum | (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: impulse |
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| (noun) the product of a body's mass and its velocity | - |
| monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
| (noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
| movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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| (noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
| (noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
| (noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
| (noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
| (noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
| (noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| muniments | (noun) deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land | - |
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| myelomeningocele | (noun) a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation | - |
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| noisomeness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: harmfulness, noxiousness |
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| nomenclature | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, terminology |
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| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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| nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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| nonpayment | (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: evasion |
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| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| noumenon | (noun) the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception | Synonyms: thing-in-itself |
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| nourishment | (noun) the act of nourishing | - |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
| numen | (noun) a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) | - |
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| nutriment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
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| obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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| oddment | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, remainder, remnant |
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| (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity |
| oddments | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| oecumenism | (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: ecumenism |
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| ointment | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, salve, unction, unguent |
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| (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, emollient |
| oligomenorrhea | (noun) abnormally light or infrequent menstruation | - |
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| omen | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| omentum | (noun) a fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera | - |
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| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| ornamental | (noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
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| ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| ornamentation | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: embellishment |
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| (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornament |
| (noun) the state of being ornamented | - |
| orpiment | (noun) a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic | - |
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| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overgarment | (noun) a garment worn over other garments | Synonyms: outer garment |
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| overpayment | (noun) the act of paying too much | - |
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| (noun) a payment larger than needed or expected | - |
| overrefinement | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, straining, torture, twisting |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| parchment | (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, sheepskin |
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| (noun) a superior paper resembling sheepskin | - |
| paregmenon | (noun) juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility') | - |
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| parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
| parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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| pavement | (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: sidewalk |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: paving, paving material |
| payment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, defrayment |
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| (noun) an act of requiting; returning in kind | Synonyms: requital |
| (noun) a sum of money paid or a claim discharged | - |
| pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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| pentimento | (noun) the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age) | - |
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| pericementoclasia | (noun) pus pocket formation around a tooth | - |
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| phenomenality | (noun) The state or property of being very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing. | - |
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| phenomenology | (noun) a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account | - |
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| phenomenon | (noun) any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning | - |
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| (noun) a remarkable development | - |
| photopigment | (noun) a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina | - |
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| pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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| (noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
| pigmentation | (noun) coloration of living tissues by pigment | - |
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| (noun) the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings | - |
| pimento | (noun) fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked | Synonyms: pimiento |
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| (noun) plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | Synonyms: bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
| placement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning |
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| (noun) contact established between applicants and prospective employees | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: arrangement |
| postponement | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, deferral |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, wait |
| praenomen | (noun) the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome | - |
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| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| preferment | (noun) the act of preferring | - |
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| (noun) the act of making accusations | - |
| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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| prepayment | (noun) payment in advance | - |
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| presentiment | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, premonition |
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| presentment | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: notification |
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| (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentation |
| (noun) a document that must be accepted and paid by another person | - |
| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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| promenade | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance | - |
| (noun) a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle | - |
| (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: mall |
| (noun) a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | Synonyms: prom |
| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| putamen | (noun) the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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| quarrelsomeness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: contentiousness |
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| raiment | (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: array, regalia |
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| rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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