| homer | (noun) a base hit on which the batter scores a run | Synonyms: home run |
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| (noun) pigeon trained to return home | Synonyms: homing pigeon |
| (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs | Synonyms: kor |
| homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
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| humerus | (noun) bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow | - |
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| hummer | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke |
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| (noun) a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words | - |
| immersion | (noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged | - |
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| (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion |
| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: ingress |
| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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| isomer | (noun) a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight | - |
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| isomerase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes its substrate to an isomeric form | - |
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| isomerisation | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerization |
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| isomerism | (noun) the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers | - |
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| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
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| jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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| jammer | (noun) a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming | - |
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| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| maimer | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: mangler, mutilator |
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| meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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| merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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| mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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| (noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
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| mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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| merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
| merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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| merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
| mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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| (noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) something for which to be thankful | - |
| mere | (noun) a small pond of standing water | - |
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| merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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| merger | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, unification |
| merging | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: confluence, conflux |
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| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
| merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| meridian | (noun) an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator | Synonyms: line of longitude |
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| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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| meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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| merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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| (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| merl | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| merle | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| merlin | (noun) small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco columbarius, pigeon hawk |
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| merlon | (noun) a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement | - |
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| mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| merobenthos | (noun) benthos consisting of organisms in pre-adult stages that later become adult in the plankton. | - |
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| meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
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| meronym | (noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole | Synonyms: part name |
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| meronymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole | Synonyms: part to whole relation |
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| merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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| merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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| (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| merriness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity |
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| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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| mesmerism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, suggestion |
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| mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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| mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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| metamere | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: somite |
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| midsummer | (noun) June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point | Synonyms: June 21, summer solstice |
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| mimer | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
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| misnomer | (noun) an incorrect or unsuitable name | - |
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| mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| monomer | (noun) a simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers | - |
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| mummer | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mimer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
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| mummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: flummery |
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| namer | (noun) a person who gives a name or names | - |
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| nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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| nemertine | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertean, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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| newcomer | (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, starter |
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| (noun) a recent arrival | - |
| numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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| numeral | (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: number |
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| (noun) a word expressing a number. | - |
| numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) naming numbers | - |
| numerator | (noun) the dividend of a fraction | - |
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| numerologist | (noun) a believer in numerology | - |
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| numerology | (noun) the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs | - |
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| numerosity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerousness |
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| numerousness | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerosity |
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| oldtimer | (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, gaffer, old-timer, old geezer |
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| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, stager, veteran, warhorse |
| omerta | (noun) a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities | - |
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| ormer | (noun) an abalone found near the Channel Islands | Synonyms: Haliotis tuberculata, sea-ear |
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| overcomer | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: subduer, surmounter |
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| pantomimer | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimist |
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| performer | (noun) an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | Synonyms: performing artist |
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| perfumer | (noun) a person who makes (and sells) perfumes | - |
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| perfumery | (noun) the art of making perfumes | - |
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| (noun) an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| (noun) store where perfumes are sold | - |
| (noun) perfumes in general | - |