molding | (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, modelling, moulding |
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(noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: casting |
(noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: border, moulding |
(noun) a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing | Synonyms: moulding |
(noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, mold, mould, moulding |
mole | (noun) small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet | - |
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(noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, seawall |
(noun) a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin | - |
(noun) a spy who works against enemy espionage | Synonyms: counterspy |
(noun) the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: gram molecule, mol |
(noun) spicy sauce often containing chocolate | - |
molecule | (noun) (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound | - |
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(noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, mote, particle, speck |
molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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moleskin | (noun) a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap | - |
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molestation | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: harassment |
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(noun) the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children) | - |
molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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molindone | (noun) antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia | Synonyms: Moban |
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moll | (noun) the girlfriend of a gangster | Synonyms: gangster's moll, gun moll |
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molle | (noun) small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits | Synonyms: pepper tree, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle |
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mollie | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: molly |
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mollification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: pacification |
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(noun) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered | - |
mollusc | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusk, shellfish |
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molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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mollusk | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, shellfish |
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molly | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: mollie |
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mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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mollymawk | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: albatross |
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moloch | (noun) any lizard of the genus Moloch | - |
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molt | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molting, moult, moulting |
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molter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: moulter |
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molting | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, moult, moulting |
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molybdenite | (noun) a mineral resembling graphite that is valued as the chief source of molybdenum and its compounds | - |
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molybdenum | (noun) a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel | Synonyms: atomic number 42, Mo |
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mom | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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mombin | (noun) purplish tropical fruit | - |
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(noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit | Synonyms: jocote, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea |
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 | - |
momism | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: overprotection, overshielding |
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momma | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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mommy | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mum, mumma, mummy |
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momot | (noun) tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage | Synonyms: motmot |
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mompreneur | (noun) an entrepreneur and a mother | - |
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monad | (noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | - |
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(noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monas |
(noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one | - |
monal | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monaul |
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monandry | (noun) the state of having only one husband at a time | - |
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monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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monas | (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monad |
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monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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monastic | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
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monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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monaul | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monal |
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monazite | (noun) a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium | - |
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moneran | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
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moneron | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneran |
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monetarism | (noun) an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money | - |
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monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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monetisation | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetization |
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monetization | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetisation |
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money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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(noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
(noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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(noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
moneymaking | (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
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moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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mongolism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolianism, trisomy 21 |
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mongoloid | (noun) a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense, now considered offensive) | - |
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mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
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(noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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monilia | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia | - |
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moniliasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: candidiasis, monilia disease |
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monism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element | - |
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monition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, admonition |
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(noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: admonition, warning, word of advice |
(noun) a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted | Synonyms: process of monition |
monitor | (noun) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | Synonyms: monitor lizard, varan |
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(noun) a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble | - |
(noun) electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions | - |
(noun) display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor | Synonyms: monitoring device |
(noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, reminder |
(noun) someone who supervises (an examination) | Synonyms: proctor |
monitoring | (noun) the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it) | - |
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monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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(noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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(noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
(noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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mono | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mononucleosis |
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monoamine | (noun) a molecule containing one amine group (especially one that is a neurotransmitter) | - |
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monoblast | (noun) a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow | - |
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monocarp | (noun) a plant that bears fruit once and dies | Synonyms: monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant |
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monocentrism | (noun) the property of having or proceeding from a single center. | - |
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monochromacy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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monochromat | (noun) a person who is completely color-blind | - |
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monochromatism | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromia |
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monochrome | (noun) a black-and-white photograph or slide | Synonyms: black and white |
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(noun) painting done in a range of tones of a single color | - |
monochromia | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism |
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monocle | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: eyeglass |
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monocline | (noun) a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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monoclonal | (noun) any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules | Synonyms: monoclonal antibody |
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