| antispasmodic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic agent, spasmolytic |
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| commodiousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| haemodialysis | (noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure | Synonyms: hemodialysis |
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| hemodialysis | (noun) dialysis of the blood to remove toxic substances or metabolic wastes from the bloodstream; used in the case of kidney failure | Synonyms: haemodialysis |
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| hemodialyzer | (noun) a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body | Synonyms: artificial kidney |
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| incommodiousness | (noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: inconvenience |
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| modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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| modification | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, alteration |
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| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | - |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, change |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, qualifying |
| modifier | (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene | Synonyms: modifier gene |
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| (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: qualifier |
| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: changer |
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising | - |
| modillion | (noun) (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice | - |
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| modiolus | (noun) the central conical bony pillar of the cochlea | - |
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| modishness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| modiste | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress |
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| (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, milliner |
| plasmodium | (noun) parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans | Synonyms: malaria parasite, Plasmodium vivax |
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| (noun) multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds | - |