blackamoor | (noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | Synonyms: Black person |
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chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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(noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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moo | (noun) the sound made by a cow or bull | - |
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mooch | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, moocher, scrounger |
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moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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mood | (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, temper |
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(noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mode |
(noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: climate |
moodiness | (noun) having temperamental and changeable moods | - |
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(noun) a sullen gloomy feeling | - |
moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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moon | (noun) any natural satellite of a planet | - |
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(noun) any object resembling a moon | - |
(noun) the natural satellite of the Earth | Synonyms: Moon |
(noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, lunation, synodic month |
moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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moonfish | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, opah |
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(noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis |
moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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moong | (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, monggo, 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, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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(noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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(noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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moor | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moorland |
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moorage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up |
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(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip |
(noun) a fee for mooring | - |
moorbird | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse |
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moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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moorgame | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, red grouse |
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moorhen | (noun) black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes | Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus |
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(noun) female red grouse | - |
mooring | (noun) (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place | Synonyms: mooring line |
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(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, slip |
moorland | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moor |
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moorwort | (noun) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States | Synonyms: Andromeda glaucophylla, bog rosemary |
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moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
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moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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(noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
moot | (noun) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise | - |
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schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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schmoozer | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, conversationist |
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shmooze | (noun) (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk | - |
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simoom | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoon |
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simoon | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoom |
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smooch | (noun) an enthusiastic kiss | Synonyms: smack |
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smooching | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, snuggling |
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smooth | (noun) the act of smoothing | - |
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smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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smoothbore | (noun) a firearm that has no rifling | - |
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smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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smoothhound | (noun) smooth dogfish of European coastal waters | Synonyms: Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark |
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smoothie | (noun) a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk | - |
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(noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothy, sweet talker |
smoothness | (noun) a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch | - |
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(noun) the quality of having a level and even surface | - |
(noun) the quality of being free from errors or interruptions | - |
(noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, suaveness, suavity |
(noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: eloquence, fluency |
smoothy | (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothie, sweet talker |
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