| musing | (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
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| musjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: masjid |
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| musk | (noun) the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer | - |
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| (noun) an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | - |
| muskat | (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muscat |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
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| muskmelon | (noun) the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers | Synonyms: sweet melon |
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| (noun) any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell | Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine |
| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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| muslin | (noun) plain-woven cotton fabric | - |
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| musnud | (noun) a seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes | - |
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| musophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of mice | - |
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| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| muss | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, mussiness |
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| mussel | (noun) marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | - |
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| (noun) black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | - |
| mussiness | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, muss |
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| mussitation | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| must | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, mustiness |
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| (noun) grape juice before or during fermentation | - |
| (noun) a necessary or essential thing | - |
| mustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: moustache |
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| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
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| mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
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| mustard | (noun) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds | Synonyms: table mustard |
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| (noun) leaves eaten as cooked greens | Synonyms: Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard greens |
| (noun) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica | - |
| mustelid | (noun) fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals | Synonyms: musteline, musteline mammal |
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| musteline | (noun) fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals | Synonyms: mustelid, musteline mammal |
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| muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
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| (noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
| musth | (noun) an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear | - |
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| mustiness | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, must |
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| mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
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| mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
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| mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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| mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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| mutant | (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
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| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
| mutation | (noun) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism | Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation |
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| (noun) a change or alteration in form or qualities | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation |
| mutchkin | (noun) a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint | - |
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| mute | (noun) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument | - |
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| (noun) a deaf person who is unable to speak | Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute |
| muteness | (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: silence |
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| (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: mutism |
| mutilation | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, disfigurement |
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| (noun) an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part | - |
| mutilator | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mangler |
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| mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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| mutiny | (noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) | - |
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| mutisia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Mutisia | - |
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| mutism | (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: muteness |
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| muton | (noun) the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | - |
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| mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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| mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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| mutuality | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, interdependency |
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| (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutualness |
| mutualness | (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutuality |
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| muumuu | (noun) a woman's loose unbelted dress | Synonyms: Mother Hubbard |
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| muzhik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzjik |
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| muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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| muzzle | (noun) forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose | - |
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| (noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: gag |
| (noun) the open circular discharging end of a gun | Synonyms: gun muzzle |
| (noun) a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting | - |
| muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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| nummulite | (noun) large fossil protozoan of the Tertiary period | - |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| optimum | (noun) most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances | - |
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| osmund | (noun) any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters | Synonyms: flowering fern |
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| overmuch | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| overmuchness | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, superabundance |
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| parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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| permutability | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutableness, transposability |
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| permutableness | (noun) ability to change sequence | Synonyms: permutability, transposability |
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| permutation | (noun) complete change in character or condition | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements | - |
| (noun) act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: replacement, substitution, switch, transposition |
| phacoemulsification | (noun) extracapsular surgery for cataracts in which ultrasonic sound breaks the cortex and nucleus of the lens into small fragments that are then vacuumed away through a small tube | - |
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| phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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| plumule | (noun) down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds | - |
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| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| primus | (noun) the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland | - |
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| promulgation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: proclamation |
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| (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: announcement |
| (noun) the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect | - |
| promulgator | (noun) (law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution) | - |
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| radiocommunication | (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, wireless |
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| radioimmunoassay | (noun) immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled | - |
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| ragamuffin | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: tatterdemalion |
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| ramus | (noun) the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical | - |
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| remuda | (noun) the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen | - |
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| remuneration | (noun) the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses | - |
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| (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, salary, wage |
| remunerator | (noun) a person who pays money for something | Synonyms: payer |
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| rimu | (noun) tall New Zealand timber tree | Synonyms: Dacrydium cupressinum, imou pine, red pine |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |
| schmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, shmo, shmuck |
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| shamus | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, sherlock |
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| shmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, schmuck, shmo |
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| simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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| (noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
| simulation | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense |
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| (noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | - |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | Synonyms: computer simulation |
| simulator | (noun) a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research | - |
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| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| simultaneity | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneousness |
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| simultaneousness | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneity |
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| smudge | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects | - |
| smuggler | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner |
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| smuggling | (noun) secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due | - |
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| smugness | (noun) an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction | - |
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