amusement | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: entertainment |
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(noun) a feeling of delight at being entertained | - |
animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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bemusement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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calamus | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: quill, shaft |
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(noun) any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes | - |
(noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
(noun) the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally | - |
chiasmus | (noun) inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | - |
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ginglymus | (noun) a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane | Synonyms: ginglymoid joint, hinge joint |
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hippopotamus | (noun) massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa | Synonyms: hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse |
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hummus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, humous, humus |
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humus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humous |
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(noun) partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil | - |
hypothalamus | (noun) a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system | - |
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ignoramus | (noun) an ignorant person | Synonyms: know nothing, uneducated person |
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isthmus | (noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: band |
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(noun) a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas | - |
laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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litmus | (noun) a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator | Synonyms: litmus test |
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lomustine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease | - |
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mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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marasmus | (noun) extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders | - |
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minimus | (noun) the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe | - |
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mumpsimus | (noun) a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable | - |
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muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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muscadine | (noun) dull-purple grape of southern United States | Synonyms: bullace grape |
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(noun) native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties | Synonyms: Vitis rotundifolia |
muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
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(noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
(noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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(noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
muscle | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew |
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(noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) | - |
(noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: musculus |
(noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells | Synonyms: muscular tissue |
(noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscleman |
musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
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(noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |
muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
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muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
(noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
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muse | (noun) the source of an artist's inspiration | - |
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muser | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, ponderer, ruminator |
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musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
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museum | (noun) a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value | - |
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mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
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(noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
(noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
(noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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(noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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(noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
(noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
(noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
(noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
music | (noun) musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) | - |
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(noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: medicine |
(noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: euphony |
(noun) (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) | - |
(noun) an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | - |
musical | (noun) a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing | Synonyms: musical comedy, musical theater |
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musicality | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicalness |
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musicalness | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicality |
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musician | (noun) artist who composes or conducts music as a profession | - |
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(noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, player |
musicianship | (noun) artistry in performing music | - |
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musicologist | (noun) a student of musicology | - |
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musicology | (noun) the scholarly and scientific study of music | - |
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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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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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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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primus | (noun) the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland | - |
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ramus | (noun) the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical | - |
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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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strabismus | (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: squint |
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struthiomimus | (noun) small light-boned toothless dinosaur resembling an ostrich in size and proportions | - |
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subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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tenesmus | (noun) painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome | - |
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thalamus | (noun) large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon | - |
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thymus | (noun) a ductless glandular organ at the base of the neck that produces lymphocytes and aids in producing immunity; atrophies with age | Synonyms: thymus gland |
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trismus | (noun) prolonged spasm of the jaw muscles | - |
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unmusicality | (noun) The state or condition of being lacking in musical ability. | - |
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vaginismus | (noun) muscular contraction that causes the vagina to close; usually an anxiety reaction before coitus or pelvic examination | - |
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xerophthalmus | (noun) abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes; may be due to a systemic deficiency of vitamin A | Synonyms: conjunctivitis arida, xeroma, xerophthalmia |
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