| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| ministrant | (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
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| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| ministry | (noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
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| (noun) building where the business of a government ministry is transacted | - |
| (noun) a government department under the direction of a minister of state | - |
| (noun) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
| minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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| minisubmarine | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisub |
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| misogynism | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogyny |
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| misogynist | (noun) a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular | Synonyms: woman hater |
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| mnemonist | (noun) an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory | - |
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| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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| (noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
| modernisation | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernization |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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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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| monism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element | - |
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| monogynist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogamist |
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| myelinisation | (noun) the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber | Synonyms: myelinization |
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| nanism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: dwarfism |
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| neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| nisus | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: pains, strain, striving |
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| notornis | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: Notornis mantelli, takahe |
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| nutritionist | (noun) a specialist in the study of nutrition | - |
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| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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| oecumenism | (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: ecumenism |
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| omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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| onanism | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: masturbation |
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| (noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, pulling out, withdrawal, withdrawal method |
| onanist | (noun) a person who practices masturbation | Synonyms: masturbator |
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| opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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| opportunist | (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
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| opsonisation | (noun) process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis | Synonyms: opsonization |
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| organisation | (noun) the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business | Synonyms: organization |
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| (noun) the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically | Synonyms: organization |
| (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organization |
| (noun) an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | Synonyms: organization, system |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: arrangement, organization, system |
| (noun) a group of people who work together | Synonyms: organization |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organization |
| organiser | (noun) a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. | Synonyms: organizer, PDA, personal digital assistant, personal organiser, personal organizer |
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| (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: arranger, organizer |
| (noun) someone who enlists workers to join a union | Synonyms: labor organizer, organizer |
| organism | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: being |
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| (noun) a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body | - |
| organist | (noun) a person who plays an organ | - |
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| paganism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: heathenism, pagan religion |
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| partitionist | (noun) an advocate of partitioning a country | - |
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| penis | (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: member, phallus |
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| percussionist | (noun) a musician who plays percussion instruments | - |
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| perfectionism | (noun) a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable | - |
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| perfectionist | (noun) a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards | - |
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| philhellenism | (noun) admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs | - |
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| philhellenist | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellene |
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| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| pianism | (noun) performance by or technique of a pianist | - |
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| pianissimo | (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: piano |
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| pianist | (noun) a person who plays the piano | Synonyms: piano player |
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| plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| polygynist | (noun) a man with two or more wives | - |
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| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| prednisolone | (noun) a glucocorticoid (trade names Pediapred or Prelone) used to treat inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Pediapred, Prelone |
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| prednisone | (noun) a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant | Synonyms: Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten, Orasone |
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| preservationist | (noun) someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas | - |
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| prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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| projectionist | (noun) the person who operates the projector in a movie house | - |
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| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| protagonism | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: advocacy |
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| protagonist | (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, supporter |
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| (noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: agonist |
| protectionism | (noun) the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition | - |
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| protectionist | (noun) an advocate of protectionism | - |
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| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| reactionism | (noun) the political orientation of reactionaries | - |
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| receptionist | (noun) a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors | - |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| reductionism | (noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components | - |
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| (noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents | - |
| refinisher | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, renovator, restorer |
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| reharmonisation | (noun) a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised | Synonyms: reharmonization |
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| reincarnationism | (noun) a doctrine that on the death of the body the soul migrates to or is born again in another body | - |
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| religionism | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: pietism, religiosity, religiousism |
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| (noun) exaggerated religious zealotry | - |
| religionist | (noun) a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot | - |
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| reminiscence | (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, recollection |
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| (noun) a mental impression retained and recalled from the past | - |
| reorganisation | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganization, shake-up, shakeup |
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| replenishment | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replacement |
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| republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| ruffianism | (noun) violent lawless behavior | - |
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| sabianism | (noun) the religion of a group mentioned in the Koran as entitled to Muslim religious toleration along with Jews and Christians and usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites. | - |
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| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| saxophonist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxist |
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| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| secessionism | (noun) a doctrine that maintains the right of secession | - |
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| secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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| sectarianism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: denominationalism |
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| segregationism | (noun) a political orientation favoring political or racial segregation | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| separationism | (noun) advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | Synonyms: separatism |
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| separationist | (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separatist |
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| sermoniser | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer |
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| sermonism | (noun) the conceptualism of Abelard. | - |
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| servomechanism | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servosystem |
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