| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| malodor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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| malodorousness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, rankness, stinkiness |
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| malodour | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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| manhood | (noun) the status of being a man | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, humanness |
| (noun) the state of being a man; manly qualities | - |
| marblewood | (noun) large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood | Synonyms: Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marble-wood |
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| (noun) hard marbled wood | Synonyms: marble-wood |
| mastodon | (noun) extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth | Synonyms: mastodont |
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| mastodont | (noun) extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth | Synonyms: mastodon |
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| matchwood | (noun) fragments of wood | - |
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| (noun) wood suitable for making matchsticks | - |
| (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: splinters |
| megapode | (noun) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs | Synonyms: mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl |
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| melanoderma | (noun) abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin | - |
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| melodiousness | (noun) the property of having a melody | Synonyms: tunefulness |
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| melodrama | (noun) an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization | - |
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| melody | (noun) the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes | Synonyms: tonal pattern |
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| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, strain, tune |
| mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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| method | (noun) an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed | Synonyms: method acting |
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| (noun) a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) | - |
| methodicalness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: orderliness |
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| methodology | (noun) the system of methods followed in a particular discipline | - |
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| (noun) the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline | Synonyms: methodological analysis |
| microcode | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: firmware |
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| microdevice | (noun) any very small device manufactured using microfabrication. | - |
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| microdot | (noun) photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security) | - |
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| mod | (noun) a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers | - |
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| modal | (noun) an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality | Synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb |
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| modality | (noun) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a particular sense | Synonyms: sense modality, sensory system |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility | Synonyms: mode |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: mode, mood |
| mode | (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, style, way |
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| (noun) the most frequent value of a random variable | Synonyms: modal value |
| (noun) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave | Synonyms: musical mode |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility | Synonyms: modality |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mood |
| (noun) a particular functioning condition or arrangement | - |
| model | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: modeling, modelling |
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| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: simulation |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: framework, theoretical account |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, exemplar, good example |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: example |
| (noun) a type of product | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: poser |
| (noun) someone worthy of imitation | Synonyms: role model |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| modeler | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeller |
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| modeling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modelling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modelling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| modeller | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeler |
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| modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| modem | (noun) (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line | - |
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| moderate | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist |
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| moderateness | (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderation |
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| (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: modestness, reasonableness |
| moderation | (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: mitigation |
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| (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderateness |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: temperance |
| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: easing, relief |
| 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) | - |
| moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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| moderator | (noun) someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence | - |
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| (noun) someone who presides over a forum or debate | - |
| (noun) in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly | - |
| (noun) any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors | - |
| moderatorship | (noun) the position of moderator | - |
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| modern | (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
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| (noun) a contemporary person | - |
| 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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| modernity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness |
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| modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
| modernness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity |
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| modestness | (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: moderateness, reasonableness |
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| (noun) freedom from vanity or conceit | Synonyms: modesty |
| modesty | (noun) freedom from vanity or conceit | Synonyms: modestness |
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| (noun) formality and propriety of manner | Synonyms: reserve |
| 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 |
| mods | (noun) a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters | - |
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| modulation | (noun) the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) | - |
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| (noun) (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: intonation, pitch contour |
| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: inflection |
| module | (noun) a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components | - |
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| (noun) computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware) | - |
| (noun) detachable compartment of a spacecraft | - |
| (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: faculty, mental faculty |
| modulus | (noun) (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance | - |
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| (noun) the absolute value of a complex number | - |
| (noun) an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers | - |
| mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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| mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| monody | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monophonic music, monophony |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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| mylodon | (noun) large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America | - |
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| mylodontid | (noun) a variety of extinct edentate | - |
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| myodynia | (noun) pain in a muscle or group of muscles | Synonyms: myalgia |
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| myriapod | (noun) general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes | - |
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| nailrod | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
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| nakedwood | (noun) tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | Synonyms: Eugenia dicrana |
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| (noun) any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood | - |
| narcodollar | (noun) money (especially in the form of US dollars) obtained from narcotrafficking. | Synonyms: narco-dollar |
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| nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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| needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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| nefazodone | (noun) an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) | Synonyms: Serzone |
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| neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
| (noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
| neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
| nematode | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode worm, roundworm |
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| neodymium | (noun) a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium | Synonyms: atomic number 60, Nd |
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| neurodermatitis | (noun) dermatitis in which localized areas (especially the forearms or back of the neck or outer part of the ankle) itch persistently; cause is unknown | - |
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| nickelodeon | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: jukebox |
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| nobody | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nonentity |
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| nod | (noun) the act of nodding the head | - |
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| (noun) a sign of assent or salutation or command | - |
| noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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| node | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: client, guest |
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| (noun) any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part | - |
| (noun) the source of lymph and lymphocytes | Synonyms: lymph gland, lymph node |
| (noun) (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane | - |
| (noun) (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system | - |
| (noun) (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge | Synonyms: leaf node |
| (noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: knob, thickening |
| (noun) a connecting point at which several lines come together | - |
| nodule | (noun) a small node | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) | - |
| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: tubercle |
| noodle | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, dome, noggin |
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| (noun) a ribbonlike strip of pasta | - |
| norethynodrel | (noun) a progesterone derivative used in oral contraceptives and in the control of menstruation and the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding | - |
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| octopod | (noun) a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell | - |
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| odalisque | (noun) a woman slave in a harem | - |
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| oddball | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek |
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| oddity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained | Synonyms: oddness |
| oddment | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, remainder, remnant |
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| (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity |
| oddments | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| oddness | (noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained | Synonyms: oddity |
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| (noun) the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two) | - |