| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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| (noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| majuscule | (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
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| masculine | (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | - |
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| masculinisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinization, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinity | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: maleness |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men | - |
| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| minuscule | (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| 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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| osculation | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, kiss |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | - |
| osculator | (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: kisser |
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| scull | (noun) a racing shell that is propelled by sculls | - |
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| (noun) each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman | - |
| (noun) a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward | - |
| sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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| scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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| sculling | (noun) rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell | - |
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| scullion | (noun) a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing) | - |
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| sculpin | (noun) any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths | - |
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| sculptor | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculpturer, statue maker |
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| sculptress | (noun) a woman sculptor | - |
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| sculpture | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: carving |
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| (noun) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | - |
| sculpturer | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculptor, statue maker |
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| vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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| vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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