| malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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| (noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
| mantelpiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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| marketplace | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market, market place |
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| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market, market place, mart |
| masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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| (noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
| menace | (noun) a threat or the act of threatening | - |
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| (noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: threat |
| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| microbalance | (noun) balance for weighing very small objects | - |
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| microdevice | (noun) any very small device manufactured using microfabrication. | - |
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| militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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| millrace | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrun |
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| mince | (noun) food chopped into small bits | - |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| mortice | (noun) a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint | Synonyms: mortise |
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| mouthpiece | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: embouchure |
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| (noun) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | - |
| (noun) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | - |
| (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: gumshield |
| (noun) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouth |
| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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| nance | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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| necklace | (noun) jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) | - |
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| neckpiece | (noun) an article of apparel worn about the neck | - |
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| negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
| nescience | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness |
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| neuroscience | (noun) the scientific study of the nervous system | - |
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| niece | (noun) a daughter of your brother or sister | - |
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| ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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| nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nonviolence | (noun) peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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| nosepiece | (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: bridge |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the nose | - |
| (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: noseband |
| notice | (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| (noun) polite or favorable attention | - |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an announcement containing information about an event | - |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notification |
| (noun) advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract | - |
| (noun) a short critical review | - |
| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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| (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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| (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
| obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| occurrence | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrent |
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| (noun) an instance of something occurring | - |
| offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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| omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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| omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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| opalescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: iridescence |
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| opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| ounce | (noun) large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur | Synonyms: Panthera uncia, snow leopard |
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| (noun) a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams | Synonyms: oz. |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound | Synonyms: apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce |
| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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| overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| pace | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: stride, tread |
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| (noun) the relative speed of progress or change | Synonyms: rate |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: yard |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, step, stride |
| (noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) | Synonyms: gait |
| (noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: tempo |
| palace | (noun) official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign) | - |
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| (noun) a large and stately mansion | Synonyms: castle |
| (noun) a large ornate exhibition hall | - |
| (noun) the governing group of a kingdom | - |
| paleface | (noun) (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) | - |
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| parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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| patience | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: solitaire |
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| (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, longanimity |
| peace | (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: pacification, peace treaty |
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| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
| (noun) the state prevailing during the absence of war | - |
| (noun) harmonious relations; freedom from disputes | - |
| (noun) the general security of public places | Synonyms: public security |
| penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| (noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
| (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
| penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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| perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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| pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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| piece | (noun) a separate part of a whole | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: man |
| (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: firearm, small-arm |
| (noun) a work of art of some artistic value | Synonyms: art object, objet d'art |
| (noun) an item that is an instance of some type | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a distance | - |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music |
| (noun) an artistic or literary composition | - |
| (noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a portion of a natural object | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, spell, while |
| pinnace | (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, ship's boat, tender |
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| piquance | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquancy, piquantness |
| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| place | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, position, post, situation |
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| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, position, stead |
| (noun) an abstract mental location | - |
| (noun) the passage that is being read | - |
| (noun) a blank area | Synonyms: blank space, space |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: spot, topographic point |
| (noun) a general vicinity | - |
| (noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: piazza, plaza |
| (noun) a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane) | Synonyms: seat |
| (noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: property |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: home |
| (noun) proper or designated social situation | Synonyms: station |
| (noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: shoes |
| (noun) proper or appropriate position or location | - |
| plaice | (noun) large European food fish | Synonyms: Pleuronectes platessa |
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| (noun) flesh of large European flatfish | - |
| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| ploce | (noun) (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning | - |
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| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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