| loment | (noun) seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments | - |
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| macroelement | (noun) a chemical element required in relatively large quantities for the normal physiologic processes of the body. | Synonyms: major mineral |
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| maladjustment | (noun) the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability | - |
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| malcontent | (noun) a person who is discontented or disgusted | - |
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| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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| malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
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| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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| management | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: direction |
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| (noun) those in charge of running a business | - |
| maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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| measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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| medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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| merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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| (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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| militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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| misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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| misstatement | (noun) a statement that contains a mistake | - |
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| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| moment | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, import |
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| (noun) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value | - |
| (noun) a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) | - |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, minute, second |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, second |
| (noun) at this time | Synonyms: here and now, present moment |
| monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
| (noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
| movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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| (noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
| (noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
| (noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
| (noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
| (noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
| (noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
| newsagent | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsdealer, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonalinement | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalignment |
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| nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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| nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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| nonpayment | (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: evasion |
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| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonremittal |
| nonresident | (noun) someone who does not live in a particular place | - |
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| nourishment | (noun) the act of nourishing | - |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
| nutrient | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
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| (noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
| nutriment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
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| obstruent | (noun) a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth | - |
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| obtainment | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtention |
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| occident | (noun) the hemisphere that includes North America and South America | Synonyms: western hemisphere |
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| occurrent | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrence |
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| 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 |
| ointment | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, salve, unction, unguent |
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| (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, emollient |
| opponent | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister |
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| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opposite, opposition |
| orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| orpiment | (noun) a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic | - |
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| outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overgarment | (noun) a garment worn over other garments | Synonyms: outer garment |
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| overpayment | (noun) the act of paying too much | - |
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| (noun) a payment larger than needed or expected | - |
| overrefinement | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, straining, torture, twisting |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| parchment | (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, sheepskin |
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| (noun) a superior paper resembling sheepskin | - |
| parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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| (noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
| parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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| (noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
| patent | (noun) an official document granting a right or privilege | Synonyms: letters patent |
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| (noun) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention | Synonyms: patent of invention |
| patient | (noun) the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: affected role, patient role |
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| (noun) a person who requires medical care | - |
| pavement | (noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: sidewalk |
| (noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: paving, paving material |
| payment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, defrayment |
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| (noun) an act of requiting; returning in kind | Synonyms: requital |
| (noun) a sum of money paid or a claim discharged | - |
| pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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| pendent | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendant |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendant |
| penitent | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) | - |
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| percent | (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percentage |
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| percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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| permanent | (noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: perm, permanent wave |
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| photopigment | (noun) a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina | - |
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| pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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| (noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
| placement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning |
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| (noun) contact established between applicants and prospective employees | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: arrangement |
| portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| postponement | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, deferral |
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| (noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, wait |
| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| precedent | (noun) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time | Synonyms: case in point |
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| (noun) (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| (noun) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time) | - |
| (noun) a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| preferment | (noun) the act of preferring | - |
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| (noun) the act of making accusations | - |
| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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| prepayment | (noun) payment in advance | - |
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| present | (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking | Synonyms: present tense |
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| (noun) something presented as a gift | - |
| (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: nowadays |
| presentiment | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, premonition |
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| presentment | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: notification |
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| (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentation |
| (noun) a document that must be accepted and paid by another person | - |
| president | (noun) the chief executive of a republic | - |
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| (noun) an executive officer of a firm or corporation | - |
| (noun) the head administrative officer of a college or university | Synonyms: prexy |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, chairperson |
| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| propellent | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
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| proponent | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, exponent |
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| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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| quotient | (noun) the number obtained by division | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of two quantities to be divided | - |
| raiment | (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: array, regalia |
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| rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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| ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |
| readjustment | (noun) the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances) | - |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, registration |
| reagent | (noun) a chemical agent for use in chemical reactions | - |
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| reallotment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reapportionment |
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| reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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| rearmament | (noun) the act of arming again | - |
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| rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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