| mandatory | (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
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| (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
| manufactory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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| marlberry | (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries | Synonyms: Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata |
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| marquetry | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marqueterie |
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| masonry | (noun) the craft of a mason | - |
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| (noun) structure built of stone or brick by a mason | - |
| mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
| maxillary | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
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| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| memory | (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store |
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| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: remembering |
| (noun) something that is remembered | - |
| (noun) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes | - |
| mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
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| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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| microbrewery | (noun) a small brewery; consumption of the product is mainly elsewhere | - |
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| micrometry | (noun) measuring with a micrometer | - |
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| microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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| midwifery | (noun) assisting women at childbirth | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: OB, obstetrics, tocology |
| military | (noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
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| millenary | (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
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| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| millihenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry | - |
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| millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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| (noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
| mimicry | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: apery |
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| (noun) the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators | - |
| 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) | - |
| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| missionary | (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
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| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| monandry | (noun) the state of having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| monolatry | (noun) the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god | - |
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| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| mortuary | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, morgue |
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| mulberry | (noun) sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry | Synonyms: mulberry tree |
| mummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: flummery |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| mysoandry | (noun) hatred for men or boys | - |
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| mystery | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, secret |
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| (noun) a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie | Synonyms: mystery story, whodunit |
| napery | (noun) linens for the dining table | Synonyms: table linen |
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| necessary | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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| necrolatry | (noun) superstitious worship or veneration of the dead. | - |
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| nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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| neuropsychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system | - |
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| neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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| notary | (noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | Synonyms: notary public |
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| nunnery | (noun) the convent of a community of nuns | - |
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| nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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| obituary | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obit |
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| observatory | (noun) a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena | - |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout, lookout station, observation tower |
| octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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| offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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| ophiolatry | (noun) the worship of snakes | Synonyms: serpent-worship |
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| optometry | (noun) the practice of an optometrist | - |
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| orangery | (noun) a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas | - |
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| oratory | (noun) addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) | - |
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| ordinary | (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
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| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| orrery | (noun) planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock | - |
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| ossuary | (noun) any receptacle for the burial of human bones | - |
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| ostiary | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, porter |
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| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: doorkeeper, ostiarius |
| outcry | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, shout, vociferation, yell |
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| outlawry | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| ovary | (noun) (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone | - |
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| (noun) the organ that bears the ovules of a flower | - |
| pageantry | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageant |
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| (noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageant |
| palmistry | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, chiromancy, palm reading |
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| pantry | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, larder |
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| paramilitary | (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
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| pargetry | (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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| parquetry | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parqueterie |
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| parry | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, counterpunch |
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| (noun) (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword | - |
| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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| pastry | (noun) any of various baked foods made of dough or batter | - |
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| (noun) a dough of flour and water and shortening | Synonyms: pastry dough |
| peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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| peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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| pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| pelvimetry | (noun) measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible) | - |
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| penitentiary | (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
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| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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| perfumery | (noun) the art of making perfumes | - |
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| (noun) an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| (noun) store where perfumes are sold | - |
| (noun) perfumes in general | - |
| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| perjury | (noun) criminal offense of making false statements under oath | Synonyms: bearing false witness, lying under oath |
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| perry | (noun) a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider | - |
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| pessary | (noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, diaphragm |
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| petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| photochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light | - |
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| photometry | (noun) measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity) | - |
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| phratry | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept |
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| phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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| phylactery | (noun) (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer | Synonyms: tefillin |
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| phytochemistry | (noun) the branch of organic chemistry dealing with the chemistry of plants | - |
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| piggery | (noun) a farm where pigs are raised or kept | Synonyms: pig farm |
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| pillory | (noun) a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn | - |
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| piscary | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: fishery |
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| pituitary | (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
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| pleasantry | (noun) an agreeable or amusing remark | - |
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| plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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| pleximetry | (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: percussion |
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| plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| podiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: chiropody |
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| poetry | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, verse |
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| (noun) any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling | - |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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