mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
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mustard | (noun) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds | Synonyms: table mustard |
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(noun) leaves eaten as cooked greens | Synonyms: Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard greens |
(noun) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica | - |
mustelid | (noun) fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals | Synonyms: musteline, musteline mammal |
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musteline | (noun) fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals | Synonyms: mustelid, musteline mammal |
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muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
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(noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
musth | (noun) an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear | - |
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mustiness | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, must |
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mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
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mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
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mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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mutant | (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
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(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
mutation | (noun) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism | Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation |
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(noun) a change or alteration in form or qualities | - |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation |
mutchkin | (noun) a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint | - |
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mute | (noun) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument | - |
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(noun) a deaf person who is unable to speak | Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute |
muteness | (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: silence |
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(noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: mutism |
mutilation | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, disfigurement |
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(noun) an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part | - |
mutilator | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mangler |
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mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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mutiny | (noun) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) | - |
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mutisia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Mutisia | - |
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mutism | (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: muteness |
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muton | (noun) the smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur | - |
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mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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mutuality | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, interdependency |
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(noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutualness |
mutualness | (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutuality |
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muumuu | (noun) a woman's loose unbelted dress | Synonyms: Mother Hubbard |
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muzhik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzjik |
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muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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muzzle | (noun) forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose | - |
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(noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: gag |
(noun) the open circular discharging end of a gun | Synonyms: gun muzzle |
(noun) a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting | - |
muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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