| mass | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative |
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| (noun) the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field | - |
| (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: bulk, volume |
| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed |
| (noun) an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) | - |
| (noun) a body of matter without definite shape | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass | - |
| massacre | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, slaughter |
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| (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
| massage | (noun) kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation | - |
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| (verb) give a massage to | - |
| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: knead, rub down |
| massager | (noun) someone who rubs or kneads parts of the body to stimulate circulation and promote relaxation | - |
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| massasauga | (noun) pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the Great Lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians | Synonyms: massasauga rattler, Sistrurus catenatus |
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| (noun) small pygmy rattlesnake | Synonyms: ground rattler, Sistrurus miliaris |
| masse | (noun) a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball | Synonyms: masse shot |
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| masses | (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, multitude, people, the great unwashed |
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| masseter | (noun) a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in chewing | - |
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| masseur | (noun) a male massager | - |
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| masseuse | (noun) a female massager | - |
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| massicot | (noun) the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment | Synonyms: massicotite |
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| massicotite | (noun) the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment | Synonyms: massicot |
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| massif | (noun) a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range | - |
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| massive | (adjective) consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter | - |
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| (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: monolithic, monumental |
| (adjective) being the same substance throughout | - |
| (adjective) imposing in scale or scope or degree or power | - |
| massively | (adverb) to a massive degree or in a massive manner | - |
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| massiveness | (noun) an unwieldy largeness | Synonyms: bulkiness |
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| (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, ponderosity, ponderousness |
| meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| midgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of moderate height which covered the undisturbed prairie in the United States; includes most of the forage grasses of the temperate zone | - |
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| mocassin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: moccasin |
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| molasses | (noun) thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining | - |
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| morass | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, quag, quagmire, slack |
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| neoclassic | (adjective) characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style | Synonyms: neoclassical |
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| neoclassical | (adjective) characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style | Synonyms: neoclassic |
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| neoclassicism | (noun) revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation | - |
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| neoclassicist | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of neoclassicism | - |
| neoclassicistic | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicist |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonassociative | (adjective) not associative | - |
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| nonclassical | (adjective) not classical | - |
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| nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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| nutgrass | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutsedge |
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| outclass | (verb) cause to appear in a lower class | - |
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| outclassed | (adjective) decisively surpassed by something else so as to appear to be of a lower class | - |
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| overpass | (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: flyover |
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| paillasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: palliasse |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| parnassia | (noun) any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup | Synonyms: grass-of-Parnassus |
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| pass | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: passing |
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| (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, toss |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, walk |
| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: passing, qualifying |
| (noun) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target | - |
| (noun) a permit to enter or leave a military installation | Synonyms: liberty chit |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: passport |
| (noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: bye |
| (noun) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions | Synonyms: laissez passer |
| (noun) a complimentary ticket | - |
| (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, straits |
| (noun) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer) | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, notch |
| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: strait, straits |
| (noun) (military) a written leave of absence | - |
| (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
| (verb) go across or through | - |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
| (verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
| (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
| (verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
| (verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
| passable | (adjective) able to be passed or traversed or crossed | - |
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| (adjective) about average; acceptable | Synonyms: adequate, fair to middling, tolerable |
| passably | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
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| passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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| passage | (noun) a journey usually by ship | Synonyms: transit |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: enactment |
| (noun) the act of passing something to another person | Synonyms: handing over |
| (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passing |
| (noun) a way through or along which someone or something may pass | - |
| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passageway |
| (noun) a section of text; particularly a section of medium length | - |
| (noun) a short section of a musical composition | Synonyms: musical passage |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passing |
| passageway | (noun) a passage between rooms or between buildings | - |
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| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passage |
| passant | (adjective) in walking position with right foreleg raised | - |
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| passbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: bankbook |
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| passe | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee |
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| passee | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe |
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| passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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| (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
| (noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
| (noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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| (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
| passim | (adverb) used to refer to cited works | Synonyms: throughout |
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| passing | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: pass |
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| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, perfunctory, superficial |
| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transient, transitory |
| (adjective) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | - |
| (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: overtaking |
| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, qualifying |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: pass, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, release |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) the end of something | - |
| (adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: surpassingly |
| passion | (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: love |
| (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passionateness |
| (noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire | - |
| (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: rage |
| passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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| passionately | (adverb) with passion | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: stormily, turbulently |
| passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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| passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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| passionless | (adjective) not passionate | - |
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| (adjective) unmoved by feeling | Synonyms: emotionless |
| passive | (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb | - |
| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: peaceful |
| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: passive voice |
| passively | (adverb) in a passive manner | - |
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| passiveness | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passivity |
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| (noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passivity |
| passivism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, pacifism |
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| passivity | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passiveness |
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| (noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passiveness |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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| (noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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| plexiglass | (noun) a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic | Synonyms: Plexiglas |
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| potassium | (noun) a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite | Synonyms: atomic number 19, K |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| quackgrass | (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass |
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| quassia | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: bitterwood, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma | - |
| radioimmunoassay | (noun) immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled | - |
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| rassling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, wrestling |
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| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| reassembly | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: refabrication |
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| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| reassign | (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: transfer |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| reassuringly | (adverb) in a reassuring manner | - |
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| reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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| reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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| ribgrass | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribwort, ripple-grass |
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| ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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| ryegrass | (noun) any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses | Synonyms: rye grass |
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| sandglass | (noun) timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage | - |
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| sargasso | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| sass | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sassing |
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| (verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner | - |