| megaphone | (noun) a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice | - |
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| megapode | (noun) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs | Synonyms: mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl |
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| megascopic | (adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: gross |
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| megasporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: macrosporangium |
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| megaspore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: macrospore |
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| megasporophyll | (noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia | - |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
| megawatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one million watts | - |
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| megestrol | (noun) a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma | Synonyms: megestrol acetate |
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| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| megilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: magilp |
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| megohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms | - |
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| megrim | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, migraine, sick headache |
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| megrims | (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, blues, vapors, vapours |
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| metheglin | (noun) spiced or medicated mead | - |
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| millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
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| misbegot | (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegotten, spurious |
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| misbegotten | (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, spurious |
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| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| miscegenation | (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding |
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| mishegaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegoss |
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| mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| moviegoer | (noun) someone who goes to see movies | Synonyms: motion-picture fan |
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| negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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| (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
| negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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| (noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
| negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
| (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
| (adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
| (adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
| (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
| (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
| (adjective) less than zero | - |
| (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
| negatively | (adverb) in a negative way | - |
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| (adverb) in a harmful manner | - |
| negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
| negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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| neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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| (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
| (noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
| (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
| (verb) fail to attend to | - |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
| neglected | (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: unattended |
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| (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, unheeded |
| neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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| neglectful | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, remiss |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: inattentive |
| neglectfully | (adverb) in a neglectful manner | - |
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| neglectfulness | (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, negligence |
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| neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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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 |
| negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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| negligently | (adverb) in a negligent manner | - |
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| negligible | (adjective) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant | - |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: paltry, trifling |
| negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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| (verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
| (verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
| (verb) sell or discount | - |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
| negotiable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, transferable, transferrable |
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| (adjective) able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise | Synonyms: on the table |
| (adjective) capable of being passed or negotiated | - |
| negotiant | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiator, treater |
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| negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
| negotiation | (noun) the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms | - |
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| (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, talks |
| negotiator | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, treater |
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| negotiatress | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatrix |
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| negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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| negro | (adjective) having skin rich in melanin pigments; | Synonyms: colored, coloured |
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| negus | (noun) wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg | - |
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| nongregarious | (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nonsocial, solitary |
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| nonintegrated | (adjective) not integrated; not taken into or made a part of a whole | Synonyms: unintegrated |
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| nonlegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: extralegal |
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| nonnegative | (adjective) either positive or zero | - |
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| nonpregnant | (adjective) not pregnant | - |
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| nonsegmental | (adjective) having a body that is not divided into segments | Synonyms: unsegmented |
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| nonsegregated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: desegrated, unsegregated |
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| nosegay | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, posy |
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| nutmeg | (noun) hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground | - |
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| (noun) East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace | Synonyms: Myristica fragrans, nutmeg tree |
| omega | (noun) the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) the ending of a series or sequence | Synonyms: Z |
| ophthalmoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye | - |
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| oregano | (noun) pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets | Synonyms: marjoram |
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| (noun) aromatic Eurasian perennial | Synonyms: marjoram, Origanum vulgare, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet |
| panegyric | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyrical |
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| (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, pean |
| panegyrical | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyric |
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| panegyrist | (noun) an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics | Synonyms: eulogist |
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| paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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| paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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| paraplegic | (adjective) suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord | - |
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| (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
| paregmenon | (noun) juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility') | - |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| peg | (noun) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface | Synonyms: nog |
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| (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
| (noun) regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, pegleg, wooden leg |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: pin, stick |
| (noun) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. | Synonyms: pin |
| (verb) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with a wooden pin | Synonyms: peg down |
| (verb) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into | - |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail, nail down |
| pegboard | (noun) a board perforated with regularly spaced holes into which pegs can be fitted | - |
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| pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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| pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| peregrination | (noun) traveling or wandering around | - |
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| peregrine | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, roving, wandering |
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| (noun) a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon |
| phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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| (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
| phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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| phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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| phlegmatically | (adverb) in a phlegmatic manner | - |
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| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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| phototelegraph | (noun) an apparatus for transmitting pictures by phototelegraphy. | - |
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| phototelegraphy | (noun) an early technology for the transmission of facsimiles. | - |
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| physostegia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers | - |
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| pichiciego | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago |
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| pomegranate | (noun) large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind | - |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit | Synonyms: pomegranate tree, Punica granatum |
| pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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| pregnanediol | (noun) a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women | - |
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| pregnant | (adjective) carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life | - |
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| (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: fraught |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, significant |
| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |