| mangabey | (noun) large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | - |
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| mangey | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangy |
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| matey | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, pally, palsy-walsy |
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| medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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| money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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| (noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
| (noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
| moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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| moneyed | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: monied |
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| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, substantial, wealthy |
| moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| moneyless | (adjective) not based on the possession of money | - |
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| (adjective) having no money | - |
| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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| mosey | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: amble |
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| motley | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
| (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| mousey | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousy |
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| (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousy |
| (adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousy |
| multistorey | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistoried, multistory |
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| nosey | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy |
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| obey | (verb) be obedient to | - |
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| odyssey | (noun) a long wandering and eventful journey | - |
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| okey | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okeh |
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| orphrey | (noun) a richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment | - |
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| osprey | (noun) large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years | Synonyms: fish eagle, fish hawk, Pandion haliaetus, sea eagle |
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| oxeye | (noun) an oval or round dormer window | - |
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| (noun) Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers | - |
| (noun) any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers | Synonyms: heliopsis |
| paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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| palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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| parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies | - |
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| (verb) discuss, as between enemies | - |
| parsley | (noun) aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves | Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| peyote | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: mescaline |
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| (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal |
| phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
| pinkeye | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: conjunctivitis |
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| plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
| (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy |
| pogey | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogy |
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| pokey | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, poky |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, poky |
| (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer |
| popeyed | (adjective) having bulging eyes | - |
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| (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, openmouthed |
| prey | (noun) animal hunted or caught for food | Synonyms: quarry |
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| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, quarry, target |
| (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, raven |
| pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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| pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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| purveyor | (noun) someone who supplies provisions (especially food) | - |
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| pussley | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussly, verdolagas |
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| rabbiteye | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry | Synonyms: rabbit-eye blueberry, rabbiteye blueberry, Vaccinium ashei |
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| redeye | (noun) a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep | Synonyms: redeye flight |
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| resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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| rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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| ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| scaley | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaly |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| shuteye | (noun) informal term for sleep | Synonyms: shut-eye |
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| slatey | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, slaty, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slavey | (noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work | Synonyms: skivvy |
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| smiley | (noun) an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
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| sockeye | (noun) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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| (noun) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers | Synonyms: red salmon, sockeye salmon |
| spacey | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacy |
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| spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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| stagey | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagy |
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| storey | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, story |
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| storeyed | (adjective) having stories as indicated | Synonyms: storied |
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| surrey | (noun) a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats | - |
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| survey | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, view |
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| (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: study |
| (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, sketch |
| (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| surveying | (noun) the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map | - |
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| surveyor | (noun) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures | - |
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| (noun) someone who conducts a statistical survey | - |
| tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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| tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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| (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
| trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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| trolleybus | (noun) a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires | Synonyms: trackless trolley, trolley coach |
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| turkey | (noun) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food | Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo |
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| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, dud |
| (noun) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted | - |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: joker |
| turnkey | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, screw |
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| unkeyed | (adjective) characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality | Synonyms: atonal |
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| valley | (noun) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river | Synonyms: vale |
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| vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
| (verb) utter rapidly | - |
| (verb) make a volley | - |
| (verb) discharge in, or as if in, a volley | - |
| (verb) hit before it touches the ground | - |
| (verb) be dispersed in a volley | - |
| volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
| walleye | (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: dory, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleyed pike |
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| (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, exotropia |
| walleyed | (adjective) having divergent strabismus | - |
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| wasteyard | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard |
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| whey | (noun) watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates | - |
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| (noun) the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese | Synonyms: milk whey |
| whimsey | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsy |
| whiney | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiny |
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| whiskey | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whisky |
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| whitey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, honky |
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| wincey | (noun) a plain or twilled fabric of wool and cotton used especially for warm shirts or skirts and pajamas | - |
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| winceyette | (noun) cotton flannelette with a nap on both sides | - |
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| winey | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winy |
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