| megalomaniacal | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomanic |
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| megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| middleman | (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, wholesaler |
| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: interlocutor |
| midshipman | (noun) a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training | - |
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| militiaman | (noun) a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies | - |
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| milkman | (noun) someone who delivers milk | - |
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| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| monomaniacal | (adjective) obsessed with a single subject or idea | - |
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| motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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| muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
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| (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |
| necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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| (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
| necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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| necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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| (adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| newsman | (noun) a male person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | - |
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| newspaperman | (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: pressman |
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| newspaperwoman | (noun) a female journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | - |
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| newswoman | (noun) a female newsperson | - |
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| nobleman | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: Lord, noble |
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| noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonhuman | (adjective) not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings | - |
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| nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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| nymphomania | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in women | - |
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| nymphomaniac | (adjective) (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire | Synonyms: nymphomaniacal |
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| (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
| nymphomaniacal | (adjective) (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire | Synonyms: nymphomaniac |
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| oarsman | (noun) a male who rows a boat | - |
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| oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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| oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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| oilman | (noun) a worker who produces or sells petroleum | - |
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| (noun) a person who owns or operates oil wells | - |
| ombudsman | (noun) a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government | - |
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| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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| onomancy | (noun) divination by the letters of a name | - |
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| onomatomania | (noun) obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness | - |
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| ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
| outdoorsman | (noun) a male person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing) | - |
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| outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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| outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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| outmanoeuvre | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outsmart |
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| overmantel | (noun) a shelf over a mantelpiece | - |
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| packman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| pantryman | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: butler |
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| patrolman | (noun) a policeman who patrols a given region | Synonyms: flatfoot |
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| penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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| penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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| permanency | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanence |
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| permanent | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition | - |
| (noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: perm, permanent wave |
| permanently | (adverb) for a long time without essential change | Synonyms: for good |
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| permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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| phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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| pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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| pitchman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar |
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| (noun) an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something | - |
| pitman | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, collier |
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| placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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| plowman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plower |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| polysemant | (noun) a word having more than one meaning | Synonyms: polysemantic word, polysemous word |
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| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
| posseman | (noun) an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse | - |
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| postman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman |
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| potman | (noun) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores | Synonyms: potboy |
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| potomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, dipsomania |
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| poultryman | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poulterer |
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| pressman | (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: printer |
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| (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newspaperman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| propman | (noun) member of the stage crew in charge of properties | Synonyms: property man, property master |
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| pyromancer | (noun) one who practices pyromancy | - |
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| pyromancy | (noun) divination by fire or flames | - |
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| pyromania | (noun) an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | - |
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| pyromaniac | (noun) a person with a mania for setting things on fire | - |
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| quarryman | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarrier |
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| raftman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftsman |
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| raftsman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftman |
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| railwayman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, trainman |
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| remand | (noun) the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial) | - |
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| (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
| repairman | (noun) a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | Synonyms: maintenance man, service man |
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| reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| rhabdomancer | (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: dowser, water witch |
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