| agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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| aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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| (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
| dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanised | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanized, unhuman |
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| dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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| dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
| dehumanized | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, unhuman |
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| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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| germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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| humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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| humanise | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanize |
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| humanism | (noun) the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural | Synonyms: secular humanism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanitarianism |
| (noun) the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies | - |
| humanist | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanistic |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanistic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanistic |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanistic, humanitarian |
| (noun) a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts | - |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanitarian |
| humanistic | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanist |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian |
| humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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| humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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| humanity | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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| (noun) the quality of being humane | - |
| (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanness, manhood |
| humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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| humanize | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanise |
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| inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
| kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
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| kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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| leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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| mania | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, passion |
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| (noun) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently | Synonyms: manic disorder |
| maniac | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniacal |
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| (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: lunatic |
| (noun) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something | - |
| maniacal | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniac |
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| maniacally | (adverb) in a maniacal manner or to a maniacal degree | - |
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| manic | (adjective) affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason | Synonyms: frenzied |
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| maniclike | (adjective) resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness | - |
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| manicotti | (noun) large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce | - |
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| manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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| (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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| manifest | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (noun) a customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane | - |
| (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| manifestation | (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: demonstration |
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| (noun) a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing | - |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: expression, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a clear appearance | - |
| (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| manifestly | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
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| manifesto | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: pronunciamento |
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| manifold | (adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: multiplex |
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| (noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | - |
| (noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions | - |
| (noun) a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies | Synonyms: manifold paper |
| (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
| manikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, mannequin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| manila | (noun) a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp | Synonyms: manila paper, manilla, manilla paper |
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| manilla | (noun) a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp | Synonyms: manila, manila paper, manilla paper |
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| manioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: cassava |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca |
| manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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| manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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| manipulable | (adjective) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | Synonyms: tractable |
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| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| manipulation | (noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: use |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: handling |
| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| manipulatively | (adverb) in an artfully manipulative manner | - |
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| manipulativeness | (noun) The quality of using manipulation purposefully, of tending to manipulate others. | - |
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| manipulator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: operator |
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| (noun) a person who handles things manually | - |
| maniraptor | (noun) advanced carnivorous theropod; regarded as surviving today as living birds | - |
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| megalomania | (noun) a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | - |
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| megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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| megalomaniacal | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomanic |
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| megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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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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| necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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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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| onomatomania | (noun) obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness | - |
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| phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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| potomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, dipsomania |
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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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| shamanise | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanize |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| shamanistic | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanist |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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| superhumanity | (noun) The state or condition of being beyond what is possible for a human being. | - |
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| talismanic | (adjective) possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power | - |
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| trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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| womanise | (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: philander, womanize |
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| womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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| womanish | (adjective) having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men | - |
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| womanishness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness |
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| womanize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: philander, womanise |
| womanizer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womaniser |
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