| behemoth | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: colossus, giant, goliath, monster |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan |
| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chemotherapy | (noun) the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness) | - |
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| foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| haemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: hemothorax |
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| hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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| hemothorax | (noun) accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) | Synonyms: haemothorax |
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| homothecy | (noun) (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | Synonyms: homothety |
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| homotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homoiotherm |
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| homothermic | (adjective) of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature | Synonyms: homeothermic, homoiothermic |
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| homothety | (noun) (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | Synonyms: homothecy |
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| housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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| mammoth | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: gigantic |
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| (noun) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks | - |
| mammothermography | (noun) the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots) | - |
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| moth | (noun) typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae | - |
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| mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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| (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
| mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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| (noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
| (noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
| (noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
| (noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
| motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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| motherless | (adjective) having no living or known mother | - |
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| motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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| motherliness | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity |
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| motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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| (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: maternally |
| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| mothproof | (adjective) resistant to damage by moths | Synonyms: moth-resistant |
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| (verb) protect from moths | - |
| mothy | (adjective) infested with moths | - |
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| (adjective) worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths | Synonyms: moth-eaten |
| nomothetic | (adjective) relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles | - |
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| normothermia | (noun) normal body temperature | - |
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| pneumothorax | (noun) abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis) | - |
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| smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: surround |
| (verb) deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) form an impenetrable cover over | - |
| smothered | (adjective) completely covered | - |
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| (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: stifled, strangled, suppressed |
| smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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| smothering | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, suffocating, suffocative |
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| stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| thermotherapy | (noun) the use of heat to treat a disease or disorder; heating pads or hot compresses or hot-water bottles are used to promote circulation in peripheral vascular disease or to relax tense muscles | - |
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| timothy | (noun) a grass grown for hay | - |
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| (noun) grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay | Synonyms: herd's grass, Phleum pratense |