| moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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| moulding | (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, modelling, molding |
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| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: border, molding |
| (noun) a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing | Synonyms: molding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, mold, molding, mould |
| mouldy | (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: moldy, musty |
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| moulin | (noun) a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation | Synonyms: glacier mill |
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| moult | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, molting, moulting |
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| (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough |
| moulter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: molter |
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| moulting | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, molting, moult |
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| mound | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| (noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: hill |
| (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: hill, pitcher's mound |
| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile |
| (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll |
| (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
| mount | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: climb |
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| (noun) a lightweight horse kept for riding only | Synonyms: riding horse, saddle horse |
| (noun) something forming a back that is added for strengthening | Synonyms: backing |
| (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: setting |
| (noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | Synonyms: mountain |
| (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, rise, wax |
| (verb) fix onto a backing, setting, or support | - |
| (verb) attach to a support | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) put up or launch | - |
| (verb) prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb, climb up, go up |
| (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: bestride, climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount up |
| mountain | (noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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| (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
| mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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| mountainous | (adjective) like a mountain in size and impressiveness | - |
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| (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly |
| (adjective) containing many mountains | - |
| mountainside | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: versant |
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| mountebank | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: charlatan |
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| mounted | (adjective) decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support | - |
| mounter | (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: climber |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc. | - |
| mounting | (noun) framework used for support or display | - |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, climbing |
| mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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| (verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
| mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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| mournful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: doleful |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: plaintive |
| mournfully | (adverb) in a mournful manner | - |
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| mournfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: ruthfulness, sorrowfulness |
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| mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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| (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: lamentation |
| (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: bereavement |
| mouse | (noun) any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails | - |
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| (noun) a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad | Synonyms: computer mouse |
| (noun) person who is quiet or timid | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, shiner |
| (verb) manipulate the mouse of a computer | - |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, pussyfoot, sneak |
| mouselike | (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mousey, mousy |
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| mousepad | (noun) a small portable pad that provides traction for the ball of a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse mat |
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| mouser | (noun) a cat proficient at mousing | - |
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| mousetrap | (noun) (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated | Synonyms: trap play |
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| (noun) a trap for catching mice | - |
| 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 |
| moussaka | (noun) casserole of eggplant and ground lamb with onion and tomatoes bound with white sauce and beaten eggs | - |
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| mousse | (noun) toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling | Synonyms: hair mousse |
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| (noun) a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin | - |
| (noun) a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream | - |
| (verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: gel |
| moustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: mustache |
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| moustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, mustachio |
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| mousy | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousey |
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| (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey |
| (adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousey |
| mouth | (noun) the opening of a jar or bottle | - |
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| (noun) the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening | - |
| (noun) the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge | Synonyms: oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris |
| (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, sass, sassing |
| (noun) the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water | - |
| (noun) an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge) | - |
| (noun) a person conceived as a consumer of food | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only | - |
| (verb) touch with the mouth | - |
| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| mouthful | (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: taste |
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| (noun) the quantity that can be held in the mouth | - |
| mouthless | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: astomatous |
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| mouthlike | (adjective) of an opening that resembles a mouth | - |
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| mouthpart | (noun) any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding | - |
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| mouthpiece | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: embouchure |
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| (noun) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | - |
| (noun) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | - |
| (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: gumshield |
| (noun) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouth |
| mouthwash | (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: gargle |
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| mouton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mutton |
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| nonautonomous | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonsovereign |
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| nonvenomous | (adjective) not producing venom | - |
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| onymous | (adjective) bearing a name | - |
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| openmouthed | (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, popeyed |
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| pachydermous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermic |
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| paramount | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| paramountcy | (noun) the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority | - |
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| paramour | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, doxy |
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| (noun) a woman's lover | Synonyms: fancy man |
| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| polygamous | (adjective) having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals | - |
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| (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polyoicous |
| polysemous | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemantic |
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| posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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| posthumously | (adverb) after death | - |
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| pseudonymous | (adjective) bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name | - |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pusillanimously | (adverb) with a lack of courage and determination | Synonyms: simperingly |
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| pusillanimousness | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimity |
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| ramous | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramate, ramose |
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| remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
| remount | (noun) a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle | - |
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| (verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
| (verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
| (verb) mount again | - |
| rumour | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: hearsay, rumor |
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| (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
| rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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| seamount | (noun) an underwater mountain rising above the ocean floor | - |
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| shrewmouse | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrew |
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| smallmouth | (noun) a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye | Synonyms: Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass |
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| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| smouldering | (adjective) showing scarcely suppressed anger | Synonyms: smoldering |
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| smoulderingly | (adverb) with barely repressed anger | Synonyms: smolderingly |
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| spermous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermatic |
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| surmount | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, overcome, subdue |
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| (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: scale |
| (verb) be on top of | - |
| surmountable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted or overcome | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: climbable |
| surmounted | (adjective) having something on top | - |
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| surmounter | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: overcomer, subduer |
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| synonymous | (adjective) (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same | - |
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| synonymously | (adverb) in a synonymous manner | - |
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| synonymousness | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymy |
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| tantamount | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: equivalent |
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| tinamou | (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: partridge |
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| titmouse | (noun) small insectivorous birds | Synonyms: tit |
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| tumour | (noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | Synonyms: neoplasm, tumor |
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| unanimous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, consentient |
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| (adjective) acting together as a single undiversified whole | Synonyms: solid, whole |
| unanimously | (adverb) of one mind; without dissent | Synonyms: nem con, nemine contradicente |
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| unarmoured | (adjective) (used of persons or things military) without protective armor | Synonyms: unarmored |
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| (adjective) used of animals; without protective covering | Synonyms: unarmored |
| unglamourous | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous |
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| unmourned | (adjective) not grieved for; causing no mourning | Synonyms: unlamented |
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| unsurmountable | (adjective) not capable of being surmounted or overcome | Synonyms: insurmountable |
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| (adjective) incapable of being surmounted or climbed | Synonyms: unclimbable |
| venomous | (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, vicious |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, virulent |
| venomously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: poisonously |
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| venomousness | (noun) The property of being poisonous or envenomed; or of having a venom-producing gland. | - |
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| vermouth | (noun) any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks | - |
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| wrymouth | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish |
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