| demur | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demurral, demurrer |
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| (verb) object to | Synonyms: except |
| (verb) enter a demurrer | - |
| demure | (adjective) affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way | Synonyms: coy, overmodest |
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| demurely | (adverb) in a demure manner | - |
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| demureness | (noun) the trait of behaving with reserve and decorum | - |
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| (noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: coyness |
| demurrage | (noun) detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
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| (noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
| demurral | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurrer |
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| demurrer | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, denial |
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| (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurral |
| (noun) (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings | - |
| extramural | (adjective) carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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| immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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| intermural | (adjective) between two or more institutions etc | - |
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| intramural | (adjective) carried on within the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| lemur | (noun) large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails | - |
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| mural | (adjective) of or relating to walls | - |
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| (noun) a painting that is applied to a wall surface | Synonyms: wall painting |
| muralist | (noun) a painter of murals | - |
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| muramidase | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: lysozyme |
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| murder | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, slaying |
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| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| murdered | (adjective) killed unlawfully | - |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| murderer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, manslayer |
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| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
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| murderous | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: homicidal |
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| murderously | (adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| (adverb) as if bent on murder | - |
| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
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| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| murine | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice) | - |
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| (noun) a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae | - |
| murk | (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murkiness |
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| (verb) make dark, dim, or gloomy | - |
| murkily | (adverb) with a dim light | Synonyms: dimly |
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| (adverb) unclearly; opaquely | - |
| murkiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, muddiness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murk |
| murky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: mirky |
| murmur | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| (noun) a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant | Synonyms: murmur vowel |
| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves | Synonyms: cardiac murmur, heart murmur |
| (verb) speak softly or indistinctly | - |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, mutter |
| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
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| murmurer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, mutterer |
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| murmuring | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: susurrant, whispering |
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| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| murmurous | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: rustling, soughing, susurrous |
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| murphy | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, potato, spud, tater, white potato |
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| murrain | (noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | - |
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| murre | (noun) black-and-white diving bird of northern seas | - |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |
| zymurgy | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymology |
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