misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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misogynous | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynistic |
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mispronounce | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: misspeak |
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monoclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in the same flower | - |
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monocotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies | - |
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monogynous | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynic |
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monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
monotonously | (adverb) in a monotonous manner | - |
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monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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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 | - |
mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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mucinous | (adjective) relating to or containing mucin | - |
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multitudinous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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multitudinousness | (noun) a very large number (especially of people) | - |
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mutinous | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or in a state of mutiny | - |
neotenous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenic |
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nitrogenous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitrogen-bearing |
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nonglutinous | (adjective) not resembling glue in texture | Synonyms: nonviscid |
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nonpoisonous | (adjective) safe to eat | Synonyms: non-poisonous, nontoxic |
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(adjective) not producing poison | Synonyms: non-poisonous |
nonresinous | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresiny |
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nonsynchronous | (adjective) not occurring together | Synonyms: unsynchronised, unsynchronized, unsynchronous |
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nougat | (noun) nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste | - |
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nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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noumenon | (noun) the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception | Synonyms: thing-in-itself |
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noun | (noun) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action | - |
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(noun) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition | - |
nourish | (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nurture, sustain |
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(verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nutrify |
nourished | (adjective) being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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nourishment | (noun) the act of nourishing | - |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
nous | (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, head, mind, psyche |
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(noun) common sense | - |
numinous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a numen | - |
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(adjective) evincing the presence of a deity | - |
oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
oleaginousness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oiliness |
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(noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
ominous | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, inauspicious |
ominously | (adverb) in an ominous manner | - |
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ominousness | (noun) The quality of giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; being threatening, portentous, inauspicious. | - |
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platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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(adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
(adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
poisonously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: venomously |
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polygynous | (adjective) having more than one wife at a time | - |
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polyphonous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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pronoun | (noun) a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase | - |
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pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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(verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
pronounceable | (adjective) capable of being uttered or pronounced | - |
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pronounced | (adjective) strongly marked; easily noticeable | Synonyms: marked |
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pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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pyrogenous | (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: igneous, pyrogenic |
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(adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenetic, pyrogenic |
ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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(adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
ravenously | (adverb) in the manner of someone who is very hungry | Synonyms: hungrily |
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ravenousness | (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, voraciousness, voracity |
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renounce | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, repudiate |
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(verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, relinquish |
(verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, resign, vacate |
(verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: abdicate |
renouncement | (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renunciation |
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resinous | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resiny, tarry |
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ruinous | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: blasting |
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(adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: catastrophic |
ruinously | (adverb) in a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree | - |
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ruinousness | (noun) The quality of causing or tending to cause ruin. | - |
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sarcolemnous | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemmic |
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snout | (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: neb |
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(noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: rostrum |
(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot |
spinous | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spiny |
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(adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, acanthous |
sporogenous | (adjective) producing spores or reproducing by means of spores | - |
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stannous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing tin | Synonyms: stannic |
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synchronous | (adjective) occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | Synonyms: synchronal, synchronic |
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(adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions | - |
synchronously | (adverb) in synchrony; in a synchronous manner | - |
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tendinous | (adjective) consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon | Synonyms: sinewy |
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treasonous | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: faithless, traitorous, treasonable, unfaithful |
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turnout | (noun) attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election) | - |
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(noun) (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip | - |
(noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, outturn |
(noun) a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park | Synonyms: widening |
(noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, rig |
(noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, sidetrack, siding |
(noun) the group that gathers together for a particular occasion | - |
tyrannous | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: oppressive, tyrannical |
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unannounced | (adjective) without warning or announcement | Synonyms: unheralded, unpredicted |
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undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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undernourished | (adjective) not getting adequate food | Synonyms: ill-fed, underfed |
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undernourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: malnourishment |
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unnourished | (adjective) not nourished | - |
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unpronounceable | (adjective) impossible or difficult to pronounce correctly | - |
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(adjective) very difficult to pronounce correctly | Synonyms: unutterable |
unsynchronous | (adjective) not occurring together | Synonyms: nonsynchronous, unsynchronised, unsynchronized |
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venous | (adjective) of or contained in or performing the function of the veins | - |
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verminous | (adjective) of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive | - |
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vertiginous | (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, woozy |
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villainous | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: nefarious |
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villainousness | (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainy |
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vinous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinaceous |
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vitiliginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having vitiligo | - |
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voluminous | (adjective) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) | Synonyms: copious |
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(adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding |
(adjective) large in volume or bulk | - |
voluminously | (adverb) in a voluminous manner | - |
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voluminousness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminosity |
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