| methadone | (noun) synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction | Synonyms: dolophine hydrochloride, fixer, methadon, methadone hydrochloride, synthetic heroin |
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| methaqualone | (noun) sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Quaalude) that is a drug of abuse | Synonyms: Quaalude |
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| methyltestosterone | (noun) an androgenic compound contained in drugs that are used to treat testosterone deficiency and female breast cancer and to stimulate growth and weight gain | - |
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| microphone | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, mike |
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| mifepristone | (noun) an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo | Synonyms: abortion pill, RU 486 |
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| mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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| milestone | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milepost |
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| (noun) a significant event in your life (or in a project) | - |
| millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
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| (noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
| (noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
| minestrone | (noun) soup made with a variety of vegetables | Synonyms: petite marmite, vegetable soup |
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| misoneism | (noun) hatred of change or innovation | - |
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| missioner | (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missionary |
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| molindone | (noun) antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia | Synonyms: Moban |
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| monecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monoecious, monoicous |
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| moneran | (adjective) of or relating to the Monera | - |
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| (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
| moneron | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneran |
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| monestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monoestrous |
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| monetarism | (noun) an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money | - |
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| monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| monetisation | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetization |
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| monetise | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetize |
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| monetization | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetisation |
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| monetize | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetise |
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| money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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| (noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
| (noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
| moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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| moneyed | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: monied |
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| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, substantial, wealthy |
| moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| moneyless | (adjective) not based on the possession of money | - |
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| (adjective) having no money | - |
| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| monotone | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotonic |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous |
| (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
| (noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
| mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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| moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| morphophonemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphophonemics | - |
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| morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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| mosstone | (adjective) of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color | Synonyms: moss green |
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| motoneuron | (noun) a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord | Synonyms: efferent neuron, motor nerve fiber, motor neuron |
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| mullioned | (adjective) of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone | - |
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| myonecrosis | (noun) localized death of muscle cell fibers | - |
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| nabumetone | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Relafen) | Synonyms: Relafen |
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| naloxone | (noun) a potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine | Synonyms: Narcan |
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| naltrexone | (noun) an oral antagonist against the action of opiates | - |
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| nandrolone | (noun) an androgen (trade names Durabolin or Kabolin) that is used to treat testosterone deficiency or breast cancer or osteoporosis | Synonyms: Durabolin, Kabolin |
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| naphthoquinone | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood | Synonyms: antihemorrhagic factor, vitamin K |
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| nefazodone | (noun) an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) | Synonyms: Serzone |
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| neurohormone | (noun) a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin) | - |
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| noncommissioned | (adjective) (of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel | - |
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| none | (adjective) not any; entity, negative pronoun | - |
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| (noun) a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier | - |
| (noun) a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | - |
| (adverb) not at all or in no way | - |
| nonechoic | (adjective) not echoic or imitative of sound | - |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| nonelected | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelective |
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| nonelective | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelected |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| nonentity | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nobody |
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| (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonexistence |
| nonenzymatic | (adjective) not relating to or produced by enzymes | - |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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| nones | (noun) the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. | - |
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| nonessential | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: accidental, incidental |
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| (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
| nonesuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
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| nonetheless | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet |
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| nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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| nonexempt | (adjective) (of persons) not exempt from an obligation or liability | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) subject to taxation | Synonyms: taxable |
| nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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| nonexistent | (adjective) not having existence or being or actuality | - |
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| nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonexplosive | (adjective) not explosive | - |
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| nonextant | (adjective) no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives | Synonyms: extinct |
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| (adjective) no longer existing or inaccessible through loss or destruction | - |
| nonextensile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonprotractile |
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| norethandrolone | (noun) a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis | Synonyms: norethindrone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin |
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| norethindrone | (noun) a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis | Synonyms: norethandrolone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin |
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| oestrone | (noun) a naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary; synthesized (trade name Estronol) and used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: estrone, Estronol, theelin |
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| oilstone | (noun) a whetstone for use with oil | - |
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| one | (adjective) used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | Synonyms: 1, ane, i |
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| (adjective) being a single entity made by combining separate components | - |
| (adjective) (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
| (adjective) indefinite in time or position | - |
| (adjective) of the same kind or quality | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: unitary |
| (noun) a single person or thing | - |
| (noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, single, unity |
| oneiric | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of dreams | - |
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| oneirism | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, reverie, revery |
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| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneness | (noun) the quality of being united into one | Synonyms: unity |
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| onerous | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: burdensome, taxing |
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| onerously | (adverb) in an onerous manner | - |
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| onerousness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, oppressiveness |
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| onetime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, quondam, sometime |
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| opponent | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opposing |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opposite, opposition |
| overdone | (adjective) cooked too long but still edible | - |
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| (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overstated |
| overtone | (noun) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency | Synonyms: partial, partial tone |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality | - |
| oxyphenbutazone | (noun) an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis | Synonyms: Tandearil |
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| oxytone | (noun) word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable | - |
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| ozone | (noun) a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation) | - |
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| padrone | (noun) an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy | - |
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| (noun) an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. | - |
| pallone | (noun) an Italian game similar to tennis | - |
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| pantalooned | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: breeched, trousered |
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| parathormone | (noun) hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting | Synonyms: parathyroid hormone |
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