| maraschino | (noun) cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: maraschino cherry |
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| (noun) distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries | Synonyms: maraschino liqueur |
| mascara | (noun) makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes | - |
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| mascarpone | (noun) soft mild Italian cream cheese | - |
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| mascot | (noun) a character, animal or object that is adopted by a team or group as a symbolic figure | - |
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| masculine | (adjective) associated with men and not with women | - |
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| (adjective) male (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable | - |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | - |
| masculinisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinization, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| masculinity | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: maleness |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men | - |
| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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| (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
| megascopic | (adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: gross |
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| meniscectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the meniscus of the knee | - |
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| meniscus | (noun) (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube | - |
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| (noun) (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint | Synonyms: semilunar cartilage |
| mensch | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensh |
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| mescal | (noun) a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) | - |
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| (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mezcal, peyote |
| mescaline | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: peyote |
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| microscope | (noun) magnifier of the image of small objects | - |
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| microscopic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in microscopy | Synonyms: microscopical |
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| (adjective) extremely precise with great attention to details | - |
| (adjective) so small as to be invisible without a microscope | Synonyms: microscopical |
| (adjective) visible under a microscope; using a microscope | Synonyms: microscopical |
| microscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or used in microscopy | Synonyms: microscopic |
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| (adjective) so small as to be invisible without a microscope | Synonyms: microscopic |
| (adjective) visible under a microscope; using a microscope | Synonyms: microscopic |
| microscopically | (adverb) by using a microscope; so as to be visible only with a microscope; as seen with a microscope | - |
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| (adverb) as if by using a microscope; with extreme precision and attention to detail; in minute detail | - |
| microscopist | (noun) a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes | - |
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| microscopy | (noun) research with the use of microscopes | - |
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| miniscule | (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| minuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscular |
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| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: little, small |
| (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: miniscule |
| (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscalculation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: misestimation, misreckoning |
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| miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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| miscarriage | (noun) a natural loss of the products of conception | Synonyms: spontaneous abortion, stillbirth |
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| (noun) failure of a plan | Synonyms: abortion |
| miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| miscegenation | (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding |
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| miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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| miscellaneous | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, mixed, motley, sundry |
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| (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious |
| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| mischief | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, maleficence |
| mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| mischievously | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, naughtily |
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| mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
| (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
| miscible | (adjective) (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed | Synonyms: mixable |
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| misconceive | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misconception | (noun) an incorrect conception | - |
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| misconduct | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | - |
| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| misconstrual | (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstruction |
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| misconstruction | (noun) an ungrammatical constituent | - |
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| (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstrual |
| misconstrue | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| miscount | (noun) an inaccurate count | - |
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| (verb) count wrongly | - |
| miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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| miscreation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: malformation |
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| miscue | (noun) a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball | - |
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| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: parapraxis, slip-up, slip |
| mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| mollusc | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusk, shellfish |
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| molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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| mucoviscidosis | (noun) the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known | Synonyms: CF, cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis |
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| muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadine | (noun) dull-purple grape of southern United States | Synonyms: bullace grape |
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| (noun) native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties | Synonyms: Vitis rotundifolia |
| muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
| (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| muscle | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew |
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| (noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) | - |
| (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: musculus |
| (noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells | Synonyms: muscular tissue |
| (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscleman |
| (verb) make one's way by force | - |
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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| muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
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| (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |
| muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
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| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
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| musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
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| nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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| nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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| nephoscope | (noun) a measuring instrument that uses a grid for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds | - |
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| nephroangiosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephrosclerosis |
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| nephrosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephroangiosclerosis |
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| nescience | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness |
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| nescient | (adjective) holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible | Synonyms: unbelieving |
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| (adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, unlearned, unlettered |
| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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| neuroscience | (noun) the scientific study of the nervous system | - |
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| neuroscientist | (noun) a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain | - |
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| newscast | (noun) a broadcast of news or commentary on the news | - |
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| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| nonconscious | (adjective) relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things | - |
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| (adjective) concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness | - |
| nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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| (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
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| nontelescopic | (adjective) not telescopic | Synonyms: nontelescoping |
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| nontelescoping | (adjective) not telescopic | Synonyms: nontelescopic |
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| nonviscid | (adjective) not resembling glue in texture | Synonyms: nonglutinous |
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| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| obfuscation | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: mystification |
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| (noun) darkening or obscuring the sight of something | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement |
| obscene | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious |
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| (adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust | - |
| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive |
| obscenely | (adverb) in a lewd and obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdly |
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| (adverb) to an obscene degree | - |
| obscenity | (noun) an obscene act | - |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity |
| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, smut, vulgarism |
| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |