| melanize | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanise |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanise |
| melodize | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodise |
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| memorialization | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialisation |
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| memorialize | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialise |
| memorization | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorisation |
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| memorize | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorise |
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| memorizer | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memoriser |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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| mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind |
| mesmerized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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| mesmerizing | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding |
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| mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, mystified |
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| metalize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metallize |
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| metallize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metalize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| metazoan | (noun) any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | - |
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| methylbenzene | (noun) a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels | Synonyms: toluene |
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| metricize | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricise |
| metronidazole | (noun) antiprotozoal medication (trade name Flagyl) used to treat trichomoniasis and giardiasis | Synonyms: Flagyl |
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| mezcal | (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, peyote |
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| mezereon | (noun) small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs | Synonyms: Daphne mezereum, February daphne |
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| mezereum | (noun) the dried bark of the shrub mezereon | - |
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| mezuza | (noun) religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law | Synonyms: mezuzah |
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| mezuzah | (noun) religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law | Synonyms: mezuza |
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| mezzanine | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: entresol, mezzanine floor |
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| (noun) first or lowest balcony | Synonyms: first balcony |
| mezzo | (noun) the female singing voice between contralto and soprano | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
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| (noun) a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
| mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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| miconazole | (noun) an antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat) | Synonyms: Monistat |
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| midazolam | (noun) an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures | Synonyms: Versed |
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| militarization | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, mobilisation, mobilization |
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| militarize | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarise |
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| (verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarise |
| militarized | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarised |
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| mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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| (verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
| miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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| miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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| minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate |
| minimized | (adjective) reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree | - |
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| mirza | (noun) a title of respect placed before the surname of an official, scholar, or other distinguished man. | - |
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| 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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| mitzvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitsvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitsvah |
| mizen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizenmast, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| (noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen |
| mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| mizzen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzenmast |
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| (noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizen |
| mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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| mizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: drizzle |
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| (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
| mobilization | (noun) act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action | Synonyms: mobilisation |
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| (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, militarization, mobilisation |
| mobilize | (verb) cause to move around | Synonyms: mobilise |
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| (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: marshal, mobilise, summon |
| (verb) get ready for war | Synonyms: mobilise |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilise, rally |
| modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
| modernize | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernise |
| modernized | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernised |
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| moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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| monazite | (noun) a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium | - |
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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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| mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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| monologuize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monopolization | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolisation |
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| monopolize | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolise |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolise |
| monopolizer | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolist |
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| monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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| monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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| moralization | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralisation |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralizing |
| moralize | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralise |
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| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralise |
| moralizing | (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralization |
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| motorization | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorisation |
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| motorize | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorise |
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| (verb) equip with a motor | - |
| (verb) equip with a motor vehicle | - |
| motorized | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, mechanized |
| mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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| muazzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muezzin |
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| muezzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muazzin |
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| muzhik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzjik |
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| muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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| muzzle | (noun) forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose | - |
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| (noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: gag |
| (noun) the open circular discharging end of a gun | Synonyms: gun muzzle |
| (noun) a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting | - |
| (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) fit with a muzzle | - |
| muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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| muzzy | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy |
| myelinization | (noun) the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber | Synonyms: myelinisation |
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| mythicize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythologise, mythologize |
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| (verb) interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology | Synonyms: mythicise |
| mythologization | (noun) the restatement of a message as a myth | Synonyms: mythologisation |
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| mythologize | (verb) make into a myth | Synonyms: mythicise, mythicize, mythologise |
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| (verb) construct a myth | Synonyms: mythologise |
| naphazoline | (noun) vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation | Synonyms: Privine, Sudafed |
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| narcotize | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotise |
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| narcotized | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotised |
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| narcotizing | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotising |
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| nasalization | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalisation |
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| nasalize | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalise |
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| (verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalise |
| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| nationalize | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalise |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalise |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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| (verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
| (verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
| naturalized | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalised |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: established |
| nazi | (noun) derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc. | - |
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| nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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