| mayfish | (noun) black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States | Synonyms: Fundulus majalis, may fish, striped killifish |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| megalith | (noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | Synonyms: megalithic structure |
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| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| menorah | (noun) (Judaism) a candelabrum with nine branches; used during the Hanukkah festival | - |
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| mensch | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensh |
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| mensh | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensch |
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| mesh | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, meshing |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: meshing, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component | Synonyms: mesh topology |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, meshing |
| (noun) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles | - |
| (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| meshuggeneh | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggener |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
| mesomorph | (noun) a person with a well-developed muscular body | - |
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| messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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| meth | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
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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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| micrograph | (noun) a graphic reproduction (as a photograph) of the image of an object formed by a microscope. | - |
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| midwatch | (noun) a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) | Synonyms: graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch |
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| mikvah | (noun) (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath or after menstruation) | - |
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| milch | (adjective) giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production | - |
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| millionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one million in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a million equal parts | Synonyms: one-millionth |
| (noun) position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
| mimeograph | (noun) a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) | Synonyms: mimeo, mimeograph machine, Roneo, Roneograph |
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| (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
| minah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| mirth | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirthfulness |
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| mishmash | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mismatch | (noun) a bad or unsuitable match | - |
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| (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
| mitsvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitzvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitzvah |
| 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 |
| mobbish | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: moblike |
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| modish | (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest |
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| moloch | (noun) any lizard of the genus Moloch | - |
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| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |
| monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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| (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
| (noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
| monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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| monograph | (noun) a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject | - |
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| monolith | (noun) a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) | - |
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| month | (noun) a time unit of approximately 30 days | - |
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| (noun) one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year | Synonyms: calendar month |
| mooch | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, moocher, scrounger |
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| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
| moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| moonfish | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, opah |
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| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis |
| morosoph | (noun) a learned fool | - |
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| morph | (verb) change shape as via computer animation | - |
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| (verb) cause to change shape in a computer animation | - |
| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| moth | (noun) typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae | - |
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| motorcoach | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| motormouth | (noun) someone who talks incessantly | - |
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| mouth | (noun) the opening of a jar or bottle | - |
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| (noun) the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening | - |
| (noun) the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge | Synonyms: oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris |
| (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, sass, sassing |
| (noun) the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water | - |
| (noun) an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge) | - |
| (noun) a person conceived as a consumer of food | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only | - |
| (verb) touch with the mouth | - |
| mouthwash | (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: gargle |
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| mph | (noun) a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel | Synonyms: miles per hour |
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| (noun) the ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours) | Synonyms: miles per hour |
| much | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent | - |
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| (noun) a great amount or extent | - |
| (adverb) to a great degree or extent | - |
| (adverb) (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely | Synonyms: practically |
| (adverb) incredibly | - |
| (adverb) frequently or in great quantities | Synonyms: a great deal, often |
| mulch | (noun) a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion | - |
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| (verb) cover with mulch | - |
| mulish | (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: hardheaded |
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| munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
| mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
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| (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
| (noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
| (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| musth | (noun) an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear | - |
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| muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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| mynah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, minah, myna, myna bird, mynah bird |
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| myrrh | (noun) aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume | Synonyms: gum myrrh, sweet cicely |
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| myth | (noun) a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people | - |
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| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| naprapath | (noun) a therapist who practices naprapathy | - |
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| nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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| nauch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nautch, nautch dance |
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| nautch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nauch, nautch dance |
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| nebbech | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbish |
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| nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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| neckcloth | (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: stock |
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| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
| neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
| neolith | (noun) a stone tool from the Neolithic Age | - |
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| nephrolith | (noun) a calculus formed in the kidney | Synonyms: kidney stone, renal calculus, urinary calculus |
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| newsflash | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsbreak |
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| nigh | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, near |
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| (adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: near |
| (adverb) near in time or place or relationship | Synonyms: close, near |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, almost, most, near, nearly, virtually, well-nigh |
| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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| nineteenth | (adjective) coming next after the eighteenth in position | Synonyms: 19th |
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| (noun) position 19 in a countable series of things | - |
| ninetieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of ninety in counting order | Synonyms: 90th |
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| (noun) position 90 in a countable series of things | - |
| ninth | (adjective) coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position | Synonyms: 9th |
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| (noun) one part in nine equal parts | Synonyms: one-ninth |
| (noun) position nine in a countable series of things | - |
| nomograph | (noun) a graphic representation of numerical relations | Synonyms: nomogram |
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| 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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| nonsuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, paragon, saint |
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| north | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north | - |
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| (noun) a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees | Synonyms: due north, N, northward |
| (noun) the direction in which a compass needle points | Synonyms: compass north, magnetic north |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) in a northern direction | Synonyms: northerly, northward, northwards |
| nosh | (noun) (Yiddish) a snack or light meal | - |
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| (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: snack |
| notch | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, snick |
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| (noun) a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface | - |
| (noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, pass |
| (noun) a V-shaped indentation | - |
| (verb) notch a surface to record something | - |
| (verb) cut or make a notch into | - |
| nourish | (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nurture, sustain |
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| (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nutrify |
| nth | (adjective) last or greatest in an indefinitely large series | Synonyms: n-th |
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| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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| numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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| numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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| nuthatch | (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nutcracker |
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| nymph | (noun) a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | - |
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| (noun) (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden | - |
| (noun) a voluptuously beautiful young woman | Synonyms: houri |
| oafish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish |
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| oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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| oath | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: swearing |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, swearing, swearword |
| (noun) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior | - |
| obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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| (noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |
| oddish | (adjective) somewhat strange | - |
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