| midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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| midterm | (noun) an examination administered in the middle of an academic term | Synonyms: midterm exam, midterm examination |
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| (noun) middle of an academic term or a political term in office | - |
| (noun) the middle of the gestation period | - |
| militarism | (noun) a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests | - |
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| milium | (noun) a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | Synonyms: whitehead |
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| milldam | (noun) dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill | - |
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| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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| millennium | (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millenary |
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| (noun) (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness | - |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millenary |
| millenniumism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenarism |
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| milligram | (noun) one thousandth (1/1,000) gram | Synonyms: mg |
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| millirem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: mrem |
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| minim | (noun) a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | Synonyms: half note |
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| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters | - |
| minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, reductivism |
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| minimum | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimal |
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| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right | - |
| (noun) the smallest possible quantity | Synonyms: lower limit |
| minium | (noun) a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | Synonyms: red lead |
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| miserabilism | (noun) mid-20th century French art movement. | - |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misogynism | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogyny |
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| misoneism | (noun) hatred of change or innovation | - |
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| mm | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimeter, millimetre |
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| modem | (noun) (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line | - |
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| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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| molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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| molybdenum | (noun) a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel | Synonyms: atomic number 42, Mo |
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| mom | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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| momentum | (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: impulse |
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| (noun) the product of a body's mass and its velocity | - |
| momism | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: overprotection, overshielding |
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| monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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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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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| mongolism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolianism, trisomy 21 |
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| monism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element | - |
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| monocentrism | (noun) the property of having or proceeding from a single center. | - |
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| monochromatism | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromia |
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| monogram | (noun) a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing | - |
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| monoideism | (noun) a state of prolonged absorption in a single idea (as in mental depression, trance, hypnosis). | - |
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| monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
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| monorchidism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchism |
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| monorchism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchidism |
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| monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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| moralism | (noun) judgments about another person's morality | - |
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| (noun) a moral maxim | - |
| moratorium | (noun) suspension of an ongoing activity | - |
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| (noun) a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged | - |
| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| mosaicism | (noun) the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup | - |
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| mrem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: millirem |
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| multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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| multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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| mum | (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: silent |
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| (noun) secrecy | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mumma, mummy |
| (noun) of China | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum morifolium, Dendranthema grandifloruom, florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum |
| museum | (noun) a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value | - |
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| mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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| (noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
| (noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
| (noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
| (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
| mutism | (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: muteness |
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| mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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| mycelium | (noun) the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae | - |
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| mycobacterium | (noun) rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases | Synonyms: mycobacteria |
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| myelogram | (noun) X-ray film of the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots and subarachnoid space | - |
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| mym | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters | Synonyms: myriameter, myriametre |
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| myocardium | (noun) the middle muscular layer of the heart wall | - |
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| myogram | (noun) a graphical recording of muscle activity | - |
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| myometrium | (noun) the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus | - |
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| myriagram | (noun) one ten thousandth of a centner | Synonyms: myg |
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| mysticism | (noun) a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality | Synonyms: religious mysticism |
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| (noun) obscure or irrational thought | - |
| myxobacterium | (noun) bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste | Synonyms: gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacteria, slime bacteria |
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| naboom | (noun) small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra | Synonyms: cactus euphorbia, Euphorbia ingens |
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| nanism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: dwarfism |
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| nanogram | (noun) one billionth (1/1,000,000,000) gram | Synonyms: ng |
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| napalm | (noun) gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers | - |
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| narcism | (noun) an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself | Synonyms: narcissism, self-love |
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| narcissism | (noun) an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself | Synonyms: narcism, self-love |
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| narcoterrorism | (noun) the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade | - |
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| nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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| (noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
| natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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| (noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: nudism |
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| necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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| neem | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: arishth, Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem tree, nim tree |
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| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| neoclassicism | (noun) revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation | - |
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| neocolonialism | (noun) control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures | - |
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| neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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| neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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| neodymium | (noun) a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium | Synonyms: atomic number 60, Nd |
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| neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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| neologism | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
| neopallium | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neocortex |
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| neoplasm | (noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | Synonyms: tumor, tumour |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| nepotism | (noun) favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) | - |
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| neptunium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium | Synonyms: atomic number 93, Np |
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| nervism | (noun) the philosophical position adopted by Pavlov that all behavioral and physiological processes are regulated by the nervous system. | - |
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