men | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, manpower, work force, workforce |
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menace | (noun) a threat or the act of threatening | - |
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(noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: threat |
(verb) act in a threatening manner | - |
(verb) express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture | - |
(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten |
menacing | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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menacingly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: threateningly |
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menadione | (noun) a synthetic chemical compound that is a form of vitamin K, it is an analog of 1,4-naphthoquinone with a methyl group in the 2-position | Synonyms: vitamin K3 |
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menage | (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, home, house, household |
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menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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(noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
menarche | (noun) the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman | - |
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mend | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mending, repair, reparation |
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(noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, patch |
(verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on |
(verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: heal |
mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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(adjective) given to lying | - |
mendaciously | (adverb) in a mendacious and untruthful manner | Synonyms: untruthfully |
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mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
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mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
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mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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(noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
(noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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mending | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation |
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(noun) garments that must be repaired | - |
menhaden | (noun) shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer | Synonyms: Brevoortia tyrannis |
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menhir | (noun) a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France | Synonyms: standing stone |
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menial | (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, lowly |
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(noun) a domestic servant | - |
menially | (adverb) in a menial manner | - |
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meningeal | (adjective) relating to the meninges | - |
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meninges | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninx |
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meningioma | (noun) a tumor arising in the meninges which surround the brain and spinal cord; usually slow growing and sometimes malignant | - |
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meningism | (noun) symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges | - |
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meningitis | (noun) infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea | - |
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meningocele | (noun) a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue) | - |
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meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
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meninx | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninges |
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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 |
menopausal | (adjective) of or relating to the menopause | - |
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menopause | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, climacteric |
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menorah | (noun) (Judaism) a candelabrum with nine branches; used during the Hanukkah festival | - |
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menorrhagia | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: hypermenorrhea |
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menorrhea | (noun) flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years | Synonyms: menstrual blood, menstrual flow |
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mensal | (adjective) pertaining to or used at the dining table | - |
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mensch | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensh |
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menses | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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mensh | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensch |
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menstrual | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: catamenial |
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menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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menstruation | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruum, period |
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menstruum | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, period |
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(noun) (archaic) a solvent | - |
mensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: measurable |
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(adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensural |
mensural | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensurable |
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(adjective) of or relating to measure | - |
mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
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mental | (adjective) involving the mind or an intellectual process | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the mind | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: genial |
(adjective) affected by a disorder of the mind | - |
mentalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness | - |
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mentality | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, wit |
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(noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mind-set, mindset, outlook |
mentally | (adverb) in your mind | - |
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mentation | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, thinking, thought, thought process |
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mentee | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentoree |
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menthol | (noun) a lotion containing menthol which gives it the smell of mint | - |
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(noun) a crystalline compound that has the cool and minty taste and odor that occurs naturally in peppermint oil; used as a flavoring and in medicine to relieve itching, pain, and nasal congestion | - |
mentholated | (adjective) containing, or impregnated with, menthol | - |
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mention | (noun) an official recognition of merit | Synonyms: honorable mention |
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(noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: reference |
(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, quotation, reference |
(verb) make mention of | Synonyms: note, observe, remark |
(verb) commend | Synonyms: cite |
(verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, name, refer |
mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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mentor | (noun) a wise and trusted guide and advisor | Synonyms: wise man |
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(verb) serve as a teacher or trusted counselor | - |
mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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mentum | (noun) a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin | - |
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(noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: chin |
(noun) a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids | - |
menu | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: fare |
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(noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte, carte du jour |
(noun) (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user | Synonyms: computer menu |
(noun) the dishes making up a meal | - |
meow | (noun) the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | Synonyms: mew, miaou, miaow, miaul |
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(verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: mew |
mepacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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meperidine | (noun) a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain | Synonyms: Demerol, meperidine hydrochloride |
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mephenytoin | (noun) a toxic anticonvulsant drug (trade name Mesantoin) used in the treatment of epilepsy when less toxic anticonvulsants have been ineffective | Synonyms: Mesantoin |
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mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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mephistophelian | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean |
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mephitic | (adjective) of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution | Synonyms: miasmic |
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mephitis | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, reek, stench, stink |
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(noun) a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth | - |
mephobarbital | (noun) a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Mebaral |
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meprobamate | (noun) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety | Synonyms: Equanil, Meprin, Miltown |
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meq | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: milliequivalent |
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meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
(adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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(noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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(adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
(adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
(noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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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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merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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(noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
(verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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(noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
(noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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merchantable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
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merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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merciful | (adjective) showing or giving mercy | - |
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(adjective) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious | - |
mercifully | (adverb) in a compassionate manner | - |
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mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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(noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
(noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
merciless | (adjective) having or showing no mercy | Synonyms: unmerciful |
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mercilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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(noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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(adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |