| moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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| moneyed | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: monied |
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| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, substantial, wealthy |
| moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| moneyless | (adjective) not based on the possession of money | - |
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| (adjective) having no money | - |
| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
| monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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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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| mongoloid | (adjective) (offensive) of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a Mongol | - |
| (noun) a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense, now considered offensive) | - |
| mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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| mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
| mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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| mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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| monied | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: moneyed |
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| moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| monilia | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia | - |
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| moniliasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: candidiasis, monilia disease |
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| 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 |
| monism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element | - |
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| monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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| monition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, admonition |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: admonition, warning, word of advice |
| (noun) a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted | Synonyms: process of monition |
| monitor | (noun) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | Synonyms: monitor lizard, varan |
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| (noun) a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble | - |
| (noun) electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions | - |
| (noun) display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor | Synonyms: monitoring device |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, reminder |
| (noun) someone who supervises (an examination) | Synonyms: proctor |
| (verb) keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance | Synonyms: supervise |
| (verb) check, track, or observe by means of a receiver | - |
| monitoring | (noun) the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it) | - |
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| monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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| monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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| monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| 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 | - |
| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| mono | (adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: monophonic, single-channel |
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| (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mononucleosis |
| monoamine | (noun) a molecule containing one amine group (especially one that is a neurotransmitter) | - |
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| monoatomic | (adjective) of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom | Synonyms: monatomic |
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| monoblast | (noun) a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow | - |
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| monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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| monocarp | (noun) a plant that bears fruit once and dies | Synonyms: monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant |
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| monocarpic | (adjective) dying after bearing fruit only once | - |
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| monocentrism | (noun) the property of having or proceeding from a single center. | - |
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| monochromacy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monochromat | (noun) a person who is completely color-blind | - |
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| monochromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength | Synonyms: homochromatic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monochromatism | - |
| (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochrome, monochromic, monochromous |
| 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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| monochrome | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochromic, monochromous |
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| (noun) a black-and-white photograph or slide | Synonyms: black and white |
| (noun) painting done in a range of tones of a single color | - |
| monochromia | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism |
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| monochromic | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromous |
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| monochromous | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic |
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| monocle | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: eyeglass |
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| monocled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: bespectacled, spectacled |
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| monoclinal | (adjective) of a geological structure in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| monocline | (noun) a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| monoclinic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection | - |
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| monoclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in the same flower | - |
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| monoclonal | (adjective) forming or derived from a single clone | - |
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| (noun) any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules | Synonyms: monoclonal antibody |
| monocot | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocotyledon |
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| monocotyledon | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocot |
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| monocotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies | - |
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| monocracy | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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| monocycle | (noun) a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals | Synonyms: unicycle |
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| monocyte | (noun) a type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteria | - |
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| monocytosis | (noun) increase in the number of monocytes in the blood; symptom of monocytic leukemia | - |
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| monodic | (adjective) having a single vocal part | Synonyms: monodical |
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| monodical | (adjective) having a single vocal part | Synonyms: monodic |
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| monody | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monophonic music, monophony |
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| monoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoicous |
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| monoestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monestrous |
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| monogamist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogynist |
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| monogamous | (adjective) (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate | - |
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| monogamousness | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamy |
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| monogamy | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamousness |
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| monogenesis | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: sporulation |
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| monogenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes | - |
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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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| monograph | (noun) a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject | - |
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| monogynic | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynous |
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| monogynist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogamist |
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| monogynous | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynic |
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| monogyny | (noun) having only one wife at a time | - |
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| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| monoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoecious |
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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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| monolatry | (noun) the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god | - |
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| monolingual | (adjective) using or knowing only one language | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
| monolingually | (adverb) in a monolingual manner | - |
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| monolith | (noun) a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) | - |
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| monolithic | (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monumental |
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| (adjective) characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity | - |
| monologist | (noun) an entertainer who performs alone | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| monologuise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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