| monologuize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| monomaniacal | (adjective) obsessed with a single subject or idea | - |
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| monomer | (noun) a simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers | - |
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| monometallic | (adjective) containing one atom of metal in the molecule | - |
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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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| monomorphemic | (adjective) consisting of only one morpheme | - |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| mononuclear | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononucleate |
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| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| mononucleosis | (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, mono |
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| monophonic | (adjective) consisting of a single melodic line | - |
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| (adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: mono, single-channel |
| monophony | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monody, monophonic music |
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| monoplane | (noun) an airplane with a single wing | - |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| monoploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, haploidic |
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| monopolisation | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolization |
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| monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
| monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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| monopolist | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolizer |
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| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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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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| monopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | - |
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| (noun) exclusive control or possession of something | - |
| monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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| monopteral | (adjective) having circular columniation | - |
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| monorail | (noun) a railway having a single track | - |
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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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| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
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| monosemy | (noun) having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases | - |
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| monosomy | (noun) chromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number | - |
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| monosyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable | - |
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| monosyllabically | (adverb) in a monosyllabic manner | - |
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| monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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| monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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| monotheist | (noun) a believer in one god | - |
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| monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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| monotone | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotonic |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous |
| (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
| (noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
| monotonic | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotone |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonous |
| monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
| monotonously | (adverb) in a monotonous manner | - |
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| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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| monotype | (noun) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters | - |
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| (noun) the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate | - |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) | - |
| monotypic | (adjective) consisting of only one type | - |
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| monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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| monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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| (adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
| monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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| monoxide | (noun) an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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| monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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| mons | (noun) a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women | Synonyms: mons pubis, mons veneris |
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| monsoon | (noun) a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | - |
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| (noun) any wind that changes direction with the seasons | - |
| (noun) rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | - |
| monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
| (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
| monstera | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: ceriman |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | - |
| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| monstrosity | (noun) something hideous or frightful | - |
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| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monster |
| monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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| (adjective) abnormally large | - |
| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
| monstrously | (adverb) in a grotesque manner | Synonyms: grotesquely |
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| (adverb) in a terribly evil manner | Synonyms: heinously |
| (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: hideously, horridly |
| montage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: collage |
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| montane | (adjective) of or inhabiting mountainous regions | - |
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| monte | (noun) a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time | Synonyms: three-card monte |
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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 |
| monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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| monthly | (adjective) of or occurring or payable every month | - |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) occurring once a month | - |
| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
| (noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
| monumental | (adjective) relating or belonging to or serving as a monument | - |
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| (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monolithic |
| (adjective) of outstanding significance | - |
| monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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| monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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| moo | (noun) the sound made by a cow or bull | - |
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| (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: low |
| 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 |
| moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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| mood | (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, temper |
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| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mode |
| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: climate |
| moodily | (adverb) in a moody manner | - |
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| moodiness | (noun) having temperamental and changeable moods | - |
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| (noun) a sullen gloomy feeling | - |
| moody | (adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: temperamental |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| 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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| moon | (noun) any natural satellite of a planet | - |
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| (noun) any object resembling a moon | - |
| (noun) the natural satellite of the Earth | Synonyms: Moon |
| (noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, lunation, synodic month |
| (verb) expose one's buttocks to | - |
| (verb) be idle in a listless or dreamy way | Synonyms: moon around, moon on |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: daydream |
| moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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| mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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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 |
| moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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| moong | (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, monggo, 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, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| moonily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, dreamily |
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| moonless | (adjective) without a moon or a visible moon | - |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| moonlike | (adjective) resembling the moon in shape | Synonyms: moon-round |
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| moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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| moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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| (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
| (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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