| moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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| moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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| moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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| (noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
| moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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| moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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| (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
| moor | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moorland |
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| (verb) secure with cables or ropes | - |
| (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: berth, tie up |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, wharf |
| moorage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip |
| (noun) a fee for mooring | - |
| moorbird | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse |
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| moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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| moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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| moorgame | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, red grouse |
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| moorhen | (noun) black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes | Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus |
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| (noun) female red grouse | - |
| mooring | (noun) (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place | Synonyms: mooring line |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, slip |
| moorland | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moor |
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| moorwort | (noun) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States | Synonyms: Andromeda glaucophylla, bog rosemary |
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| moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
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| moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
| moot | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, disputable |
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| (adjective) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) | - |
| (noun) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise | - |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, deliberate, turn over |
| mop | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: swab, swob |
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| (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mow, pout |
| (verb) to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop | Synonyms: mop up, wipe up |
| mopboard | (noun) a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | Synonyms: baseboard, skirting board |
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| mope | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger |
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| (verb) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed | Synonyms: moon about, moon around |
| (verb) move around slowly and aimlessly | Synonyms: mope around |
| moped | (noun) a motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine | - |
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| mopes | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: dumps |
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| mopper | (noun) a worker who uses a mop to clean a surface | - |
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| moppet | (noun) a little girl (usually one you are fond of) | - |
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| mopping | (noun) cleaning with a mop | Synonyms: swabbing |
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| moquette | (noun) a thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery | - |
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| moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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| moraine | (noun) accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier | - |
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| moral | (adjective) concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles | - |
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| (adjective) psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect | - |
| (noun) the significance of a story or event | Synonyms: lesson |
| morale | (noun) the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed | Synonyms: esprit de corps, team spirit |
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| (noun) a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose | - |
| moralisation | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralization |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralization, moralizing |
| moralise | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralize |
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| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralize |
| moralism | (noun) judgments about another person's morality | - |
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| (noun) a moral maxim | - |
| moralist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems | - |
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| (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, martinet |
| moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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| morality | (noun) concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct | - |
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| (noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morals |
| moralization | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralisation |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralizing |
| moralize | (verb) improve the morals of | Synonyms: moralise |
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| (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, preachify, sermonise, sermonize |
| (verb) interpret the moral meaning of | Synonyms: moralise |
| moralizing | (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralization |
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| morally | (adverb) in a moral manner | Synonyms: virtuously |
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| (adverb) with respect to moral principles | - |
| morals | (noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morality |
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| morangoska | (noun) a Portuguese variation of Caipirinha made using strawberries instead of lime. | - |
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| morass | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, quag, quagmire, slack |
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| moratorium | (noun) suspension of an ongoing activity | - |
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| (noun) a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged | - |
| moray | (noun) family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked | Synonyms: moray eel |
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| morbid | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: ghoulish |
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| (adjective) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology | Synonyms: diseased, pathologic, pathological |
| (adjective) suggesting an unhealthy mental state | - |
| morbidity | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidness, unwholesomeness |
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| (noun) an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind | Synonyms: morbidness |
| (noun) the relative incidence of a particular disease | - |
| morbidly | (adverb) in a morbid manner or to a morbid degree | - |
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| morbidness | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidity, unwholesomeness |
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| (noun) an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind | Synonyms: morbidity |
| morbific | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, pathogenic |
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| morbilli | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: measles, rubeola |
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| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| morceau | (noun) a short literary or musical composition | - |
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| mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
| mordaciously | (adverb) in a mordacious manner | - |
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| mordacity | (noun) a disposition to biting | - |
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| mordant | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, grim |
| (noun) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process | - |
| more | (adjective) (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than | Synonyms: more than |
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| (adjective) (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number | - |
| (adverb) used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something | Synonyms: to a greater extent |
| (adverb) comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent | - |
| moreen | (noun) a heavy fabric of wool (or wool and cotton) used mostly in upholstery or for curtains | - |
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| morel | (noun) any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap | - |
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| morello | (noun) cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus austera |
| moreover | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: furthermore, in addition, what is more |
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| mores | (noun) (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group | - |
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| morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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| morganite | (noun) a kind of pink beryl used as a gemstone | - |
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| morgen | (noun) a South African unit of measure equal to about 2 acres | - |
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| morgue | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, mortuary |
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| moribund | (adjective) being on the point of death; breathing your last | - |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: stagnant |
| morion | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: cabasset |
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| morn | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morning, morning time |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| morning | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good morning | Synonyms: good morning |
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| (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: dawn |
| (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morn, morning time |
| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup |
| morocco | (noun) a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc. | - |
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| moron | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, retard |
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| moronic | (adjective) having a mental age of between eight and twelve years | - |
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| moronity | (noun) mild mental retardation | Synonyms: mental deficiency |
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| morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| morosely | (adverb) in a morose manner | - |
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| moroseness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: sourness, sulkiness, sullenness |
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| (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, sullenness |
| 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 | - |
| morphallaxis | (noun) regeneration on a reduced scale of a body part; observed especially in invertebrates such as certain lobsters | - |
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| morphea | (noun) localized scleroderma | - |
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| morpheme | (noun) minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units | - |
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| morphemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphemes | - |
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| morphia | (noun) an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain | Synonyms: morphine |
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| morphine | (noun) an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain | Synonyms: morphia |
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| morphogenesis | (noun) differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism) | - |
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| morphologic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphological, structural |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language | Synonyms: morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphological, structural |
| morphological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, structural |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language | Synonyms: morphologic |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, structural |
| morphologically | (adverb) in a morphological manner; with regard to morphology | - |
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| morphology | (noun) the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants | - |
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| (noun) studies of the rules for forming admissible words | - |
| (noun) the admissible arrangement of sounds in words | Synonyms: sound structure, syllable structure, word structure |
| (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: geomorphology |
| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| morphophonemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphophonemics | - |
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| morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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| morphophysiology | (noun) the study of anatomy in its relation to function | Synonyms: functional anatomy, physiological anatomy |
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| morrow | (noun) the next day | - |
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| morsel | (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, bite |
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| (noun) a small quantity of anything | - |