| mortal | (adjective) subject to death | - |
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| (adjective) unrelenting and deadly | - |
| (adjective) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death | Synonyms: deadly |
| (adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deadly, deathly |
| (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, person, somebody, someone, soul |
| mortality | (noun) the quality or state of being mortal | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality rate |
| mortally | (adverb) in such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.) | - |
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| mortar | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: howitzer, trench mortar |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle | - |
| (noun) used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall | - |
| (verb) plaster with mortar | - |
| mortarboard | (noun) an academic cap with a flat square with a tassel on top | - |
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| (noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: hawk |
| mortgage | (noun) a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan | - |
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| (verb) put up as security or collateral | - |
| mortgaged | (adjective) burdened with legal or financial obligations | - |
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| mortgagee | (noun) the person who accepts a mortgage | Synonyms: mortgage holder |
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| mortgager | (noun) the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid | Synonyms: mortgagor |
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| mortgagor | (noun) the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid | Synonyms: mortgager |
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| mortice | (noun) a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint | Synonyms: mortise |
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| (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortise |
| (verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortise |
| mortician | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, undertaker |
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| mortification | (noun) (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) | - |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: humiliation |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation |
| (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus |
| mortified | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: embarrassed, humiliated |
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| (adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: gangrenous |
| mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
| (verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
| mortifying | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, humiliating |
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| (adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: embarrassing |
| mortise | (noun) a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint | Synonyms: mortice |
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| (verb) join by a tenon and mortise | Synonyms: mortice |
| (verb) cut a hole for a tenon in | Synonyms: mortice |
| mortmain | (noun) the oppressive influence of past events or decisions | Synonyms: dead hand, dead hand of the past |
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| (noun) real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) | Synonyms: dead hand |
| mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
| (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, morgue |
| morula | (noun) a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula | - |
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| mosaic | (noun) art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass | - |
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| (noun) arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture | Synonyms: arial mosaic, photomosaic |
| (noun) transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube | - |
| (noun) a pattern resembling a mosaic | - |
| (noun) viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves | - |
| mosaicism | (noun) the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup | - |
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| mosey | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: amble |
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| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| moshav | (noun) a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms | - |
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| mosque | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret | - |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| moss | (noun) tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants | - |
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| mossback | (noun) an extremely old-fashioned conservative | - |
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| mosstone | (adjective) of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color | Synonyms: moss green |
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| mossy | (adjective) overgrown with moss | Synonyms: moss-grown |
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| (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
| most | (adjective) the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree | - |
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| (adjective) (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number | - |
| (adverb) used to form the superlative, greatest in size or degree | Synonyms: to the highest degree |
| (adverb) very | - |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, almost, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
| mostaccioli | (noun) pasta somewhat resembling little moustaches | - |
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| mostly | (adverb) in large part; mainly or chiefly | Synonyms: for the most part, largely |
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| (adverb) usually; as a rule | Synonyms: by and large, generally, more often than not |
| mot | (noun) a clever remark | Synonyms: bon mot |
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| mote | (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, particle, speck |
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| motel | (noun) a motor hotel | - |
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| motet | (noun) an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century | - |
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| moth | (noun) typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae | - |
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| mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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| (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
| mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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| (noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
| (noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
| (noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
| (noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
| motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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| motherless | (adjective) having no living or known mother | - |
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| motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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| motherliness | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity |
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| motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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| (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: maternally |
| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| mothproof | (adjective) resistant to damage by moths | Synonyms: moth-resistant |
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| (verb) protect from moths | - |
| mothy | (adjective) infested with moths | - |
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| (adjective) worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths | Synonyms: moth-eaten |
| motif | (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motive |
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| (noun) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | Synonyms: theme |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motive |
| motile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement | - |
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| (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action | - |
| motilin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that apparently participates in controlling smooth muscle contractions in the stomach and small intestine | - |
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| motility | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motion, move, movement |
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| (noun) ability to move spontaneously and independently | - |
| motion | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, move, movement |
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| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: move, movement |
| (noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | Synonyms: gesture |
| (noun) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote | Synonyms: question |
| (noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: movement |
| (noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, movement |
| (noun) a state of change | - |
| (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, gesture |
| motional | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by motion | - |
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| motionless | (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: inactive, static, still |
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| motionlessly | (adverb) without moving; in a motionless manner | - |
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| motionlessness | (noun) a state of no motion or movement | Synonyms: lifelessness, stillness |
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| motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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| motivated | (adjective) provided with a motive or given incentive for action | - |
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| motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
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| (noun) the act of motivating; providing incentive | Synonyms: motivation |
| motivation | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motive, need |
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| (noun) the act of motivating; providing incentive | Synonyms: motivating |
| (noun) the condition of being motivated | - |
| motivational | (adjective) of or relating to motivation | - |
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| motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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| motivator | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, inducement |
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| motive | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motor |
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| (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motivative |
| (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, need |
| (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motif |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motif |
| motiveless | (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: unprovoked, wanton |
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| motivity | (noun) the power or ability to move | Synonyms: locomotion, motive power |
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| motley | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
| (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| motmot | (noun) tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage | Synonyms: momot |
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| motoneuron | (noun) a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord | Synonyms: efferent neuron, motor nerve fiber, motor neuron |
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| motor | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motive |
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| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: centrifugal |
| (noun) machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion | - |
| (noun) a nonspecific agent that imparts motion | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive |
| motorbike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: minibike |
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| (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
| motorboat | (noun) a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: powerboat |
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| (verb) ride in a motorboat | - |
| motorbus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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| motorcar | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, automobile, car, machine |
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| motorcoach | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| motorcycle | (noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: bike |
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| (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorbike |
| motorcycling | (noun) riding a motorcycle | - |
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| motorcyclist | (noun) a traveler who rides a motorcycle | - |
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| motored | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motorised, motorized |
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| motorial | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: efferent |
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| motoring | (noun) the act of driving an automobile | - |
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| motorisation | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorization |
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| motorise | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorize |
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| motorised | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorized |
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| motorist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: automobilist |
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| motorization | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorisation |
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| motorize | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorise |
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| (verb) equip with a motor | - |
| (verb) equip with a motor vehicle | - |
| motorized | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, mechanized |
| motorless | (adjective) having no motor | Synonyms: unmotorised, unmotorized |
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| motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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| motormouth | (noun) someone who talks incessantly | - |
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| motortruck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: truck |
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| motorway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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