| mu | (noun) the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| muadhdhin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muazzin, muezzin |
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| muazzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muezzin |
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| much | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent | - |
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| (noun) a great amount or extent | - |
| (adverb) to a great degree or extent | - |
| (adverb) (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely | Synonyms: practically |
| (adverb) incredibly | - |
| (adverb) frequently or in great quantities | Synonyms: a great deal, often |
| muchness | (noun) greatness of quantity or measure or extent | - |
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| muciferous | (adjective) containing or secreting mucus | - |
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| mucilage | (noun) a gelatinous substance secreted by plants | - |
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| (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: glue, gum |
| mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| mucin | (noun) a nitrogenous substance found in mucous secretions; a lubricant that protects body surfaces | - |
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| mucinoid | (adjective) resembling mucin | - |
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| mucinous | (adjective) relating to or containing mucin | - |
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| muck | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, dung |
| (verb) remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine | - |
| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck up, mud |
| (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: manure |
| muckheap | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckhill |
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| muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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| muckle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
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| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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| mucky | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: muddy |
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| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| mucocutaneous | (adjective) of or relating to the mucous membranes and skin | - |
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| mucoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucoidal |
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| (noun) any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin | - |
| mucoidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucoid |
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| mucopolysaccharide | (noun) complex polysaccharides containing an amino group; occur chiefly as components of connective tissue | - |
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| mucopolysaccharidosis | (noun) any of a group of genetic disorders involving a defect in the metabolism of mucopolysaccharides resulting in greater than normal levels of mucopolysaccharides in tissues | - |
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| mucopurulent | (adjective) containing or composed of mucus and pus | - |
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| mucor | (noun) any mold of the genus Mucor | - |
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| mucosa | (noun) mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior | Synonyms: mucous membrane |
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| mucosal | (adjective) of or relating to mucous membranes | - |
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| mucose | (adjective) of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucous |
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| mucous | (adjective) of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucose |
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| mucoviscidosis | (noun) the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known | Synonyms: CF, cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis |
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| mucuna | (noun) any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres | - |
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| mucus | (noun) protective secretion of the mucous membranes; in the gut it lubricates the passage of food and protects the epithelial cells; in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the epithelium | Synonyms: mucous secretion |
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| mud | (noun) slanderous remarks or charges | - |
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| (noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth | Synonyms: clay |
| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck, muck up |
| (verb) plaster with mud | - |
| mudcat | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, goujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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| (noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: catfish |
| mudder | (noun) a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack | - |
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| muddied | (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddy |
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| muddiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, murkiness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: sloppiness, wateriness |
| muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
| muddled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| muddy | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: mucky |
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| (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddied |
| (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| (verb) make turbid | - |
| (verb) cause to become muddy | - |
| (verb) dirty with mud | Synonyms: muddy up |
| mudguard | (noun) a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels | Synonyms: splash-guard, splash guard |
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| mudhif | (noun) a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained | - |
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| mudra | (noun) ritual hand movement in religion or religious dancing, particularly in Hinduism or Buddhism | - |
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| mudskipper | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudspringer |
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| mudslide | (noun) a landslide of mud | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| muesli | (noun) mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits | - |
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| muezzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muazzin |
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| muff | (noun) (sports) dropping the ball | Synonyms: fumble |
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| (noun) a warm tubular covering for the hands | - |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) fail to catch, as of a ball | - |
| muffin | (noun) a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan | Synonyms: gem |
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| muffle | (noun) a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature | - |
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| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
| muffled | (adjective) wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy | - |
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| (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: dull, muted, softened |
| muffler | (noun) a scarf worn around the neck | - |
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| (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: silencer |
| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: damper |
| mufti | (noun) civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform | - |
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| (noun) a jurist who interprets Muslim religious law | - |
| mug | (noun) with handle and usually cylindrical | - |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) the quantity that can be held in a mug | Synonyms: mugful |
| (verb) To stare awkwardly | - |
| (verb) rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence | - |
| mugful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in a mug | Synonyms: mug |
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| muggee | (noun) a victim of a mugging | - |
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| mugger | (noun) a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street) | - |
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| mugginess | (noun) a state of warm humidity | - |
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| mugging | (noun) assault with intent to rob | - |
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| muggins | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| muggy | (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: steamy, sticky |
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| mugshot | (noun) a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) | Synonyms: mug shot |
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| mugwort | (noun) any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia | - |
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| mugwump | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, independent |
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| muishond | (noun) southern African weasel | - |
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| mujahadeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadein | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahid | (noun) a Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad | - |
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| mujahideen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin |
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| mujahidin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen |
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| mujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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| mujtihad | (noun) an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts | - |
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| mukataa | (noun) an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center | - |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| mulberry | (noun) sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus | - |
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| (noun) any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry | Synonyms: mulberry tree |
| mulch | (noun) a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion | - |
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| (verb) cover with mulch | - |
| mulct | (noun) money extracted as a penalty | Synonyms: amercement, fine |
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| (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: fine |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| mule | (noun) hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile | - |
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| (noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel | Synonyms: scuff |
| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| mulish | (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: hardheaded |
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| mulishly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| mulishness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| mull | (noun) a term used in Scottish names of promontories | - |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink | - |
| mullein | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers | Synonyms: flannel leaf, velvet plant |
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| muller | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: pestle, pounder |
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| (noun) a vessel in which wine is mulled | - |
| (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muser, ponderer, ruminator |
| mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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| (noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| (noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| mullion | (noun) a nonstructural vertical strip between the casements or panes of a window (or the panels of a screen) | - |
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| mullioned | (adjective) of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone | - |
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| mulloway | (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: jewfish, Sciaena antarctica |
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