| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
|---|
| murderer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, manslayer |
|---|
| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
|---|
| murderous | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: homicidal |
|---|
| murderously | (adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
|---|
| (adverb) as if bent on murder | - |
| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
|---|
| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| murine | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice) | - |
|---|
| (noun) a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae | - |
| murk | (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murkiness |
|---|
| (verb) make dark, dim, or gloomy | - |
| murkily | (adverb) with a dim light | Synonyms: dimly |
|---|
| (adverb) unclearly; opaquely | - |
| murkiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, muddiness |
|---|
| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murk |
| murky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, turbid |
|---|
| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: mirky |
| murmur | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
|---|
| (noun) a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant | Synonyms: murmur vowel |
| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves | Synonyms: cardiac murmur, heart murmur |
| (verb) speak softly or indistinctly | - |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, mutter |
| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
|---|
| murmurer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, mutterer |
|---|
| murmuring | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: susurrant, whispering |
|---|
| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| murmurous | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: rustling, soughing, susurrous |
|---|
| murphy | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, potato, spud, tater, white potato |
|---|
| murrain | (noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | - |
|---|
| murre | (noun) black-and-white diving bird of northern seas | - |
|---|
| muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
|---|
| muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
|---|
| muscadine | (noun) dull-purple grape of southern United States | Synonyms: bullace grape |
|---|
| (noun) native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties | Synonyms: Vitis rotundifolia |
| muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
|---|
| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
| (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
|---|
| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| muscle | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew |
|---|
| (noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) | - |
| (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: musculus |
| (noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells | Synonyms: muscular tissue |
| (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscleman |
| (verb) make one's way by force | - |
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
|---|
| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
|---|
| muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
|---|
| (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |
| muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
|---|
| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
|---|
| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
|---|
| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
|---|
| musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
|---|
| muse | (noun) the source of an artist's inspiration | - |
|---|
| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| muser | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, ponderer, ruminator |
|---|
| musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
|---|
| museum | (noun) a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value | - |
|---|
| mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
|---|
| (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
| (noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
| (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
|---|
| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
|---|
| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
|---|
| (noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
| (noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
| (noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
| (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
| mushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
|---|
| (adjective) having the consistency of mush | - |
| music | (noun) musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) | - |
|---|
| (noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: medicine |
| (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: euphony |
| (noun) (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) | - |
| (noun) an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | - |
| musical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music | - |
|---|
| (adjective) talented in or devoted to music | - |
| (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodic, melodious |
| (adjective) characterized by or capable of producing music | - |
| (noun) a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing | Synonyms: musical comedy, musical theater |
| musicality | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicalness |
|---|
| musically | (adverb) in a musical manner | - |
|---|
| musicalness | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicality |
|---|
| musician | (noun) artist who composes or conducts music as a profession | - |
|---|
| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, player |
| musicianship | (noun) artistry in performing music | - |
|---|
| musicological | (adjective) of or relating to musicology | - |
|---|
| musicologically | (adverb) with respect to musicology | - |
|---|
| musicologist | (noun) a student of musicology | - |
|---|
| musicology | (noun) the scholarly and scientific study of music | - |
|---|
| musing | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
|---|
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| musingly | (adverb) in a meditative manner | - |
|---|
| musjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: masjid |
|---|
| musk | (noun) the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer | - |
|---|
| (noun) an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | - |
| muskat | (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muscat |
|---|
| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
|---|
| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
|---|
| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
|---|
| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
|---|
| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
|---|
| muskmelon | (noun) the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers | Synonyms: sweet melon |
|---|
| (noun) any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell | Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine |
| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
|---|
| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
|---|
| musky | (adjective) resembling the smell of musk | - |
|---|
| muslin | (noun) plain-woven cotton fabric | - |
|---|
| musnud | (noun) a seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes | - |
|---|
| musophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of mice | - |
|---|
| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
|---|
| muss | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, mussiness |
|---|
| (verb) make messy or untidy | Synonyms: tussle |
| mussel | (noun) marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | - |
|---|
| (noun) black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | - |
| mussiness | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, muss |
|---|
| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
|---|
| mussitation | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
|---|
| mussy | (adjective) dirty and disorderly | Synonyms: messy |
|---|
| must | (adjective) highly recommended | - |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, mustiness |
| (noun) grape juice before or during fermentation | - |
| (noun) a necessary or essential thing | - |
| mustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: moustache |
|---|
| mustached | (adjective) having a moustache | Synonyms: mustachioed |
|---|
| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
|---|
| mustachioed | (adjective) having a moustache | Synonyms: mustached |
|---|
| mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
|---|
| mustard | (noun) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds | Synonyms: table mustard |
|---|
| (noun) leaves eaten as cooked greens | Synonyms: Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard greens |
| (noun) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica | - |
| mustelid | (noun) fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals | Synonyms: musteline, musteline mammal |
|---|
| musteline | (noun) fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals | Synonyms: mustelid, musteline mammal |
|---|
| muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
|---|
| (noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
| (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| musth | (noun) an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear | - |
|---|
| mustiness | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, must |
|---|
| musty | (adjective) stale and unclean smelling | Synonyms: frowsty, fusty |
|---|
| (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: moldy, mouldy |
| mutability | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutableness |
|---|
| mutable | (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeable |
|---|
| (adjective) tending to undergo genetic mutation | - |
| (adjective) prone to frequent change; inconstant | - |
| mutableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of mutation | Synonyms: mutability |
|---|
| mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
|---|
| mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
|---|
| mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
|---|
| mutagenic | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution) | - |
|---|
| mutant | (adjective) tending to undergo or resulting from mutation | - |
|---|
| (noun) an animal that has undergone mutation | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutation, sport, variation |
| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
|---|