| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| moderatress | noun | A female moderator. |
| modernizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Modernize |
| modificable | adjective | Modifiable. |
| moesogothic | adjective | Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia., The language of the Moesogoths; — also called Gothic. |
| mohammedism | noun | The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism. |
| mohammedize | verb t. | To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism. |
| molecularly | adverb | With molecules; in the manner of molecules. |
| molestation | noun | The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance. |
| mollifiable | adjective | Capable of being mollified. |
| mollipilose | adjective | Having soft hairs; downy. |
| molybdenite | noun | A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum. |
| molybdenous | adjective | See Molybdous. |
| momentarily | adverb | Every moment; from moment to moment. |
| monadelphia | noun pl. | A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family. |
| monarchical | adjective | Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. |
| monarchized | imp. & past participle | of Monarchize |
| monarchizer | noun | One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist. |
| monasterial | adjective | Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life. |
| monasteries | plural | of Monastery |
| monasticism | noun | The monastic life, system, or condition. |
| monembryony | noun | The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. |
| money-maker | noun | One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money., One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive. |
| monitorship | noun | The post or office of a monitor. |
| monk’s seam | An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches. | |
| monocardian | adjective | Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians., An animal having a single heart. |
| monocarpous | adjective | Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc. |
| monochromic | adjective | Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture. |
| monochronic | adjective | Existing at the same time; contemporaneous. |
| monoclinous | adjective | Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower. |
| monocondyla | noun pl. | A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida. |
| monocrotism | noun | That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing. |
| monodelphia | noun pl. | The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia. |
| monodelphic | adjective | Alt. of Monodelphous |
| monodynamic | adjective | Possessing but one capacity or power. |
| monogastric | adjective | Having but a single stomach. |
| monogenesis | noun | Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; — opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism., That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction., The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; — opposed to metagenesis. |
| monogenetic | adjective | One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; — used of a mountain range., Relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the source of all beings. |
| monogrammal | adjective | See Monogrammic. |
| monogrammic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram. |
| monographer | noun | A writer of a monograph. |
| monographic | adjective | Alt. of Monographical |
| monomachist | noun | One who fights in single combat; a duelist. |
| monomorphic | adjective | Alt. of Monomorphous |
| monomphalus | noun | A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus. |
| monomyarian | adjective | Alt. of Monomyary |
| monoousious | adjective | Having but one and the same nature or essence. |
| monophanous | adjective | Having one and the same appearance; having a mutual resemblance. |
| monophthong | noun | A single uncompounded vowel sound., A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph. |
| monophysite | noun | One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively. |
| monoplastic | adjective | That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element. |
| monopolized | imp. & past participle | of Monopolize |
| monopolizer | noun | One who monopolizes. |
| monospermal | adjective | Alt. of Monospermous |
| monostrophe | noun | A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe. |
| monothalama | noun pl. | A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber. |
| monothalmic | adjective | Formed from one pistil; — said of fruits. |
| monothelism | noun | Alt. of Monothelitism |
| monothelite | noun | One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite. |
| monotonical | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous. |
| monotremata | noun pl. | A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna. |
| monseigneur | noun | My lord; — a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) |
| monstration | noun | The act of demonstrating; proof. |
| monstrosity | noun | The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. |
| monstrously | adverb | In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. |
| montgolfier | noun | A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; — so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon. |
| monticulate | adjective | Furnished with monticles or little elevations. |
| monticulous | adjective | Monticulate. |
| montigenous | adjective | Produced on a mountain. |
| moonsticken | adjective | See Moonstruck. |
| moravianism | noun | The religious system of the Moravians. |
| mordication | noun | The act of biting or corroding; corrosion. |
| mordicative | adjective | Biting; corrosive. |
| morintannic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid extracted from fustic (Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria) as a yellow crystalline substance; — called also maclurin. |
| morioplasty | noun | The restoration of lost parts of the body. |
| morningtide | noun | Morning time. |
| morphologic | adjective | Alt. of Morphological |
| morphophyly | noun | The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions. |
| morris-pike | noun | A Moorish pike. |
| morsitation | noun | The act of biting or gnawing. |
| mortalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mortalize |
| mortiferous | adjective | Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. |
| mosasaurian | noun | One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria. |
| mosstrooper | noun | One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; — so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country. |
| motorpathic | adjective | Of or pertaining to motorpathy. |
| mouillation | noun | The act of uttering the sound of a mouille letter. |
| mountaineer | noun | An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains., A rude, fierce person., To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains. |
| mountainous | adjective | Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss., Inhabiting mountains., Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. |
| movableness | noun | The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion. |