| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| muharram | noun | The first month of the Mohammedan year., A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum. |
| mucamide | noun | The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
| muchness | noun | Greatness; extent. |
| muchwhat | adverb | Nearly; almost; much. |
| muciform | adjective | Resembling mucus; having the character or appearance of mucus. |
| mucilage | noun | A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc., An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes. |
| mucivore | noun | An insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora. |
| muckerer | noun | A miser; a niggard. |
| muckworm | noun | A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; — applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles., One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. |
| mucocele | noun | An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. |
| muconate | noun | A salt of muconic acid. |
| mucosity | noun | The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness. |
| muculent | adjective | Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous. |
| muddling | present participle & vb. noun | of Muddle |
| muddying | present participle & vb. noun | of Muddy |
| muffetee | noun | A small muff worn over the wrist. |
| muffling | present participle & vb. noun | of Muffle |
| mughouse | noun | An alehouse; a pothouse. |
| mugiency | noun | A bellowing. |
| mugiloid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidae. |
| mulberry | noun | The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus., A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry. |
| mulching | present participle & vb. noun | of Mulch |
| mulcting | present participle & vb. noun | of Mulct |
| mulctary | adjective | Alt. of Mulctuary |
| muleteer | noun | One who drives mules. |
| mulewort | noun | A fern of the genus Hemionitis. |
| mulierly | adverb | In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately. |
| mulierty | noun | Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock. |
| multeity | noun | Multiplicity. |
| multifid | adjective | Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla. |
| multiped | noun | An insect having many feet, as a myriapod., Having many feet. |
| multiple | adjective | Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts., A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder. |
| multiply | verb t. | To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to., To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication., To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy., To become greater in number; to become numerous., To increase in extent and influence; to spread., To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy. |
| mumbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Mumble, Low; indistinct; inarticulate. |
| mummying | present participle & vb. noun | of Mummy |
| munching | present participle & vb. noun | of Munch |
| mungcorn | noun | Same as Mangcorn. |
| mungoose | noun | Alt. of Mungoos |
| muniment | noun | The act of supporting or defending., That which supports or defends; stronghold; place or means of defense; munition; assistance., A record; the evidences or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers. |
| munition | noun | Fortification; stronghold., Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. |
| murenoid | adjective | Like or pertaining to the genus Muraena, or family Muraenidae. |
| murdered | imp. & past participle | of Murder |
| murderer | noun | One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice., A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship’s decks of boarders; — called also murdering piece. |
| murdress | noun | A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through. |
| murenger | noun | One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs. |
| murexide | noun | A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate. |
| murexoin | noun | A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide. |
| muriated | adjective | Put in brine., Combined or impregnated with muriatic or hydrochloric acid., Prepared with chloride of silver through the agency of common salt. |
| muriatic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric. |
| muricate | adjective | Alt. of Muricated |
| muricoid | adjective | Like, or pertaining to, the genus Murex, or family Muricidae. |
| muriform | adjective | Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue. |
| muringer | noun | See Murenger. |
| murmured | imp. & past participle | of Murmur |
| murmurer | noun | One who murmurs. |
| murnival | noun | In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything. |
| murrayin | noun | A glucoside found in the flowers of a plant (Murraya exotica) of South Asia, and extracted as a white amorphous slightly bitter substance. |
| murrelet | noun | One of several species of sea birds of the genera Synthliboramphus and Brachyramphus, inhabiting the North Pacific. They are closely related to the murres. |
| murrhine | adjective | Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; — applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. |
| muscadel | noun | See Muscatel, n. |
| muscales | noun pl. | An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna. |
| muscarin | noun | A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison. |
| muscatel | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc., A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France., Finest raisins, dried on the vine; “sun raisins.” |
| muscling | noun | Exhibition or representation of the muscles. |
| muscular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber., Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles., Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm. |
| musculin | noun | See Syntonin. |
| museless | adjective | Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. |
| mushroom | noun | An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn., Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous., One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart., Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup., Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities. |
| musicale | noun | A social musical party. |
| musician | noun | One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument. |
| musingly | adverb | In a musing manner. |
| muskadel | noun | See Muscadel. |
| musketry | noun | Muskets, collectively., The fire of muskets. |
| muskwood | noun | The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii)., The wood of an Australian tree (Eurybia argophylla). |
| muslinet | noun | A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth. |
| musquash | noun | See Muskrat. |
| musquito | noun | See Mosquito. |
| mustache | noun | That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth., A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose., Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird. |
| mustacho | noun | A mustache. |
| mustaiba | noun | A close-grained, neavy wood of a brownish color, brought from Brazil, and used in turning, for making the handles of tools, and the like. |
| mustered | imp. & past participle | of Muster |
| mutacism | noun | See Mytacism. |
| mutandum | noun | A thing which is to be changed; something which must be altered; — used chiefly in the plural. |
| mutation | noun | Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. |
| muteness | noun | The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness. |
| muticous | adjective | Without a point or pointed process; blunt. |
| mutilate | adjective | Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated., Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean., A cetacean, or a sirenian., To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc., To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. |
| mutilous | adjective | Mutilated; defective; imperfect. |
| mutineer | noun | One guilty of mutiny. |
| mutinous | adjective | Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. |
| mutinies | plural | of Mutiny |
| mutinied | imp. & past participle | of Mutiny |
| muttered | imp. & past participle | of Mutter |
| mutterer | noun | One who mutters. |
| mutually | adverb | In a mutual manner. |
| muzzling | present participle & vb. noun | of Muzzle |