| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| moabitess | noun | A female Moabite. |
| moabitish | adjective | Moabite. |
| mobilized | imp. & past participle | of Mobilize |
| mobocracy | noun | A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights. |
| mockadour | noun | See Mokadour. |
| mockeries | plural | of Mockery |
| mockingly | adverb | By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner. |
| modelling | of Model | |
| moderable | adjective | Modeate; temperate. |
| moderance | noun | Moderation. |
| moderated | imp. & past participle | of Moderate |
| moderator | noun | One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies., The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes., In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts., A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect. |
| modernism | noun | Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression. |
| modernist | noun | One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions. |
| modernity | noun | Modernness; something modern. |
| modernize | verb t. | To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. |
| modifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Modify |
| modillion | noun | The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; — so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances. |
| modulated | imp. & past participle | of Modulate |
| modulator | noun | One who, or that which, modulates. |
| moistened | imp. & past participle | of Moisten |
| moistener | noun | One who, or that which, moistens. |
| moistless | adjective | Without moisture; dry. |
| moistness | noun | The quality or state of being moist. |
| mouldable | adjective | Capable of being molded or formed. |
| moldboard | noun | Alt. of Mouldboard |
| mouldered | of Moulder | |
| moldering | present participle & vb. noun | of Moulder |
| moldiness | noun | Alt. of Mouldiness |
| mouldwarp | noun | See Mole the animal. |
| molecular | adjective | Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. |
| mole-eyed | adjective | Having eyes like those of the mole; having imperfect sight. |
| molesting | present participle & vb. noun | of Molest |
| molestful | adjective | Troublesome; vexatious. |
| mollebart | noun | An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. |
| mollemoke | noun | Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar. |
| mollifier | noun | One who, or that which, mollifies. |
| mollified | imp. & past participle | of Mollify |
| mollities | noun | Unnatural softness of any organ or part. |
| mollitude | noun | Softness; effeminacy; weakness. |
| molluscan | adjective | Of or pertaining to mollusks., A mollusk; one of the Mollusca. |
| molluscum | noun | A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; — so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals. |
| molossine | noun | A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat. |
| molybdate | noun | A salt of molybdic acid. |
| molybdena | noun | See Molybdenite. |
| molybdite | noun | Molybdic ocher. |
| molybdous | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds. |
| momentany | adjective | Momentary. |
| momentary | adjective | Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. |
| momentous | adjective | Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. |
| momentums | plural | of Momentum |
| monachism | noun | The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism. |
| monadaria | noun pl. | The Infusoria. |
| monadical | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n. |
| monandria | noun pl. | A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen. |
| monandric | adjective | Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage. |
| monarchal | adjective | Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial. |
| monarchic | adjective | Alt. of Monarchical |
| monastery | noun | A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; — more rarely applied to such a house for females. |
| monatomic | adverb | Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic., Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic. |
| monecious | adjective | See Monoecian, and Monoecious. |
| moneyless | adjective | Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. |
| moneywort | noun | A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils. |
| mongolian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols., One of the Mongols. |
| mongoloid | adjective | Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols. |
| monitress | noun | Alt. of Monitrix |
| monkeries | plural | of Monkery |
| monkshood | noun | A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite. |
| monobasic | adjective | Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; — said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic. |
| monoceros | noun | A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn., The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion. |
| monochord | noun | An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them. |
| monocline | noun | A monoclinal fold. |
| monocotyl | noun | Any monocotyledonous plant. |
| monocracy | noun | Government by a single person; undivided rule. |
| monocular | adjective | Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision., Adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope. |
| monodelph | noun | Alt. of Monodelphian |
| monodical | adjective | Belonging to a monody., For one voice; monophonic., Homophonic; — applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic. |
| monodrama | noun | Alt. of Monodrame |
| monodrame | noun | A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person. |
| monoecian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious., One of the Monoecia., A monoecious animal, as certain mollusks. |
| monoecism | noun | The state or condition of being monoecious. |
| monogamia | noun pl. | A Linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia. |
| monogamic | adjective | Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy., Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers. |
| monogenic | adjective | Of or pertaining to monogenesis., Producing only one kind of germs, or young; developing only in one way. |
| monograph | noun | A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range. |
| monogynia | noun pl. | A Linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma. |
| monoicous | adjective | Monoecious. |
| monolatry | noun | Worship of a single deity. |
| monologue | noun | A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue., A dramatic composition for a single performer. |
| monomachy | noun | A duel; single combat. |
| monomania | noun | Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement. |
| monometer | noun | A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter. |
| monomyary | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Monomya., One of the Monomya. |
| monopathy | noun | Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. |
| monoplast | noun | A monoplastic element. |
| monopodia | plural | of Monopodium |
| monopoler | noun | A monopolist. |
| monoptera | plural | of Monopteron |
| monoptote | noun | A noun having only one case., A noun having only one ending for the oblique cases. |
| monorhina | noun pl. | The Marsipobranchiata. |
| monorhyme | noun | A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme. |
| monosperm | noun | A monospermous plant. |
| monostich | noun | A composition consisting of one verse only. |
| monotonic | adjective | Alt. of Monotonical |
| monotreme | noun | One of the Monotremata. |
| monotropa | noun | A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem. |
| monotypic | adjective | Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species. |
| monoxylon | noun | A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber. |
| monstrous | adjective | Marvelous; strange., Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth., Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; — said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story., Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful., Abounding in monsters., Exceedingly; very; very much. |
| montaigne | noun | A mountain. |
| montanist | noun | A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life. |
| monthling | noun | That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. |
| monthlies | plural | of Monthly |
| monticule | noun | See Monticle. |
| montiform | adjective | Resembling a mountain in form. |
| moodiness | noun | The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods. |
| moodishly | adverb | Moodily. |
| moonblind | adjective | Dim-sighted; purblind. |
| moonblink | noun | A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; — sometimes called nyctalopia. |
| moon-eyed | adjective | Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind. |
| moonglade | noun | The bright reflection of the moon’s light on an expanse of water. |
| moonlight | noun | The light of the moon., Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight. |
| moonraker | noun | Same as Moonsail. |
| moonshine | noun | The light of the moon., Hence, show without substance or reality., A month., A preparation of eggs for food., Moonlight. |
| moonshiny | adjective | Moonlight. |
| moonstone | noun | A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon. |
| moorstone | noun | A species of English granite, used as a building stone. |
| moosewood | noun | The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum)., Leatherwood. |
| moot-hall | noun | Alt. of Moot-house |
| moot-hill | noun | A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; — called, in Scotland, mute-hill. |
| mope-eyed | adjective | Shortsighted; purblind. |
| moralized | imp. & past participle | of Moralize |
| moralizer | noun | One who moralizes. |
| morbidity | noun | The quality or state of being morbid., Morbid quality; disease; sickness., Amount of disease; sick rate. |
| morbosity | noun | A diseased state; unhealthiness. |
| mordacity | noun | The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality. |
| mordanted | imp. & past participle | of Mordant |
| mordantly | adverb | In the manner of a mordant. |
| mordicant | adjective | Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body. |
| mormondom | noun | The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people. |
| mormonism | noun | The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons. |
| mormonite | noun | A Mormon., Mormon. |
| moroxylic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the mulberry; moric. |
| morphosis | noun | The order or mode of development of an organ or part. |
| morphotic | adjective | Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. |
| mortality | noun | The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying., Human life; the life of a mortal being., Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature., Death; destruction., The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. |
| mortalize | verb t. | To make mortal. |
| mortgaged | imp. & past participle | of Mortgage |
| mortgagee | noun | The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given. |
| mortgagor | noun | One who gives a mortgage. |
| mortgager | noun | gives a mortgage. |
| mortified | imp. & p. p. of Mortify., of Mortify | |
| mortifier | noun | One who, or that which, mortifies. |
| mortising | present participle & vb. noun | of Mortise |
| morwening | noun | Morning. |
| moschatel | noun | A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. |
| mossiness | noun | The state of being mossy. |
| mostahiba | noun | See Mustaiba. |
| mothering | present participle & vb. noun | of Mother, A rural custom in England, of visiting one’s parents on Midlent Sunday, — supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar. |
| motioning | present participle & vb. noun | of Motion |
| motionist | noun | A mover. |
| mountable | adjective | Such as can be mounted. |
| mountance | noun | Amount; sum; quantity; extent. |
| mournival | noun | See Murnival. |
| mouse-ear | noun | The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus., A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella). |
| mousefish | noun | See Frogfish. |
| mousehole | noun | A hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse. |
| mousetail | noun | A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse. |
| moustache | noun | Mustache. |
| mouthfuls | plural | of Mouthful |
| mouthless | adjective | Destitute of a mouth. |
| mozarabic | Same as Muzarab, Muzarabic. |