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- MISCELLANYAn assortment of miscellaneous items.
- MISCHIEFConduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- MISCIBLEAble to be mixed together in all proportions.
- MISERA person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
- MISERABLEIn a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
- MISERESA person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
- MISERICORDRelaxation of monastic rules.
- MISERICORDEAn act of clemency; pity, mercy.
- MISERYGreat unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
- MISSILEAny object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
- MISSIOLOGYThe area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary.
- MISSIONA set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
- MITIGANTTending to mitigate.
- MITISA process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum
- MIXTArchaic spelling of mixed, simple past and past participle of mix.
- MIXTIONThe act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
- MIXTUREThe act of mixing.
- MOBILECapable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- MOBILITYThe ability to move; capacity for movement.
- MODALOf, or relating to a mode or modus.
- MODEA particular means of accomplishing something.
- MODELA person who poses as a subject or visual reference for an artist.
- MODERATENot excessive; acting in moderation.
- MODERATIONThe state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes.
- MODERNPertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
- MODERNITYThe quality of being modern or contemporary.
- MODESTNot bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble.
- MODESTYThe quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
- MODIFYTo change part of.
- MODIOLARShaped like a bushel measure
- MODIOLUSThe central core of the cochlea
- MODIUSA Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 litres.
- MODULATETo regulate, adjust or adapt. To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument. To vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in propo
- MODULEA self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
- MODULOGiven a specified modulus of.
- MODULUSThe base with respect to which a congruence is computed.
- MODUSThe arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
- MOILTo toil, to work hard.
- MOISTCharacterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
- MOJITOA Cuban cocktail, generally made from rum, lime, sugar, mint, etc.
- MOLARA back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
- MOLASSEA shallow deposit of sandstone, shale and conglomerate in front of a rising mountain chain.
- MOLDA hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
- MOLECULEThe smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
- MOLESTTo sexually assault or sexually harass.
- MOLINEThe crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
- MOLLIFYTo ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
- MOLLUSCA soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
- MONASTERIALRelating to a monastery.
- MONASTICOf or relating to monasteries or monks.
- MONDIALWorldwide, global.
- MONETARISTOf, pertaining to, or advocating monetarism.
- MONETARYOf, pertaining to, or consisting of money.
- MONETIZETo convert something (especially a security) into currency.
- MONGERChiefly preceded by a descriptive word. A dealer or trader in a specific commodity. A person promoting something, especially an undesirable thing.
- MONITIONA caution or warning.
- MONITORSomeone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- MONITORYGiving admonition and warning.
- MONOCLEA single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
- MONSOne of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.
- MONSTERA terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or fictional kind.
- MORAA delay in bringing a claim.
- MORAINEAn accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
- MORALITYRecognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic o
- MORBIFICThat causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
- MORBSPhysical or mental illness or infirmity.
- MORBUSA disease.
- MORDACIOUSBiting, causing a physical bite or sting; corrosive
- MORDACITYThe quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.
- MORDANTHaving or showing a sharp or critical quality.
- MORESA set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
- MORIBUNDApproaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.
- MORIONA kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
- MORKINAn animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
- MOROSESullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- MOROSITYThe state or quality of being morose.
- MORSEA clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.
- MORSELA small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
- MORTALITYThe state or quality of being mortal. The state of being susceptible to death.
- MORTICIANAn undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.
- MORTIFEROUSCausing spiritual death.
- MORTIFYTo discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- MORTUARYOf or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
- MORULAA spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula
- MOSCHATEExuding a musk-like odour.
- MOTIFICProducing motion.
- MOTILEIn organisms: having the power to move spontaneously.
- MOTIVEAn idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
- MOTORA machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
- MOTORYCausing or setting up motion.
- MOTTOA personal slogan.
- MOULDCommonwealth standard spelling of mold.
- MOULINA cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
- MOULTThe process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
- MOUNTA hill or mountain.
- MOXIBUSTIONThe burning of moxa against the skin to treat pain or illness.
- MUCIDMusty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
- MUCILAGEA thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms.
- MUCILAGINOUSOf or pertaining to mucilage; of, pertaining to, or resembling mucus; slimy and viscous.
- MUCORThe property of being mucid.