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- MUCORSThe property of being mucid.
- MUCOUSPertaining to mucus.
- MUCROA pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collem
- MUCRONATETerminating in a mucro (an abruptly tapering point or a sharp spine) such as at the end of a leaf.
- MUCULENTslimy; moist and unpleasantly viscous
- MUIDAn old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.
- MULATTOA person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
- MULCTA fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
- MULLEINAny of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
- MULSEWine or water boiled and mixed with honey.
- MULTIFARIOUSHaving great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
- MULTIFIDCleft into many parts or lobes.
- MULTIPAROUSHaving two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
- MULTIPEDAlternative form of multipede.
- MULTIPEDEHaving many feet.
- MULTIPLEMore than one (followed by plural).
- MULTIPLYTo increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- MULTITUDEA great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- MULTUREA grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground.
- MUNDANEWorldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
- MUNDIFYTo cleanse.
- MUNICIPALOf or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
- MUNIFICENCEThe quality of being munificent; generosity.
- MUNIFICENTVery liberal in giving or bestowing.
- MUNITETo fortify, strengthen.
- MURAGEA tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
- MURALA large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
- MUREwall
- MUREXAny member of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
- MURIATEChloride.
- MURIATICPertaining to salt or brine.
- MURICATEcovered with short rough points or studs
- MURINEOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
- MURMURAny low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
- MURRAINInfectious disease; pestilence, plague; sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
- MUSCARINEAn extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.
- MUSCLEA contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
- MUSCOIDAny fly in the superfamily Muscoidea.
- MUSCOLOGYSynonym of bryology.
- MUSICALOf, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
- MUSIVERelating to mosaic art.
- MUSKETA kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock,
- MUSTARDA plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
- MUSTELINELike or relating to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.
- MUSTERA gathering. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise,
- MUSTYAffected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
- MUTABILITYThe quality or state of being mutable.
- MUTABLEChangeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate.
- MUTANTThat which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
- MUTATETo undergo mutation.
- MUTCHA nightcap (hat worn to bed).
- MUTCHEDA nightcap (hat worn to bed).
- MUTCHINGA nightcap (hat worn to bed).
- MUTENot having the power of speech; dumb.
- MUTICOUSWithout a point or pointed end; blunt.
- MUTILATETo physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
- MUTISMThe inability to speak, be it from psychological or physical cause.
- MUTOSCOPEA motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- MUTTONThe meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
- MUTUALHaving the same relationship, each to each other.
- MYCOLOGIESThe study of fungi.
- MYOTONIAA symptom of several muscular disorders characterized by the slow relaxation of the muscles after voluntary contraction or electrical stimulation.
- MYRINGASynonym of eardrum.
- MYSTERIOUSOf unknown origin.
- MYSTIQUEAn aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
- MYTHICALExisting in myth.
- NAEVEAlternative spelling of naevus (“pigmented spot”).
- NAIANTDepicted swimming horizontally.
- NAIVELacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
- NAPIFORMShaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
- NARISa nostril
- NASALOf or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
- NASCENCEBirth.
- NASCENCYA state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
- NASCENTEmerging; just coming into existence.
- NASTURTIUMThe popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
- NASUTEHaving a long snout.
- NATANTFloating or swimming (in water).
- NATATIONThe act or process of swimming
- NATESThe two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
- NATIFORMResembling or having the form of buttocks.
- NATIONA historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common economic life, ethnicity, language, religion, and/or territory, and manifested in a common culture.
- NATIVEBelonging to one by birth or ancestry.
- NATIVITYSomeone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.
- NATRIUMSynonym of sodium.
- NATRIUMSSynonym of sodium.
- NATURALExisting in nature. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
- NATUREThe way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distin
- NAUMACHYA place built to stage a mock sea-battle, or the show performed therein.
- NAVALOf or relating to a navy.
- NAVEThe middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
- NAVEWA kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica napus.
- NAVICULAA thurible in the shape of a boat.
- NAVIGABLECapable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
- NAVIGATORA person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
- NDUJAA type of spicy, spreadable salami from Calabria.
- NEATClean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
- NEBULAA cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
- NEBULEA decorative wavy or curly pattern; moulding of an undulating or wavy form.
- NEBULIZETo convert liquid into a fine spray of aerosols, by using a nebulizer; to atomize