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- 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.
- MONARCHALSynonym of monarchical.
- 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.
- MONEYA generally accepted means of exchange.
- 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.
- MORTALSusceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- 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.
- 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
- MUCUSA slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes.
- 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.
- MULLTo work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
- 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.