3 Letter 14 Letter 3 Letter Countdown Words Starting With M

MAC (7) [noun] A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth. | [noun] By extension, any waterproof coat or raincoat. | [noun] Waterproof rubberized cloth. | [noun] A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general. MAD (6) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. | [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. MAE (5) MAG (6) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel | [verb] To steal. MAN (5) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) | [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). MAP (7) [noun] A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary. | [noun] A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes. | [noun] A function. MAR (5) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] A small lake. MAS (5) [noun] A country cottage or farmstead in southern France. | [noun] A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond. | [noun] A country cottage or farmstead in southern France. MAT (5) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. | [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [noun] A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | [noun] A material or component needed for a crafting recipe. | [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. MAW (8) [noun] The stomach, especially of an animal. | [noun] The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature. | [noun] Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. | [noun] Mother. | [noun] A gull. MAX (12) [noun] An extreme, a great extent. | [noun] A kind of gin. | [verb] (usually with out) to reach the limit, to reach the maximum. MAY (8) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. | [noun] The hawthorn bush or its blossoms. | [noun] A maiden. MED (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. | [adjective] Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. | [verb] May; might MEL (5) MEM (7) MEN (5) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) MET (5) [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. | [verb] (Of groups) To come together. | [verb] To make physical or perceptual contact. | [verb] To measure. | [verb] To dream. MEW (8) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. | [noun] The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten. | [verb] To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits. MHO (8) [noun] A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens. MIB (7) MID (6) [adjective] Denoting the middle part. | [adjective] Occupying a middle position; middle. | [adjective] Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, /e o ɛ ɔ/. | [noun] Middle | [noun] A mid-range. | [preposition] (in representations of German-accented English) With. MIG (6) MIL (5) [noun] An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic. | [noun] A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira MIM (7) [adjective] Demure, shy. | [noun] The letter م in the Arabic script. MIR (5) MIS (5) MIX (12) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. | [noun] The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture. MOA (5) [noun] Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. MOB (7) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. | [noun] A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. | [noun] Mobile phone MOC (7) [noun] Moccasin (type of shoe) MOD (6) [noun] An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. | [noun] A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. | [noun] A modification. | [noun] A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod. MOG (6) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). | [verb] To move away; to go off. | [verb] (pickup community) To assert one's dominance over. MOL (5) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. MOM (7) [noun] (familiar) mother. | [noun] An adult female owner of a pet. | [verb] To care in a motherly way. MON (5) [noun] The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen. | [noun] The badge or emblem a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England. | [noun] A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles. MOO (5) [noun] The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOP (7) [noun] An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. | [noun] A wash with a mop; the act of mopping | [noun] A dense head of hair. MOR (5) MOS (5) [noun] Singular of mores | [noun] (abbreviation) month | [noun] A homosexual MOT (5) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. | [noun] A woman; a wife. MOW (8) [noun] The act of mowing (a garden, grass etc.) | [noun] A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion. | [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [noun] A scornful grimace; a wry face. | [noun] A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans. | [noun] A gull, seagull. MUD (6) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. | [verb] To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon. MUG (6) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. | [noun] Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") MUM (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] Ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman. | [noun] A chrysanthemum. | [noun] Silence | [noun] A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. MUN (5) [verb] (Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must. | [noun] The mouth, jaw. | [noun] Man | [noun] The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one. MUS (5) [noun] The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet. MUT (5)

MAAR (6) [noun] A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake. MABE (8) MACE (8) [noun] A heavy fighting club. | [noun] A ceremonial form of this weapon. | [noun] A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. | [noun] An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael. | [noun] A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg. | [noun] Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use. MACH (11) MACK (12) [noun] An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills. | [verb] To act as pimp; to pander. | [verb] To seduce or flirt with. | [noun] A raincoat or mackintosh. | [noun] An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions. MACS (8) [noun] A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth. | [noun] By extension, any waterproof coat or raincoat. | [noun] Waterproof rubberized cloth. MADE (7) [noun] A grub or maggot. | [verb] To create. | [verb] To behave, to act. MADS (7) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. MAES (6) MAGE (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAGI (7) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. | [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MAGS (7) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel MAID (7) [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. | [noun] A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). | [noun] A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. MAIL (6) [noun] A bag or wallet. | [noun] A bag containing letters to be delivered by post. | [noun] The material conveyed by the postal service. | [noun] Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together. | [noun] An old French coin worth half a denier. MAIM (8) [noun] A serious wound | [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MAIN (6) [verb] Short for mainline. | [verb] To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game. | [verb] Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road. | [noun] That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross. | [noun] A hand or match in a game of dice. | [noun] A basket for gathering grapes. MAIR (6) MAKE (10) [noun] Brand or kind; model. | [noun] Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. | [noun] Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. | [noun] Mate; a spouse or companion; a match. | [noun] A halfpenny. | [noun] An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares. MAKO (10) [noun] Mako shark MALE (6) [noun] One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. | [adjective] Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | [adjective] Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.) MALL (6) [noun] A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. | [noun] An enclosed shopping centre. | [noun] An alley where the game of pall mall was played. MALM (8) [noun] A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone. | [noun] An artificial mixture or chalk, clay, and sand, from which bricks are made. The resulting bricks have a light brown or yellowish color. MALT (6) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MAMA (8) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MANA (6) [noun] Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people. | [noun] Magical power. | [noun] A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver. | [noun] Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. MANE (6) [noun] Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion | [noun] Long or thick hair of a person's head. MANO (6) MANS (6) [noun] An adult male human. | [noun] (collective) All human males collectively: mankind. | [noun] A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.) MANY (9) [noun] A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd. | [noun] A considerable number. | [adjective] A large number of; numerous. MAPS (8) [noun] A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary. | [noun] A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes. | [noun] A function. MARC (8) [noun] The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. | [noun] An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. | [noun] A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. MARE (6) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. | [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. MARK (10) [noun] (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary. | [noun] (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression. | [noun] (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc. | [noun] A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz. | [verb] To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. MARL (6) [noun] A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. | [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARS (6) [noun] A blemish. | [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] A small lake. MART (6) [noun] A market. | [noun] A bargain. | [verb] To buy or sell in, or as in a mart. | [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. MASH (9) [noun] A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. | [noun] Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. | [noun] Mashed potatoes. | [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [noun] A mesh. | [noun] An infatuation, a crush, a fancy MASK (10) [noun] A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. | [noun] That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. | [noun] A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade | [noun] A mesh. | [noun] Mash. | [verb] To bewilder; confuse. MASS (6) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [noun] The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism. MAST (6) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [noun] The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals. | [noun] A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball. MATE (6) [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. | [noun] (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner. | [noun] A friend, usually of the same sex. | [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea MATH (9) [noun] A mowing; what is gathered from mowing. | [noun] Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math). | [noun] A math course. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. MATS (6) [noun] A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. | [noun] A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. | [noun] A floor pad to protect athletes. MATT (6) [noun] (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal. | [adjective] Dull; not reflective of light. MAUD (7) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. MAUL (6) [noun] A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. | [noun] A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. | [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. MAUN (6) [verb] To have to; must. MAUT (6) MAWN (9) MAWS (9) [noun] The stomach, especially of an animal. | [noun] The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature. | [noun] Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. MAXI (13) [noun] A coat or skirt having such a hemline | [adjective] Having a hemline at ankle length | [noun] A class of racing sailing yacht that pushes at the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule of regulated sail yacht racing, having a waterline length in excess of 70-feet. MAYA (9) [noun] Magic; supernatural power as held by the gods. | [noun] The power by which the universe is made to appear; the illusion of the phenomenal world, as opposed to its true or spiritual reality. MAYO (9) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc. | [noun] Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient. MAYS (9) [verb] To gather may, or flowers in general. | [verb] To celebrate May Day. | [noun] A maiden. MAZE (15) [noun] A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. | [noun] Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. | [noun] Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment. MAZY (18) [adjective] Mazelike; like a maze. | [adjective] Not straight; zigzagging. MEAD (7) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. | [noun] A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide. | [noun] A meadow. MEAL (6) [noun] Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). | [noun] Food served or eaten as a repast. | [noun] A time or an occasion. | [noun] The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. | [noun] A speck or spot. MEAN (6) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [adjective] Common; general. | [noun] (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. MEAT (6) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEED (7) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. | [verb] To reward; bribe. MEEK (10) [verb] (of horses) To tame; to break. | [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. MEET (6) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. MELD (7) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [noun] A combination of cards which is melded. | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELL (6) MELS (6) MELT (6) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MEMO (8) [noun] A short note; a memorandum. | [noun] A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. | [verb] To record something; to make a note of something. MEMS (8) [noun] The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). | [noun] A memory access as part of processing. MEND (7) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MENO (6) MENU (6) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOU (6) MEOW (9) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERE (6) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [verb] To limit; bound; divide or cause division in. | [adjective] Famous. | [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERK (10) MERL (6) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MESA (6) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. MESH (9) [noun] A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them. | [noun] The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space. | [noun] The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. MESS (6) [noun] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder. | [noun] A large quantity or number. | [noun] Excrement. | [noun] Mass; a church service. META (6) [adjective] Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level. | [noun] Boundary marker. | [noun] Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus. | [noun] Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game. | [noun] Metoidioplasty. METE (6) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. | [adjective] Suitable; right; proper. METH (9) [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. | [noun] (Mancunian) A tramp. | [noun] A spiced mead, originally from Wales. MEWL (9) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWS (9) [noun] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. | [noun] A place where birds of prey are housed. | [noun] A gull, seagull. | [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. MEZE (15) [noun] Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita. MHOS (9) [noun] A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens. MIBS (8) MICA (8) [noun] Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. MICE (8) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MICK (12) [noun] An Irishman | [noun] A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent. | [adjective] Easy. MIDI (7) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Berlin. | [noun] A doughnut with a sweet filling. | [noun] A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet. MIDS (7) MIEN (6) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. MIFF (12) [noun] A small argument; a quarrel. | [noun] A state of being offended. | [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. MIGG (8) MIGS (7) MIKE (10) [noun] A microphone. | [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. | [noun] A minute. MILD (7) [noun] A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale | [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. MILE (6) [noun] The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. | [noun] Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. | [noun] Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. MILK (10) [noun] A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. | [noun] A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk. | [noun] An individual serving of milk. | [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). MILL (6) [noun] A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. | [noun] The building housing such a grinding apparatus. | [noun] A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process. | [noun] An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent. | [noun] An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. | [noun] A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games. | [noun] (trading card games) Discarding a card from one's deck. MILO (6) [noun] Sorghum MILS (6) [noun] An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries. | [noun] A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic. | [noun] A former subdivision (1/1000) of the Maltese lira MILT (6) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. | [verb] To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt. MIME (8) [noun] A form of acting without words; pantomime. | [noun] A pantomime actor. | [noun] A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce. MINA (6) MIND (7) [noun] The ability for rational thought. | [noun] The ability to be aware of things. | [noun] The ability to remember things. MINE (6) [pronoun] My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me. | [noun] An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. | [noun] Any source of wealth or resources. | [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. MINI (6) [adjective] Miniature, tiny, small. | [noun] A miniskirt. | [noun] A minicomputer. MINK (10) [noun] (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola). | [noun] (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel. | [noun] (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink. MINT (6) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. | [noun] Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems. | [noun] (provincial) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor. MINX (13) [noun] A mink. MIRE (6) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [noun] An ant. MIRI (6) MIRK (10) [noun] Archaic spelling of murk. | [verb] Archaic spelling of murk. | [adjective] Dark, murky MIRS (6) MIRY (9) [adjective] Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. MISE (6) MISO (6) [noun] A thick paste made by fermentation of soybeans with the mold Aspergillus oryzae, used in making soups and sauces. MISS (6) [noun] A failure to hit. | [noun] A failure to obtain or accomplish. | [noun] An act of avoidance (used with the verb give). | [noun] A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. MIST (6) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MITE (6) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITT (6) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MITY (9) MIXT (13) MOAN (6) [noun] A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure | [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. MOAS (6) [noun] Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world. MOAT (6) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOBS (8) [noun] A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. | [noun] A group of animals such as horses or cattle. | [noun] A flock of emus. MOCK (12) [noun] An imitation, usually of lesser quality. | [noun] Mockery, the act of mocking. | [noun] A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam. MOCS (8) [noun] Moccasin (type of shoe) MODE (7) [noun] One of several ancient Greek scales. | [noun] One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. | [noun] A particular means of accomplishing something. | [noun] Style or fashion; popular trend. MODI (7) MODS (7) [noun] An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses. | [noun] A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker. | [noun] A modification. MOGS (7) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOIL (6) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Confusion, turmoil. | [noun] A spot; a defilement. | [noun] The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather. MOJO (13) [noun] A magic charm or spell. | [noun] Supernatural skill or luck. | [noun] Personal magnetism; charm. MOKE (10) [noun] A donkey. | [noun] A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. | [noun] A black person. MOLA (6) [noun] A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique. | [noun] A sunfish, Mola mola. MOLD (7) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air. | [noun] Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting. MOLE (6) [noun] A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. | [noun] Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. | [noun] Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. | [noun] A moll, a bitch, a slut. | [noun] A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water. | [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. | [noun] A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum. | [noun] One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts. MOLL (6) [noun] A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute. | [noun] A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals. | [noun] Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female. | [adjective] Minor; in the minor mode MOLS (6) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. MOLT (6) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. MOLY (9) [noun] A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe. | [noun] Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly. | [noun] Molybdenum MOME (8) MOMI (8) MOMS (8) [noun] (familiar) mother. | [noun] An adult female owner of a pet. | [noun] Affectionate term of address for one's mother. MONK (10) [noun] A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. | [noun] In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally. | [noun] A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit. | [noun] A monkey. MONO (6) [noun] A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes. | [noun] A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding | [adjective] Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel. | [adjective] Monochrome. | [noun] An injective homomorphism | [noun] A monogamous person. | [adjective] Monosexual. MONS (6) [noun] One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount. | [noun] The pubic mound or mons pubis. In human anatomy or in mammals in general, the mons pubis (Latin for "pubic mound"), also known as the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus) or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis. The mons pubis forms the anterior portion of the vulva. | [noun] A mountain or extinct volcano on a planet or a moon. MONY (9) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MOOD (7) [noun] A mental or emotional state, composure. | [noun] Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). | [noun] A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. | [noun] (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. MOOL (6) MOON (6) [proper noun] The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾. | [proper noun] The god of the Moon in Heathenry. | [proper noun] A surname. MOOR (6) [noun] An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | [noun] A game preserve consisting of moorland. | [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. MOOS (6) [noun] The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOOT (6) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. | [noun] A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. | [noun] Vagina. | [noun] The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. MOPE (8) [noun] A dull, spiritless person. | [noun] (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay. | [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. MOPS (8) [noun] An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. | [noun] A wash with a mop; the act of mopping | [noun] A dense head of hair. | [noun] A pug dog. MOPY (11) MORA (6) MORE (6) [adverb] To a greater degree or extent. | [adverb] Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | [adverb] In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [verb] To root up. MORN (6) [noun] Morning. MORS (6) MORT (6) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. | [noun] A great quantity or number. | [noun] A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. | [noun] A three-year-old salmon. | [noun] A woman; a female. MOSK (10) MOSS (6) [noun] Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci). | [noun] A kind or species of such plants. | [noun] Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. MOST (6) [noun] The greatest amount. | [noun] The greater part. | [noun] A record-setting amount. | [adverb] Almost. MOTE (6) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [verb] May or might. | [verb] Must. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust. MOTH (9) [noun] A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae. | [noun] Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing. | [verb] To hunt for moths. | [noun] The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean. | [noun] A small particle; a speck. MOTS (6) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. MOTT (6) [noun] (chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MOUE (6) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOVE (9) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MOWN (9) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. MOWS (9) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. MOXA (13) [noun] Dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, Artemisia argyi as used in moxibustion. | [noun] Any other plant used in moxibustion. MOZO (15) [noun] A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter. | [noun] A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. | [noun] An unmarried man, a boy. MUCH (11) [adjective] Large, great. | [adjective] Long in duration. | [adverb] To a great extent. MUCK (12) [noun] (slimy) mud, sludge. | [noun] Soft (or slimy) manure. | [noun] Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. MUDS (7) [noun] A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment. | [noun] A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall. | [noun] (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured. MUFF (12) [noun] A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. | [noun] Female pubic hair; female genitals. | [noun] A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. | [noun] A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. | [noun] A muffin. MUGG (8) MUGS (7) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. MULE (6) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [noun] A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot. MULL (6) [noun] A thin, soft muslin. | [noun] Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. | [noun] A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. | [noun] A promontory. | [noun] Dirt; rubbish MUMM (10) MUMP (10) MUMS (8) [noun] Mother. | [noun] Ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman. | [noun] A chrysanthemum. MUMU (8) MUNI (6) [noun] A municipal bond. | [noun] A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line. | [noun] The municipal government / municipality | [noun] (often italicized) A Jain or Buddhist ascetic who has taken a vow of silence MUNS (6) MUON (6) [noun] An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. MURA (6) MURE (6) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh | [verb] To wall in or fortify MURK (10) [adjective] Dark, murky | [noun] Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. | [verb] To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. | [verb] To murder or seriously injure. MURR (6) MUSE (6) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. | [noun] A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. MUSH (9) [noun] A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. | [noun] A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. | [noun] The foam of a breaker. | [noun] A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge. | [noun] A walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [noun] A magic mushroom. | [noun] (chiefly Southern England) A form of address to a man. | [verb] To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp. MUSK (10) [noun] A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. | [noun] A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. | [noun] A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above. MUSS (6) [noun] A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder) | [noun] A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. | [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. | [noun] A term of endearment. MUST (6) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate. | [verb] (modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a negative consequence. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also spelled musth). MUTE (6) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. | [noun] The faeces of a hawk or falcon. | [verb] To cast off; to moult. MUTS (6) MUTT (6) [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. | [noun] An idiot, a stupid person. | [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. MYNA (9) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYTH (12) [noun] A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. | [noun] Such stories as a genre. | [noun] A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.

MAARS (7) [noun] A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake. MABES (9) MACAW (12) [noun] Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage. MACED (10) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MACER (9) [noun] A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. MACES (9) [noun] A heavy fighting club. | [noun] A ceremonial form of this weapon. | [noun] A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked. MACHE (12) [noun] Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb. | [noun] A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu. | [noun] Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan. MACHO (12) [noun] A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado. | [noun] The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus). | [noun] A male llama. MACHS (12) MACKS (13) [noun] An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills. | [noun] A raincoat or mackintosh. | [noun] An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions. MACLE (9) [noun] Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section. | [noun] A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance. | [noun] A twin crystal. MACON (9) MACRO (9) [adjective] Very large in scope or scale. | [adjective] Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself. | [adjective] Long-lived. | [noun] A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program. | [noun] Macro lens MADAM (10) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADLY (11) [adverb] In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly. MADRE (8) MAFIA (10) [noun] A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion. | [noun] A crime syndicate. | [noun] A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader. MAFIC (12) [noun] A rock with such properties. | [adjective] Describing rocks, such as silicate minerals, magmas, and volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks, which contain relatively high concentrations of magnesium and iron. MAGES (8) [noun] A magician, wizard or sorcerer. MAGIC (10) [noun] The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them | [noun] A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. | [noun] The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual MAGMA (10) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGOT (8) MAGUS (8) [noun] (common usage) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan | [noun] (special usage) a Zoroastrian priest MAHOE (10) [noun] Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean. | [noun] Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics. MAIDS (8) [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden. | [noun] A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant). | [noun] A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender. MAILE (7) MAILL (7) MAILS (7) [noun] A bag or wallet. | [noun] A bag containing letters to be delivered by post. | [noun] The material conveyed by the postal service. MAIMS (9) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MAINS (7) [verb] Short for mainline. | [verb] To mainly play a specific character, or side, during a game. | [verb] Of a road: to convert into a main or primary road. | [noun] The farm attached to a mansion house. MAIRS (7) MAIST (7) MAIZE (16) [noun] Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays. MAJOR (14) [noun] A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel. | [noun] The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. | [noun] A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study. MAKAR (11) [noun] A poet writing in Scots. MAKER (11) [noun] Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. | [noun] (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God. | [noun] A poet. MAKES (11) [noun] Brand or kind; model. | [noun] Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form. | [noun] Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production. MAKOS (11) [noun] Mako shark MALAR (7) [noun] The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit. | [adjective] Pertaining to the cheek. MALES (7) [noun] One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. MALIC (9) MALLS (7) [noun] A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. | [noun] An enclosed shopping centre. | [noun] An alley where the game of pall mall was played. MALMS (9) [noun] A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone. | [noun] An artificial mixture or chalk, clay, and sand, from which bricks are made. The resulting bricks have a light brown or yellowish color. MALMY (12) MALTS (7) [noun] Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. | [noun] Malt liquor, especially malt whisky. | [noun] A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. MALTY (10) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt MAMAS (9) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MAMBA (11) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMBO (11) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. | [verb] To perform this dance. MAMEY (12) [noun] The evergreen tree Mammea americana, or its edible fruit | [noun] The flowering plant Magnolia guatemalensis | [noun] The tree Pouteria sapota, or its fruit. MAMIE (9) MAMMA (11) [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera | [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. MAMMY (14) [noun] Mamma; mother | [noun] (historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children. MANAS (7) MANED (8) MANES (7) [noun] The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives. | [noun] Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion | [noun] Long or thick hair of a person's head. MANGE (8) [noun] A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.). MANGO (8) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MANGY (11) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANIA (7) [noun] Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. | [noun] Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism. | [noun] The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANIC (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to someone who exhibits mania or craziness; wicked. | [adjective] Suffering from mania, the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANLY (10) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a man. | [adjective] Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble. MANNA (7) [noun] Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. | [noun] (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck. | [noun] The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http//www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html MANOR (7) [noun] A landed estate. | [noun] The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. | [noun] A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. MANOS (7) MANSE (7) [verb] To excommunicate; curse. | [noun] A house inhabited by the minister of a parish. | [noun] A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house. MANTA (7) [noun] A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States. | [noun] Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head. MANUS (7) [noun] A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. | [noun] (Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife. MAPLE (9) [noun] A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds. | [noun] The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance MAQUI (16) MARCH (12) [noun] A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies. | [noun] A political rally or parade | [noun] Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) | [noun] A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary. | [noun] Smallage. MARCS (9) [noun] The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed. | [noun] An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes. | [noun] A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. MARES (7) [noun] An adult female horse. | [noun] A foolish woman. | [noun] A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit. MARGE (8) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARIA (7) [noun] A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. | [noun] On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. MARKS (11) [noun] (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary. | [noun] (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression. | [noun] (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc. MARLS (7) [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARLY (10) MARRY (10) [verb] To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. | [verb] (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. | [verb] To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. | [interjection] Indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration. MARSE (7) MARSH (10) [noun] An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass. MARTS (7) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARVY (13) [adjective] Great, awesome, brilliant MASER (7) [noun] A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems | [noun] Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method | [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. MASHY (13) MASKS (11) [noun] A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. | [noun] That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. | [noun] A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade MASON (7) [noun] A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick | [noun] One who prepares stone for building purposes. | [noun] A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. MASSA (7) [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. | [noun] The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner. MASSE (7) MASSY (10) [adjective] Heavy; massive. | [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. MASTS (7) [noun] A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments ,or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. | [noun] A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. | [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). MATCH (12) [noun] A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. | [noun] Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. | [noun] Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. | [noun] A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface. MATED (8) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MATER (7) [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. | [noun] Someone or something that mates. | [noun] Tomato. MATES (7) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. MATEY (10) [noun] The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture. | [noun] (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat. | [noun] A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate. MATHS (10) [noun] An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts. | [noun] A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels. MATIN (7) [noun] Morning | [adjective] Of or relating to matins MATTE (7) [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. | [noun] A background, often painted or created with computers | [noun] (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals. MATTS (7) MATZA (16) MATZO (16) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MAUDS (8) [noun] A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland and Northumbria. MAULS (7) [noun] A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. | [noun] A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. | [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. MAUND (8) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. | [noun] A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey. | [noun] Begging MAUTS (7) MAUVE (10) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. | [adjective] Having a pale purple colour. MAVEN (10) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIE (10) MAVIN (10) MAVIS (10) [noun] Song thrush. MAWED (11) MAXES (14) [verb] (usually with out) to reach the limit, to reach the maximum. MAXIM (16) [noun] A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule. | [noun] A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching. MAXIS (14) [noun] A coat or skirt having such a hemline | [noun] A class of racing sailing yacht that pushes at the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule of regulated sail yacht racing, having a waterline length in excess of 70-feet. | [noun] A music single with more than two tracks, i.e. not just an A-side and a B-side. MAYAN (10) MAYAS (10) MAYBE (12) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MAYED (11) MAYOR (10) [noun] The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally. | [noun] Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire. | [noun] Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland. MAYOS (10) [noun] A white person. | [noun] A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc. | [noun] Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient. MAYST (10) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MAZED (17) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse MAZER (16) [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. | [noun] A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. MAZES (16) [noun] A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way. | [noun] Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. | [noun] Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment. MBIRA (9) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MEADS (8) [noun] An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water. | [noun] A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide. | [noun] A meadow. MEALS (7) [noun] Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). | [noun] Food served or eaten as a repast. | [noun] A time or an occasion. MEALY (10) [adjective] Resembling meal (the foodstuff). MEANS (7) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). MEANT (7) [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). | [verb] To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). MEANY (10) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEATS (7) [noun] The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. | [noun] A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. | [noun] Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. MEATY (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing meat. | [adjective] Resembling meat in flavour, etc. | [adjective] Of a person or a body part, large and solid. MECCA (11) MEDAL (8) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDIA (8) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus | [noun] Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. MEDIC (10) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. | [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. MEDII (8) MEEDS (8) [noun] A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award. | [noun] A gift; bribe. | [noun] Merit or desert; worth. MEETS (7) [noun] A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet). | [noun] A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. | [noun] A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. MEINY (10) MELDS (8) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELEE (7) [noun] A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling. | [noun] A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap. | [noun] Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation. MELIC (9) [noun] Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from north temperate regions | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse. MELLS (7) MELON (7) [noun] Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. | [noun] The fruit of such plants. | [noun] A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh. | [noun] The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link. MELTS (7) [noun] Molten material, the product of melting. | [noun] The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. | [noun] The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. MEMOS (9) [noun] A short note; a memorandum. | [noun] A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. | [verb] To record something; to make a note of something. MENAD (8) MENDS (8) [noun] A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. | [noun] The act of repairing. | [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. MENSA (7) MENSE (7) MENTA (7) MENUS (7) [noun] The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare. | [noun] A list of dishes offered in a restaurant. | [noun] A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface MEOUS (7) MEOWS (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERCY (12) [noun] Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. | [noun] Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. | [noun] A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. MERDE (8) [noun] (quaint) shit MERER (7) MERES (7) [noun] A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere. | [noun] Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line. | [noun] A Maori war-club. MERGE (8) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERIT (7) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. MERKS (11) MERLE (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERLS (7) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. | [noun] A type of mottled colouration on dogs. MERRY (10) [adjective] Jolly and full of high spirits. | [adjective] Festive and full of fun and laughter. | [adjective] Brisk | [noun] An English wild cherry. MESAS (7) [noun] Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. MESHY (13) MESIC (9) [adjective] (of a habitat) Moist. | [adjective] (of an organism) Adapted to a moist habitat. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic. MESNE (7) [noun] A mesne lord. | [adjective] Intermediate. MESON (7) [noun] (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves. | [noun] A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.) | [noun] (now specifically) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) MESSY (10) [adjective] (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. | [adjective] (of a person) Prone to causing mess. | [adjective] (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with. METAL (7) [noun] (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. | [noun] A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or. | [noun] Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects. METED (8) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). METER (7) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METES (7) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. METHS (10) [noun] Methylated spirits. | [noun] Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride. | [noun] Methadone. METIS (7) [noun] A person of mixed-race ancestry. | [noun] A person of mixed European and Indigenous descent. | [noun] A person who self-identifies as Métis. | [noun] (knowledge management) Practical intelligence; street smarts. METRE (7) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). | [noun] The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. METRO (7) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway | [noun] A metropolitan area MEWED (11) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLS (10) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEZES (16) [noun] Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita. MEZZO (25) [noun] Mezzo-soprano MIAOU (7) MIAOW (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIASM (9) [noun] An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma. | [noun] A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it. MIAUL (7) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [verb] To give the cry of a cat. MICAS (9) MICHE (12) MICKS (13) [noun] An Irishman | [noun] A Catholic, particularly of Irish descent. MICRA (9) MICRO (9) [noun] (gaming slang) micromanagement | [verb] (gaming slang) to micromanage | [adjective] Small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified. MIDDY (12) [noun] A midshipman | [noun] A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot. MIDGE (9) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDIS (8) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Berlin. | [noun] A doughnut with a sweet filling. | [noun] A newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 315 by 470 millimetres (12.4 in × 18.5 inches), slightly taller and wider than a tabloid but narrower and shorter than a broadsheet. MIDST (8) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. | [preposition] Among, in the middle of; amid. MIENS (7) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. MIFFS (13) [noun] A small argument; a quarrel. | [noun] A state of being offended. | [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. MIFFY (16) [adjective] Easily irritated or offended. | [adjective] Particular; fussy. MIGGS (9) MIGHT (11) [noun] Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. | [noun] Physical strength or force. | [noun] The ability to do something. | [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). MIKED (12) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKES (11) [noun] A microphone. | [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKRA (11) MILCH (12) [adjective] (of a cow, animal, etc.) Giving milk; in note | [adjective] Tender; pitiful; weeping. MILER (7) [noun] (often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles. | [noun] (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles. MILES (7) [noun] The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. | [noun] Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. | [noun] Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. MILIA (7) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MILKS (11) [noun] A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. | [noun] A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk. | [noun] An individual serving of milk. MILKY (14) [adjective] Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk. | [adjective] (color science) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black. | [adjective] (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. MILLE (7) MILLS (7) [noun] A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. | [noun] The building housing such a grinding apparatus. | [noun] A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process. MILOS (7) MILPA (9) MILTS (7) [noun] The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. | [noun] The semen of a male fish. MILTY (10) MIMED (10) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MIMEO (9) [noun] A mimeograph. | [noun] An unpublished academic paper. | [verb] To mimeograph. MIMER (9) MIMES (9) [noun] A form of acting without words; pantomime. | [noun] A pantomime actor. | [noun] A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce. MIMIC (11) [noun] A person who practices mimicry, or mime. | [noun] An imitation. | [verb] To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. MINAE (7) MINAS (7) MINCE (9) [noun] Finely chopped meat. | [noun] Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. | [noun] An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. MINCY (12) MINDS (8) [noun] The ability for rational thought. | [noun] The ability to be aware of things. | [noun] The ability to remember things. MINED (8) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MINER (7) [noun] A person who works in a mine. | [noun] An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. | [noun] Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina. MINES (7) [noun] Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer. | [noun] A specific facial expression. | [noun] An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. MINGY (11) [adjective] Mean, miserly, stingy. MINIM (9) [noun] A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem. | [noun] A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water. | [noun] A short vertical stroke used in handwriting. MINIS (7) [noun] A miniskirt. | [noun] A minicomputer. MINKE (11) [noun] A minke whale, one of two species of baleen whales within Balaenoptera, the northern-dwelling species of which is often seen in coastal waters. MINKS (11) [noun] (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola). | [noun] (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel. | [noun] (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink. MINNY (10) MINOR (7) [noun] A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. | [noun] A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. | [noun] Determinant of a square submatrix MINTS (7) [noun] A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence. | [noun] A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc. | [noun] Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. MINTY (10) MINUS (7) [noun] The minus sign (−). | [noun] A negative quantity. | [noun] A downside or disadvantage. MIRED (8) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. | [noun] A unit of measurement for color temperature. MIRES (7) [noun] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. | [noun] An undesirable situation, a predicament. | [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. MIREX (14) [noun] The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a persistent organic pollutant. MIRKS (11) MIRKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MIRTH (10) [noun] The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety. | [noun] That which causes merriment. MIRZA (16) MISDO (8) MISER (7) [noun] A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. | [noun] A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. MISES (7) MISOS (7) MISSY (10) [noun] A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly. | [adjective] Girlish; effeminate; sentimental. | [adjective] Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes. | [noun] An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite. MISTS (7) [noun] Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. | [noun] A layer of fine droplets or particles. | [noun] Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision. MISTY (10) [adjective] Covered in mist; foggy. | [adjective] Dim; vague; obscure. | [adjective] With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed. MITER (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITES (7) [noun] Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acarina (aka Acari). | [noun] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. | [noun] A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. MITIS (7) MITRE (7) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITTS (7) [noun] A mitten | [noun] An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt. | [noun] (especially in plural) A hand. MIXED (15) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXER (14) [noun] One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | [noun] One who mixes or socializes. | [noun] A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. MIXES (14) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXUP (16) [noun] A case of confusion. MIZEN (16) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. MOANS (7) [noun] A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure | [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. MOATS (7) [noun] A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation. | [noun] An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. | [noun] A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it. MOCHA (12) [noun] A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha. | [noun] A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour. | [noun] A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. MOCKS (13) [noun] An imitation, usually of lesser quality. | [noun] Mockery, the act of mocking. | [noun] A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam. MODAL (8) [noun] A modal proposition. | [noun] A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary. | [noun] (grammar) A modal verb. MODEL (8) [noun] A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | [noun] A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | [noun] A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. MODEM (10) [noun] A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. | [verb] To transmit by modem. MODES (8) [noun] One of several ancient Greek scales. | [noun] One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale. | [noun] A particular means of accomplishing something. MODUS (8) MOGGY (12) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGUL (8) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MOHEL (10) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOHUR (10) MOILS (7) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Confusion, turmoil. | [noun] A spot; a defilement. MOIRA (7) MOIRE (7) [noun] Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. | [noun] Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. MOIST (7) [verb] To moisten. | [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. | [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. MOJOS (14) [noun] A magic charm or spell. | [noun] Supernatural skill or luck. | [noun] Personal magnetism; charm. MOKES (11) [noun] A donkey. | [noun] A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. | [noun] A black person. MOLAL (7) [adjective] Of or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per 1000g of solvent MOLAR (7) [noun] A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. | [adjective] Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding. | [noun] A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre. MOLAS (7) [noun] A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique. | [noun] A sunfish, Mola mola. MOLDS (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOLDY (11) [adjective] Covered with mold. | [adjective] Stale or musty. MOLES (7) [noun] A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. | [noun] Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. | [noun] Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. MOLLS (7) [noun] A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute. | [noun] A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals. | [noun] Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female. MOLLY (10) [noun] A woman or girl, especially of low status. | [noun] An effeminate male, a male homosexual. | [noun] Pure MDMA powder. | [noun] A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies. MOLTO (7) MOLTS (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MOMES (9) MOMMA (11) [noun] Mother | [noun] A voluptuous woman. | [noun] One's wife or girlfriend. MOMMY (14) [noun] (usually childish) Mother. | [verb] To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone. | [adjective] (chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly. MOMUS (9) MONAD (8) [noun] An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. | [noun] A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group. | [noun] A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category. MONAS (7) MONDE (8) MONDO (8) [noun] A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth. | [adjective] Big, large; major, significant. | [adverb] Very, extremely, really. MONEY (10) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONGO (8) [noun] Still-usable things salvaged (by sanmen) from garbage. MONIE (7) MONKS (11) [noun] A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. | [noun] In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally. | [noun] A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit. MONOS (7) [noun] A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding | [noun] A monogamous person. | [noun] An injective homomorphism MONTE (7) [noun] A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt. | [noun] (Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland. MONTH (10) [noun] A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. | [noun] A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof. | [noun] (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge. MOOCH (12) [noun] An aimless stroll. | [noun] One who mooches; a moocher. | [noun] A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job. MOODS (8) [noun] A mental or emotional state, composure. | [noun] Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). | [noun] A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. MOODY (11) [adjective] Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental. | [adjective] Sulky or depressed. | [adjective] Dour, gloomy or brooding. MOOED (8) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. MOOLA (7) [noun] Money, cash. MOOLS (7) MOONS (7) [noun] (by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet. | [noun] A month, particularly a lunar month. | [noun] A crescent-like outwork in a fortification. MOONY (10) [noun] The act of mooning, flashing the buttocks. | [noun] A silly person. | [adjective] Resembling the moon. MOORS (7) [noun] An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath | [noun] A game preserve consisting of moorland. | [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. MOORY (10) MOOSE (7) [noun] The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers. | [noun] An ugly person. | [noun] An Asian girl taken as a lover. MOOTS (7) [noun] A moot court. | [noun] A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties. | [noun] A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. MOPED (10) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [adjective] Melancholic, dejected. | [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOPER (9) MOPES (9) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. MOPEY (12) MORAE (7) MORAL (7) [noun] (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. | [noun] A morality play. MORAS (7) MORAY (10) [noun] Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae. MOREL (7) [noun] Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel. | [noun] Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. | [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORES (7) [noun] A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws. | [noun] A carrot; a parsnip. | [noun] A root; stock. | [verb] To root up. MORNS (7) [noun] Morning. MORON (7) [noun] A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. | [noun] A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70. MORPH (12) [noun] (grammar) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds. | [noun] An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts. | [noun] Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour. | [noun] A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another. MORRO (7) MORSE (7) [noun] A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. | [noun] A walrus. MORTS (7) [noun] Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. | [noun] A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. | [noun] The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. MOSEY (10) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSKS (11) MOSSO (7) MOSSY (10) [noun] Mosquito | [adjective] Covered in or overgrown with moss. MOSTE (7) MOSTS (7) MOTEL (7) [noun] A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. | [noun] A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. | [verb] To stay in a motel or motels. MOTES (7) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTET (7) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOTEY (10) MOTHS (10) [noun] A small particle; a speck. | [noun] A meeting for discussion. | [noun] A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. MOTHY (13) [adjective] Infested with moths | [adjective] Moth-eaten MOTIF (10) [noun] A recurring or dominant element; a theme. | [noun] A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work. | [noun] A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. MOTOR (7) [noun] A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. | [noun] A motor car, or automobile. | [noun] A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force. MOTTE (7) [noun] A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch. | [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. MOTTO (7) [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. | [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. | [noun] A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto. MOTTS (7) MOUCH (12) MOUES (7) [noun] A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. MOULD (8) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. | [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. MOULT (7) [noun] The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc. | [noun] The skin or feathers cast off during the process of moulting. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. MOUND (8) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOUNT (7) [noun] A hill or mountain. | [noun] Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | [noun] A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. | [noun] An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse MOURN (7) [noun] Sorrow, grief. | [noun] A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting. | [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). MOUSE (7) [noun] Any small rodent of the genus Mus. | [noun] A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent. | [noun] A quiet or shy person. MOUSY (10) [noun] A mouse. | [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUTH (10) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MOVED (11) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOVER (10) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVES (10) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MOVIE (10) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. MOWED (11) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MOWER (10) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MOXAS (14) MOXIE (14) [noun] Nerve, spunk, strength of character. | [noun] Verve. | [noun] Wit, smarts, skill. MOZOS (16) [noun] A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter. | [noun] A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. | [noun] An unmarried man, a boy. MUCID (10) [adjective] Musty; mouldy; slimy; mucous MUCIN (9) [noun] Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus MUCKS (13) [noun] (slimy) mud, sludge. | [noun] Soft (or slimy) manure. | [noun] Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. MUCKY (16) [adjective] Covered in muck. | [adjective] Obscene, pornographic. MUCOR (9) MUCRO (9) [noun] A 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 Collembola. MUCUS (9) [noun] A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes. MUDDY (12) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. | [adjective] Covered with or full of mud or wet soil. MUDRA (8) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUFFS (13) [noun] A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. | [noun] Female pubic hair; female genitals. | [noun] A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. MUFTI (10) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MUGGS (9) MUGGY (12) [adjective] (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid. | [adjective] Wet or mouldy MUHLY (13) MUJIK (18) MULCH (12) [noun] Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture. | [noun] A material used as mulch, as a decorative redwood bark mulch. | [verb] To apply mulch. MULCT (9) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MULED (8) MULES (7) [noun] The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | [noun] The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. | [noun] A hybrid plant. | [verb] To remove skin from (an animal) to prevent myiasis. MULEY (10) [adjective] (of cattle or deer) Without horns. | [noun] Mule deer MULLA (7) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLS (7) [noun] A thin, soft muslin. | [noun] Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. | [noun] A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. MUMMS (11) MUMMY (14) [noun] An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes. | [noun] (by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films. | [noun] (by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body. | [noun] (usually childish) mother. MUMPS (11) [noun] A grimace. | [verb] To mumble, speak unclearly. | [verb] To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness. MUMUS (9) MUNCH (12) [noun] A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected. | [noun] An act of eating. | [noun] Food. MUNGO (8) [noun] A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted. MUNIS (7) [noun] A municipal bond. | [noun] A facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line. | [noun] The municipal government / municipality MUONS (7) [noun] An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater. MURAL (7) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. | [verb] To create a mural. | [adjective] Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall. MURAS (7) MURED (8) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURES (7) [noun] Wall | [noun] Husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh MUREX (14) [noun] Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. MURID (8) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURKS (11) MURKY (14) [adjective] Hard to see through, as a fog or mist. | [adjective] Dark, dim, gloomy. | [adjective] Cloudy, indistinct, obscure. MURRA (7) MURRE (7) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURRS (7) MURRY (10) MUSCA (9) MUSED (8) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSER (7) MUSES (7) [noun] A source of inspiration. | [noun] A poet; a bard. | [noun] An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. MUSHY (13) [adjective] Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. | [adjective] Soft; squishy. | [adjective] Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin. MUSIC (9) [noun] A series of sounds organized in time, employing melody, harmony, tempo etc. usually to convey a mood. | [noun] Any pleasing or interesting sounds. | [noun] An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. MUSKS (11) [noun] A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. | [noun] A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet. | [noun] A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above. MUSKY (14) [adjective] Having the scent of musk | [noun] Muskellunge MUSSY (10) MUSTH (10) [noun] A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads. MUSTS (7) [noun] Something that is mandatory or required. | [noun] The property of being stale or musty. | [noun] Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty. MUSTY (10) [adjective] Having a stale odor. MUTCH (12) [noun] A nightcap (hat worn to bed). | [noun] A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. MUTED (8) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTER (7) MUTES (7) [noun] A stopped consonant; a stop. | [noun] An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. | [noun] A person who does not have the power of speech. MUTON (7) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTS (7) [noun] A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram. | [noun] A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. | [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person of diverse ancestry. MUZZY (28) [adjective] Hazy, indistinct, blurred, unfocussed. | [adjective] Dazed; bewildered; tipsy. | [noun] A Muslim. MYNAH (13) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYNAS (10) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYOID (11) MYOMA (12) MYOPE (12) [noun] One who has myopia. MYOPY (15) MYRRH (13) [noun] A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha. | [noun] The herb chervil. MYSID (11) [noun] Any crustacean of the family Mysidae. MYTHS (13) [noun] A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc. | [noun] Such stories as a genre. | [noun] A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. MYTHY (16)

MACACO (12) MACAWS (13) [noun] Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage. MACERS (10) [noun] A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. MACHES (13) MACHOS (13) [noun] Exaggerated masculinity MACING (11) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MACKLE (14) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MACLED (11) MACLES (10) [noun] Chiastolite; so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross-section. | [noun] A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance. | [noun] A twin crystal. MACONS (10) MACRON (10) [noun] A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (¯) placed over any of various letters, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. MACROS (10) [noun] A comparatively human-friendly abbreviation of complex input to a computer program. | [noun] Macro lens | [noun] The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices. MACULA (10) [noun] An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision. | [noun] A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith. | [noun] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. MACULE (10) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MADAME (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADAMS (11) [noun] A polite form of address for a woman or lady. | [noun] The mistress of a household. | [noun] A conceited or quarrelsome girl. MADCAP (13) [noun] An impulsive, hasty, capricious person. | [noun] An insane person, a lunatic. | [adjective] Impulsive, hasty or reckless; capricious. MADDED (11) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. MADDEN (10) [verb] To make angry. | [verb] To make insane; to inflame with passion. | [verb] To become furious. MADDER (10) [noun] A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root. | [noun] The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye. | [noun] A dye made from the plant. | [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. | [noun] A communal drinking vessel used in Gaelic times for drinking mead. It had squared sides and one drank from a corner. Also, a trophy in this shape. MADMAN (11) [noun] A male who is insane or mentally disturbed. MADMEN (11) [noun] A male who is insane or mentally disturbed. MADRAS (9) [noun] A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern. | [noun] A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies. MADRES (9) MADURO (9) MAENAD (9) [noun] A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling. | [noun] An excessively wild or emotional woman. MAFFIA (14) MAFIAS (11) [noun] A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion. | [noun] A crime syndicate. | [noun] A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader. MAFTIR (11) MAGGOT (10) [noun] A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. | [noun] A worthless person. | [noun] A whimsy or fancy. MAGIAN (9) MAGICS (11) [noun] The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them | [noun] A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell. | [noun] The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual MAGILP (11) [noun] A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. MAGLEV (12) [noun] A train propelled by magnetic levitation. | [adjective] Describing a train, system, etc, that operates by magnetic levitation. MAGMAS (11) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGNET (9) [noun] A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. | [noun] (preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun. MAGNUM (11) [noun] A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle. | [noun] A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet. | [noun] A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre. MAGOTS (9) MAGPIE (11) [noun] One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae | [noun] A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen. | [noun] Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. MAGUEY (12) [noun] Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana. MAHOES (11) [noun] Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean. | [noun] Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics. MAHOUT (11) [noun] An elephant driver and keeper. | [verb] To drive elephants. MAHZOR (20) MAIDEN (9) [noun] One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman | [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman. | [noun] A female virgin. MAIGRE (9) [noun] A kind of fish; the meagre. | [adjective] Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day). | [adjective] Belonging to a fast day or fast. MAIHEM (13) MAILED (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail. | [verb] To contact (a person) by electronic mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. MAILER (8) [noun] One who sends mail. | [noun] A computer program that sends electronic mail. | [noun] A packet or container designed for postal use. MAILES (8) MAILLS (8) MAIMED (11) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. MAIMER (10) MAINLY (11) [adverb] Forcefully, vigorously. | [adverb] Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully. | [adverb] To a great degree; very much. MAISTS (8) MAIZES (17) MAJORS (15) [noun] A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel. | [noun] The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university. | [noun] A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study. MAKARS (12) [noun] A poet writing in Scots. MAKERS (12) [noun] Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. | [noun] (usually capitalized and preceded by the) God. | [noun] A poet. MAKEUP (14) [noun] An item's composition. | [noun] Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance. | [noun] Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up. MAKING (13) [noun] The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. | [noun] Process of growth or development. | [verb] To create. MAKUTA (12) [noun] A former unit of currency, one hundredth of a zaïre. MALADY (12) [noun] Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. | [noun] A moral or mental defect or disorder. MALARS (8) [noun] The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit. MALATE (8) [noun] A salt or ester of malic acid. MALFED (12) MALGRE (9) MALICE (10) [noun] Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. | [noun] An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter. | [verb] To intend to cause harm; to bear malice. MALIGN (9) [verb] To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. | [verb] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong. | [adjective] Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. MALINE (8) MALKIN (12) MALLED (9) MALLEE (8) [noun] A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia. | [noun] Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation. | [noun] Any of several low-growing eucalypts characteristic of such scrubland, especially Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus oleosa, and Eucalyptus socialis. | [noun] A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any native gardener. MALLEI (8) [noun] The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. | [noun] The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes). | [noun] One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers. MALLET (8) [noun] A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. | [noun] A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger. | [noun] A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. MALLOW (11) [noun] Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans. MALOTI (8) [noun] The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender. | [noun] A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti. MALTED (9) [verb] To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. | [verb] To become malt. | [verb] To drink malt liquor. MALTHA (11) MALTOL (8) MAMBAS (12) [noun] Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees. MAMBOS (12) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. | [verb] To perform this dance. MAMEYS (13) [noun] The evergreen tree Mammea americana, or its edible fruit | [noun] The flowering plant Magnolia guatemalensis | [noun] The tree Pouteria sapota, or its fruit. MAMIES (10) MAMLUK (14) MAMMAE (12) [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera MAMMAL (12) [noun] An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young. | [noun] A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw. MAMMAS (12) [noun] (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent. | [noun] The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae) | [noun] An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera MAMMEE (12) [noun] An American fruit tree, Mammea americana. | [noun] Its large fragrant fruit, with a thick tough ring surrounding bright yellow pulp. MAMMER (12) MAMMET (12) MAMMEY (15) MAMMIE (12) MAMMON (12) [noun] The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence. | [noun] Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit. MANAGE (9) [noun] The act of managing or controlling something. | [noun] (horseriding) Manège. | [verb] To direct or be in charge of. MANANA (8) [adverb] Tomorrow. | [adverb] Sometime in the future. Usually to say in a satirical sense 'sometime in the unspecified future, despite the fact that we were told tomorrow without fail'. MANCHE (13) MANEGE (9) [noun] The art of training and riding horses; dressage. | [noun] A riding school. | [noun] A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall). MANFUL (11) [adjective] Showing the characteristics considered typical of a man; macho or manly | [adjective] (by extension) Courageous; noble; high-minded. MANGEL (9) [noun] The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin. | [noun] A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed. MANGER (9) [noun] A trough for animals to eat from. MANGES (9) MANGEY (12) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANGLE (9) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [noun] A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. | [noun] Mangrove (tree) MANGOS (9) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MANIAC (10) [noun] An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania. | [noun] A fanatic, a person with an obsession. MANIAS (8) [noun] Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. | [noun] Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism. | [noun] The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels. MANICS (10) MANILA (8) [noun] Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper. | [noun] The yellow-brown colour of manila. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to Manila, the capital of the Philippines; made in, or exported from, that city. MANIOC (10) [noun] The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared. | [noun] Cassava root, eaten as a food. | [noun] A food starch prepared from the root. MANITO (8) MANITU (8) MANNAN (8) MANNAS (8) MANNED (9) [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | [verb] To take up position in order to operate (something). | [verb] (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) MANNER (8) [noun] Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything | [noun] Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing | [noun] One's customary method of acting; habit. MANORS (8) [noun] A landed estate. | [noun] The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. | [noun] A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. MANQUE (17) [adjective] Unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be MANSES (8) [noun] A house inhabited by the minister of a parish. | [noun] A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house. | [noun] A large house, a mansion. MANTAS (8) [noun] A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States. | [noun] Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head. MANTEL (8) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. | [verb] To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. MANTES (8) MANTIC (10) [noun] A soothsayer, a seer. | [adjective] Relating to divination; prophetic. MANTID (9) [noun] Mantis (insect) MANTIS (8) [noun] Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs. | [noun] A green colour, like that of many mantises. MANTLE (8) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. | [noun] A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) MANTRA (8) [noun] The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer. | [noun] (originally Hinduism) A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation. | [noun] (by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated. MANTUA (8) [noun] An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France. | [noun] A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. | [noun] A woman's cloak or mantle. MANUAL (8) [noun] A handbook. | [noun] A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product. | [noun] A drill in the use of weapons, etc. | [adjective] Performed with the hands (of an activity). | [noun] Mechanical transmission which shifts gears by the action of the driver's hand on the gearstick or gear lever, rather than automatically; a manual gearbox. MANURE (8) [noun] Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens. | [noun] Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser. | [noun] Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit. MAPLES (10) [noun] A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds. | [noun] The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance MAPPED (13) [verb] To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond. MAPPER (12) MAQUIS (17) [noun] Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. | [noun] The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. MARACA (10) [noun] A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument. | [noun] (in the plural) breasts MARAUD (9) [verb] To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [verb] To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner. | [verb] To raid and pillage. MARBLE (10) [noun] A rock of crystalline limestone. | [noun] (games) A small ball, usually of glass or ceramic. | [noun] An artwork made from marble. MARBLY (13) MARCEL (10) [noun] A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron. | [noun] A marcel wave. | [verb] To wave (hair) by the marcel method. MARGAY (12) [noun] Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America. MARGES (9) [noun] Margin; edge; verge. | [noun] Margarine. MARGIN (9) [noun] The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc. | [noun] The edge or border of any flat surface. | [noun] The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group. MARINA (8) [noun] A harbour for small boats. MARINE (8) [noun] A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship | [noun] Capitalised in the plural A marine corps. | [noun] A painting representing some marine subject. MARISH (11) MARKED (13) [adjective] Having a visible or identifying mark. | [adjective] Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous. | [adjective] (of a word, form, or phoneme) Distinguished by a positive feature. | [verb] To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). MARKER (12) [noun] An object used to mark a location. | [noun] Someone or something that marks. | [noun] A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for. MARKET (12) [noun] A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic. | [noun] City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. | [noun] A grocery store MARKKA (16) [noun] A (Finnish) mark, the currency used in Finland before the introduction of the euro, consisting of 100 penni. Abbreviation FIM. MARKUP (14) [noun] The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. | [noun] The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. | [noun] An increase in price. MARLED (9) [adjective] Mottled, streaked, multicoloured. | [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. MARLIN (8) [noun] Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira. Every such species has a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw. MARMOT (10) [noun] Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family. MAROON (8) [noun] An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. | [noun] A castaway; a person who has been marooned. | [verb] To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island. | [noun] A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color. | [noun] A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid). | [noun] An idiot; a fool. MARQUE (17) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARRAM (10) [noun] Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches. MARRED (9) [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [adjective] Of a person, perplexed or troubled | [adjective] Of a child, spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged MARRER (8) [noun] One who mars or injures. MARRON (8) [noun] A sweet chestnut. | [noun] Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia. MARROW (11) [noun] The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. | [noun] A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash. | [noun] The pith of certain plants. | [noun] A friend, pal, buddy, mate. MARSES (8) MARSHY (14) [adjective] Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy. | [adjective] Growing in marshy ground. MARTED (9) MARTEN (8) [noun] Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes in the family Mustelidae. | [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. | [noun] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. MARTIN (8) [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. | [noun] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. MARTYR (11) [noun] One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom. | [noun] (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause. | [noun] (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily. MARVEL (11) [noun] That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. | [noun] Wonder, astonishment. | [verb] To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. MASCON (10) [noun] A region within a solid astronomical body that is of higher density than the surrounding material. | [noun] A lunar mare that has a greater density of rock than the surrounding area. | [noun] Mass concentration MASCOT (10) [noun] Something thought to bring good luck | [noun] Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group MASERS (8) [noun] A device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems | [noun] Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method | [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. MASHED (12) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASHER (11) [noun] One who, or that which, mashes. | [noun] A machine for making mash. | [noun] A fashionable man in the late Victorian era. MASHES (11) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASHIE (11) [noun] A metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft, the equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs. MASJID (16) [noun] A mosque. MASKED (13) [verb] To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. | [verb] To disguise; to cover; to hide. | [verb] To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. MASKEG (13) MASKER (12) [verb] To render giddy or senseless | [verb] To be bewildered. | [verb] To choke; stifle. | [noun] One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual. MASONS (8) [noun] A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick | [noun] One who prepares stone for building purposes. | [noun] A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. MASQUE (17) MASSAS (8) MASSED (9) [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [verb] To have a certain mass. | [verb] To celebrate mass. MASSES (8) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. MASSIF (11) [noun] A principal mountain mass. | [noun] A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists MASTED (9) [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [verb] (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit. | [verb] (of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles. MASTER (8) [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. | [noun] The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner. | [noun] (in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts. MASTIC (10) [noun] An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean. | [noun] A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring. | [noun] An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin. MASTIX (15) MATERS (8) [noun] Tomato. | [noun] Mother. | [noun] A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain. MATEYS (11) MATING (9) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MATINS (8) [noun] Together with lauds, the earliest of the canonical hours; normally at sunrise, but often earlier | [noun] Morning prayers MATRES (8) MATRIX (15) [noun] The womb. | [noun] The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded. | [noun] An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants. MATRON (8) [noun] A mature or elderly woman. | [noun] A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children. | [noun] A woman of staid or motherly manners. MATSAH (11) MATTED (9) [verb] To cover, protect or decorate with mats. | [verb] To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. | [adjective] Forming a thick tangled mess MATTER (8) [noun] Substance, material. | [noun] A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern. | [noun] An approximate amount or extent. MATTES (8) [noun] A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame. | [noun] A background, often painted or created with computers | [noun] (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals. MATTIN (8) MATURE (8) [adjective] Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | [adjective] Brought to a state of complete readiness. | [adjective] Profound; careful. | [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). MATZAH (20) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZAS (17) MATZOH (20) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZOS (17) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZOT (17) MAUGER (9) MAUGRE (9) MAULED (9) [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. | [verb] To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). | [verb] To criticise harshly. MAULER (8) [noun] One who mauls. MAUMET (10) MAUNDS (9) [noun] A wicker basket. | [noun] A unit of capacity with various specific local values. | [noun] A handbasket with two lids. MAUNDY (12) [noun] A commandment. | [noun] The sacrament of the Lord's supper. | [noun] The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper. MAUVES (11) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. MAVENS (11) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIES (11) MAVINS (11) MAWING (12) MAXIMA (17) [noun] A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves. | [noun] The highest limit | [noun] The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function MAXIMS (17) [noun] A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule. | [noun] A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching. MAXIXE (22) [noun] A Brazilian dance in a rapid 2/4 time, influenced by the tango and polka. | [noun] A deep blue variety of beryl. MAYBES (13) [noun] Something that is possibly true. | [noun] An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. | [noun] A future event that may or may not happen. MAYDAY (15) [noun] An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft MAYEST (11) [verb] To be strong; to have power (over). | [verb] (auxiliary) To be able; can. | [verb] To be able to go. MAYFLY (17) [noun] Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults. MAYHAP (16) [adverb] Maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance: MAYHEM (16) [noun] A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos. | [noun] Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing. | [noun] The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection. MAYING (12) [verb] To gather may, or flowers in general. | [verb] To celebrate May Day. | [noun] The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day. MAYORS (11) [noun] The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally. | [noun] Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire. | [noun] Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland. MAYPOP (15) [noun] A type of passionflower, purple in color (Passiflora incarnata). MAYVIN (14) MAZARD (18) MAZERS (17) [noun] The maple tree, or maple wood. | [noun] A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. MAZIER (17) [adjective] Mazelike; like a maze. | [adjective] Not straight; zigzagging. MAZILY (20) MAZING (18) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse MAZUMA (19) [noun] Cash, money. MBIRAS (10) [noun] A thumb piano, a musical instrument having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs, originating among the Shona of southern Africa; any type of plucked lamellophone of the same type as the Shona instrument. MEADOW (12) [noun] A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. | [noun] Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. MEAGER (9) [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. | [adjective] Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent MEAGRE (9) [noun] Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae. | [verb] To make lean. | [adjective] Having little flesh; lean; thin. MEALIE (8) [noun] An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn. MEANER (8) [adjective] Common; general. | [adjective] Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble. | [adjective] Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby. MEANIE (8) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEANLY (11) MEASLE (8) [noun] A leper. | [noun] A tapeworm larva. MEASLY (11) [adjective] Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms). | [adjective] Of a person: infected with measles. | [adjective] Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount. MEATAL (8) MEATED (9) MEATUS (8) [noun] A tubular opening or passage in the body. MECCAS (12) MEDAKA (13) [noun] Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums. MEDALS (9) [noun] A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. | [noun] A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. | [verb] To win a medal. MEDDLE (10) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDFLY (15) [noun] A small fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, native to the Mediterranean. MEDIAD (10) MEDIAE (9) [noun] The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. | [noun] A voiced stop consonant. | [noun] One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus MEDIAL (9) [noun] Any of various things that occur in the middle. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a mean or average. | [adjective] In or near the middle; not at either end. MEDIAN (9) [noun] A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. | [noun] A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side. | [noun] The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. MEDIAS (9) MEDICK (15) [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to medicines; medical. MEDICO (11) [noun] A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student. MEDICS (11) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military. | [noun] A medical student. MEDINA (9) [noun] The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town. MEDIUM (11) [noun] (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information. MEDIUS (9) MEDLAR (9) [noun] Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica) | [noun] Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera. | [noun] Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit MEDLEY (12) [noun] Combat, fighting; a battle. | [noun] A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. | [noun] A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. MEDUSA (9) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. MEEKER (12) [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. | [verb] To break up and smooth soil with a harrow. MEEKLY (15) [adverb] In a meek manner; quietly and humbly. MEETER (8) MEETLY (11) MEGASS (9) MEGILP (11) [noun] A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish, used as a thickener for oil paints but later discredited as a source of cracking and yellowing. MEGOHM (14) [noun] One million (106) ohms, abbreviated as MΩ. MEGRIM (11) [noun] A headache; a migraine. | [noun] A fancy, a whim, a caprice. | [noun] (in the plural) See megrims. | [noun] A type of European deep water flatfish, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis; the whiff or sail-fluke. MEIKLE (12) MEINIE (8) MELDED (10) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. MELDER (9) MELEES (8) [noun] A battle fought at close range; hand-to-hand combat; brawling. | [noun] A noisy, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap. | [noun] Any any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation. MELLED (9) MELLOW (11) [noun] A relaxed mood. | [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. MELODY (12) [noun] Tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase MELOID (9) MELONS (8) [noun] Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber. | [noun] The fruit of such plants. | [noun] A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh. MELTED (9) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. MELTER (8) MELTON (8) [noun] A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats. MEMBER (12) [noun] One who officially belongs to a group. | [noun] A part of a whole. | [noun] Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. | [verb] (obsolete outside dialectal) To remember. MEMOIR (10) [noun] An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author. | [noun] A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject. | [noun] Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer. MEMORY (13) [noun] The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will. | [noun] A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism. | [noun] The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM). MENACE (10) [noun] A perceived threat or danger. | [noun] The act of threatening. | [noun] An annoying and bothersome person or thing. | [verb] To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. MENADS (9) MENAGE (9) [noun] A household; a domestic situation. | [noun] A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments. | [noun] A group of people living together in a sexual relationship. MENDED (10) [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. | [verb] To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. | [verb] To help, to advance, to further; to add to. MENDER (9) MENHIR (11) [noun] A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times. MENIAL (8) [noun] A servant, especially a domestic servant. | [noun] A person who has a subservient nature. | [adjective] Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant. MENINX (15) [noun] A membrane, especially one of the three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates MENSAE (8) MENSAL (8) MENSAS (8) MENSCH (13) [noun] A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity and honor or compassion. | [noun] A gentleman. MENSED (9) MENSES (8) [noun] The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow. MENTAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process. | [adjective] Insane, mad, crazy. | [adjective] Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way. | [noun] A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile. MENTOR (8) [noun] A wise and trusted counselor or teacher | [verb] To act as someone's mentor MENTUM (10) [noun] The chin. | [noun] A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks. | [noun] The central part of the labium in insects. MEOUED (9) MEOWED (12) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MERCER (10) [noun] A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths. MERDES (9) MERELY (11) [adverb] Wholly, entirely. | [adverb] (focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. MEREST (8) [adjective] Pure, unalloyed . | [adjective] Nothing less than; complete, downright . | [adjective] Just, only; no more than , pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected. MERGED (10) [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To blend gradually into something else. MERGER (9) [noun] One that merges. | [noun] The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. | [noun] The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. MERGES (9) [noun] The joining together of multiple sources. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. MERINO (8) [noun] A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair. | [noun] The wool of this sheep. | [noun] The fabric made from this wool (or from any similar yarn). MERITS (8) [noun] A claim to commendation or a reward. | [noun] A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. | [noun] Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. MERLES (8) [noun] The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula. | [noun] Any blackbird. MERLIN (8) [noun] A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. | [noun] A cytoskeletal protein active in the suppression of tumors. MERLON (8) [noun] Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons. | [noun] A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. MERLOT (8) [noun] A dark-blue variety of wine grape. | [noun] A dry red wine of a certain French type, made from Merlot grapes. MERMAN (10) [noun] A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down. MERMEN (10) [noun] A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down. MESCAL (10) [noun] A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. | [noun] The peyote cactus. MESHED (12) [verb] To connect together by interlocking, as gears do. | [verb] (by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. | [verb] To catch in a mesh. MESHES (11) [noun] A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them. | [noun] The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space. | [noun] The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. MESIAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the midline of the body. | [adjective] Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw. MESIAN (8) MESNES (8) MESONS (8) [noun] (rare outside entomology) The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves. | [noun] A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.) | [noun] (now specifically) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) MESSAN (8) MESSED (9) [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty. | [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. | [verb] To interfere. MESSES (8) [noun] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder. | [noun] A large quantity or number. | [noun] Excrement. MESTEE (8) METAGE (9) [noun] Measurement, especially of coal. | [noun] A fee paid for a measurement. METALS (8) [noun] (heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from. | [noun] A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent and or. | [noun] Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects. METATE (8) [noun] A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains. METEOR (8) [noun] A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star. | [noun] Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars). | [noun] A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable. METEPA (10) METERS (8) [noun] (always meter) A device that measures things. | [noun] (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. | [noun] (always meter) One who metes or measures. METHOD (12) [noun] A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process): | [noun] (often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Constantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed. | [noun] A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object, synonym of member function | [noun] A trick where the boarder grabs the heel edge of the board with their back hand, between their feet, and then pulls the board towards their back, while arching their back and bending knees. METHYL (14) [noun] The univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3-, formally derived from methane by the loss of a hydrogen atom; a compound or part of a compound formed by the attachment of such a radical. METIER (8) [noun] Any activity that is pursued as a trade or profession; a calling. | [noun] An activity to which a person is particularly suited; a forte. | [noun] An outstanding or beneficial feature. METING (9) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out. METOPE (10) [noun] The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze. METRED (9) METRES (8) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). METRIC (10) [noun] A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering). | [noun] A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y) \ge 0 , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) . | [noun] A metric tensor. METROS (8) [noun] An underground railway. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] An urban rapid transit light railway METTLE (8) [noun] A quality of endurance and courage. | [noun] Good temperament and character. | [noun] Metal; a metallic substance. METUMP (12) MEWING (12) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLED (12) [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWLER (11) MEZCAL (19) [noun] A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. | [noun] The peyote cactus. MEZUZA (26) [noun] A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with the mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9). MEZZOS (26) [noun] Mezzo-soprano MIAOUS (8) MIAOWS (11) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIASMA (10) [noun] A noxious atmosphere or influence. | [noun] A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease. MIASMS (10) [noun] An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma. | [noun] A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it. MIAULS (8) [noun] The cry of a cat. MICELL (10) MICHED (14) MICHES (13) MICKEY (17) [noun] A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. | [noun] A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. | [noun] American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey". MICKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [noun] (originally erroneous) A small amount. | [noun] Great or important people as a class. MICRON (10) [noun] The thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter. | [noun] A very tiny amount. | [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. MICROS (10) [noun] (gaming slang) micromanagement | [noun] A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe. | [noun] The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company. MIDAIR (9) [noun] A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight. | [adjective] In the act of flight; airborne. MIDDAY (13) [noun] Noon; twelve o'clock during the day MIDDEN (10) [noun] A dungheap. | [noun] A refuse heap usually near a dwelling. | [noun] A prehistoric pile of bones and shells. MIDDLE (10) [noun] A centre, midpoint. | [noun] The part between the beginning and the end. | [noun] The middle stump. MIDGES (10) [noun] Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera | [noun] Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge MIDGET (10) [noun] A little sandfly. | [noun] Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10". MIDGUT (10) [noun] The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut. MIDLEG (10) MIDRIB (11) [noun] The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet. | [noun] The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach. MIDSTS (9) [noun] A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. MIDWAY (15) [noun] The middle; the midst. | [noun] A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes. | [noun] The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated. MIFFED (15) [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. | [verb] To become slightly offended. | [adjective] Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed. MIGGLE (10) MIGHTS (12) MIGHTY (15) [noun] A warrior of great strength and courage. | [adjective] Very strong; possessing might. | [adjective] Very heavy and powerful. MIGNON (9) MIHRAB (13) [noun] A niche in a mosque that indicates the qibla (direction of Mecca), and into which the imam prays | [noun] A design in a Muslim prayer mat with the same function MIKADO (13) [noun] (history) A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period. | [noun] Any emperor of Japan | [noun] A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack MIKING (13) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIKRON (12) MIKVAH (18) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MIKVEH (18) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MILADI (9) MILADY (12) [noun] An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady. MILAGE (9) [noun] The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles. | [noun] The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel. | [noun] An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile. MILDEN (9) MILDER (9) [adjective] Gentle and not easily angered. | [adjective] (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. | [adjective] Not overly felt or seriously intended. MILDEW (12) [noun] A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. | [verb] To taint with mildew. | [verb] To become tainted with mildew. MILDLY (12) [adverb] In a mild manner. | [adverb] To a mild degree; slightly. MILERS (8) [noun] (often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles. | [noun] (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles. MILIEU (8) [noun] Medium. | [noun] Social setting or environment. MILIUM (10) [noun] A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. MILKED (13) [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). | [verb] To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. | [verb] To express any liquid (from any creature). MILKER (12) [noun] An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces. | [noun] A person who milks. | [noun] A milking machine. MILLED (9) [verb] To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. | [verb] To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. | [verb] To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). MILLER (8) [noun] A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill. | [noun] A milling machine. | [noun] Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina and moths of the genus Agrotis. MILLES (8) MILLET (8) [noun] Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world. | [noun] A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one. MILNEB (10) MILORD (9) [noun] An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman. | [noun] My Lord (used to address peers temporal, judges, etc). MILPAS (10) MILTED (9) MILTER (8) [noun] A male fish during breeding season. MIMBAR (12) [noun] A pulpit in a mosque from which the leader of prayers delivers the khutbah. MIMEOS (10) [noun] A mimeograph. | [noun] An unpublished academic paper. MIMERS (10) MIMICS (12) [noun] A person who practices mimicry, or mime. | [noun] An imitation. | [verb] To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. MIMING (11) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MIMOSA (10) [noun] A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers. | [noun] Albizia species (silk tree, pink siris). | [noun] Acacia species. MINCED (11) [adjective] Finely chopped. | [adjective] Minutely subdivided. | [adjective] Weakened, extenuated. | [verb] To make less; make small. MINCER (10) MINCES (10) [noun] Finely chopped meat. | [noun] Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. | [noun] An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. MINDED (10) [verb] (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. | [verb] To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. | [verb] (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that). MINDER (9) [noun] One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper | [noun] A personal bodyguard. | [noun] A guide assigned by the authorities to foreign visitors so as to exercise control over their contacts with the populace. MINERS (8) [noun] A person who works in a mine. | [noun] An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. | [noun] Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina. MINGLE (9) [noun] A mixture. | [noun] The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group | [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product MINIFY (14) MINIMA (10) [noun] The lowest limit. | [noun] The smallest amount. | [noun] A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). MINIMS (10) [noun] A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem. | [noun] A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water. | [noun] A short vertical stroke used in handwriting. MINING (9) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MINION (8) [noun] The lowest limit. | [noun] The smallest amount. | [noun] A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). MINISH (11) MINIUM (10) MINKES (12) [noun] A minke whale, one of two species of baleen whales within Balaenoptera, the northern-dwelling species of which is often seen in coastal waters. MINNOW (11) [noun] A small freshwater fish of the carp family, Phoxinus phoxinus. | [noun] Any small fish. | [noun] A relatively small and insignificant person or organization. MINORS (8) [noun] A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. | [noun] A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. | [noun] Determinant of a square submatrix MINTED (9) [verb] To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence. | [verb] To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. | [verb] (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim. MINTER (8) [noun] One who mints | [noun] An item in mint condition (especially a motor car) MINUET (8) [noun] A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance. | [noun] A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure. | [noun] A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name. MINUTE (8) [noun] A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). | [noun] A short but unspecified time period. | [noun] A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. | [adjective] Very small. MINXES (15) [noun] A mink. MINYAN (11) [noun] The minimum number of ten (male) adult Jews required for a communal religious service. | [noun] (by extension) A Jewish prayer service. | [noun] A member of the Minyan race of Greek mythology MIOSES (8) MIOSIS (8) [noun] Contraction of the pupil of the eye. MIOTIC (10) MIRAGE (9) [noun] An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance. | [noun] An illusion. | [verb] To cause to appear as or like a mirage. MIRIER (8) MIRING (9) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. MIRKER (12) MIRROR (8) [noun] A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. | [noun] An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another. | [noun] A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data. MIRTHS (11) MIRZAS (17) MISACT (10) MISADD (10) MISAIM (10) MISATE (8) MISCUE (10) [noun] In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. | [noun] The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. | [noun] A miss of the object one intended to hit. MISCUT (10) MISDID (10) MISEAT (8) MISERS (8) [noun] A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. | [noun] A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. MISERY (11) [noun] Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. | [noun] A bodily ache or pain. | [noun] Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. MISFIT (11) [noun] An ill-fitting garment. | [noun] A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity. | [noun] A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc. MISHAP (13) [noun] An accident, mistake, or problem. | [noun] Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. | [verb] To happen through misfortune; to mishappen. MISHIT (11) [noun] An incorrect or bad hit. | [verb] To incorrectly or badly hit. MISKAL (12) MISLAY (11) [verb] To leave or lay something in the wrong place and then forget where one put it. MISLED (9) [verb] To lead astray, in a false direction. | [verb] To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. | [verb] To deceptively trick into something wrong. | [verb] To rain in fine drops; to mizzle. MISLIE (8) MISLIT (8) MISMET (10) MISPEN (10) MISSAL (8) [noun] A prayer book | [noun] A book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year MISSAY (11) MISSED (9) [verb] To fail to hit. | [verb] To fail to achieve or attain. | [verb] To avoid; to escape. MISSEL (8) MISSES (8) [noun] A failure to hit. | [noun] A failure to obtain or accomplish. | [noun] An act of avoidance (used with the verb give). MISSET (8) MISSIS (8) [noun] Wife or girlfriend. | [noun] Term of address for a woman. MISSUS (8) [noun] Wife or girlfriend. | [noun] Term of address for a woman. MISTED (9) [verb] To form mist. | [verb] To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. | [verb] To cover with a mist. MISTER (8) [noun] A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child. | [verb] To address by the title of "mister". | [noun] Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. | [noun] A device that makes or sprays mist. MISUSE (8) [noun] An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something. | [verb] To use (something) incorrectly. | [verb] To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). MITERS (8) [verb] To adorn with a mitre. | [verb] To unite at an angle of 45°. MITHER (11) [verb] To make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother. | [verb] To pester or irritate someone. Usually directed at children. | [noun] Mother MITIER (8) MITRAL (8) [adjective] Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre. | [adjective] Pertaining to the mitral valve. MITRED (9) [adjective] Relating to an abbot's or bishop's mitre; wearing a mitre. | [adjective] Having a mitre joint. MITRES (8) [noun] A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks. | [noun] The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | [noun] A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I. MITTEN (8) [noun] A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered. | [noun] A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body. | [noun] (as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover. MIXERS (15) [noun] One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. | [noun] One who mixes or socializes. | [noun] A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. MIXING (16) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MIXUPS (17) [noun] A case of confusion. MIZENS (17) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. MIZZEN (26) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. | [adjective] Hindmost; nearest the stern. MIZZLE (26) [noun] Misty rain or drizzle. | [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. MIZZLY (29) MOANED (9) [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. | [verb] To distress (someone); to sadden. MOANER (8) MOATED (9) [adjective] Surrounded with a moat MOBBED (13) [verb] To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. | [verb] To crowd into or around a place. | [verb] To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. MOBBER (12) MOBCAP (14) [noun] A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band. | [noun] (modern-day use) A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings. MOBILE (10) [noun] A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other. | [noun] The internet accessed via mobile devices. | [noun] Something that can move. MOBLED (11) MOCHAS (13) [noun] A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha. | [noun] A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour. | [noun] A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. MOCKED (15) [verb] To mimic, to simulate. | [verb] To create an artistic representation of. | [verb] To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt. MOCKER (14) [noun] A person who mocks. | [noun] A mockingbird. | [noun] A deceiver; an impostor. MOCKUP (16) [noun] A prototype, usually low-fidelity, such as paper illustrations, screenshots, or simple configurations of screens with limited interaction. MODELS (9) [noun] A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing. | [noun] A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show. | [noun] A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature. MODEMS (11) [noun] A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. | [verb] To transmit by modem. MODERN (9) [noun] Someone who lives in modern times. | [adjective] Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. | [adjective] (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography. MODEST (9) [adjective] Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements; unpretentious, humble. | [adjective] Small, moderate in size. | [adjective] Pure and delicate from a sense of propriety. MODICA (11) MODIFY (15) [verb] To change part of. | [verb] To be or become modified. | [verb] To set bounds to; to moderate. MODISH (12) [adjective] Conforming with fashion or style. | [adjective] In the current mode. MODULE (9) [noun] A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | [noun] A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. | [noun] A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. MODULI (9) [noun] The base with respect to which a congruence is computed. | [noun] The absolute value of a complex number. | [noun] A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance. MODULO (9) [noun] The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another. | [preposition] Given a specified modulus of. | [preposition] Except for differences accounted for by. MOGGED (11) MOGGIE (10) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGULS (9) [noun] A rich or powerful person; a magnate. | [noun] A hump or bump on a skiing piste. | [noun] A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs. MOHAIR (11) [noun] Yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials. | [noun] The long, fine hair of the Angora goat. | [noun] An Angora goat. MOHELS (11) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOHURS (11) MOIETY (11) [noun] A half. | [noun] A share or portion, especially a smaller share. | [noun] Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups. MOILED (9) [verb] To toil, to work hard. | [verb] To churn continually; to swirl. | [verb] To defile or dirty. MOILER (8) MOIRAI (8) MOIRES (8) [noun] Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat. | [noun] Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given. MOJOES (15) MOLARS (8) [noun] A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. | [noun] A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre. MOLDED (10) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOLDER (9) [noun] One who molds something into shape. | [noun] A person who makes molds. | [noun] A tool for making molds. MOLEST (8) [verb] To annoy intentionally. | [verb] To disturb or tamper with. | [verb] To sexually assault or sexually harass, especially a minor. MOLIES (8) [noun] A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe. | [noun] Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly. MOLINE (8) [noun] The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind. MOLLAH (11) MOLLIE (8) [noun] Any of many New World fish of the genus Poecilia, formerly called Mollienesia. | [noun] A Molotov cocktail. MOLOCH (13) [noun] Moloch horridus, an Australian lizard thought to be the sole member of the genus Moloch. MOLTED (9) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOLTEN (8) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. MOLTER (8) MOMENT (10) [noun] A brief, unspecified amount of time. | [noun] The smallest portion of time; an instant. | [noun] Weight or importance. MOMISM (12) [noun] Finding fault; carping. | [noun] Excessive attachment to one’s mother. | [noun] An utterance, piece of advice, etc. from one's mother. MOMMAS (12) [noun] Mother | [noun] A voluptuous woman. | [noun] One's wife or girlfriend. MOMSER (10) MOMZER (19) MONADS (9) [noun] An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. | [noun] A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group. | [noun] A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category. MONDES (9) MONDOS (9) MONEYS (11) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONGER (9) [noun] (chiefly in combination) A dealer in a specific commodity. | [noun] (in combination) A person promoting something undesirable. | [noun] A small sea vessel. MONGOE (9) MONGOL (9) [noun] A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian. | [noun] A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal. | [noun] (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome. MONGOS (9) MONGST (9) MONIED (9) [adjective] Affluent; rich | [adjective] Paid for; funded MONIES (8) [noun] A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply. | [noun] A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value. | [noun] A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union). MONISH (11) MONISM (10) [noun] The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world. MONIST (8) MONKEY (15) [noun] Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches. | [noun] Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes. | [noun] A mischievous child. MONODY (12) [noun] An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge. | [noun] Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. | [noun] A monotonous or mournful noise. MONTES (8) [noun] One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount. | [noun] The pubic mound or mons pubis. In human anatomy or in mammals in general, the mons pubis (Latin for "pubic mound"), also known as the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus) or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis. The mons pubis forms the anterior portion of the vulva. | [noun] A mountain or extinct volcano on a planet or a moon. MONTHS (11) [noun] A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. | [noun] A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof. | [noun] (in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge. MOOING (9) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. | [noun] The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound. | [adjective] (of a steak) very rare MOOLAH (11) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. | [noun] Money, cash. MOOLAS (8) MOOLEY (11) MOONED (9) [verb] To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. | [verb] (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. | [verb] To spend time idly, absent-mindedly. MOORED (9) [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. | [verb] To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like | [verb] To secure or fix firmly. MOOTED (9) [verb] To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | [verb] To discuss or debate. | [verb] To make or declare irrelevant. MOOTER (8) MOPEDS (11) [noun] A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit. MOPERS (10) MOPERY (13) [noun] Violation of an imaginary or trivial law MOPIER (10) MOPING (11) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [noun] The act of one who mopes. MOPISH (13) MOPOKE (14) [noun] A morepork. MOPPED (13) [verb] To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. | [verb] To make a wry expression with the mouth. MOPPER (12) MOPPET (12) [noun] A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way. | [noun] A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth. | [noun] A long-haired pet dog. MORALE (8) [noun] The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others. MORALS (8) [noun] (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. | [noun] A morality play. MORASS (8) [noun] A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. | [noun] Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult. MORAYS (11) [noun] Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae. MORBID (11) [adjective] Of, or relating to disease. | [adjective] (by extension) Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. | [adjective] Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish MOREEN (8) [noun] A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. MORELS (8) [noun] Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel. | [noun] Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. | [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORGAN (9) [noun] A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome. MORGEN (9) [noun] A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. MORGUE (9) [noun] A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | [noun] A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | [noun] The archive and background information division of a newspaper. MORION (8) [noun] A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bever. | [noun] A brown or black variety of quartz. MORONS (8) [noun] A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. | [noun] A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70. MOROSE (8) [adjective] Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour. MORPHO (13) [noun] Any of the genus Morpho of large tropical American butterflies. MORPHS (13) [noun] (grammar) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds. | [noun] An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts. | [noun] Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour. MORRIS (8) MORROS (8) MORROW (11) [noun] The next or following day. | [noun] Morning. | [verb] To dawn MORSEL (8) [noun] A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food. | [noun] A mouthful of food. | [noun] A very small amount. MORTAL (8) [noun] A human; someone susceptible to death. | [adjective] Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. | [adjective] Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.). MORTAR (8) [noun] A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. | [noun] A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories. | [noun] A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. MORULA (8) [noun] A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula MOSAIC (10) [noun] A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. | [noun] An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote. | [noun] Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves. MOSEYS (11) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSHAV (14) [noun] An Israeli town or settlement: in particular, a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah. MOSQUE (17) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. MOSSED (9) [verb] To become covered with moss. | [verb] To cover (something) with moss. MOSSER (8) MOSSES (8) [noun] Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci). | [noun] A kind or species of such plants. | [noun] Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. MOSTLY (11) [adverb] Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole. | [adverb] To the greatest extent; most. MOTELS (8) [noun] A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. | [noun] A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. MOTETS (8) [noun] A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. MOTHER (11) [noun] A (human) female who has given birth to a baby | [noun] A human female who parents an adopted or fostered child | [noun] A human female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. | [verb] To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) | [noun] A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air. | [noun] Motherfucker. | [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. MOTIFS (11) [noun] A recurring or dominant element; a theme. | [noun] A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work. | [noun] A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern. MOTILE (8) [noun] A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc. | [adjective] Having the power to move spontaneously. | [adjective] Producing motion. MOTION (8) [noun] A state of progression from one place to another. | [noun] A change of position with respect to time. | [noun] A change from one place to another. MOTIVE (11) [noun] An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. | [noun] An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. | [noun] A limb or other bodily organ that can move. MOTLEY (11) [noun] An incongruous mixture. | [noun] A jester's multicoloured clothes. | [noun] (by extension) A jester; a fool. MOTMOT (10) [noun] Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics. MOTORS (8) [noun] A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion. | [noun] A motor car, or automobile. | [noun] A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force. MOTTES (8) [noun] A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot. | [noun] A word or a motto; a device. | [noun] A note or brief strain on a bugle. MOTTLE (8) [noun] A distinguishing blotch of color. | [noun] A mottled coloration or pattern. | [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. MOTTOS (8) [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. | [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. | [noun] A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto. MOUJIK (19) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MOULDS (9) [noun] A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance. | [noun] A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped. | [noun] Something that is made in or shaped on a mold. MOULDY (12) [adjective] Covered with mould. | [adjective] Neglected. | [adjective] Worthless; lousy; rotten MOULIN (8) [noun] A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface. MOULTS (8) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOUNDS (9) [noun] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense | [noun] A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. | [noun] Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch. MOUNTS (8) [noun] A hill or mountain. | [noun] Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. | [noun] A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. MOURNS (8) [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). | [verb] To utter in a sorrowful manner. | [verb] To wear mourning. MOUSED (9) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSER (8) [noun] A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. | [noun] A moustache. MOUSES (8) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSEY (11) [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUSSE (8) [noun] An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. | [noun] A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. | [noun] A styling cream used for hair. MOUTHS (11) [noun] The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. | [noun] The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water. | [noun] An outlet, aperture or orifice. MOUTHY (14) [adjective] Overly talkative, insolent, and loud. MOUTON (8) [noun] A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains. MOVERS (11) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVIES (11) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. | [noun] (by extension) The cinema MOVING (12) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOWERS (11) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MOWING (12) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MOXIES (15) MUCHES (13) MUCHLY (16) [adverb] Very much, very MUCINS (10) [noun] Any of several glycoproteins found in mucus MUCKED (15) [verb] To shovel muck. | [verb] To manure with muck. | [verb] To do a dirty job. MUCKER (14) [noun] (Southern England) friend, acquaintance | [noun] (British army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation. | [noun] A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. MUCKLE (14) [noun] A great amount. | [verb] To latch onto something with the mouth. | [verb] To talk big; to exaggerate. MUCLUC (12) MUCOID (11) [adjective] Pertaining to or resembling mucus; mucous. | [noun] Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter. MUCORS (10) MUCOSA (10) [noun] Mucous membrane MUCOSE (10) MUCOUS (10) [adjective] Pertaining to mucus | [adjective] Having the qualities of mucus MUDCAP (13) MUDCAT (11) MUDDED (11) MUDDER (10) [noun] A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks. | [noun] A participant in a multi-user dungeon. | [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. MUDDLE (10) [noun] A mixture; a confusion; a garble. | [noun] A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. | [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. MUDDLY (13) MUDRAS (9) [noun] Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography. | [noun] Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation. MUESLI (8) [noun] A breakfast dish based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit. MUFFED (15) [verb] To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. | [verb] To mishandle; to bungle. | [adjective] Wearing a muff. MUFFIN (14) [noun] A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten. | [noun] A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten. | [noun] (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed. MUFFLE (14) [noun] Anything that mutes or deadens sound. | [noun] A warm piece of clothing for the hands. | [noun] A boxing glove. MUFTIS (11) [noun] A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa. | [noun] A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. MUGFUL (12) MUGGAR (10) MUGGED (11) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MUGGEE (10) MUGGER (10) [noun] A street robber. | [noun] A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner. | [noun] A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout. MUGGUR (10) MUJIKS (19) MUKLUK (16) [noun] A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik. | [noun] A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper. MUKTUK (16) [noun] The skin and blubber of a whale, traditionally used as food by the Inuit. MULCTS (10) [noun] A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one. | [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MULETA (8) [noun] A red flag used by bullfighters. MULEYS (11) [noun] Mule deer MULING (9) MULISH (11) [adjective] Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable MULLAH (11) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. | [verb] To grind up into, or as if into, powder. | [verb] To beat; to thrash (a person). MULLAS (8) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLED (9) [verb] (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. | [verb] To powder; to pulverize. | [verb] To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. MULLEN (8) MULLER (8) [noun] One who, or that which, mulls. | [noun] A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders. | [noun] A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire. | [noun] A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings. | [verb] To beat; to thrash (a person). MULLET (8) [noun] A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish). | [noun] A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets). | [noun] Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses) | [noun] A fool | [noun] A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back. | [noun] A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points. MULLEY (11) MUMBLE (12) [noun] A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice. | [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. MUMBLY (15) MUMMED (13) [verb] To act in a pantomime or dumb show. MUMMER (12) [noun] A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. | [noun] An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression. MUMPED (13) MUMPER (12) MUNGOS (9) MUNTIN (8) [noun] One of the separators between panes of glass in a composite window. MUONIC (10) MURALS (8) [noun] A large painting, usually drawn on a wall. MURDER (9) [noun] The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification. | [noun] The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought. | [noun] (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. MUREIN (8) MURIDS (9) [noun] Any rodent in the family Muridae. MURINE (8) [noun] Any murine mammal. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae. MURING (9) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MURKER (12) MURKLY (15) MURMUR (10) [noun] Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water. | [noun] Soft indistinct speech. | [noun] The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart. MURPHY (16) [noun] An Irish or white potato. MURRAS (8) MURRES (8) [noun] Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). MURREY (11) [noun] The mulberry fruit. | [noun] A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules and purpure. | [adjective] Of a mulberry colour. MURRHA (11) MUSCAE (10) MUSCAT (10) [noun] A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine. | [noun] The muscatel wine made from these grapes. | [noun] The vine bearing this fruit. MUSCID (11) [noun] Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects. | [adjective] Pertaining to or related to the Muscidae family of insects. MUSCLE (10) [noun] A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. | [noun] An organ composed of muscle tissue. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise. MUSCLY (13) [adjective] Thewy, muscled | [adjective] Strong, powerful MUSERS (8) MUSEUM (10) [noun] A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. MUSHED (12) [verb] To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. | [verb] To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [verb] To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. MUSHER (11) [noun] One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”. | [noun] One who travels by dogsled. | [noun] One who races in a dogsled in a race. MUSHES (11) [noun] A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. | [noun] A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. | [noun] The foam of a breaker. MUSICS (10) MUSING (9) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSJID (16) MUSKEG (13) [noun] A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce. MUSKET (12) [noun] A 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, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle. | [noun] A male Eurasian sparrowhawk. MUSKIE (12) MUSKIT (12) MUSLIN (8) [noun] Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth. | [noun] Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven. | [noun] Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen. MUSSED (9) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSSEL (8) [noun] Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells MUSSES (8) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSTED (9) MUSTEE (8) MUSTER (8) [noun] Gathering. | [noun] Showing. | [verb] To show, exhibit. | [noun] A person of one-eighth African ancestry. MUSTHS (11) MUTANT (8) [noun] Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation. | [noun] Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre. | [adjective] Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation. MUTASE (8) MUTATE (8) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. MUTELY (11) MUTEST (8) MUTINE (8) MUTING (9) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. MUTINY (11) [noun] An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers. | [noun] Violent commotion; tumult; strife. | [verb] To commit mutiny. MUTISM (10) [noun] A psychological disorder in which the sufferer cannot speak in certain situations. MUTONS (8) [noun] A unit of mutation forming part of a recon. MUTTER (8) [noun] A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering. | [verb] To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath. | [verb] To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations. | [noun] (Indian cuisine) Peas. MUTTON (8) [noun] The flesh of sheep used as food. | [noun] The flesh of goat used as food. | [noun] A sheep. MUTUAL (8) [noun] A mutual fund. | [noun] A mutual organization. | [noun] Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts. MUTUEL (8) MUTULE (8) [noun] Any of the rectangular blocks under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which are studded with guttae. MUUMUU (10) [noun] A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches). MUZHIK (24) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MUZJIK (28) MUZZLE (26) [noun] The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws; the snout | [noun] The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech. | [noun] A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout. MYASES (11) MYASIS (11) MYCELE (13) MYELIN (11) [noun] A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves. MYNAHS (14) [noun] One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae. MYOMAS (13) MYOPES (13) [noun] One who has myopia. MYOPIA (13) [noun] A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it. | [noun] A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. MYOPIC (15) [noun] A short-sighted individual. | [adjective] Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided | [adjective] Shortsighted; improvident MYOSES (11) MYOSIN (11) [noun] Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles. | [noun] An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis. MYOSIS (11) [noun] Contraction of the pupil of the eye. MYOTIC (13) MYRIAD (12) [noun] Ten thousand; 10,000 | [noun] A countless number or multitude (of specified things) | [adjective] (modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements MYRICA (13) MYRRHS (14) [noun] A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha. | [noun] The herb chervil. MYRTLE (11) [noun] An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa. MYSELF (14) [pronoun] (reflexive pronoun) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. | [pronoun] Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. | [pronoun] In my normal state of body or mind. MYSIDS (12) [noun] Any crustacean of the family Mysidae. MYSOST (11) MYSTIC (13) [noun] Someone who practices mysticism. | [adjective] Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical. | [adjective] Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic. MYTHIC (16) [adjective] Mythical; existing in myth. | [adjective] Larger-than-life. MYTHOI (14) [noun] Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale). | [noun] A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology. | [noun] (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something. MYTHOS (14) [noun] Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale). | [noun] A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology. | [noun] (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something. MYXOID (19) MYXOMA (20) [noun] A tumor of primitive connective tissue.

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MACHINE (14) [noun] A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect. | [noun] A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane. | [noun] (abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail. MACHREE (14) MACHZOR (23) [noun] A prayerbook for a Jewish holiday. MACKLED (16) MACKLES (15) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. | [verb] To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type. MACRAME (13) [noun] A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving. | [verb] To create textiles using the macramé technique. MACRONS (11) [noun] A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (¯) placed over any of various letters, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. MACULAE (11) [noun] An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision. | [noun] A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith. | [noun] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb. MACULAR (11) [adjective] Relating to the macula, the area of the retina responsible for detailed central vision. MACULAS (11) MACULED (12) MACULES (11) [noun] A spot. | [noun] A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing. MACUMBA (15) [noun] A religious cult, having elements of sorcery, ritual dance and fetishes, from Brazil MADAMES (12) MADCAPS (14) [noun] An impulsive, hasty, capricious person. | [noun] An insane person, a lunatic. MADDENS (11) [verb] To make angry. | [verb] To make insane; to inflame with passion. | [verb] To become furious. MADDERS (11) [noun] A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root. | [noun] The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye. | [noun] A dye made from the plant. MADDEST (11) [adjective] Insane; crazy, mentally deranged. | [adjective] (chiefly US; informal in UK) Angry, annoyed. | [adjective] Bizarre; incredible. MADDING (12) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. | [adjective] Affected with madness; raging; furious. MADDISH (14) MADEIRA (10) [noun] Madeira (wine) MADNESS (10) [noun] The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease. | [noun] Rash folly MADONNA (10) [noun] A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board. MADRONA (10) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MADRONE (10) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MADRONO (10) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MADUROS (10) MADWORT (13) MADZOON (19) MAENADS (10) [noun] A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling. | [noun] An excessively wild or emotional woman. MAESTRI (9) MAESTRO (9) [noun] A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor. | [noun] A gang elder in prison. MAFFIAS (15) MAFFICK (21) MAFIOSI (12) [noun] A member of the Mafia. MAFIOSO (12) [noun] A member of the Mafia. MAFTIRS (12) MAGENTA (10) [noun] A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing. | [adjective] Having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple. MAGGOTS (11) [noun] A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. | [noun] A worthless person. | [noun] A whimsy or fancy. MAGGOTY (14) [adjective] Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown. | [adjective] Full of whims; capricious. MAGIANS (10) MAGICAL (12) [adjective] Of or relating to magic. | [adjective] Enchanting. MAGILPS (12) MAGLEVS (13) [noun] A train propelled by magnetic levitation. MAGMATA (12) [noun] The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. | [noun] A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation. | [noun] Any soft doughy mass. MAGNATE (10) [noun] Powerful industrialist; captain of industry. | [noun] A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere. MAGNETO (10) [noun] A small magnetic dynamo, especially one that provides power to the spark plugs of a small internal combustion engine. MAGNETS (10) [noun] A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. | [noun] (preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun. MAGNIFY (16) [verb] To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God). | [verb] To make (something) larger or more important. | [verb] To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate. MAGNUMS (12) [noun] A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle. | [noun] A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet. | [noun] A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre. MAGPIES (12) [noun] One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae | [noun] A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen. | [noun] Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. MAGUEYS (13) [noun] Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana. MAHATMA (14) [noun] An epithet granted in India and Tibet to people thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity | [noun] Such a person. MAHJONG (20) [noun] A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits. | [noun] A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain. MAHONIA (12) [noun] Any of the genus Mahonia (now often included in Berberis) of evergreen shrubs. MAHOUTS (12) [noun] An elephant driver and keeper. MAHUANG (13) MAHZORS (21) MAIDENS (10) [noun] One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman | [noun] A girl or an unmarried young woman. | [noun] A female virgin. MAIDISH (13) MAIHEMS (14) MAILBAG (12) [noun] A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail | [noun] A smaller bag, slung from the shoulders, used for the delivery of mail MAILBOX (18) [noun] A box into which mail is put | [noun] A folder or account for the storage of e-mail; an electronic in-box or mailstore. MAILERS (9) [noun] One who sends mail. | [noun] A computer program that sends electronic mail. | [noun] A packet or container designed for postal use. MAILING (10) [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail. | [verb] To contact (a person) by electronic mail. | [noun] A farm. MAILLOT (9) [noun] A one-piece swimsuit (for women) | [noun] A leotard or tights of stretchable jersey fabric, generally worn by dancers and gymnasts. MAILMAN (11) [noun] Someone (implied male) who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes MAILMEN (11) [noun] Someone (implied male) who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes MAIMERS (11) MAIMING (12) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. | [noun] The act by which somebody is maimed. MAINTOP (11) [noun] A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging. MAJAGUA (17) MAJESTY (19) [noun] The quality of being impressive and great. MAJORED (17) [verb] To concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university MAJORLY (19) [adverb] Significantly; very, very much | [adverb] Mostly, primarily MAKABLE (15) MAKEUPS (15) [noun] An item's composition. | [noun] Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance. | [noun] Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up. MAKINGS (14) [noun] The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. | [noun] Process of growth or development. | [noun] That which is needed for something: necessary ingredients. MALACCA (13) MALAISE (9) [noun] A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness. | [noun] An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression. | [noun] Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone. MALANGA (10) [noun] Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma; yautia. | [noun] Taro (Colocasia esculenta) | [noun] The edible tuber of these plants, some of which have medicinal value. MALARIA (9) [noun] A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days. | [noun] Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever. MALARKY (16) MALATES (9) [noun] A salt or ester of malic acid. MALEATE (9) [noun] Any salt or ester of maleic acid MALEFIC (14) [noun] A malefic planet | [adjective] Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful. MALICES (11) MALIGNS (10) [verb] To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. | [verb] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong. MALINES (9) MALISON (9) [noun] A curse, a malediction. MALKINS (13) MALLARD (10) [noun] A common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos, whose male has a distinctive dark green head. MALLEES (9) [noun] A member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any native gardener. | [noun] Money, cash. | [noun] A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia. MALLETS (9) [noun] A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. | [noun] A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger. | [noun] A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. MALLEUS (9) [noun] The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. | [noun] The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes). | [noun] One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers. MALLING (10) [noun] The transformation of a district by building shopping malls. MALLOWS (12) [noun] Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans. MALMIER (11) MALMSEY (14) [noun] A sweet fortified wine made in Madeira, originally from the malvasia grape. MALODOR (10) [noun] An offensive odor. MALTASE (9) [noun] An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose; often associated with amylase. MALTEDS (10) MALTHAS (12) MALTIER (9) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt MALTING (10) [verb] To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. | [verb] To become malt. | [verb] To drink malt liquor. MALTOLS (9) MALTOSE (9) [noun] A disaccharide, C12H22O11 formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose MAMBOED (14) [verb] To perform this dance. MAMBOES (13) [noun] A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) | [noun] A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. MAMEYES (14) MAMLUKS (15) MAMMALS (13) [noun] An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young. | [noun] A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw. MAMMARY (16) [noun] A mamma (milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal). | [adjective] Of or relating to mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal). MAMMATE (13) MAMMATI (13) MAMMEES (13) [noun] An American fruit tree, Mammea americana. | [noun] Its large fragrant fruit, with a thick tough ring surrounding bright yellow pulp. MAMMERS (13) MAMMETS (13) MAMMEYS (16) MAMMIES (13) [noun] Mamma; mother | [noun] (historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children. MAMMOCK (19) MAMMONS (13) MAMMOTH (16) [noun] Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia. | [noun] A mastodon. | [noun] Something very large of its kind. MANACLE (11) [noun] A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement. | [noun] A fetter, a restriction. | [verb] To confine with manacles. MANAGED (11) [verb] To direct or be in charge of. | [verb] To handle or control (a situation, job). | [verb] To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). MANAGER (10) [noun] A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team. | [noun] The head coach. | [noun] An administrator, for a singer or group. MANAGES (10) [verb] To direct or be in charge of. | [verb] To handle or control (a situation, job). | [verb] To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). MANAKIN (13) [noun] Any of several small South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae. | [noun] A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person. MANANAS (9) MANATEE (9) [noun] Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions. MANCHES (14) MANCHET (14) [noun] A type of high-quality bread made from flour. MANDALA (10) [noun] A graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deities. | [noun] Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation. | [noun] A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are 10). MANDATE (10) [noun] An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. | [noun] The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate. | [noun] A papal rescript. MANDOLA (10) [noun] A stringed musical instrument resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower. MANDREL (10) [noun] A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it. | [noun] A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved. MANDRIL (10) MANEGES (10) MANGABY (15) MANGELS (10) [noun] The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin. | [noun] A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed. MANGERS (10) [noun] A trough for animals to eat from. MANGIER (10) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANGILY (13) MANGLED (11) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [verb] To wring laundry. MANGLER (10) MANGLES (10) [noun] A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry. | [noun] The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer. | [noun] Mangrove (tree) MANGOES (10) [noun] A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. | [noun] The fruit of the mango tree. | [noun] A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed. MANGOLD (11) [noun] Mangelwurzel MANHOLE (12) [noun] A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations. | [noun] A hole providing access to the inside of a boiler, tank etc. | [noun] A man's anus, in a sexual context. MANHOOD (13) [noun] The state or condition of being a human being | [noun] The state or condition of being an adult male human being, as distinguished from a child or a woman. Compare adulthood. Contrast womanhood and childhood. | [noun] All of the adult male human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult male humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, race, ethnicity, lineage, family, etc.), regarded collectively MANHUNT (12) [noun] An organized search for a criminal or enemy. MANIACS (11) [noun] An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania. | [noun] A fanatic, a person with an obsession. MANIHOT (12) MANIKIN (13) [noun] A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person. | [noun] A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes MANILAS (9) MANILLA (9) [noun] A penannular armlet, mostly in bronze, copper or gold, which served as a form of money or barter coinage amongst certain West African peoples. MANILLE (9) [noun] The second-highest trump in certain card games. | [noun] A card game played with a deck of 32, in which the ten (or ‘manille’) is the highest in each suit. MANIOCA (11) MANIOCS (11) [noun] The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared. | [noun] Cassava root, eaten as a food. | [noun] A food starch prepared from the root. MANIPLE (11) [noun] A division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally) any small body of soldiers. | [noun] In Western Christianity, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes the Church of England. | [noun] A hand; a fist. | [noun] A handful. MANITOS (9) MANITOU (9) [noun] A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians. MANITUS (9) MANKIND (14) [noun] The human race in its entirety. | [noun] Men collectively, as opposed to all women. | [noun] Human feelings; humanity. MANLESS (9) MANLIER (9) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a man. | [adjective] Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble. MANLIKE (13) [adjective] Of or characteristic of grown men, as opposed to women or children; macho, mannish, virile. | [adjective] Of or relating to a human being; anthropoid, anthropomorphous. MANLILY (12) MANMADE (12) [adjective] Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic. MANNANS (9) MANNERS (9) [noun] Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything | [noun] Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing | [noun] One's customary method of acting; habit. MANNING (10) [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | [verb] To take up position in order to operate (something). | [verb] (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) MANNISH (12) [adjective] (of a woman) Resembling or characteristic of a man, masculine. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a grown man (as opposed to a boy); mature, adult. | [adjective] Impertinent; assertive. MANNITE (9) MANNOSE (9) [noun] A monosaccharide aldohexose found in manna and other legumes. MANPACK (17) [noun] (usually attributive) An object meant to be carried by a single person. MANROPE (11) [noun] Each of the side ropes to a gangway or ladder of a ship. MANSARD (10) [noun] A mansard roof | [noun] The upper storey of a building, surrounded by such a roof | [adjective] (of a roof) having two slopes on each side, the lower being steeper than the upper MANSION (9) [noun] A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy. | [noun] A luxurious flat (apartment). | [noun] A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. MANTEAU (9) [noun] A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries. MANTELS (9) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. MANTIDS (10) [noun] Mantis (insect) MANTLED (10) [verb] To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise. | [verb] To become covered or concealed. | [verb] To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes). MANTLES (9) [noun] The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney. | [noun] A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf. | [noun] A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) MANTLET (9) [noun] A short sleeveless cloak or cape. | [noun] A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege. | [noun] A mantelletta. MANTRAP (11) [noun] A mechanical device for catching trespassers. | [noun] A small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens, used to restrict access. | [noun] A woman who is dangerously seductive to men. MANTRAS (9) [noun] The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer. | [noun] (originally Hinduism) A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation. | [noun] (by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated. MANTRIC (11) MANTUAS (9) [noun] An article of loose clothing popular in 17th- and 18th century France. | [noun] A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy. | [noun] A woman's cloak or mantle. MANUALS (9) [noun] A handbook. | [noun] A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product. | [noun] A drill in the use of weapons, etc. MANUARY (12) MANUMIT (11) [verb] To release from slavery, to free. MANURED (10) [verb] To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. | [verb] To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver). MANURER (9) MANURES (9) [verb] To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. | [verb] To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver). MANWARD (13) MANWISE (12) MAPLIKE (15) MAPPERS (13) MAPPING (14) [verb] To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond. MARABOU (11) [noun] Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging. | [noun] A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. | [noun] A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring. MARACAS (11) [noun] A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument. | [noun] (in the plural) breasts MARANTA (9) MARASCA (11) MARAUDS (10) [verb] To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [verb] To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner. | [verb] To raid and pillage. MARBLED (12) [verb] To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly. | [verb] To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants. | [verb] To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble. MARBLER (11) MARBLES (11) [noun] A rock of crystalline limestone. | [noun] (games) A small ball, usually of glass or ceramic. | [noun] An artwork made from marble. MARCATO (11) [adverb] Stressed; pronounced. MARCELS (11) [noun] A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron. | [noun] A marcel wave. MARCHED (15) [verb] To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. | [verb] To cause someone to walk somewhere. | [verb] To go to war; to make military advances. MARCHEN (14) MARCHER (14) [noun] An inhabitant of a march (border country); specifically, a marcher lord. | [noun] A border territory, a march (now only in (attributive) use). | [noun] One who marches; one who participates in a march. MARCHES (14) [noun] A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies. | [noun] A political rally or parade | [noun] Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) MAREMMA (13) MAREMME (13) MARENGO (10) MARGAYS (13) [noun] Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America. MARGENT (10) MARGINS (10) [noun] The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc. | [noun] The edge or border of any flat surface. | [noun] The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group. MARIMBA (13) [noun] A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch. MARINAS (9) [noun] A harbour for small boats. MARINER (9) [noun] A sailor. MARINES (9) [noun] A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship | [noun] Capitalised in the plural A marine corps. | [noun] A painting representing some marine subject. MARITAL (9) [adjective] Pertaining to marriage. | [adjective] Pertaining to a husband. MARKERS (13) [noun] An object used to mark a location. | [noun] Someone or something that marks. | [noun] A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for. MARKETS (13) [noun] A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic. | [noun] City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. | [noun] A grocery store MARKHOR (16) [noun] A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, especially (Capra falconeri megaceros, syn. Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns., found in the western Himalayas. MARKING (14) [verb] To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). | [verb] To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something). | [verb] To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something). MARKKAA (17) MARKKAS (17) [noun] A (Finnish) mark, the currency used in Finland before the introduction of the euro, consisting of 100 penni. Abbreviation FIM. MARKUPS (15) [noun] The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. | [noun] The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. | [noun] An increase in price. MARLIER (9) MARLINE (9) [noun] A light cord or rope used to bind the end of a larger rope, to prevent fraying. | [noun] Twine used similarly. | [verb] To wind marline around. MARLING (10) [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. | [noun] An application of marl to the soil, to aid agriculture. MARLINS (9) [noun] Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira. Every such species has a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw. MARLITE (9) MARMITE (11) [noun] A rounded earthenware cooking pot. MARMOTS (11) [noun] Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family. MAROONS (9) [noun] An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. | [noun] A castaway; a person who has been marooned. | [verb] To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island. MARPLOT (11) MARQUEE (18) [noun] A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. | [noun] A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. | [noun] (by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. MARQUES (18) [noun] A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. | [noun] A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). | [noun] A ship commissioned for making captures. MARQUIS (18) [noun] A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke, but above a count. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by letters patent or letters close. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Bassarona. MARRAMS (11) [noun] Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches. MARRANO (9) [noun] A Jew who converted to Catholicism under threat or force. MARRERS (9) [noun] One who mars or injures. MARRIED (10) [noun] A married person. | [adjective] In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband. | [adjective] Showing commitment or devotion normally reserved for a spouse MARRIER (9) MARRIES (9) [verb] To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. | [verb] (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. | [verb] To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. MARRING (10) [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] Something that mars or spoils; a blemish. MARRONS (9) [noun] A sweet chestnut. | [noun] Cherax tenuimanus, a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia. MARROWS (12) [noun] The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. | [noun] A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash. | [noun] The pith of certain plants. MARROWY (15) MARSALA (9) [noun] A fortified wine from Sicily. | [noun] A sauce made from Marsala wine. MARSHAL (12) [noun] A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general. | [noun] A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal. | [noun] A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering. MARSHES (12) [noun] An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass. MARTENS (9) [noun] Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes in the family Mustelidae. | [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. | [noun] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. MARTIAL (9) [noun] A person under the astrological influence of the planet Mars. | [noun] An inhabitant of the planet Mars. | [noun] A soldier, a warrior. MARTIAN (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the planet Mars, or its imagined inhabitants. | [adjective] Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose. | [adjective] Pertaining to battle or war; martial, military. MARTING (10) MARTINI (9) [noun] A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women. MARTINS (9) [noun] Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying. | [noun] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. MARTLET (9) [noun] A bird, the martin. | [noun] A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet. MARTYRS (12) [noun] One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom. | [noun] (by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause. | [noun] (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily. MARTYRY (15) [noun] A shrine in honor of a (usually religious, notably Christian) martyr, possibly at his grave. I | [noun] A shrine at a site which "bears witness" to a crucial religious event not related to a tomb. MARVELS (12) [noun] That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. | [noun] Wonder, astonishment. | [verb] To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. MASCARA (11) [noun] A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes. | [verb] To apply mascara to the eyelashes MASCONS (11) [noun] A region within a solid astronomical body that is of higher density than the surrounding material. | [noun] A lunar mare that has a greater density of rock than the surrounding area. | [noun] Mass concentration MASCOTS (11) [noun] Something thought to bring good luck | [noun] Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group MASHERS (12) [noun] One who, or that which, mashes. | [noun] A machine for making mash. | [noun] A fashionable man in the late Victorian era. MASHIES (12) [noun] A metal-headed golf club with a moderate loft, the equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs. MASHING (13) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASJIDS (17) [noun] A mosque. MASKEGS (14) MASKERS (13) [noun] One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual. | [noun] That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.). MASKING (14) [verb] To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. | [verb] To disguise; to cover; to hide. | [verb] To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. MASONED (10) [verb] (normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons | [adjective] (of a building) Having the mortar and bricks of different tinctures. MASONIC (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to stonemasons or masonry. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to freemasonry. MASONRY (12) [noun] The art or occupation of a mason. | [noun] The work or performance of a mason | [noun] That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar. MASQUER (18) [noun] One who appears in disguise at a masquerade. MASQUES (18) MASSAGE (10) [noun] The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches. | [verb] To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody). | [verb] To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with. MASSEUR (9) [noun] (massage) A person (especially male) who performs massage. | [noun] An instrument used in the performance of massage. MASSIER (9) MASSIFS (12) [noun] A principal mountain mass. | [noun] A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists MASSING (10) [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [verb] To have a certain mass. | [verb] To celebrate mass. MASSIVE (12) [noun] A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure. | [noun] A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc. | [adjective] Very large in size or extent MASTABA (11) [noun] A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East. | [noun] A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions. MASTERS (9) [noun] Someone who has control over something or someone. | [noun] The owner of an animal or slave. | [noun] The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner. MASTERY (12) [noun] The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. | [noun] Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. | [noun] Contest for superiority. MASTICS (11) [noun] An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean. | [noun] A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring. | [noun] An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin. MASTIFF (15) [noun] One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs. MASTING (10) [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [verb] (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit. | [verb] (of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles. MASTOID (10) [noun] The mastoid process. | [adjective] Of or relating to the mastoid process of the temporal bone. | [adjective] Shaped like a breast or nipple. MATADOR (10) [noun] The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight. | [noun] A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way. | [noun] The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat. MATCHED (15) [verb] To agree; to be equal; to correspond. | [verb] To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to. | [verb] To make a successful match or pairing. MATCHER (14) MATCHES (14) [noun] A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. | [noun] Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority. | [noun] Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison. MATCHUP (16) [noun] A pairing of two things, people or teams, especially for a competition MATELOT (9) [noun] Sailor; also "mate;" boon companion MATILDA (10) [noun] A bundle of possessions, often tied up in a sack; a swag. MATINAL (9) [adjective] In the morning, relating to the morning. MATINEE (9) [noun] A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | [noun] A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner. | [verb] To put on a matinee performance (of). MATINGS (10) [noun] Pairing of organisms for copulation. | [noun] Sexual union; copulation. MATLESS (9) MATRASS (9) MATRONS (9) [noun] A mature or elderly woman. | [noun] A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children. | [noun] A woman of staid or motherly manners. MATSAHS (12) MATTERS (9) [noun] Substance, material. | [noun] A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern. | [noun] An approximate amount or extent. MATTERY (12) MATTING (10) [verb] To cover, protect or decorate with mats. | [verb] To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. | [noun] Mats, a collection of ground coverings. MATTINS (9) [noun] Together with lauds, the earliest of the canonical hours; normally at sunrise, but often earlier | [noun] Morning prayers MATTOCK (15) [noun] An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe. | [verb] To cut or dig with a mattock. MATTOID (10) MATURED (10) [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). | [verb] (of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe. | [verb] To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion. MATURER (9) [adjective] Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | [adjective] Brought to a state of complete readiness. | [adjective] Profound; careful. MATURES (9) [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). | [verb] (of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe. | [verb] To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion. MATZAHS (21) MATZOHS (21) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MATZOON (18) MATZOTH (21) [noun] Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. | [noun] A piece of the above bread. MAUDLIN (10) [noun] The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene. | [noun] Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow. | [noun] A Magdalene house; a brothel. MAULERS (9) [noun] One who mauls. MAULING (10) [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. | [verb] To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). | [verb] To criticise harshly. MAUMETS (11) MAUNDER (10) [noun] A beggar. | [verb] To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle. | [verb] To wander or walk aimlessly. MAVISES (12) [noun] Song thrush. MAWKISH (19) [adjective] Feeling sick, queasy. | [adjective] Sickening or insipid in taste or smell. | [adjective] Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin. MAXILLA (16) [noun] Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw. | [noun] (arthropodology) One of a set of paired mouthparts found in many arthropods and used for tasting and manipulating food. MAXIMAL (18) [noun] The element of a set with the greatest magnitude. | [noun] Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice: that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper). | [noun] Said of a set of well-formed formulas: that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e. that for any well-formed formula φ, the set contains either φ or ~φ. MAXIMIN (18) [noun] In decision theory and game theory etc, a rule to identify the worst outcome of each possible option to find one's best (maximum payoff) play. | [verb] To employ a maximin algorithm. MAXIMUM (20) [noun] The highest limit | [noun] The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function | [noun] An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set MAXIXES (23) [noun] A Brazilian dance in a rapid 2/4 time, influenced by the tango and polka. | [noun] A deep blue variety of beryl. MAXWELL (19) [noun] A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second. MAYBUSH (17) MAYDAYS (16) MAYHEMS (17) MAYINGS (13) MAYORAL (12) [adjective] Relating to a mayor (or the office of the mayor). MAYPOLE (14) [noun] A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. | [noun] A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird. | [noun] A penis, especially a large one. MAYPOPS (16) [noun] A type of passionflower, purple in color (Passiflora incarnata). MAYVINS (15) MAYWEED (16) [noun] Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. | [noun] Corn chamomile, field chamomile, Anthemis arvensis. | [noun] Plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum. MAZARDS (19) MAZEDLY (22) MAZIEST (18) [adjective] Mazelike; like a maze. | [adjective] Not straight; zigzagging. MAZUMAS (20) MAZURKA (22) [noun] A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat. | [noun] A classical musical composition inspired by the folk dance and conforming in some respects to its form, particularly as popularized by Chopin. | [noun] A figure skating move that combines elements of the toe loop and bunny-hop. MAZZARD (28) [noun] A sweet cherry, Prunus avium MEADOWS (13) [noun] A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. | [noun] Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. MEADOWY (16) MEALIER (9) [adjective] Resembling meal (the foodstuff). MEALIES (9) [noun] An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn. MEANDER (10) [noun] A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art. | [noun] A structural motif in proteins consisting of four adjacent antiparallel strands and their linking loops. | [noun] One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course. MEANERS (9) MEANEST (9) [verb] To lament. | [verb] To intend. | [verb] To convey (a meaning). MEANIES (9) [noun] A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy. | [noun] A villain. MEANING (10) [noun] (of words or symbols) The entity, perception, feeling or concept thereby represented or evoked. | [noun] The value, purpose, importance, point or significance (of something beyond the fact of that thing's existence). | [noun] The object or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says. | [verb] To lament. MEASLED (10) MEASLES (9) [noun] Rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, often of childhood, caused by Measles virus, of genus Morbillivirus, featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyes | [noun] Any of several other similar diseases, such as German measles. | [noun] A disease of pigs and cattle, caused by larval tapeworms. | [noun] A leper. MEASURE (9) [noun] A prescribed quantity or extent. | [noun] The act or result of measuring. | [noun] Metrical rhythm. MEATIER (9) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing meat. | [adjective] Resembling meat in flavour, etc. | [adjective] Of a person or a body part, large and solid. MEATILY (12) MEATMAN (11) MEATMEN (11) MEDAKAS (14) [noun] Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums. MEDALED (11) [verb] To win a medal. | [verb] To award a medal to. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to one who has received a medal. MEDDLED (12) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDDLER (11) MEDDLES (11) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDEVAC (15) [noun] The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. | [noun] A vehicle, typically aircraft, used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. | [noun] Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. MEDIACY (15) [noun] Mediation; presence of an intermediary. | [noun] The facility to work with words and numbers. | [noun] The facility to work with media. MEDIALS (10) MEDIANS (10) [noun] A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. | [noun] A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side. | [noun] The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. MEDIANT (10) [noun] The third degree of the diatonic scale. | [noun] A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers. MEDIATE (10) [verb] To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. | [verb] To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement. | [verb] To divide into two equal parts. MEDICAL (12) [noun] A medical examination. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. | [adjective] Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. MEDICKS (16) [noun] Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc. | [noun] The science of medicine. MEDICOS (12) [noun] A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student. MEDINAS (10) [noun] The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town. MEDIUMS (12) [noun] (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass. | [noun] (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information. MEDLARS (10) [noun] Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica) | [noun] Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera. | [noun] Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit MEDLEYS (13) [noun] Combat, fighting; a battle. | [noun] A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. | [noun] A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece. MEDULLA (10) [noun] The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit. | [noun] The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones. | [noun] The medulla oblongata. MEDUSAE (10) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. MEDUSAL (10) MEDUSAN (10) MEDUSAS (10) [noun] A jellyfish; specifically , a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. MEEKEST (13) [adjective] Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | [adjective] Submissive, dispirited. MEERKAT (13) [noun] Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs. MEETERS (9) MEETING (10) [noun] (gerund) The act of persons or things that meet. | [noun] A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. | [noun] (collective) The people at such a gathering. | [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. MEGABAR (12) MEGABIT (12) [noun] 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes) | [noun] 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit | [noun] One megabit per second MEGAHIT (13) MEGAPOD (13) MEGASSE (10) MEGATON (10) [noun] A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. MEGILPH (15) MEGILPS (12) MEGOHMS (15) [noun] One million (106) ohms, abbreviated as MΩ. MEGRIMS (12) [noun] A headache; a migraine. | [noun] A fancy, a whim, a caprice. | [noun] (in the plural) See megrims. MEINIES (9) MEIOSES (9) [noun] A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is; understatement. | [noun] Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes. MEIOSIS (9) [noun] A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is; understatement. | [noun] Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes. MEIOTIC (11) MELAMED (12) MELANGE (10) [noun] A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture. | [noun] A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee. | [noun] A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment. MELANIC (11) MELANIN (9) [noun] Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers. MELDERS (10) MELDING (11) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. | [noun] A composite or hybrid, the result of being melded. MELILOT (9) [noun] A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers. MELISMA (11) [noun] A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant. MELLING (10) MELLOWS (12) [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. MELODIA (10) MELODIC (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or having melody. | [adjective] Melodious, tuneful. MELOIDS (10) MELTAGE (10) MELTERS (9) MELTING (10) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. MELTONS (9) MEMBERS (13) [noun] One who officially belongs to a group. | [noun] A part of a whole. | [noun] Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. MEMENTO (11) [noun] A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event. MEMOIRS (11) [noun] An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author. | [noun] A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject. | [noun] Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer. MENACED (12) [verb] To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. | [verb] To threaten (an evil to be inflicted). | [verb] To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize. MENACER (11) MENACES (11) [noun] A perceived threat or danger. | [noun] The act of threatening. | [noun] An annoying and bothersome person or thing. MENAGES (10) [noun] A household; a domestic situation. | [noun] A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments. | [noun] A group of people living together in a sexual relationship. MENAZON (18) MENDERS (10) MENDIGO (11) MENDING (11) [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. | [verb] To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. | [verb] To help, to advance, to further; to add to. MENFOLK (16) [noun] The male members of a group. | [noun] Male people in general. MENHIRS (12) [noun] A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times. MENIALS (9) [noun] A servant, especially a domestic servant. | [noun] A person who has a subservient nature. MENISCI (11) [noun] A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it. | [noun] A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section. | [noun] The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid. MENORAH (12) [noun] A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem. | [noun] A candelabrum (hanukkiah) with nine branches used in Jewish worship on Hanukkah. MENSING (10) MENTHOL (12) [noun] A cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes | [noun] A menthol cigarette. MENTION (9) [noun] A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of. | [noun] A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person. | [verb] To make a short reference to something. MENTORS (9) [noun] A wise and trusted counselor or teacher | [verb] To act as someone's mentor MEOUING (10) MEOWING (13) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. | [noun] The act of uttering a meow. MERCERS (11) [noun] A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths. MERCERY (14) MERCIES (11) [noun] Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. | [noun] Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. | [noun] A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. MERCURY (14) [noun] A metal. | [noun] Any of several types of plant. MERGERS (10) [noun] One that merges. | [noun] The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit. | [noun] The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. MERGING (11) [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To blend gradually into something else. MERINOS (9) [noun] A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair. | [noun] The wool of this sheep. | [noun] The fabric made from this wool (or from any similar yarn). MERISES (9) MERISIS (9) MERITED (10) [verb] To deserve, to earn. | [verb] To be deserving or worthy. | [verb] To reward. MERLINS (9) [noun] A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. MERLONS (9) [noun] A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. | [noun] Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons. MERLOTS (9) [noun] A dark-blue variety of wine grape. | [noun] A dry red wine of a certain French type, made from Merlot grapes. MERMAID (12) [noun] A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish. | [noun] (as a modifier) Coloured a brilliant turquoise. | [noun] A prostitute. MEROPIA (11) MEROPIC (13) MERRIER (9) [adjective] Jolly and full of high spirits. | [adjective] Festive and full of fun and laughter. | [adjective] Brisk MERRILY (12) [adverb] In a cheerful or merry way. MESALLY (12) MESARCH (14) MESCALS (11) [noun] A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. | [noun] The peyote cactus. MESEEMS (11) MESHIER (12) MESHING (13) [verb] To connect together by interlocking, as gears do. | [verb] (by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. | [verb] To catch in a mesh. MESHUGA (13) [adjective] Crazy, mad, senseless, insane MESONIC (11) MESQUIT (18) MESSAGE (10) [noun] A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed. | [noun] An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) An errand. MESSANS (9) MESSIAH (12) [noun] (Abrahamic tradition) The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians and Muslims to be Jesus Christ. | [noun] A similar religious figure or awaited divine ruler, such as the Islamic Mahdi. | [noun] An extremely powerful figure. MESSIER (9) [adjective] (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. | [adjective] (of a person) Prone to causing mess. | [adjective] (of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with. MESSILY (12) MESSING (10) [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty. | [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. | [verb] To interfere. MESSMAN (11) MESSMEN (11) MESTEES (9) MESTESO (9) MESTINO (9) MESTIZA (18) [noun] A female mestizo. MESTIZO (18) [noun] A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage. METAGES (10) METALED (10) [adjective] (of a road) Surfaced, tarred, covered in stone or crushed rock (usually tar-coated). | [adjective] (of any object) Made of metal or having metal fittings or plating. METAMER (11) METATES (9) [noun] A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains. METAZOA (18) [noun] The multicellular animals of the subkingdom Metazoa considered collectively. METEORS (9) [noun] A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star. | [noun] Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars). | [noun] A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable. METEPAS (11) METERED (10) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). METHANE (12) [noun] The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH₄, being a constituent of natural gas, and one of the most abundant greenhouse gases. | [noun] Any of very many derivatives of methane. METHODS (13) [noun] A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process): | [noun] (often "the method") A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Constantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed. | [noun] A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object, synonym of member function METHOXY (22) METHYLS (15) METICAL (11) [noun] The currency of Mozambique, divided into 100 centavos METIERS (9) [noun] Any activity that is pursued as a trade or profession; a calling. | [noun] An activity to which a person is particularly suited; a forte. | [noun] An outstanding or beneficial feature. METISSE (9) METONYM (14) [noun] (grammar) A word that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object; a word used in metonymy. | [noun] (by extension) A concept, idea, or word used to represent, typify, or stand in for a broader set of ideas. METOPAE (11) METOPES (11) [noun] The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze. METOPIC (13) METOPON (11) METRICS (11) [noun] A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering). | [noun] A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y) \ge 0 , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) . | [noun] A metric tensor. METRIFY (15) METRING (10) METRIST (9) METTLED (10) METTLES (9) [noun] A quality of endurance and courage. | [noun] Good temperament and character. | [noun] Metal; a metallic substance. METUMPS (13) MEWLERS (12) MEWLING (13) [noun] A sound that mewls. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEZCALS (20) [noun] A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. | [noun] The peyote cactus. MEZQUIT (27) MEZUZAH (30) [noun] A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with the mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9). MEZUZAS (27) [noun] A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house, in accordance with the mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9). MEZUZOT (27) MIAOUED (10) MIAOWED (13) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIASMAL (11) MIASMAS (11) [noun] A noxious atmosphere or influence. | [noun] A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease. MIASMIC (13) [adjective] Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors. | [adjective] Composed of or resembling vapors. MIAULED (10) [verb] To give the cry of a cat. MICELLA (11) MICELLE (11) [noun] A colloidal aggregate, in a simple geometric form, of a specific number of amphipathic molecules which forms at a well-defined concentration, called the critical micelle concentration MICELLS (11) MICHING (15) MICKEYS (18) [noun] A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. | [noun] A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. | [noun] American depression era term for a potato as in a "roasted mickey". MICKLER (15) MICKLES (15) [noun] A great amount. | [noun] (originally erroneous) A small amount. | [noun] Great or important people as a class. MICRIFY (17) MICROBE (13) [noun] Any microorganism, but especially a harmful bacterium. MICROHM (16) MICRONS (11) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. 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MILIEUS (9) [noun] Medium. | [noun] Social setting or environment. MILIEUX (16) [noun] Medium. | [noun] Social setting or environment. MILITIA (9) [noun] An army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need, the entire able-bodied population of a state which may also be called upon, or a private force not under government control. | [noun] The police in the Soviet Union and some related or successor states (e.g. modern Belarus). MILKERS (13) [noun] An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces. | [noun] A person who milks. | [noun] A milking machine. MILKIER (13) [adjective] Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk. | [adjective] (color science) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black. | [adjective] (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. MILKILY (16) MILKING (14) [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). | [verb] To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. | [verb] To express any liquid (from any creature). | [noun] The act by which a cow, etc. is milked MILKMAN (15) [noun] A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning. MILKMEN (15) [noun] A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning. MILKSOP (15) [noun] A piece of bread sopped in milk. | [noun] Bread pieces in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar, & covered in hot milk. | [noun] (by extension) A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person. MILLAGE (10) MILLDAM (12) [noun] A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created. 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MINABLE (11) MINARET (9) [noun] The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer). MINCERS (11) MINCIER (11) MINCING (12) [verb] To make less; make small. | [verb] To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise. | [verb] To effect mincingly. MINDERS (10) [noun] One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper | [noun] A personal bodyguard. | [noun] A guide assigned by the authorities to foreign visitors so as to exercise control over their contacts with the populace. MINDFUL (13) [adjective] Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful. | [adjective] Inclined (to do something). | [noun] As much as can be held in one's mind at a time. MINDING (11) [noun] The act of taking heed of something. | [verb] (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. | [verb] To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. MINDSET (10) [noun] A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one. MINERAL (9) [noun] Any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties. | [noun] Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable). | [noun] (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition; a dietary mineral. MINGIER (10) [adjective] Mean, miserly, stingy. MINGLED (11) [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product | [verb] To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship | [verb] To cause or allow to intermarry MINGLER (10) [noun] One who, or that which, mingles. MINGLES (10) [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product | [verb] To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship | [verb] To cause or allow to intermarry MINIBUS (11) [noun] A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups. | [noun] A-sixteen seater vehicle used as a taxi. A kombi. | [noun] A small four-wheeled carriage. MINICAB (13) [noun] A small car used as a taxi (rather than a traditional black cab). | [noun] An unlicensed taxi. | [verb] To drive a minicab. 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MISCUED (12) [verb] To give an incorrect cue. | [verb] To mishit, strike incorrectly. MISCUES (11) [noun] In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. | [noun] The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. | [noun] A miss of the object one intended to hit. MISCUTS (11) MISDATE (10) [noun] A wrong date. | [verb] To date incorrectly; to mark with the wrong date. MISDEAL (10) [noun] Incorrect dealing or distribution. | [verb] To deal or distribute wrongly. MISDEED (11) [noun] That which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime. MISDEEM (12) MISDIAL (10) [noun] An instance of misdialling. | [verb] To dial or use a keypad incorrectly, especially on a telephone. 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MISSIVE (12) [noun] A written message; a letter, note or memo. | [noun] (in the plural) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it. | [noun] One who is sent; a messenger. MISSORT (9) MISSOUT (9) MISSTEP (11) [noun] A step that is wrong, a false step. | [noun] An error or mistake. | [verb] To step badly or incorrectly. MISSTOP (11) MISSUIT (9) MISTAKE (13) [noun] An error; a blunder. | [noun] A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place. | [verb] To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. MISTBOW (14) MISTEND (10) MISTERM (11) MISTERS (9) [noun] A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child. | [noun] Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. | [noun] A kind, type of. 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MITSVAH (15) MITTENS (9) [noun] A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered. | [noun] A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body. | [noun] (as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover. MITZVAH (24) [noun] Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law | [noun] An act of kindness, a good deed. MIXABLE (18) MIXIBLE (18) MIXTURE (16) [noun] The act of mixing. | [noun] Something produced by mixing. | [noun] Something that consists of diverse elements. MIZZENS (27) [noun] Mizzenmast. | [noun] A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. MIZZLED (28) [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. | [verb] To yield. MIZZLES (27) [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. | [verb] To yield. MOANERS (9) MOANFUL (12) MOANING (10) [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. | [verb] To distress (someone); to sadden. MOATING (10) [verb] To surround with a moat. MOBBERS (13) MOBBING (14) [verb] To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. | [verb] To crowd into or around a place. | [verb] To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. MOBBISH (16) MOBCAPS (15) [noun] A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band. | [noun] (modern-day use) A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings. MOBILES (11) [noun] A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other. | [noun] The internet accessed via mobile devices. | [noun] Something that can move. MOBSTER (11) [noun] A member of a mob or Mafia MOCHILA (14) MOCKERS (15) [noun] A person who mocks. | [noun] A mockingbird. | [noun] A deceiver; an impostor. MOCKERY (18) [noun] The action of mocking; ridicule, derision. | [noun] Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock. | [noun] Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc. MOCKING (16) [verb] To mimic, to simulate. | [verb] To create an artistic representation of. | [verb] To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt. MOCKUPS (17) [noun] A prototype, usually low-fidelity, such as paper illustrations, screenshots, or simple configurations of screens with limited interaction. MODALLY (13) MODELED (11) [verb] To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model | [verb] To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model | [verb] To make a miniature model of MODELER (10) MODERNE (10) MODERNS (10) [noun] Someone who lives in modern times. MODESTY (13) [noun] The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities. | [noun] Moderate behaviour; reserve. | [noun] (specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness. MODICUM (14) [noun] A modest, small, or trifling amount. MODIOLI (10) [noun] The central core of the cochlea | [noun] A chiasma of facial muscles held together by fibrous tissue MODISTE (10) [noun] A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats. MODULAR (10) [adjective] Consisting of separate modules; especially where each module performs or fulfills some specified function and could be replaced by a similar module for the same function, independently of the other modules. | [adjective] Of or relating to a module or modules. | [adjective] Relating to mode or modulation. MODULES (10) [noun] A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. | [noun] A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. | [noun] A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. MODULUS (10) [noun] The base with respect to which a congruence is computed. | [noun] The absolute value of a complex number. | [noun] A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance. MOFETTE (12) [noun] A volcanic discharge of carbon dioxide together with other, mostly smelly, gases MOGGIES (11) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). MOGGING (12) MOHAIRS (12) MOHALIM (14) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOHELIM (14) [noun] The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris. MOIDORE (10) [noun] An old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732. MOILERS (9) MOILING (10) [verb] To toil, to work hard. | [verb] To churn continually; to swirl. | [verb] To defile or dirty. MOISTEN (9) [verb] To make moist or moister. | [verb] To become moist or moister. MOISTER (9) [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. | [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. | [adjective] Of weather, climate etc.: rainy, damp. MOISTLY (12) MOJARRA (16) [noun] A perciform fish in the family Gerreidae, often used as bait. MOLDERS (10) [noun] One who molds something into shape. | [noun] A person who makes molds. | [noun] A tool for making molds. MOLDIER (10) [adjective] Covered with mold. | [adjective] Stale or musty. MOLDING (11) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOLESTS (9) [verb] To annoy intentionally. | [verb] To disturb or tamper with. | [verb] To sexually assault or sexually harass, especially a minor. MOLLAHS (12) MOLLIES (9) [noun] Any of many New World fish of the genus Poecilia, formerly called Mollienesia. | [noun] A Molotov cocktail. | [noun] A woman or girl, especially of low status. MOLLIFY (15) [verb] To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort. | [verb] To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of. | [verb] To soften; to make tender MOLLUSC (11) [noun] A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces. | [noun] A weak-willed person. MOLLUSK (13) [noun] A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces. | [noun] A weak-willed person. MOLOCHS (14) [noun] Moloch horridus, an Australian lizard thought to be the sole member of the genus Moloch. MOLTERS (9) MOLTING (10) [noun] A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOMENTA (11) [noun] Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity. | [noun] The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment. MOMENTO (11) MOMENTS (11) [noun] A brief, unspecified amount of time. | [noun] The smallest portion of time; an instant. | [noun] Weight or importance. MOMISMS (13) MOMMIES (13) [noun] (usually childish) Mother. | [verb] To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone. MOMSERS (11) MOMUSES (11) MOMZERS (20) MONACID (12) MONADAL (10) MONADES (10) MONADIC (12) MONARCH (14) [noun] The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy. | [noun] The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings. | [noun] (Aboriginal English) A police officer. MONARDA (10) MONAXON (16) MONERAN (9) MONEYED (13) [adjective] Affluent; rich | [adjective] Paid for; funded MONEYER (12) [noun] A moneylender. | [noun] Someone who makes coins; an official minter. MONGERS (10) MONGOES (10) MONGOLS (10) [noun] A person from Mongolia; a Mongolian. | [noun] A member of any of the various Mongol ethnic groups living in The Mongolian People's Republic, the (former) USSR, Tibet and Nepal. | [noun] (usually mongol) A person with Down's syndrome. MONGREL (10) [noun] Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog. | [noun] A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person. MONIKER (13) [noun] A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute. | [noun] A signature. | [noun] An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location. MONISMS (11) [noun] The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world. MONISTS (9) MONITOR (9) [noun] Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone. | [noun] A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something. | [noun] A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer. MONKERY (16) [noun] The practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life. | [noun] Monasticism. | [noun] A monastery. MONKEYS (16) [noun] Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches. | [noun] Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes. | [noun] A mischievous child. MONKISH (16) [adjective] Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism. | [adjective] Tending to self-denial; ascetic. MONOCLE (11) [noun] A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye. | [noun] A one-eyed animal. MONOCOT (11) [noun] Any plant whose seedlings typically have one cotyledon (seed leaf) (in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots), thereby belonging to the taxonomic monocots, formerly variously known as Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, or Liliopsida, a class in the angiosperms (Angiospermae), the flowering plants. MONODIC (12) MONOECY (14) MONOFIL (12) [noun] A monofilament yarn. MONOLOG (10) [noun] (authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters. | [noun] A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment. | [noun] A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. MONOMER (11) [noun] A relatively small molecule which can be covalently bonded to other monomers to form a polymer. MONSOON (9) [noun] Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season. | [noun] Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions. | [noun] The rains themselves. MONSTER (9) [noun] A terrifying and dangerous creature. | [noun] A bizarre or whimsical creature. | [noun] A cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal. MONTAGE (10) [noun] A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. | [noun] The art or process of doing this. | [verb] To combine into, or depict as, a montage. MONTANE (9) [noun] Flora and fauna of a montane habitat. | [adjective] Of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline. MONTERO (9) MONTHLY (15) [noun] A publication that is published once a month. | [noun] The menstrual period. | [adjective] Occurring every month. MONURON (9) MOOCHED (15) [verb] To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others. | [verb] To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain. | [verb] To steal or filch. MOOCHER (14) [noun] A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves. MOOCHES (14) [noun] An aimless stroll. | [noun] One who mooches; a moocher. | [noun] A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job. MOODIER (10) [adjective] Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental. | [adjective] Sulky or depressed. | [adjective] Dour, gloomy or brooding. MOODILY (13) MOOLAHS (12) MOOLEYS (12) MOONBOW (14) MOONEYE (12) [noun] A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae. MOONIER (9) [adjective] Resembling the moon. | [adjective] Moonlit. | [adjective] Absent-minded. MOONILY (12) MOONING (10) [verb] To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. | [verb] (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. | [verb] To spend time idly, absent-mindedly. MOONISH (12) MOONLET (9) [noun] A very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring. MOONLIT (9) [adjective] Lit by moonlight. MOONSET (9) [noun] The setting of the moon below the horizon MOORAGE (10) [noun] The act of mooring. | [noun] A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored. | [noun] The fee for mooring. MOORHEN (12) [noun] Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins. | [noun] A female red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica. MOORIER (9) MOORING (10) [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. | [verb] To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like | [verb] To secure or fix firmly. MOORISH (12) [adjective] Boggy, marshy; like a moor. MOOTERS (9) MOOTING (10) [noun] The activity of taking part in a moot court. | [verb] To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | [verb] To discuss or debate. MOPIEST (11) MOPOKES (15) [noun] A morepork. MOPPERS (13) MOPPETS (13) [noun] A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way. | [noun] A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth. | [noun] A long-haired pet dog. MOPPING (14) [verb] To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. | [verb] To make a wry expression with the mouth. | [noun] The process of cleaning with a mop. MORAINE (9) [noun] An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier. MORALES (9) MORALLY (12) [adverb] In terms of morals or ethics. | [adverb] In keeping of requirements of morality. | [adverb] To all intents and purposes; practically. MORASSY (12) MORCEAU (11) [noun] A bit; a morsel. MORDANT (10) [noun] Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation. | [noun] Any corrosive substance used in etching. | [noun] A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere. MORDENT (10) [noun] An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it. MOREENS (9) MORELLE (9) MORELLO (9) [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MORGANS (10) [noun] A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome. MORGENS (10) [noun] A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. MORGUES (10) [noun] A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. | [noun] A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. | [noun] The archive and background information division of a newspaper. MORIONS (9) [noun] A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bever. | [noun] A brown or black variety of quartz. MORNING (10) [noun] The part of the day from dawn to noon. | [noun] The part of the day between midnight and noon. | [noun] The early part of anything. MOROCCO (13) [noun] A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding. | [noun] A sheepskin leather in imitation of this. | [noun] A very strong ale, anciently brewed in Cumberland. MORONIC (11) [adjective] Having a mental age of between seven and twelve years | [adjective] Behaving in the manner of a moron; idiotic; stupid MORPHIA (14) [noun] Morphine MORPHIC (16) MORPHIN (14) MORPHOS (14) [noun] Any of the genus Morpho of large tropical American butterflies. MORRION (9) MORROWS (12) MORSELS (9) [noun] A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food. | [noun] A mouthful of food. | [noun] A very small amount. MORTALS (9) [noun] A human; someone susceptible to death. MORTARS (9) [noun] A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. | [noun] A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories. | [noun] A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. MORTARY (12) MORTICE (11) [noun] A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint. | [noun] Stability; power of adhesion. | [verb] To cut a mortise in. MORTIFY (15) [verb] To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. | [verb] (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity. | [verb] To kill. MORTISE (9) [noun] A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint. | [noun] Stability; power of adhesion. | [verb] To cut a mortise in. MORULAE (9) [noun] A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula MORULAR (9) MORULAS (9) MOSAICS (11) [noun] A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture. | [noun] An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote. | [noun] Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves. MOSEYED (13) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSQUES (18) [noun] A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. MOSSERS (9) MOSSIER (9) [adjective] Covered in or overgrown with moss. MOSSING (10) [verb] To become covered with moss. | [verb] To cover (something) with moss. MOSTEST (9) MOTHERS (12) [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. | [noun] A (human) female who has given birth to a baby | [noun] A human female who parents an adopted or fostered child MOTHERY (15) MOTHIER (12) [adjective] Infested with moths | [adjective] Moth-eaten MOTIFIC (14) MOTILES (9) MOTIONS (9) [noun] A state of progression from one place to another. | [noun] A change of position with respect to time. | [noun] A change from one place to another. MOTIVED (13) MOTIVES (12) [noun] An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. | [noun] An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. | [noun] A limb or other bodily organ that can move. MOTIVIC (14) [adjective] Used as, or relating to, a motif. MOTLEYS (12) MOTLIER (9) MOTMOTS (11) [noun] Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics. MOTORED (10) [verb] To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive. | [verb] To move at a brisk pace. | [verb] To leave. MOTORIC (11) [adjective] Relating to the motor faculties. | [adjective] (of a rhythm) Based on repetition of a single note length. MOTTLED (10) [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. | [adjective] Colored in patches; spotted MOTTLER (9) MOTTLES (9) [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. MOTTOES (9) [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. | [noun] A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. | [noun] A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto. MOUCHED (15) MOUCHES (14) MOUFLON (12) [noun] A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. MOUILLE (9) MOUJIKS (20) [noun] A (male) peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. MOULAGE (10) MOULDED (11) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOULDER (10) [noun] A person who moulds dough into loaves. | [noun] Anyone who moulds or shapes things. | [noun] A machine used for moulding. MOULINS (9) [noun] A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface. MOULTED (10) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MOULTER (9) MOUNDED (11) [verb] To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to. | [verb] To force or pile into a mound or mounds. MOUNTED (10) [verb] To get upon; to ascend; to climb. | [verb] To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride. | [verb] To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding. MOUNTER (9) MOURNED (10) [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). | [verb] To utter in a sorrowful manner. | [verb] To wear mourning. MOURNER (9) [noun] Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns. MOUSERS (9) [noun] A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose. | [noun] A moustache. MOUSIER (9) [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUSILY (12) MOUSING (10) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MOUSSED (10) [verb] To apply mousse (styling cream). MOUSSES (9) [noun] An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. | [noun] A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. | [noun] A styling cream used for hair. MOUTHED (13) [verb] To speak; to utter. | [verb] To make the actions of speech, without producing sound. | [verb] To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling. MOUTHER (12) MOUTONS (9) MOVABLE (14) [noun] Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. | [adjective] Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary | [adjective] Changing from one time to another MOVABLY (17) MOVIOLA (12) MOWINGS (13) [noun] The activity by which something is mown. | [noun] Land from which grass is cut. MOZETTA (18) [noun] A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy. MOZETTE (18) [noun] A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy. MUCKERS (15) [noun] (Southern England) friend, acquaintance | [noun] (British army) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation. | [noun] A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. MUCKIER (15) [adjective] Covered in muck. | [adjective] Obscene, pornographic. MUCKILY (18) MUCKING (16) [verb] To shovel muck. | [verb] To manure with muck. | [verb] To do a dirty job. MUCKLES (15) [verb] To latch onto something with the mouth. | [verb] To talk big; to exaggerate. MUCLUCS (13) MUCOIDS (12) MUCOSAE (11) [noun] Mucous membrane MUCOSAL (11) MUCOSAS (11) MUCUSES (11) MUDCAPS (14) MUDCATS (12) MUDDERS (11) [noun] A person (especially an entomologist) or animal that catches moths. | [noun] A (human) female who has given birth to a baby | [noun] A human female who parents an adopted or fostered child MUDDIED (12) [adjective] Made dirty with mud. | [adjective] Made unclear, obfuscated (generally as part of the phrase muddied the water) | [adjective] Made muted of color. MUDDIER (11) [adjective] Covered with or full of mud or wet soil. | [adjective] With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid. | [adjective] Not clear; mixed up or blurry. | [noun] One who muddies or obscures something. MUDDIES (11) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. MUDDILY (14) MUDDING (12) MUDDLED (12) [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. | [verb] To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. | [verb] To dabble in mud. MUDDLER (11) [noun] A person or thing that muddles. | [noun] A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix. MUDDLES (11) [noun] A mixture; a confusion; a garble. | [noun] A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. | [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. MUDFISH (16) [noun] Any of many fish that frequent muddy water or burrow in mud, including: MUDFLAT (13) [noun] A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a river bed exposed at low tide. MUDFLOW (16) [noun] A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water. | [noun] The dried-out product of such a flow. MUDHOLE (13) MUDLARK (14) [noun] A pig; pork. | [noun] One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London. | [noun] A child who plays in the mud; a child that spends most of its time in the streets, a street urchin. MUDPACK (18) [noun] A paste of earth or clay, applied to the face for therapeutic or cosmetic purposes. MUDROCK (16) MUDROOM (12) [noun] A room used as a barrier between outdoors and indoors. MUDSILL (10) MUEDDIN (11) MUESLIS (9) [noun] A breakfast dish based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit. MUEZZIN (27) [noun] The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque. MUFFING (16) [verb] To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. | [verb] To mishandle; to bungle. | [noun] Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women. MUFFINS (15) [noun] A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten. | [noun] A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten. | [noun] (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed. MUFFLED (16) [verb] To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up. | [verb] To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound. | [verb] To mute or deaden (a sound etc.). MUFFLER (15) [noun] Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces. | [noun] A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun. | [noun] A type of scarf. MUFFLES (15) [noun] Anything that mutes or deadens sound. | [noun] A warm piece of clothing for the hands. | [noun] A boxing glove. MUGFULS (13) MUGGARS (11) MUGGEES (11) MUGGERS (11) [noun] A street robber. | [noun] A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner. | [noun] A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout. MUGGIER (11) [adjective] (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid. | [adjective] Wet or mouldy MUGGILY (14) MUGGING (12) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MUGGINS (11) [noun] A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself). | [noun] The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly. | [noun] A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five. MUGGURS (11) MUGWORT (13) [noun] Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia. | [noun] Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally. MUGWUMP (17) [noun] An independent neutral politician, especially in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election. | [noun] An aloof or self-important but inconsequential person. MUHLIES (12) MUKLUKS (17) [noun] A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik. | [noun] A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper. MUKTUKS (17) MULATTO (9) [noun] A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent. MULCHED (15) [verb] To apply mulch. | [verb] To turn into mulch. MULCHES (14) [noun] Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture. | [noun] A material used as mulch, as a decorative redwood bark mulch. | [verb] To apply mulch. MULCTED (12) [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. MULETAS (9) [noun] A red flag used by bullfighters. MULLAHS (12) [noun] A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law. MULLEIN (9) [noun] Any of several European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, that have yellow flowers and downy leaves; the velvet plant. MULLENS (9) MULLERS (9) [noun] One who, or that which, mulls. | [noun] A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders. | [noun] A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire. MULLETS (9) [noun] A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish). | [noun] A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets). | [noun] Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses) MULLEYS (12) MULLING (10) [verb] (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. | [verb] To powder; to pulverize. | [verb] To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. MULLION (9) [noun] A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen. | [verb] To shape into divisions by means of mullions. MULLITE (9) MULLOCK (15) [noun] Rubbish, waste matter. | [noun] Waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted; waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft. | [noun] Nonsense, rubbish. MULTURE (9) [noun] A grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground. | [noun] A toll paid to a miller, mill-owner etc., generally in kind, for grinding corn or pulverizing ore. MUMBLED (14) [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. MUMBLER (13) MUMBLES (13) [noun] A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice. MUMMERS (13) [noun] A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. | [noun] An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression. MUMMERY (16) [noun] Mumming; disguising oneself to perform as a mummer, or to take part in some other festivities or performance. | [noun] A ridiculous or ostentatious ceremony, formerly especially of a religious nature; extravagant or hypocritical performance. MUMMIED (14) MUMMIES (13) [noun] An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes. | [noun] (by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films. | [noun] (by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body. MUMMIFY (19) [verb] To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body. | [verb] To become a mummy. MUMMING (14) [verb] To act in a pantomime or dumb show. | [noun] A pantomime or dumb show. MUMPERS (13) MUMPING (14) MUNCHED (15) [verb] To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed — often used with on. | [verb] To eat vigorously or with excitement. MUNCHER (14) MUNCHES (14) [noun] A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected. | [noun] An act of eating. | [noun] Food. 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MURREYS (12) MURRHAS (12) MURRIES (9) MURRINE (9) MURTHER (12) [noun] The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification. | [noun] The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought. | [noun] (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. MUSCATS (11) [noun] A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine. | [noun] The muscatel wine made from these grapes. | [noun] The vine bearing this fruit. MUSCIDS (12) [noun] Any fly of the family Muscidae of insects. MUSCLED (12) [verb] To use force to make progress, especially physical force. | [adjective] Bearing muscles or muscle tissue. | [adjective] Having large muscles. MUSCLES (11) [noun] A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. | [noun] An organ composed of muscle tissue. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise. MUSEFUL (12) MUSETTE (9) [noun] Any of various form of small bagpipe, especially with a bellows, having a soft sound, and once popular in France. | [noun] A dance tune or pastoral air that imitates this instrument. | [noun] A small instrument similar to an oboe or shawm. MUSEUMS (11) [noun] A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. MUSHERS (12) [noun] One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”. | [noun] One who travels by dogsled. | [noun] One who races in a dogsled in a race. MUSHIER (12) [adjective] Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. | [adjective] Soft; squishy. | [adjective] Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin. MUSHILY (15) MUSHING (13) [verb] To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. | [verb] To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [verb] To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. MUSICAL (11) [noun] A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. | [noun] A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale. | [adjective] Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation. MUSINGS (10) [noun] Thought, meditation, contemplation MUSJIDS (17) MUSKEGS (14) [noun] A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce. MUSKETS (13) [noun] A 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, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle. | [noun] A male Eurasian sparrowhawk. MUSKIER (13) [adjective] Having the scent of musk MUSKIES (13) MUSKILY (16) MUSKITS (13) MUSKRAT (13) [noun] A large aquatic rodent (Ondatra zibethicus). | [noun] Any of several species of shrews in the family Soricidae, especially the Asian house shrew, Suncus murinus MUSLINS (9) [noun] Any of several varieties of thin cotton cloth. | [noun] Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven. | [noun] Any of a wide variety of tightly-woven thin fabrics, especially those used for bedlinen. MUSPIKE (15) MUSSELS (9) [noun] Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells MUSSIER (9) MUSSILY (12) MUSSING (10) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSTANG (10) [noun] A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west. | [noun] A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War. | [noun] (generalized) A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person. MUSTARD (10) [noun] A 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). | [noun] Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice. | [noun] The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad. MUSTEES (9) MUSTERS (9) [noun] A person of one-eighth African ancestry. | [noun] Gathering. | [noun] Showing. MUSTIER (9) [adjective] Having a stale odor. MUSTILY (12) MUSTING (10) MUTABLE (11) [noun] Something mutable; a variable or value that can change. | [adjective] Changeable, dynamic, evolutive; inclined to change, evolve, mutate. | [adjective] (of a variable) Having a value that is changeable during program execution. MUTABLY (14) MUTAGEN (10) [noun] Any agent or substance that can cause genetic mutation. MUTANTS (9) [noun] Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation. | [noun] Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre. | [noun] An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads. MUTASES (9) MUTATED (10) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. | [adjective] Possessing a mutation. MUTATES (9) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. 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MUZJIKS (29) MUZZIER (27) [adjective] Hazy, indistinct, blurred, unfocussed. | [adjective] Dazed; bewildered; tipsy. MUZZILY (30) MUZZLED (28) [verb] To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting. | [verb] To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor. | [verb] To veil, mask, muffle. MUZZLER (27) MUZZLES (27) [noun] The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws; the snout | [noun] The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech. | [noun] A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout. MYALGIA (13) [noun] Muscular pain or tenderness. MYALGIC (15) MYCELES (14) MYCELIA (14) [noun] The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground. MYCOSES (14) [noun] An infection caused by a fungus. 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The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick. | [verb] To cut or chop with a machete. | [verb] To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete. MACHINED (16) [verb] To make by machinery. | [verb] To shape or finish by machinery. | [adjective] Created by machine, or as though created by machine. MACHINES (15) [noun] A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect. | [noun] A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane. | [noun] (abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail. MACHISMO (17) [noun] Exaggerated masculinity MACHREES (15) MACHZORS (24) [noun] A prayerbook for a Jewish holiday. MACKEREL (16) [noun] An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled. | [noun] A pimp; also, a bawd. MACKINAW (19) [noun] A heavy woolen cloth. | [noun] A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government. | [noun] A flat-bottomed cargo boat; mackinaw boat. MACKLING (17) MACRAMES (14) MACRURAL (12) MACRURAN (12) [noun] Any of many decapod crustaceans, such as the lobster and shrimp, that were once included in the subdivision Macrura MACULATE (12) [verb] To spot; to stain; to blur. | [adjective] Marked with spots or maculae; blotched. | [adjective] Defiled; impure. MACULING (13) MACUMBAS (16) MADDENED (13) [verb] To make angry. | [verb] To make insane; to inflame with passion. | [verb] To become furious. MADEIRAS (11) [noun] Madeira (wine) MADHOUSE (14) [noun] A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum. | [noun] (by extension) A chaotic place. MADONNAS (11) [noun] A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board. MADRASES (11) MADRIGAL (12) [noun] A song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy. | [noun] A polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy. | [noun] A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music. MADRONAS (11) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MADRONES (11) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MADRONOS (11) [noun] The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). | [noun] Any of three local relatives: MADWOMAN (16) [noun] A woman who is insane. MADWOMEN (16) [noun] A woman who is insane. MADWORTS (14) MADZOONS (20) MAENADES (11) MAENADIC (13) MAESTOSO (10) [adverb] Majestically MAESTROS (10) [noun] A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor. | [noun] A gang elder in prison. 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MAINLINE (10) [noun] An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries. | [noun] The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off. | [verb] To inject (a drug) directly into a vein. MAINMAST (12) [noun] The chief, and tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast. MAINSAIL (10) [noun] The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel. MAINSTAY (13) [noun] A chief support. | [noun] Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution. | [noun] A stabilising rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast. MAINTAIN (10) [verb] To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action. | [verb] To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.). | [verb] To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert. MAINTOPS (12) [noun] A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging. MAIOLICA (12) [noun] Alternative form of majolica 2. MAJAGUAS (18) MAJESTIC (19) [adjective] Having qualities of splendor or royalty. MAJOLICA (19) [noun] Earthenware decorated with coloured lead glazes applied directly to an unglazed body. | [noun] Earthenware coated with opaque white tin glaze ornamented with metal oxide colour(s). MAJORING (18) [verb] To concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university MAJORITY (20) [noun] More than half (50%) of some group. | [noun] The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes. | [noun] Legal adulthood. MAKEABLE (16) MAKEBATE (16) MAKEFAST (17) MAKEOVER (17) [noun] A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation. MAKIMONO (16) MALACCAS (14) MALADIES (11) [noun] Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. | [noun] A moral or mental defect or disorder. MALAISES (10) [noun] A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness. | [noun] An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression. | [noun] Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone. MALAMUTE (12) [noun] A ancient northern breed of dog of the husky type, particularly used as a sled dog. MALANGAS (11) [noun] Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma; yautia. | [noun] Taro (Colocasia esculenta) | [noun] The edible tuber of these plants, some of which have medicinal value. MALAPERT (12) [noun] A cheeky, impudent, or saucy person. | [adjective] Cheeky, impudent, saucy. MALAPROP (14) [noun] A malapropism. | [verb] To use a malapropism. | [adjective] Characterized by the use of malapropisms. MALARIAL (10) MALARIAN (10) MALARIAS (10) MALARKEY (17) [noun] (originally United States) Nonsense; rubbish. MALAROMA (12) MALEATES (10) [noun] Any salt or ester of maleic acid MALEDICT (13) MALEMIUT (12) MALEMUTE (12) [noun] A ancient northern breed of dog of the husky type, particularly used as a sled dog. MALENESS (10) MALIGNED (12) [verb] To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. | [verb] To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong. | [adjective] Assailed with contemptuous language MALIGNER (11) MALIGNLY (14) MALIHINI (13) MALINGER (11) [verb] To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk. | [verb] To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk. MALISONS (10) [noun] A curse, a malediction. MALLARDS (11) [noun] A common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos, whose male has a distinctive dark green head. 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MAMMITIS (14) MAMMOCKS (20) MAMMOTHS (17) [noun] Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia. | [noun] A mastodon. | [noun] Something very large of its kind. MANACLED (13) [verb] To confine with manacles. MANACLES (12) [noun] A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement. | [noun] A fetter, a restriction. | [noun] A plurale tantum with same meanings as manacle. MANAGERS (11) [noun] A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team. | [noun] The head coach. | [noun] An administrator, for a singer or group. MANAGING (12) [verb] To direct or be in charge of. | [verb] To handle or control (a situation, job). | [verb] To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). MANAKINS (14) [noun] Any of several small South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae. | [noun] A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person. MANATEES (10) [noun] Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions. MANATOID (11) MANCHETS (15) [noun] A type of high-quality bread made from flour. MANCIPLE (14) [noun] A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law. MANDALAS (11) [noun] A graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deities. | [noun] Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation. | [noun] A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are 10). MANDALIC (13) MANDAMUS (13) [noun] A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly. | [verb] To serve a writ of this kind upon. MANDARIN (11) [noun] A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire | [noun] A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat | [noun] A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles | [noun] (color) an orange colour MANDATED (12) [verb] To authorize | [verb] To make mandatory | [adjective] Required, mandatory MANDATES (11) [noun] An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. | [noun] The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate. | [noun] A papal rescript. MANDATOR (11) MANDIBLE (13) [noun] The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone. | [noun] One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod, designed for holding and cutting food. MANDIOCA (13) MANDOLAS (11) [noun] A stringed musical instrument resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower. MANDOLIN (11) [noun] A stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back | [noun] A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline) | [noun] An RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport and other ground targets MANDRAKE (15) [noun] A mandragora, a kind of tiny demon immune to fire. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses. | [noun] A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes. MANDRELS (11) [noun] A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it. | [noun] A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved. MANDRILL (11) [noun] A primate, Mandrillus sphinx, with colorful face and rump. MANDRILS (11) MANELESS (10) MANEUVER (13) [noun] The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. | [noun] Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. | [noun] A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. MANFULLY (16) [adverb] In a manful manner; with the characteristics considered typical of a man, such as strength, courage, and determination. MANGABEY (16) [noun] Any of several large, arboreal monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae. MANGANIC (13) [adjective] Containing manganese in its higher oxidation states. MANGIEST (11) [adjective] Afflicted with mange. | [adjective] (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. MANGLERS (11) MANGLING (12) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [verb] To wring laundry. MANGOLDS (12) [noun] Mangelwurzel MANGONEL (11) [noun] A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and burning objects. MANGROVE (14) [noun] Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in shallow coastal water. | [noun] A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp. | [noun] Plants of the Rhizophoraceae family. MANHOLES (13) [noun] A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations. | [noun] A hole providing access to the inside of a boiler, tank etc. | [noun] A man's anus, in a sexual context. MANHOODS (14) MANHUNTS (13) [noun] An organized search for a criminal or enemy. MANIACAL (12) [adjective] Like a maniac; insane; frenzied. MANICURE (12) [noun] A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails. | [noun] A manicurist. | [verb] To trim the fingernails MANIFEST (13) [noun] A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship. | [noun] A file containing metadata describing other files. | [noun] A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. MANIFOLD (14) [noun] A copy made by the manifold writing process. | [noun] A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum. | [verb] To make manifold; multiply. MANIHOTS (13) MANIKINS (14) [noun] A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person. | [noun] A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes MANILLAS (10) [noun] A penannular armlet, mostly in bronze, copper or gold, which served as a form of money or barter coinage amongst certain West African peoples. MANILLES (10) [noun] The second-highest trump in certain card games. | [noun] A card game played with a deck of 32, in which the ten (or ‘manille’) is the highest in each suit. MANIOCAS (12) MANIPLES (12) [noun] A division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally) any small body of soldiers. | [noun] In Western Christianity, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes the Church of England. | [noun] A hand; a fist. MANITOUS (10) [noun] A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians. MANLIEST (10) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a man. | [adjective] Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble. MANNERED (11) [adjective] (often in combination) Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms. MANNERLY (13) [adjective] Polite, having good manners. | [adverb] Politely; with good manners. MANNIKIN (14) [noun] A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment). | [noun] A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person. | [noun] A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes MANNITES (10) MANNITIC (12) MANNITOL (10) [noun] A polyhydroxy alcohol, an isomer of sorbitol, used as an artificial sweetener MANNOSES (10) MANORIAL (10) MANPOWER (15) [noun] The total number of all available workers; the workforce. | [noun] The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.) MANROPES (12) [noun] Each of the side ropes to a gangway or ladder of a ship. MANSARDS (11) [noun] A mansard roof | [noun] The upper storey of a building, surrounded by such a roof MANSIONS (10) [noun] A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy. | [noun] A luxurious flat (apartment). | [noun] A house provided for a clergyman; a manse. MANTEAUS (10) [noun] A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries. MANTEAUX (17) MANTELET (10) [noun] A short sleeveless cloak or cape. | [noun] A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege. | [noun] A mantelletta. MANTILLA (10) [noun] A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders. | [noun] A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material. MANTISES (10) [noun] Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs. | [noun] A green colour, like that of many mantises. MANTISSA (10) [noun] A minor addition to a text. | [noun] The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm. | [noun] The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits. MANTLETS (10) [noun] A short sleeveless cloak or cape. | [noun] A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege. | [noun] A mantelletta. MANTLING (11) [verb] To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise. | [verb] To become covered or concealed. | [verb] To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes). MANTRAPS (12) [noun] A mechanical device for catching trespassers. | [noun] A small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens, used to restrict access. | [noun] A woman who is dangerously seductive to men. MANUALLY (13) [adverb] By hand MANUBRIA (12) [noun] The broad, upper part of the sternum. | [noun] The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth. | [noun] A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ. MANUMITS (12) [verb] To release from slavery, to free. MANURERS (10) MANURIAL (10) MANURING (11) [verb] To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. | [verb] To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver). | [noun] An application of manure. MANWARDS (14) MANYFOLD (17) [adjective] Many | [adverb] By many times. MAPMAKER (18) [noun] A person who makes maps. MAPPABLE (16) MAPPINGS (15) [noun] The process of making maps. | [noun] The process of locating genes on a chromosome. | [noun] Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network. MAQUETTE (19) [noun] A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture. | [verb] To prepare a maquette (of). MARABOUS (12) [noun] Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging. | [noun] A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. | [noun] A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring. MARABOUT (12) [noun] A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa. | [noun] The tomb or shrine of such a person. MARANTAS (10) MARASCAS (12) MARASMIC (14) MARASMUS (12) [noun] Any wasting disease, especially a severe loss of body weight, in children, caused by malnutrition or the inability to digest protein MARATHON (13) [noun] A 42.195 kilometre (26 mile 385 yard) road race. | [noun] (by extension) Any extended or sustained activity. | [verb] To run a marathon. MARAUDED (12) [verb] To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [verb] To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner. | [verb] To raid and pillage. MARAUDER (11) [noun] Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder. | [noun] By extension anything which marauds. MARAVEDI (14) [noun] A former Spanish coin and unit of currency, originally issued in gold but later in silver and copper, discontinued in 1848. MARBLERS (12) MARBLIER (12) MARBLING (13) [verb] To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly. | [verb] To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants. | [verb] To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble. MARCHERS (15) [noun] An inhabitant of a march (border country); specifically, a marcher lord. | [noun] A border territory, a march (now only in (attributive) use). | [noun] One who marches; one who participates in a march. MARCHESA (15) [noun] An Italian marchioness. MARCHESE (15) [noun] An Italian marquis. MARCHESI (15) [noun] An Italian marquis. MARCHING (16) [verb] To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. | [verb] To cause someone to walk somewhere. | [verb] To go to war; to make military advances. MARGARIC (13) MARGARIN (11) MARGENTS (11) MARGINAL (11) [noun] Something that is marginal. | [noun] A constituency won with a small margin. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge). MARGINED (12) [verb] To add a margin to. | [verb] To enter (notes etc.) into the margin. | [adjective] Having a margin. MARGRAVE (14) [noun] A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area. | [noun] A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess. MARIACHI (15) [noun] A traditional form of Mexican music, either sung or purely instrumental. | [noun] A group that plays mariachi music. | [noun] A member of such a group. MARIGOLD (12) [noun] (genericised brand name, usually plural, sometimes with capital) A rubber glove, especially one for use in household cleaning. | [noun] Any of the Old World plants, of the genus Calendula, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers. | [noun] Any of the New World plants, of the genus Tagetes, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers. MARIMBAS (14) [noun] A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch. MARINADE (11) [noun] A seasoned, often acidic liquid mixture in which food is marinated, or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking. | [verb] To marinate. MARINARA (10) [noun] A marinara sauce. | [adjective] Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce. | [adjective] Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping. MARINATE (10) [verb] To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking. MARINERS (10) [noun] A sailor. MARIPOSA (12) MARISHES (13) MARITIME (12) [adjective] Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.). | [adjective] Bordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal. | [adjective] Inhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine) MARJORAM (19) [noun] A herb of the mint family, Origanum majorana, having aromatic leaves. | [noun] The leaves of this plant used in flavouring food. MARKDOWN (18) [noun] A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales. MARKEDLY (18) [adverb] In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously. MARKETED (15) [verb] To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. | [verb] To sell | [verb] To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. MARKETER (14) [noun] One who designs and executes marketing campaigns. | [noun] One who sells goods at a market. MARKHOOR (17) MARKHORS (17) [noun] A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, especially (Capra falconeri megaceros, syn. Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns., found in the western Himalayas. MARKINGS (15) [noun] The action of the verb to mark. | [noun] A mark. | [noun] The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal. MARKSMAN (16) [noun] A man or person skilled at hitting targets, as with a firearm, bow, or thrown object. | [noun] Goalscorer. MARKSMEN (16) [noun] A man or person skilled at hitting targets, as with a firearm, bow, or thrown object. | [noun] Goalscorer. MARLIEST (10) MARLINES (10) MARLINGS (11) MARLITES (10) MARLITIC (12) MARMITES (12) [noun] A rounded earthenware cooking pot. MARMOSET (12) [noun] A small monkey, now specifically a Central and South American monkey of the genera Callithrix, Mico, Cebuella, or Callibella, with claws instead of nails, and a rather primitive layout. | [noun] A hideous figure; a grotesque. | [noun] An unappealing or foolish man. MAROCAIN (12) [noun] A heavy crepe fabric of silk, wool, or both, having a cross-ribbed texture, used for apparel. MAROONED (11) [verb] To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island. MARPLOTS (12) MARQUEES (19) [noun] A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. | [noun] A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. | [noun] (by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. MARQUESS (19) [noun] A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl. MARQUISE (19) [noun] A marchioness, especially one who is French. | [noun] A marquee. | [noun] (jewelry) An oval cut diamond with pointed ends. MARRANOS (10) [noun] A Jew who converted to Catholicism under threat or force. MARRIAGE (11) [noun] The state of being married. | [noun] A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities. | [noun] A homosexual relationship between male prisoners. MARRIEDS (11) [noun] A married person. MARRIERS (10) MARROWED (14) MARRYING (14) [verb] To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. | [verb] (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. | [verb] To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. MARSALAS (10) MARSHALL (13) MARSHALS (13) [noun] A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general. | [noun] A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal. | [noun] A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering. MARSHIER (13) [adjective] Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy. | [adjective] Growing in marshy ground. MARSUPIA (12) [noun] The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young. | [noun] A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae. MARTAGON (11) MARTELLO (10) [noun] Martello tower MARTIANS (10) MARTINET (10) [noun] A strict disciplinarian. | [noun] Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules. | [noun] A martin; a swift. MARTINIS (10) [noun] A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth. | [noun] (sometimes proscribed) Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women. MARTLETS (10) [noun] A bird, the martin. | [noun] A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet. MARTYRED (14) [verb] To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession. | [verb] To persecute. | [verb] To torment; to torture. MARTYRLY (16) MARVELED (14) [verb] To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. | [verb] To marvel at. | [verb] (used impersonally) To cause to marvel or be surprised. MARYJANE (20) MARZIPAN (21) [noun] A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder. | [verb] To cover with marzipan. MASCARAS (12) [noun] A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes. MASKABLE (16) MASKINGS (15) MASKLIKE (18) MASONING (11) [verb] (normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons MASQUERS (19) [noun] One who appears in disguise at a masquerade. MASSACRE (12) [noun] The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. | [noun] Murder. | [noun] Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport. MASSAGED (12) [verb] To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody). | [verb] To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with. | [verb] To falsify (data or accounts). MASSAGER (11) MASSAGES (11) [noun] The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches. | [verb] To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody). | [verb] To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with. MASSCULT (12) MASSEDLY (14) MASSETER (10) [noun] The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication. MASSEURS (10) [noun] (massage) A person (especially male) who performs massage. | [noun] An instrument used in the performance of massage. MASSEUSE (10) [noun] A woman who performs massage; a female masseur. | [noun] A masseur; a man who performs massage. MASSICOT (12) [noun] Lead monoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment; also, lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb3O4. MASSIEST (10) MASSLESS (10) MASTABAH (15) [noun] A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East. | [noun] A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions. MASTABAS (12) [noun] A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East. | [noun] A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions. MASTERED (11) [verb] To be a master. | [verb] To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue. | [verb] To learn to a high degree of proficiency. MASTERLY (13) [adjective] Executed in the manner of a master; showing competence and skill; masterful. | [adjective] (usually derogatory) Like a master; arbitrary; domineering, imperious. | [adverb] In a masterful manner; competently, masterfully. MASTHEAD (14) [noun] The top of a mast. | [noun] A list of a newspaper or other periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc. | [noun] The title (normally in a large and distinctive font) of a newspaper at the top of the front page MASTICHE (15) MASTIFFS (16) [noun] One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs. MASTITIC (12) MASTITIS (10) [noun] Inflammation of a breast. MASTIXES (17) MASTLESS (10) MASTLIKE (14) MASTODON (11) [noun] Extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammut that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differs from elephants and mammoths in the form of the molar teeth. MASTOIDS (11) [noun] The mastoid process. MASURIUM (12) MATADORS (11) [noun] The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight. | [noun] A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way. | [noun] The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat. MATCHBOX (24) [noun] A small cardboard box in which matches are kept. | [noun] Any small die-cast toy car, usually collectible. MATCHERS (15) MATCHING (16) [verb] To agree; to be equal; to correspond. | [verb] To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to. | [verb] To make a successful match or pairing. MATCHUPS (17) [noun] A pairing of two things, people or teams, especially for a competition MATELESS (10) MATELOTE (10) [noun] A stew made primarily with fish and wine. | [noun] An old sailors' dance in double time, somewhat like a hornpipe. MATELOTS (10) [noun] Sailor; also "mate;" boon companion MATERIAL (10) [noun] Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something. | [noun] Text written for a specific purpose. | [noun] A sample or specimens for study. MATERIEL (10) [noun] Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies. MATERNAL (10) [noun] A mother. | [noun] A person related through the mother, or her side of the family; a maternal relative. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly. MATESHIP (15) [noun] The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate. | [noun] (whaling) A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition. | [noun] Fellowship; companionship. MATILDAS (11) [noun] A bundle of possessions, often tied up in a sack; a swag. MATINEES (10) [noun] A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | [noun] A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner. | [verb] To put on a matinee performance (of). MATINESS (10) MATRICES (12) [noun] The womb. | [noun] The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded. | [noun] An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants. MATRIXES (17) [noun] The womb. | [noun] The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded. | [noun] An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants. MATRONAL (10) MATRONLY (13) [adjective] In the capacity of a matron; serving as a housekeeper or head nurse. | [adjective] Exuding the authority, wisdom, power, and intelligence of an experienced woman. | [adjective] Having the appearance of a mature woman, often of larger physical stature and somewhat unkempt or dowdy. MATTEDLY (14) MATTERED (11) [verb] To be important. | [verb] (in negative constructions) To care about, to mind; to find important. | [verb] To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. MATTINGS (11) MATTOCKS (16) [noun] An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe. MATTOIDS (11) MATTRASS (10) MATTRESS (10) [noun] A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric. | [noun] A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment | [verb] To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket. MATURATE (10) [verb] To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. | [verb] To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess). | [verb] To undergo perfect suppuration. MATURELY (13) MATUREST (10) [adjective] Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe. | [adjective] Brought to a state of complete readiness. | [adjective] Profound; careful. MATURING (11) [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). | [verb] (of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe. | [verb] To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion. MATURITY (13) [noun] The state of being mature, ready or ripe. | [noun] When bodily growth has completed and/or reproduction can begin. | [noun] The state of a debt obligation at the end of the term of maturation thereof, once all interest and any applicable fees have accrued to the principal. MATZOONS (19) MAUMETRY (15) MAUNDERS (11) [verb] To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle. | [verb] To wander or walk aimlessly. | [verb] To beg; to whine like a beggar. MAUNDIES (11) MAUSOLEA (10) [noun] A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs. | [noun] (by extension) A gloomy, usually large room or building. MAVERICK (19) [noun] An unbranded range animal. | [noun] (by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained. | [noun] (by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. MAXICOAT (19) MAXILLAE (17) [noun] Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw. | [noun] (arthropodology) One of a set of paired mouthparts found in many arthropods and used for tasting and manipulating food. MAXILLAS (17) MAXIMALS (19) MAXIMINS (19) [noun] In decision theory and game theory etc, a rule to identify the worst outcome of each possible option to find one's best (maximum payoff) play. MAXIMISE (19) [verb] To make as large as possible | [verb] To expand (a window) to fill the main display area MAXIMITE (19) MAXIMIZE (28) [verb] To make as large as possible | [verb] To expand (a window) to fill the main display area MAXIMUMS (21) [noun] The highest limit | [noun] The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function | [noun] An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set MAXWELLS (20) [noun] A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second. MAYAPPLE (17) [noun] A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum. | [noun] The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum MAYFLIES (16) [noun] Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults. MAYORESS (13) [noun] A female mayor. | [noun] The wife of a (male) mayor. | [noun] A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress. MAYPOLES (15) [noun] A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day. | [noun] A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird. | [noun] A penis, especially a large one. MAYWEEDS (17) [noun] Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. | [noun] Corn chamomile, field chamomile, Anthemis arvensis. | [noun] Plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum. MAZAEDIA (20) MAZELIKE (23) [adjective] Like a maze; labyrinthine. MAZINESS (19) MAZOURKA (23) MAZURKAS (23) [noun] A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat. | [noun] A classical musical composition inspired by the folk dance and conforming in some respects to its form, particularly as popularized by Chopin. | [noun] A figure skating move that combines elements of the toe loop and bunny-hop. MAZZARDS (29) [noun] A sweet cherry, Prunus avium MEAGERLY (14) MEAGRELY (14) MEALIEST (10) [adjective] Resembling meal (the foodstuff). MEALLESS (10) MEALTIME (12) [noun] The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten. MEALWORM (15) [noun] The larval stage of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor), a species of darkling beetle.. MEALYBUG (16) [noun] Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees. MEANDERS (11) [noun] A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art. | [noun] A structural motif in proteins consisting of four adjacent antiparallel strands and their linking loops. | [noun] One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course. MEANINGS (11) [noun] (of words or symbols) The entity, perception, feeling or concept thereby represented or evoked. | [noun] The value, purpose, importance, point or significance (of something beyond the fact of that thing's existence). | [noun] The object or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says. MEANNESS (10) [noun] The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions) | [noun] A mean act. MEANTIME (12) [noun] The time spent waiting for another event; time in between. | [adverb] During the interval; meanwhile MEASLIER (10) [adjective] Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms). | [adjective] Of a person: infected with measles. | [adjective] Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount. MEASURED (11) [verb] To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard. | [verb] To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement) | [verb] To estimate the unit size of something. MEASURER (10) MEASURES (10) [noun] A prescribed quantity or extent. | [noun] The act or result of measuring. | [noun] Metrical rhythm. MEATBALL (12) [noun] A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked. | [noun] A stupid person. | [noun] An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate. MEATHEAD (14) [noun] An ungainly, dull or stupid person; someone who is lazy, disrespectful and/or whose beliefs and philosophies clash with another. | [noun] A large, muscular, stupid male, especially an athlete. | [noun] A member of the Canadian Forces Military Police. MEATIEST (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, or containing meat. | [adjective] Resembling meat in flavour, etc. | [adjective] Of a person or a body part, large and solid. MEATLESS (10) MEATLOAF (13) [noun] A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices. MEATUSES (10) [noun] A tubular opening or passage in the body. MECHANIC (17) [noun] A manual worker; a labourer or artisan. | [noun] Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar. | [noun] A device, command, or feature which allows someone to achieve a specific task. MECONIUM (14) [noun] A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn | [noun] Opium MEDALING (12) [verb] To win a medal. | [verb] To award a medal to. MEDALIST (11) [noun] One who has received a medal; one who has medalled. | [noun] An engraver, designer or collector of medals. MEDALLED (12) [verb] To win a medal. | [verb] To award a medal to. MEDALLIC (13) MEDDLERS (12) MEDDLING (13) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MEDEVACS (16) [noun] The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. | [noun] A vehicle, typically aircraft, used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. | [noun] Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. MEDFLIES (14) [noun] A small fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, native to the Mediterranean. MEDIALLY (14) MEDIANLY (14) MEDIANTS (11) [noun] The third degree of the diatonic scale. | [noun] A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers. MEDIATED (12) [verb] To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. | [verb] To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement. | [verb] To divide into two equal parts. MEDIATES (11) [verb] To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. | [verb] To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement. | [verb] To divide into two equal parts. MEDIATOR (11) [noun] One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement. | [noun] A chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell. MEDICAID (14) MEDICALS (13) [noun] A medical examination. MEDICARE (13) MEDICATE (13) [verb] To prescribe or administer medication to. MEDICINE (13) [noun] A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way. | [noun] A treatment or cure. | [noun] The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness. MEDIEVAL (14) [noun] Someone living in the Middle Ages. | [noun] A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context). | [adjective] Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. MEDIOCRE (13) [noun] A person of minor significance, accomplishment or acclaim; a common and undistinguished person. | [noun] A member of a socioeconomic class between the upper ranks of society and the agricultural workers. | [adjective] Having no peculiar or outstanding features; not extraordinary, special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality, almost always with a negative connotation. MEDITATE (11) [verb] To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study. | [verb] To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious. | [verb] To consider; to reflect on. MEDULLAE (11) MEDULLAR (11) MEDULLAS (11) [noun] The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit. | [noun] The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones. | [noun] The medulla oblongata. MEDUSANS (11) MEDUSOID (12) [noun] Jellyfish | [adjective] Having the shape of a jellyfish MEEKNESS (14) [noun] The state or quality of being meek. MEERKATS (14) [noun] Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs. MEETINGS (11) [noun] (gerund) The act of persons or things that meet. | [noun] A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. | [noun] (collective) The people at such a gathering. MEETNESS (10) MEGABARS (13) MEGABITS (13) [noun] 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes) | [noun] 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit | [noun] One megabit per second MEGABUCK (19) [noun] A million dollars. MEGABYTE (16) [noun] One million (106) bytes. | [noun] 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. MEGACITY (16) [noun] A very large city; a megalopolis. MEGADEAL (12) MEGADOSE (12) [noun] A dose of drug or vitamin far exceeding the normal or recommended amount, and usually given intentionally. Compare overdose. | [verb] To dose (a patient) with a very large amount of a drug. | [verb] To dose with a very large amount of (a drug). MEGADYNE (15) MEGAHITS (14) MEGALITH (14) [noun] A construction involving one or several roughly hewn stone slabs of great size. | [noun] A large stone used in such a construction. MEGALOPS (13) MEGAPODE (14) [noun] Any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat. | [adjective] Characteristic of the Megapodiidae. MEGAPODS (14) MEGASSES (11) MEGASTAR (11) [noun] A very famous or successful celebrity. MEGATONS (11) [noun] A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. MEGAVOLT (14) [noun] One million (106) volts, abbreviated as MV. MEGAWATT (14) [noun] One million (1 000 000) watts, abbreviated as MW. MEGILLAH (14) MEGILPHS (16) MELAMDIM (15) MELAMINE (12) [noun] A strong aromatic heterocyclic base, triaminotriazine, used in combination with formaldehyde to manufacture melamine resins; any such resin, such as Formica MELANGES (11) [noun] A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture. | [noun] A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee. | [noun] A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment. MELANIAN (10) MELANICS (12) MELANINS (10) MELANISM (12) [noun] Congenital excess of melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair, feathers and/or eyes. MELANIST (10) MELANITE (10) [noun] A black variety of andradite. MELANIZE (19) MELANOID (11) [adjective] Relating to, or resembling, melanin. | [adjective] Relating to, or afflicted with, melanosis. MELANOMA (12) [noun] A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin. MELANOUS (10) MELILITE (10) MELILOTS (10) [noun] A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers. MELINITE (10) MELISMAS (12) [noun] A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant. MELLIFIC (15) MELLOWED (14) [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. MELLOWER (13) [adjective] Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp. | [adjective] Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid. | [adjective] Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. MELLOWLY (16) MELODEON (11) [noun] A music hall. | [noun] A type of reed organ with a single keyboard. | [noun] An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys. MELODIAS (11) MELODICA (13) [noun] A free-reed keyboard wind instrument. MELODIES (11) [noun] Tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase MELODISE (11) [verb] To compose or play melodies. | [verb] To make melodious; to write a melody for (existing text). MELODIST (11) [noun] A performer or composer of melodies. MELODIZE (20) [verb] To compose or play melodies. | [verb] To make melodious; to write a melody for (existing text). MELTABLE (12) MELTAGES (11) MELTDOWN (14) [noun] Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping. | [noun] A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis. | [noun] A tantrum. MEMBERED (15) [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified number of members. | [adjective] (in combination) Having limbs. | [adjective] (of a bird) Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body. MEMBRANE (14) [noun] A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal). | [noun] A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force. | [noun] A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water. MEMENTOS (12) [noun] A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event. MEMORIAL (12) [noun] Memory; recollection. | [noun] Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered. | [noun] A chronicle or memoir. MEMORIES (12) [noun] The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will. | [noun] A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism. | [noun] The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM). MEMORISE (12) [verb] To learn by heart, commit to memory. MEMORIZE (21) [verb] To learn by heart, commit to memory. MEMSAHIB (17) [noun] (as a respectful term of address) A white European woman in colonial India. MENACERS (12) MENACING (13) [verb] To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. | [verb] To threaten (an evil to be inflicted). | [verb] To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize. MENARCHE (15) [noun] The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period. MENAZONS (19) MENDABLE (13) MENDIGOS (12) MENDINGS (12) MENFOLKS (17) [noun] Menfolk; male members of a group MENHADEN (14) [noun] Any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait. MENIALLY (13) MENINGES (11) [noun] (chiefly plural) The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord. MENISCAL (12) MENISCUS (12) [noun] A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it. | [noun] A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section. | [noun] The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid. MENOLOGY (14) [noun] (often capitalized) A service book of the Eastern Orthodox Church that corresponds, though very roughly, to the proprium sanctorum of the Latin breviary. They include all the movable parts of the services connected with the commemoration of saints and in particular the canons sung in the Orthros, the office which corresponds with Catholic lauds, including the synaxaries, i. e. the historical notices regarding the saints of the day. | [noun] The tables of scriptural lessons, arranged according to months and saints' days, which are often found at the beginning of manuscripts of the gospels or other lectionaries. The saints' days are briefly named and the readings indicated beside each. | [noun] A collection of long lives of the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, whenever these lives, are arranged according to months and days of the year. MENORAHS (13) [noun] A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem. | [noun] A candelabrum (hanukkiah) with nine branches used in Jewish worship on Hanukkah. MENSCHEN (15) MENSCHES (15) [noun] A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity and honor or compassion. | [noun] A gentleman. MENSEFUL (13) [adjective] Decorous; mannerly; respectful and worth of respect MENSTRUA (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The menses; menstrual discharge. | [noun] A solvent. | [noun] Any liquid medium. MENSURAL (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to measure or measurement. | [adjective] Having a fixed rhythm. MENSWEAR (13) [noun] Men's clothing, particularly in a retail context. 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MISEVENT (13) MISFAITH (16) MISFIELD (14) [noun] A failure to field the ball properly. | [verb] To field the ball clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run. MISFILED (14) [verb] To file incorrectly; to file in the wrong place or the wrong way. MISFILES (13) [verb] To file incorrectly; to file in the wrong place or the wrong way. MISFIRED (14) [verb] To fail to discharge properly. | [verb] (of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence. | [verb] (by extension) To fail to achieve the anticipated result. MISFIRES (13) [noun] An act of misfiring. | [verb] To fail to discharge properly. | [verb] (of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence. MISFOCUS (15) MISFORMS (15) MISFRAME (15) MISGAUGE (12) MISGIVEN (14) [verb] (of the mind, heart, etc.) To give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute. | [verb] To suspect; to dread. | [verb] To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss. 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MISPLEAD (13) MISPOINT (12) MISPOISE (12) MISPRICE (14) MISPRINT (12) [noun] An accidental mistake in print. | [verb] To make a misprint. MISPRIZE (21) [noun] Contempt. | [verb] To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue. MISQUOTE (19) [noun] An incorrect recitation of a quote. | [noun] An incorrect recording of a quote. | [verb] To incorrectly recite a quote. MISRAISE (10) MISRATED (11) MISRATES (10) MISREADS (11) [noun] An instance of reading wrongly. | [verb] To read wrongly, normally by accident; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of. MISREFER (13) MISROUTE (10) [verb] To route incorrectly; to send the wrong way. MISRULED (11) [verb] Of a trial judge, to make a bad decision in court. | [verb] To rule badly; to misgovern. MISRULES (10) [noun] The state of being ruled badly; disorder, lawlessness, anarchy. | [noun] Misgovernment; bad or unjust government. 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MISSORTS (10) MISSOUND (11) MISSOUTS (10) MISSPACE (14) MISSPEAK (16) [verb] To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly. | [verb] To speak insultingly or disrespectfully. MISSPELL (12) [verb] To spell incorrectly. MISSPELT (12) [verb] To spell incorrectly. MISSPEND (13) [verb] To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely. MISSPENT (12) [verb] To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely. | [adjective] Spent in a bad way, squandered MISSPOKE (16) [verb] To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly. | [verb] To speak insultingly or disrespectfully. MISSTART (10) MISSTATE (10) [verb] To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue. MISSTEER (10) MISSTEPS (12) [verb] To step badly or incorrectly. | [verb] To make an error or mistake. MISSTOPS (12) MISSTYLE (13) MISSUITS (10) MISSUSES (10) MISTAKEN (14) [verb] To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. | [verb] To misunderstand (someone). | [verb] To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong. MISTAKER (14) MISTAKES (14) [noun] An error; a blunder. | [noun] A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place. | [verb] To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. MISTBOWS (15) MISTEACH (15) [verb] To teach incorrectly. MISTENDS (11) MISTERMS (12) MISTHINK (17) MISTHREW (16) MISTHROW (16) MISTIEST (10) [adjective] Covered in mist; foggy. | [adjective] Dim; vague; obscure. | [adjective] With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed. MISTIMED (13) [verb] To do at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events. | [adjective] Done at the wrong time. MISTIMES (12) [verb] To do at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events. MISTITLE (10) [verb] To title incorrectly; to give the wrong name to. MISTOUCH (15) MISTRACE (12) MISTRAIN (10) MISTRALS (10) [noun] A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean. MISTREAT (10) [verb] To treat someone, or something roughly or badly. MISTRESS (10) [noun] A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership | [noun] A female teacher | [noun] The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations MISTRIAL (10) [noun] A trial that has been declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of hung jury. MISTRUST (10) [noun] Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust. | [verb] To have no confidence in (something or someone). | [verb] To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone). 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MITOGENS (11) [noun] Any substance that stimulates mitosis MITSVAHS (16) MITSVOTH (16) MITTIMUS (12) [noun] (obsolete outside the United States) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody. | [noun] A writ for moving records from one court to another. | [noun] A formal dismissal from a situation. MITZVAHS (25) MITZVOTH (25) [noun] Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law | [noun] An act of kindness, a good deed. MIXOLOGY (21) [noun] The art of combining various ingredients to make cocktails. | [noun] The work of a disc jockey. MIXTURES (17) [noun] The act of mixing. | [noun] Something produced by mixing. | [noun] Something that consists of diverse elements. MIZZLING (29) [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. | [verb] To yield. MNEMONIC (14) [noun] Anything (especially something in verbal form) used to help remember something. | [noun] The textual, human-readable form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands. | [adjective] Of or relating to mnemonics: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily. MOATLIKE (14) MOBILISE (12) [verb] To make something mobile. | [verb] To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war. | [verb] To become made ready for war. MOBILITY (15) [noun] The ability to move; capacity for movement. | [noun] A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness. | [noun] The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position. MOBILIZE (21) [verb] To make something mobile. | [verb] To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war. | [verb] To become made ready for war. MOBOCRAT (14) MOBSTERS (12) [noun] A member of a mob or Mafia MOCCASIN (14) [noun] A traditional Native North American shoe, usually without a heel or sole, made of a piece of deerskin or other soft leather turned up at the edges which are either stitched together at the top of the shoe, or sewn to a vamp (a piece covering the top of the foot). | [noun] A modern shoe with either a low or no heel resembling a traditional Native American moccasin in that the leather forming the sides of the shoe is stitched at the top. | [noun] A light beige colour, like that of a moccasin. MOCHILAS (15) MOCKABLE (18) MODALITY (14) [noun] The fact of being modal. | [noun] The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode. | [noun] The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood MODELERS (11) MODELING (12) [verb] To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model | [verb] To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model | [verb] To make a miniature model of MODELIST (11) MODELLED (12) [verb] To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model | [verb] To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model | [verb] To make a miniature model of MODELLER (11) MODERATE (11) [noun] One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics. | [noun] One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843. | [verb] To reduce the excessiveness of (something) MODERATO (11) [noun] A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at a moderate tempo. | [noun] A passage having this mark | [adjective] (to be) played in this style MODERNER (11) MODERNLY (14) MODESTER (11) MODESTLY (14) [adverb] In a modest manner. MODICUMS (15) [noun] A modest, small, or trifling amount. MODIFIED (15) [noun] Any vehicle used in modified racing. | [adjective] Changed; altered | [verb] To change part of. MODIFIER (14) [noun] One who, or that which, modifies. | [noun] (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. | [noun] A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code. MODIFIES (14) [verb] To change part of. | [verb] To be or become modified. | [verb] To set bounds to; to moderate. MODIOLUS (11) [noun] The central core of the cochlea | [noun] A chiasma of facial muscles held together by fibrous tissue MODISHLY (17) MODISTES (11) [noun] A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats. MODULATE (11) [verb] To regulate, adjust or adapt | [verb] To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument | [verb] To vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music) MOFETTES (13) [noun] A volcanic discharge of carbon dioxide together with other, mostly smelly, gases MOFFETTE (16) MOIDORES (11) [noun] An old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732. MOIETIES (10) [noun] A half. | [noun] A share or portion, especially a smaller share. | [noun] Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups. MOISTENS (10) [verb] To make moist or moister. | [verb] To become moist or moister. MOISTEST (10) [verb] To moisten. | [adjective] Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp. | [adjective] Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears. MOISTFUL (13) MOISTURE (10) [noun] That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. | [noun] The state of being moist. | [noun] Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment. MOJARRAS (17) [noun] A perciform fish in the family Gerreidae, often used as bait. MOLALITY (13) MOLARITY (13) MOLASSES (10) [noun] A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar. | [noun] A shallow deposit of sandstone, shale and conglomerate in front of a rising mountain chain. MOLDABLE (13) MOLDERED (12) [verb] To decay or rot. MOLDIEST (11) [adjective] Covered with mold. | [adjective] Stale or musty. MOLDINGS (12) [noun] The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder. | [noun] Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal. | [noun] A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials. MOLDWARP (16) MOLECULE (12) [noun] The 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. | [noun] A tiny amount. MOLEHILL (13) [noun] A small mound of earth created by a mole's burrowing underneath the surface of the ground. MOLESKIN (14) [noun] The fur of a mole. | [noun] A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap. | [noun] (by extension, in the plural) Clothing made of this fabric. MOLESTED (11) [verb] To annoy intentionally. | [verb] To disturb or tamper with. | [verb] To sexually assault or sexually harass, especially a minor. MOLESTER (10) [verb] To annoy intentionally. | [verb] To disturb or tamper with. | [verb] To sexually assault or sexually harass, especially a minor. MOLLUSCS (12) [noun] A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces. | [noun] A weak-willed person. MOLLUSKS (14) [noun] A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces. | [noun] A weak-willed person. MOLTENLY (13) MOLYBDIC (18) MOMENTLY (15) [adverb] From moment to moment; continually. | [adverb] Momentarily; for a moment. MOMENTOS (12) MOMENTUM (14) [noun] Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity. | [noun] The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment. MONACHAL (15) [adjective] Of or pertaining to monks or their lifestyle; monastic. MONACIDS (13) MONADISM (13) [noun] A metaphysical theory, introduced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, based on elementary particles with blurred perceptions of one another. MONANDRY (14) [noun] The possession by a woman of only one husband at one time. MONARCHS (15) [noun] The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy. | [noun] The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, and others of genus Danaus, found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings. | [noun] (Aboriginal English) A police officer. MONARCHY (18) [noun] A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler). | [noun] The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom. | [noun] A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs. MONARDAS (11) MONASTIC (12) [noun] A person with monastic ways; a monk. | [adjective] Of or relating to monasteries or monks. MONAURAL (10) [adjective] Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with one ear. | [adjective] Monophonic MONAXIAL (17) MONAXONS (17) MONAZITE (19) [noun] Any of a range of reddish-brown minerals that are mixed phosphates of the lighter rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium and yttrium MONECIAN (12) MONELLIN (10) MONERANS (10) MONETARY (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money. MONETISE (10) [verb] To convert something (especially a security) into currency. | [verb] To mint money. | [verb] To establish a currency as legal tender. MONETIZE (19) [verb] To convert something (especially a security) into currency. | [verb] To mint money. | [verb] To establish a currency as legal tender. MONEYBAG (16) MONEYERS (13) [noun] A moneylender. | [noun] Someone who makes coins; an official minter. MONEYMAN (15) [noun] Someone tasked with handling money, often specifically a financier MONEYMEN (15) [noun] Someone tasked with handling money, often specifically a financier MONGEESE (11) MONGERED (12) MONGOOSE (11) [noun] Any of several species of generalist predatory Carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. The Indian mongoose is noted as a predator of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits. | [noun] Any species of Malagasy mongoose; only distantly related to the Herpestidae, these are members of the family Eupleridae; they resemble mongooses in appearance and habits, but have larger ears and ringed tails. MONGRELS (11) [noun] Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog. | [noun] A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person. MONICKER (16) [noun] A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute. | [noun] A signature. | [noun] An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location. MONIKERS (14) [noun] A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute. | [noun] A signature. | [noun] An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location. MONISHED (14) MONISHES (13) MONISTIC (12) MONITION (10) [noun] A caution or warning. | [noun] A legal notification of something. | [noun] A sign of impending danger; an omen. MONITIVE (13) MONITORS (10) [noun] Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone. | [noun] A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something. | [noun] A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer. MONITORY (13) [noun] A written letter giving admonition | [adjective] Giving admonition and warning MONKEYED (18) [verb] To meddle; to mess (with). | [verb] To mimic; to ape. MONKFISH (20) [noun] Any large bottom-dwelling anglerfish of the genus Lophius, such as Lophius piscatorius, of the Atlantic, having a large head and mouth. | [noun] Angel sharks of the genus Squatina. MONKHOOD (18) MONOACID (13) [noun] Any acid that has only one replaceable hydrogen ion. MONOCARP (14) MONOCLED (13) MONOCLES (12) [noun] A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye. | [noun] A one-eyed animal. MONOCOTS (12) [noun] Any plant whose seedlings typically have one cotyledon (seed leaf) (in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots), thereby belonging to the taxonomic monocots, formerly variously known as Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, or Liliopsida, a class in the angiosperms (Angiospermae), the flowering plants. MONOCRAT (12) MONOCYTE (15) [noun] A type of blood leukocyte that differentiates into a macrophage. MONODIES (11) [noun] An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge. | [noun] Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy. | [noun] A monotonous or mournful noise. MONODIST (11) MONOFILS (13) [noun] A monofilament yarn. MONOFUEL (13) MONOGAMY (16) [noun] A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings. | [noun] The practice of being married to one person as opposed to multiple. MONOGENY (14) [noun] Monogenesis | [noun] The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin. MONOGERM (13) MONOGLOT (11) [noun] A person capable of speaking only a single language. | [adjective] Capable of speaking only a single language; monolingual. MONOGRAM (13) [noun] A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch. | [noun] A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry. | [noun] A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution. MONOGYNY (17) [noun] The practice of having one wife at a time. | [noun] The condition in ants of having only one queen at a time. MONOHULL (13) [noun] A boat that has a single hull. MONOLITH (13) [noun] A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times. | [noun] Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure. | [noun] A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc. MONOLOGS (11) [noun] (authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters. | [noun] A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment. | [noun] A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. MONOLOGY (14) MONOMERS (12) [noun] A relatively small molecule which can be covalently bonded to other monomers to form a polymer. MONOMIAL (12) [noun] A single term consisting of a product of numbers and variables with positive integer exponents. | [adjective] Relative to a polynomial consisting of one term. MONOPODE (13) MONOPODY (16) MONOPOLE (12) [noun] An appellation owned by a single winery. | [noun] A magnetic monopole. | [noun] A monopole antenna. MONOPOLY (15) [noun] A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it. | [noun] An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession. | [noun] The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control. MONORAIL (10) [noun] A railroad system where the trains run on one rail | [noun] A train running on a single rail MONOSOME (12) [noun] The chromosome whose homologous counterpart is missing in monosomy. MONOSOMY (15) [noun] A genetic disorder with the presence of only one chromosome (instead of the typical two in humans) from a pair. MONOTINT (10) [noun] A monochrome print. MONOTONE (10) [noun] A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound. | [noun] A piece of writing in one strain throughout. | [verb] To speak in a monotone. MONOTONY (13) [noun] Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety. | [noun] The property of a monotonic function. | [noun] The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch. MONOTYPE (15) [noun] A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper. | [noun] The technique of making such prints. | [noun] A monotypic taxon. MONOXIDE (18) [noun] Any oxide containing a single oxygen atom in each molecule or formula unit MONSIEUR (10) [noun] A man, especially a French gentleman. MONSOONS (10) [noun] Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season. | [noun] Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions. | [noun] The rains themselves. MONSTERA (10) [noun] Any of the plants of the genus Monstera. MONSTERS (10) [noun] A terrifying and dangerous creature. | [noun] A bizarre or whimsical creature. | [noun] A cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal. MONTAGED (12) MONTAGES (11) [noun] A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. | [noun] The art or process of doing this. MONTANES (10) MONTEITH (13) [noun] A bowl used for the cooling or washing of wine glasses. | [noun] A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped. | [noun] A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background. MONTEROS (10) MONUMENT (12) [noun] A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration. | [noun] An important site owned by the community as a whole. | [noun] An exceptional or proud achievement. MONURONS (10) MOOCHERS (15) [noun] A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves. MOOCHING (16) [verb] To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others. | [verb] To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain. | [verb] To steal or filch. MOODIEST (11) [adjective] Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental. | [adjective] Sulky or depressed. | [adjective] Dour, gloomy or brooding. MOONBEAM (14) [noun] A shaft of moonlight. | [noun] Moonlight generally. | [noun] Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Philiris. MOONBOWS (15) MOONCALF (15) [noun] An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception. | [noun] A poorly-conceived idea or plan. | [noun] A dreamer, someone absent-minded or distracted; a fool, simpleton. MOONDUST (11) MOONEYES (13) [noun] A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae. MOONFISH (16) [noun] Any of various flat, oval marine fish species. MOONIEST (10) [adjective] Resembling the moon. | [adjective] Moonlit. | [adjective] Absent-minded. MOONLESS (10) MOONLETS (10) [noun] A very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring. MOONLIKE (14) MOONPORT (12) MOONRISE (10) [noun] The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon. MOONSAIL (10) MOONSEED (11) [noun] A twining plant of the genera Menispermum or Cocculus, in the family Menispermaceae. MOONSETS (10) [noun] The setting of the moon below the horizon MOONSHOT (13) [noun] The launching of a spacecraft or an object to orbit or land on the Moon. | [noun] An act of throwing or hitting a ball with a high trajectory. | [noun] An expensive, hard, or unlikely task of great potential impact. MOONWALK (17) [noun] An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot (by an astronaut). | [noun] A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide. | [noun] A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment. MOONWARD (14) MOONWORT (13) [noun] A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus. | [noun] Lunaria annua (greater moonwort); also known as Honesty and Actual Honesty. MOORAGES (11) [noun] The act of mooring. | [noun] A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored. | [noun] The fee for mooring. MOORCOCK (18) [noun] The red grouse. MOORFOWL (16) [noun] The red grouse. MOORHENS (13) [noun] Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins. | [noun] A female red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica. MOORIEST (10) MOORINGS (11) [noun] A place to moor a vessel. | [noun] The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc. | [noun] Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc. MOORLAND (11) [noun] Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken. MOORWORT (13) MOPBOARD (15) [noun] A skirting board (to protect a wall from wet mops) MOPERIES (12) MOPINGLY (16) MOPISHLY (18) MOQUETTE (19) [noun] A kind of fabric with a thick pile used for carpeting or to upholster seating etc. | [noun] An article covered in such material. MORAINAL (10) MORAINES (10) [noun] An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier. MORAINIC (12) MORALISE (10) [verb] To make moral reflections (on, upon, about or over something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral. | [verb] To say (something) expressing a moral reflection or judgment. | [verb] To render moral; to correct the morals of; to give the appearance of morality to. MORALISM (12) [noun] The act or practice of moralizing (making moral reflections or judging the morality of others). | [noun] A maxim or saying believed by the speaker to embody a moral truth; an instance of moralizing. | [noun] Religious practice that focuses on morality while placing little emphasis on doctrine or the metaphysical; adherence to a system of morality with little or no reference to religion. MORALIST (10) [noun] One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship. | [noun] A teacher of morals. MORALITY (13) [noun] Recognition 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 of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results. | [noun] A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct. | [noun] A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not. MORALIZE (19) [verb] To make moral reflections (on, upon, about or over something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral. | [verb] To say (something) expressing a moral reflection or judgment. | [verb] To render moral; to correct the morals of; to give the appearance of morality to. MORASSES (10) [noun] A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. | [noun] Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult. MORATORY (13) MORBIDLY (16) [adverb] In a morbid manner, or to a morbid degree. MORBIFIC (17) [adjective] That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. | [adjective] Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. MORBILLI (12) [noun] Measles, rubeola MORCEAUX (19) [noun] A bit; a morsel. MORDANCY (16) MORDANTS (11) [noun] Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation. | [noun] Any corrosive substance used in etching. | [noun] A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere. MORDENTS (11) [noun] An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it. MORELLES (10) MORELLOS (10) [noun] A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus 'austera', having a dark skin MOREOVER (13) [adverb] In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally. 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Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered. | [noun] State of being pledged. | [verb] To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan. MORTICED (13) [verb] To cut a mortise in. | [verb] To join by a mortise and tenon. | [verb] To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern. MORTICES (12) [noun] A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint. | [noun] Stability; power of adhesion. | [verb] To cut a mortise in. MORTISED (11) [verb] To cut a mortise in. | [verb] To join by a mortise and tenon. | [verb] To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern. MORTISER (10) MORTISES (10) [noun] A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint. | [noun] Stability; power of adhesion. | [verb] To cut a mortise in. MORTMAIN (12) [noun] The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church. | [noun] A strong and inalienable possession. MORTUARY (13) [noun] A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation. | [noun] A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. | [adjective] Of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal MOSASAUR (10) [noun] A large extinct marine reptile in the family Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considred to be in squmata, the same group that includes lizards and snakes. MOSCHATE (15) MOSEYING (14) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOSHAVIM (18) [noun] An Israeli town or settlement: in particular, a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah. MOSQUITO (19) [noun] A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever. | [verb] To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. MOSSBACK (18) [noun] A turtle that, because of its age, has a growth of algae on its back. | [noun] An old fish. | [noun] (by extension) A very conservative or reactionary person, especially one with old-fashioned views. MOSSIEST (10) [adjective] Covered in or overgrown with moss. MOSSLIKE (14) MOSTESTS (10) MOTHBALL (15) [noun] (usually in plural) A small ball of chemical pesticide (typically naphthalene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae in order to protect them from this damage. | [verb] To store or shelve something no longer used. | [verb] To stop using (something), but keep it in good condition. MOTHERED (14) [verb] To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) | [verb] To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture. | [verb] To cause to contain mother. | [adjective] Thick, like mother (film or membrane on fermented liquids); viscid. MOTHERLY (16) [adjective] Befitting a mother; warm, caring, nurturing, protective, loving. 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MOTORIZE (19) [verb] To fit something with a motor. | [verb] To supply something or someone with motor vehicles. | [verb] To supply armoured vehicles; to mechanize. MOTORMAN (12) [noun] A man who controls a motor. | [noun] A person who operates a motor vehicle. | [noun] A train driver. MOTORMEN (12) [noun] A man who controls a motor. | [noun] A person who operates a motor vehicle. | [noun] A train driver. MOTORWAY (16) [noun] (parts of Australia) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway. MOTTLERS (10) MOTTLING (11) [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. | [noun] Spots or blotches of different shades or colours MOUCHING (16) MOUCHOIR (15) [noun] A handkerchief. MOUFFLON (16) [noun] A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. MOUFLONS (13) [noun] A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. MOULAGES (11) MOULDERS (11) [verb] To decay or rot. MOULDIER (11) [adjective] Covered with mould. | [adjective] Neglected. | [adjective] Worthless; lousy; rotten MOULDING (12) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOULTERS (10) MOULTING (11) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. | [noun] A moult; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc. MOUNDING (12) [verb] To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to. | [verb] To force or pile into a mound or mounds. | [noun] A mound of material. MOUNTAIN (10) [noun] An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. | [noun] Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap. | [noun] Of, belonging to, relating to, or found on a mountain; like a mountain in size; (of living things) growing or living on a mountain. MOUNTERS (10) MOUNTING (11) [verb] To get upon; to ascend; to climb. | [verb] To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride. | [verb] To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding. MOURNERS (10) [noun] Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns. MOURNFUL (13) [adjective] Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns. | [adjective] Fit to inspire mourning; tragic. MOURNING (11) [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). | [verb] To utter in a sorrowful manner. | [verb] To wear mourning. MOUSIEST (10) [adjective] Resembling a mouse. | [adjective] Abounding or infested with mice. MOUSINGS (11) MOUSSAKA (14) [noun] A dish consisting of layers of minced lamb or beef, sliced aubergine (eggplant) or potatoes, tomatoes and béchamel sauce, baked in the oven. MOUSSING (11) [verb] To apply mousse (styling cream). MOUTHERS (13) MOUTHFUL (16) [noun] The amount that will fit in a mouth. | [noun] Quite a bit. | [noun] Something difficult to pronounce or say. | [adjective] Bombastic or awkward. MOUTHIER (13) [adjective] Overly talkative, insolent, and loud. MOUTHILY (16) MOUTHING (14) [verb] To speak; to utter. | [verb] To make the actions of speech, without producing sound. | [verb] To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling. MOVABLES (15) [noun] Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. MOVEABLE (15) [noun] Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. | [adjective] Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary | [adjective] Changing from one time to another MOVEABLY (18) MOVELESS (13) [adjective] Motionless. | [adjective] Immovable. MOVEMENT (15) [noun] Physical motion between points in space. | [noun] A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch. | [noun] The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc. MOVIEDOM (16) MOVIEOLA (13) MOVINGLY (17) [adverb] In a moving manner. MOVIOLAS (13) MOZETTAS (19) MOZZETTA (28) [noun] A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy. MOZZETTE (28) [noun] A short cape worn by some Catholic clergy. MRIDANGA (12) MUCHACHO (20) [noun] An informal term of address, especially to a young man; similar to man, chap, dude, etc. MUCHNESS (15) [noun] Large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small). | [noun] Greatness in quantity, number, amount, or degree. MUCIDITY (16) MUCILAGE (13) [noun] A thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms. MUCINOID (13) MUCINOUS (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, containing, or producing (one or more) mucins. MUCKIEST (16) [adjective] Covered in muck. | [adjective] Obscene, pornographic. MUCKLUCK (22) MUCKRAKE (20) [noun] A rake for scraping up dung. | [verb] To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism. MUCKWORM (21) MUCOIDAL (13) MUCOSITY (15) MUCRONES (12) [noun] A 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 Collembola. MUDDIEST (12) [adjective] Covered with or full of mud or wet soil. | [adjective] With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid. | [adjective] Not clear; mixed up or blurry. MUDDLERS (12) [noun] A person or thing that muddles. | [noun] A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix. MUDDLING (13) [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. | [verb] To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. | [verb] To dabble in mud. MUDDYING (16) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. | [noun] The process of making something muddy or obscure. MUDFLATS (14) [noun] Flat land along a river, lying few feet above normal high water, often consisting of alluvial deposits and naturally fertile. | [noun] A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a river bed exposed at low tide. MUDFLOWS (17) [noun] A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water. | [noun] The dried-out product of such a flow. MUDGUARD (13) [noun] A cover over the wheels of a vehicle, or a flap behind that wheel, to prevent water and mud being projected. MUDHOLES (14) MUDLARKS (15) [noun] A pig; pork. | [noun] One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London. | [noun] A child who plays in the mud; a child that spends most of its time in the streets, a street urchin. MUDPACKS (19) [noun] A paste of earth or clay, applied to the face for therapeutic or cosmetic purposes. MUDPUPPY (20) [noun] An aquatic salamander of the family Proteidae. MUDROCKS (17) MUDROOMS (13) [noun] A room used as a barrier between outdoors and indoors. MUDSILLS (11) MUDSLIDE (12) [noun] A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline. | [noun] A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlua and Bailey's. MUDSTONE (11) [noun] A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. MUEDDINS (12) MUENSTER (10) MUEZZINS (28) [noun] The person who issues the call to prayer from one of the minarets of a mosque. MUFFLERS (16) [noun] Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces. | [noun] A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun. | [noun] A type of scarf. MUFFLING (17) [verb] To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up. | [verb] To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound. | [verb] To mute or deaden (a sound etc.). MUGGIEST (12) [adjective] (Of the weather, air, etc) humid, or hot and humid. | [adjective] Wet or mouldy MUGGINGS (13) [noun] A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place. MUGWORTS (14) [noun] Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia. | [noun] Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally. MUGWUMPS (18) [noun] An independent neutral politician, especially in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election. | [noun] An aloof or self-important but inconsequential person. MULATTOS (10) [noun] A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent. MULBERRY (15) [noun] Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits. | [noun] The fruit of this tree. | [noun] A dark purple colour tinted with red. MULCHING (16) [verb] To apply mulch. | [verb] To turn into mulch. | [noun] The act of preparing/applying a mulch. MULCTING (13) [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. | [noun] The imposition of a fine or penalty. MULETEER (10) [noun] A mule driver. MULISHLY (16) MULLEINS (10) [noun] Any of several European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, that have yellow flowers and downy leaves; the velvet plant. MULLIGAN (11) [noun] Mulligan stew. | [noun] An unpenalized chance to re-take a stroke that went awry. | [noun] An opportunity (sometimes penalized) for a player to reshuffle their cards and draw a new initial hand at the beginning of a game. MULLIONS (10) [noun] A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen. 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MUSHIEST (13) [adjective] Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. | [adjective] Soft; squishy. | [adjective] Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin. MUSHROOM (15) [noun] Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood). | [noun] A fungus producing such fruiting bodies. | [noun] Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking. MUSICALE (12) [noun] A musical entertainment, usually private and typically involving classical music MUSICALS (12) [noun] A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. | [noun] A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale. MUSICIAN (12) [noun] A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession. 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MUSTARDS (11) [noun] A 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). | [noun] Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice. | [noun] The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad. MUSTARDY (14) MUSTERED (11) [verb] To show, exhibit. | [verb] To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. | [verb] To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc. MUSTIEST (10) [adjective] Having a stale odor. MUTAGENS (11) [noun] Any agent or substance that can cause genetic mutation. MUTATING (11) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. | [adjective] Causing or tending to cause mutation. 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