Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/54

mockery

• mockery, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, absurdity, abuse, affront, aggressive mimicry, apery, aspersion, atrocity, bagatelle, banter, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, booing, brass farthing, brickbat, burlesque, butt, button, byword, byword of reproach, caricature, casuistry, catcalling, cent, chaffing, contempt, contumely, crossed fingers, cryptic mimicry, curio, cut, decrial, derision, despite, disappointment, disdain, disingenuousness, disparagement, dump, dupe, emptiness, enormity, fair game, farce, farthing, feather, fig, figure of fun, fleabite, fleering, flippancy, flout, flouting, folderol, fool, fooling, fribble, frippery, game, gaud, gazingstock, gewgaw, gibe, gimcrack, goat, grinning, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, hissing, hollow mockery, hollowness, hooting, humiliation, imitation, impersonation, indignity, injury, insincerity, insult, jeer, jeering, jest, jester, jestingstock, jesuitry, joke, joshing, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, lampoon, laugh, laughingstock, leering, levity, mimicry, minikin, miscarriage, mock, molehill, monkey, offense, outrage, panning, parody, parrotry, pasquinade, pastiche, peppercorn, picayune, pilgarlic, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, playing possum, protective coloration, put-down, ragging, raillery, rallying, rap, razzing, red cent, ridicule, roasting, row of pins, rush, satire, scoff, scoffing, scorn, scurrility, semblance, sham, shit, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, snap, sneering, sneeshing, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sophistry, sou, spoof, sport, squib, stock, straw, synaposematic mimicry, take-off, takeoff, target, taunt, taunting, tongue in cheek, toy, travesty, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twitting, two cents, twopence, uncandidness, uncandor, uncomplimentary remark, unfrankness, victim, whim-wham, wicked imitation

mocking

• mocking, adoption, appropriation, assumption, bantering, booing, borrowed plumes, catcalling, chaffing, copying, derisive, derisory, derivation, deriving, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, imitation, infringement, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, panning, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, simulation, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taking, taunting, teasing, twitting

mockingbird

• mockingbird, Philomel, ape, bulbul, canary, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, feathered songster, forger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, lark, mavis, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, monkey, nightingale, oriole, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, ringdove, sheep, simulator, singing bird, song sparrow, songbird, songster, thrush, warbler

mod

• mod, a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, avant-garde, contemporary, current, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, hip, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfashioned, now, popular, present-day, present-time, prevalent, progressive, smart, streamlined, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out

modality

• modality, Platonic form, Platonic idea, aesthetic form, archetype, art form, bearings, build, case, cast, circumstance, condition, configuration, conformation, cut, estate, fashion, figuration, figure, fix, footing, form, format, formation, frame, genre, impression, inner form, jam, layout, location, lot, make, makeup, matrix, mode, model, mold, pass, pattern, pickle, place, plight, position, posture, predicament, prototype, rank, set, shape, significant form, situation, spot, stamp, standing, state, station, status, structure, style, turn, type

mode

• mode, Aeolian mode, Aristotelian sorites, Dorian mode, Goclenian sorites, Greek modes, Hindu mode, Indian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode, MO, Phrygian mode, Platonic form, Platonic idea, SOP, aesthetic form, affectation, algorithm, approach, archetype, art form, attack, authentic mode, bearings, bon ton, build, case, cast, categorical syllogism, chic, circumstance, command of language, complexion, condition, conditional, configuration, conformation, convention, course, craze, cry, custom, cut, dilemma, enthymeme, estate, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fad, fashion, feeling for words, figuration, figure, fix, footing, form, form of speech, format, formation, frame, furore, genre, grace of expression, grandiloquence, guise, haute couture, high fashion, hypoaeolian mode, hypodorian mode, hypoionian mode, hypolocrian mode, hypolydian mode, hypomixolydian mode, hypophrygian mode, imperative, impression, indicative, inflation, inner form, jam, jussive, layout, line, line of action, lines, literary style, location, look, lot, major mode, make, makeup, manner, manner of speaking, manner of working, mannerism, matrix, means, method, methodology, minor mode, mixolydian mode, modality, mode of expression, mode of operation, mode of procedure, model, modus, modus operandi, modus tollens, mold, mood, obligative, octave species, optative, order, paralogism, pass, pattern, peculiarity, permissive, personal style, pickle, place, plagal mode, plight, position, posture, potential, practice, predicament, prevailing taste, procedure, proceeding, process, proper thing, prosyllogism, prototype, pseudosyllogism, raga, rage, rank, rhetoric, routine, rule, rule of deduction, sense of language, set, set-up, shape, significant form, situation, sorites, spot, stamp, standard operating procedure, standing, state, station, status, strain, stream of fashion, structure, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, subjunctive, swim, syllogism, system, tack, technique, tenor, the drill, the grand style, the how, the plain style, the sublime, the way of, tone, trend, trick, turn, type, vein, vogue, way, wise

model

• model, Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Kantian idea, Miss America, Platonic form, Platonic idea, admirable, aesthetic form, apotheosis, archetypal, archetype, archetypical, arrangement, art form, assemble, barometer, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, belle, beyond all praise, block out, brand, build, bunny, burlesque, bust, canon, canon form, carve, carving, cast, charmer, chase, check, chisel, classic, classical, clone, commendable, companion, complex idea, configuration, conformation, consummate, copy, copy after, counterpart, cover girl, cream, create, creditable, criterion, cut, dazzler, dead ringer, degree, deserving, design, developed, display, ditto, doll, dolly, double, dream, dummy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, effigy, efform, emblem, embodiment, emulate, enchantress, engrave, epitome, estimable, eternal object, eternal universal, exact likeness, example, exemplar, exemplary, expert, fabricate, facsimile, fantoccini, fashion, fellow, figuration, figure, figurehead, figurine, finished, fix, flawless, follow, follow like sheep, follow suit, forge, form, formal cause, formalize, format, formation, found, frame, fugue form, fully developed, gauge, genre, gingerbread man, good example, graduated scale, grave, great beauty, hew, highest category, history of ideas, icon, ideal, idealism, ideate, ideatum, idee-force, idol, image, imitate, imitation, impression, indefectible, inimitable, innate idea, inner form, innovation, insculpture, kind, knead, knock out, knockoff, knockout, lady fair, laudable, lay figure, lay out, layout, lick into shape, lied form, likeness, living image, living picture, looker, make, makeup, man of men, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, mark, masterful, masterly, match, mate, matrix, mature, matured, measure, meritorious, miniature, mint, mirror, mirroring, mock-up, modality, mode, model after, mold, monument, mould, ne plus ultra, new departure, nonesuch, nonpareil, noosphere, norm, noumenon, original, paradigm, paradigmatic, paragon, parameter, paraphrase, parody, pattern, pattern after, peach, percept, perfect, perfected, photograph, picture, pilot model, pinup, pinup girl, pocket edition, polished, portrait, portrait bust, poser, praiseworthy, precedential, primary form, produce, proficient, prototypal, prototype, puppet, pussycat, quadruplicate, quantity, quintessence, quintessential, raving beauty, reading, readout, refined, reflection, regulative first principle, reigning beauty, repetition, replica, replication, representation, representative, reproduction, resemblance, ripe, ripened, rondo form, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rubbing, rule, scale, scarecrow, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, semblance, set, sex kitten, shadow, shape, shining example, show off, significant form, similitude, simple idea, simulacrum, sitter, slick chick, snowman, solder, sonata allegro, sonata form, sort, spit and image, spitting image, sport, stamp, standard, statuary, statue, statuette, structure, stunner, style, subject, subsistent form, symbol, symphonic form, tailor, take after, test, the Absolute, the Absolute Idea, the Self-determined, the realized ideal, thermoform, toccata form, touchstone, trace, tracing, transcendent idea, transcendent nonempirical concept, transcendent universal, travesty, triplicate, turn, twin, type, typical, unexceptionable, universal, universal concept, universal essence, value, variety, version, very, very image, very picture, wax figure, waxwork, wear, weld, well-deserving, wood carving, work, worthy, yardstick

modeled

• modeled, anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, carved, ceroplastic, chased, embossed, engraven, glyphic, glyptic, graven, hammered, in relief, molded, sculpted, sculptile, sculptured, toreutic

modeler

• modeler, carver, chaser, clay modeler, earth artist, figurer, figuriste, gem carver, graver, mason, molder, monumental mason, sculptor, sculptress, sculpturer, statuary, stonecutter, wax modeler, wood carver

modeling

• modeling, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, casting, ceroplastics, chasing, clay sculpture, conformation, creation, decorative sculpture, earth art, efformation, embossing, engraving, fashioning, figuration, formation, formature, forming, founding, garden sculpture, gem-cutting, glass sculpture, glyptic, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, metal sculpture, molding, monumental sculpture, morphogenesis, morphogeny, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief, relief-carving, relievo, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shaping, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutting, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carving, xyloglyphy

moderate

• moderate, K, Laodicean, abate, acceptable, accepting, act between, adequate, adjust to, admissible, all right, allay, alleviate, alter, ambling, apathetic, arbitrate, arrest, assuage, attemper, average, backpedal, backwater, balanced, banal, bank the fire, bargain, better than nothing, betwixt and between, bland, blunt, bound, box in, brake, budget, calm, cautious, center, central, centrist, chair, chasten, cheap, check, circumscribe, circumspect, claudicant, clement, clip the wings, common, compassionate, compromiser, condition, confine, conservative, constant, constrain, contain, control, controlled, cool, coordinate, copyright, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, curb, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, decelerate, decent, decrease, defuse, delay, deliberate, detain, diminish, direct, discipline, discreet, downplay, draw rein, draw the line, dull, ease, ease off, ease up, easy, easygoing, ebb, economic, economy, equable, even, extenuate, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fall, faltering, fifty-fifty, flagging, foot-dragging, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, frugal, gentle, go between, good enough, goodish, gradual, grave, half-and-half, halting, hedge, hedge about, hobbled, hobbling, hold back, hold in check, hold up, humane, idle, impartial, impede, inconsequential, inconsiderable, independent, indifferent, indolent, inexpensive, insipid, intercede, intermediary, intermediate, interpose, intervene, judge, judicious, keep back, keep within bounds, lackluster, languid, languorous, lax, lay, lazy, leaven, leisurely, lenient, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, let up on, lighten, limit, limping, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, low, low-priced, lumbering, make terms, manage, manageable, mean, measured, medial, median, mediate, mediocre, medium, meet halfway, merciful, middle, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, middling, midway, mild, mild as milk, mitigate, moderantist, moderationist, moderatist, modest, modify, modulate, mollify, namby-pamby, narrow, negotiate, neuter, neutral, nominal, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, nonviolent, normal, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, obstruct, obtund, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, okay, on the fence, ordinary, pacifistic, palliate, paltry, passable, passive, patent, patient, peaceable, peaceful, piddling, play down, poking, poky, presentable, preside over, pretty good, prudent, qualify, rational, reasonable, reduce, reduce the temperature, reef, referee, register, regulate, regulate by, rein in, relax, relaxed, relent, relieve, reluctant, remit, represent, respectable, restrain, restrained, restrict, retard, routine, run, satisfactory, sauntering, scant, season, sedate, sensible, serious, set back, set conditions, set limits, shabby, shoddy, shuffling, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slight, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow down, slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, small, smother, snail-paced, snaillike, so-so, sober, sober down, sober-minded, sobersided, soft, soft-shell, soften, solemn, soothe, sparing, specialize, staggering, staid, standard, stay, steady, step in, stifle, stint, stinting, straiten, strolling, subdue, subside, sufficient, supervise, suppress, take in sail, tame, tedious, temper, temperate, tender, tentative, third-force, third-world, throttle down, tidy, toddling, token, tolerable, tolerant, tone down, tortoiselike, tottering, treat with, trifling, trivial, trudging, tune down, turtlelike, umpire, uncommitted, underplay, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unexcessive, unexpensive, unextreme, unhurried, unimpassioned, uninvolved, unobjectionable, usual, vapid, waddling, wane, weaken, wishy-washy, within means, workmanlike, worth the money

moderately

• moderately, acceptably, adequately, after a fashion, appreciably, at a bargain, at a sacrifice, at any rate, at best, at budget prices, at cost, at cost price, at least, at most, at piggy-bank prices, at prime cost, at reduced rates, at small cost, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at wholesale, at worst, calmly, cautiously, cheap, cheaply, circumspectly, comparatively, composedly, conservatively, coolly, crawlingly, creepingly, decently, deliberately, detectably, dilatorily, dispassionately, easily, equably, evenly, fair to middling, fairishly, fairly, fairly well, falteringly, for a song, for pennies, frugally, gently, haltingly, idly, in a manner, in a way, in balance, in low gear, in march time, in moderation, in part, in reason, in slow motion, in slow tempo, in some measure, incompletely, indifferently, indolently, inexpensively, judiciously, kind of, languidly, languorously, leastwise, leisurely, limpingly, lingeringly, loiteringly, mediocrely, merely, middling well, middlingly, mildly, modestly, more or less, nominally, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, on the cheap, only, part, partially, partly, passably, pokily, pokingly, presentably, pretty, pretty well, pro tanto, prudently, purely, quite, rather, reasonably, relatively, relaxedly, reluctantly, respectably, restrainedly, satisfactorily, serenely, simply, slightly, slow, slowly, sluggishly, so far, so-so, soberly, some, something, somewhat, soothingly, sort of, sparingly, steadily, stintingly, subduedly, tarryingly, temperately, tentatively, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, to some extent, tolerably, tranquilly, under easy sail, unexceptionably, unhurriedly, visibly, well enough, wholesale, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation, within bounds, within compass, within reason

moderation

• moderation, abnegation, boundary, bounds, center, compromise, confinement, constraint, continence, denial, discipline, fence, forbearance, frugality, golden mean, gravity, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, limit, limitation, mean, measure, medium, middle course, middle ground, middle way, moderateness, neutral ground, nothing in excess, prescription, proscription, qualification, renouncement, renunciation, restrain, restraint, restriction, sedateness, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, sophrosyne, staidness, temperance, temperateness, via media

moderator

• moderator, JP, Justice, MC, alleviative, alleviator, anchorman, anodyne, arbiter, arbitrator, assuager, balm, bencher, calmative, chair, chairman, conciliator, coordinator, critic, cushion, dolorifuge, emcee, his honor, his lordship, his worship, impartial arbitrator, indicator, judge, justice, lenitive, magistrate, master of ceremonies, mediator, mitigator, modulator, mollifier, negotiator, pacificator, pacifier, palliative, peacemaker, president, presiding officer, referee, restraining hand, salve, sedative, shock absorber, soother, soothing syrup, stabilizer, temperer, third party, toastmaster, tranquilizer, umpire, unbiased observer, wiser head

modern

• modern, Young Turk, a la mode, actual, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, arriviste, as is, avant-garde, being, brand-new, bright young man, chic, coincident, comer, concomitant, concurrent, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, existing, extant, far out, fashionable, fledgling, forward-looking, fresh, hip, hot, immanent, immediate, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, instant, late, latest, latter, mod, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernistic, modernized, modernizer, modish, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new, new generation, new man, new-fashioned, newfangled, newfashioned, nouveau riche, novel, novus homo, now, parvenu, popular, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevailing, prevalent, progressive, recent, rising generation, running, smart, streamlined, stripling, stylish, that be, that is, topical, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, upstart, way out, with it

modernist

• modernist, Meistersinger, Parnassian, Young Turk, arch-poet, arriviste, ballad maker, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, bright young man, bucoliast, comer, elegist, epic poet, fili, fledgling, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, laureate, librettist, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, nouveau riche, novus homo, occasional poet, odist, parvenu, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, rising generation, satirist, scop, skald, sonneteer, stripling, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, upstart, vers libriste, vers-librist

modernized

• modernized, a la mode, advanced, avant-garde, contemporary, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, in, mod, modern, modernistic, modish, newfashioned, now, present-day, present-time, progressive, streamlined, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out

modest

• modest, Olympian, aloof, altruistic, backward, bashful, becoming, betwixt and between, blank, boggling, budget, cheap, chilled, chilly, clean, cold, committed, common, consecrated, constrained, cool, coy, decent, decorous, dedicated, delicate, demeaning, demure, demurring, detached, devoted, diffident, disadvantaged, discreet, disinterested, distant, dry, dull, easy, economic, economy, elegant, expressionless, fair, fair to middling, fairish, faltering, forbidding, frigid, frosty, frugal, guarded, hesitant, hesitating, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, icy, immaculate, impassive, impersonal, in the shade, inaccessible, inconspicuous, indifferent, inexpensive, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, innocuous, insipid, introverted, junior, lackluster, least, less, lesser, limited, low, low-priced, lower, lowest, lowliest, lowly, manageable, mean, mediocre, medium, meek, middling, minor, moderate, namby-pamby, nice, nominal, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, offish, ordinary, passable, plain, poor, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, pure, puritanical, qualmish, reasonable, reluctant, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, respectable, restrained, restricted, reticent, retiring, sacrificing, scrupulous, second rank, second string, secondary, seemly, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-conscious, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, sensible, servile, shabby, shoddy, shrinking, shy, silent, simple, small, so-so, spotless, squeamish, stainless, standoff, standoffish, stickling, straitlaced, stuffy, sub, subaltern, subdued, subject, subordinate, subservient, suppressed, teachable, tedious, temperate, third rank, third string, timid, timorous, token, tolerable, unacquisitive, unaffable, unambitious, unapproachable, unaspiring, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, unblemished, unboastful, uncongenial, undefiled, undemonstrative, underprivileged, understated, undistinguished, unelaborate, unembellished, unexaggerated, unexceptional, unexpansive, unexpensive, ungenial, unimportant, unimposing, unobtrusive, unornamented, unostentatious, unpossessive, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self, unsullied, vapid, vulgar, wishy-washy, withdrawing, withdrawn, within means, worth the money

modestly

• modestly, abjectly, after a fashion, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, comparatively, detectably, fair to middling, fairishly, fairly, humbly, in a manner, in a way, in part, in some measure, incompletely, indifferently, leastwise, mediocrely, meekly, merely, middling well, middlingly, mildly, moderately, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, on all fours, on bended knee, only, part, partially, partly, passably, pro tanto, purely, quietly, relatively, simply, so far, so-so, somewhat, submissively, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, tolerably, unassumingly, unobtrusively, unostentatiously, unpresumptuously, unpretendingly, unpretentiously, visibly, with bated breath, with due deference, without ceremony

modesty

• modesty, aloofness, altruism, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, boggle, boggling, chilliness, coldness, commitment, compunction, consecration, constraint, coolness, decency, decorousness, decorum, dedication, delicacy, demur, demurral, detachment, devotion, diffidence, discreetness, discretion, disinterest, disinterestedness, distance, dullness, elegance, expressionlessness, fairishness, falter, faltering, frigidity, frostiness, guardedness, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, homeliness, humbleness, humility, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, indifference, ingloriousness, innocuousness, introversion, lackluster, lowlihood, lowliness, meanness, mediocreness, mediocrity, meekness, middlingness, moderateness, modestness, objection, passableness, pause, plainness, poorness, propriety, protest, pudency, pudicity, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, recoil, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, respectability, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, sacrifice, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seemliness, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, shame, shrinking, shyness, simpleness, smallness, standoffishness, stickling, subduedness, submissiveness, suppression, teachableness, tediousness, tolerableness, unacquisitiveness, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, unimportance, unpossessiveness, unpretentiousness, unselfishness, withdrawal, withdrawnness

modicum

• modicum, ace, allotment, allowance, atom, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, budget, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, commission, contingent, crumb, cut, cutting, dab, dash, deal, destiny, dividend, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, dwarf, end, equal share, farthing, fate, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gob, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, half, halver, handful, helping, hint, hunk, interest, iota, jot, little, little bit, lot, lota, lump, measure, meed, mess, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, moiety, molecule, morsel, mote, nutshell, ounce, paring, part, particle, pebble, percentage, piece, pinch, pittance, point, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scintilla, scoop, scrap, scruple, segment, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, small share, smidgen, smidgin, smitch, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, spark, speck, splinter, spoonful, spot, stake, stitch, stock, stump, suggestion, tatter, thimbleful, tinge, tiny bit, tittle, touch, trifle, trifling amount, trivia, whit

modifiable

• modifiable, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, changeable, checkered, convertible, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, movable, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, resolvable, rubbery, supple, transformable, transient, transitional, transitory, transmutable, variable

modification

• modification, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allophone, allowance, alteration, alveolar, amelioration, analysis, anatomization, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apostasy, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, atomization, betterment, bilabial, break, cacuminal, cerebral, cession, change, change of heart, changeableness, check, circumscription, concession, consonant, constructive change, continuant, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, dental, desynonymization, deterioration, deviation, difference, differencing, differentiation, diphthong, discontinuity, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, dissimilation, distinction, distinguishment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, epenthetic vowel, exception, exemption, explosive, extenuating circumstances, fitting, flip-flop, glide, glottal, glottalization, gradual change, grain of salt, grant, guttural, hedge, hedging, improvement, individualization, individuation, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, limitation, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation, melioration, mental reservation, metamorphosis, mitigation, modulation, monophthong, morphophoneme, mutation, mute, nasal, occlusive, overthrow, palatal, parasitic vowel, particularization, peak, personalization, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plosive, prothetic vowel, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reservation, reshaping, restriction, restructuring, retroflex, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, salvo, segmental phoneme, segregation, semivowel, separation, severalization, severance, shift, sonant, sonority, special case, special treatment, specialization, specialness, specification, speech sound, stop, sudden change, surd, switch, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tempering, total change, transformation, transition, transition sound, transmogrification, triphthong, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, velar, violent change, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, waiver, worsening

modified

• modified, altered, better, changeable, changed, conditioned, converted, degenerate, deviant, divergent, hedged, hedged about, improved, leavened, limited, metamorphosed, metastasized, mitigated, modulated, mutant, qualified, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, reserved, restricted, revived, revolutionary, seasoned, softened, subversive, tempered, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, worse

modifier

• modifier, IC analysis, agent, alterant, alterative, alterer, appositive, attribute, attributive, catalyst, catalytic agent, complement, construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object, ferment, filler, form-function unit, function, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, innovationist, innovator, introducer, leaven, levels, modificator, object, phrase structure, precursor, predicate, qualifier, ranks, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, strata, structure, subject, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, transformer, transmogrifier, underlying structure, word arrangement, word order, yeast

modify

• modify, abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, alter, ameliorate, amend, analyze, anatomize, assuage, atomize, better, box in, break up, change, chop logic, circumscribe, condition, convert, decrease, deform, denature, desynonymize, difference, differentiate, diminish, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, distinguish, diversify, divide, fit, hedge, hedge about, improve, individualize, individuate, leaven, lessen, limit, lower, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, meliorate, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mutate, narrow, overthrow, palliate, particularize, personalize, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, redo, reduce, refashion, refine a distinction, refit, reform, regulate by, remake, remodel, renew, reorganize, reorient, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revise, revive, reword, rework, ring the changes, season, segregate, separate, set apart, set conditions, set limits, set off, sever, severalize, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, soften, specialize, split hairs, subvert, temper, tone down, transform, turn, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work a change, worsen

modifying

• modifying, altering, assuasive, bounding, extenuating, extenuatory, lenitive, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modulatory, palliative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, softening

modish

• modish, a la mode, advanced, avant-garde, chic, contemporary, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed up, en grande tenue, endimanche, exclusive, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, gussied up, in, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, in the mode, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, newfashioned, now, present-day, present-time, progressive, slicked up, smart, soigne, soignee, spruce, streamlined, stylish, swank, swish, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vogue, voguish, way out, well turned-out, well-dressed, with-it

modulate

• modulate, abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, alter, ameliorate, assuage, attemper, balance, bank the fire, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, blunt, bottom out, box in, break, break up, change, chasten, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, come about, come around, come round, condition, constrain, control, convert, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate, diminish, diverge, diversify, downplay, dull, extenuate, fit, flop, haul around, hedge, hedge about, improve, inflect, intonate, jibe, keep within bounds, lay, leaven, lenify, lessen, lighten, limit, lower, meliorate, mitigate, moderate, modify, mutate, narrow, obtund, overthrow, palliate, play down, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, reduce the temperature, refit, reform, regulate, regulate by, remake, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, season, set, set conditions, set limits, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, stifle, subdue, subvert, suppress, swerve, tack, take a turn, tame, temper, tone down, tune, tune down, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, underplay, vary, veer, warp, weaken, work a change, worsen

modulation

• modulation, AM, FM, PM, abatement, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allayment, alleviation, alteration, amelioration, amplitude modulation, apostasy, arrangement, assuagement, betterment, blunting, break, calming, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, damping, deadening, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, demulsion, deterioration, deviation, difference, diminution, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, double sideband, dulcification, dulling, easing, falling-off, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, harmonization, hushing, improvement, inflection, instrumentation, intonation, intonation pattern, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, melioration, mitigation, modification, mollification, orchestration, overthrow, pacification, palliation, phrasing, pitch, pitch accent, preparation, qualification, quietening, quieting, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, relaxation, remaking, remission, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, setting, shift, side frequency, sideband, slackening, softening, solution, soothing, speech tune, subduement, sudden change, suprasegmental, suspension, switch, tempering, tone, tone painting, total change, tranquilization, transcription, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

modulator

• modulator, alleviative, alleviator, anodyne, assuager, balm, calmative, cushion, dolorifuge, lenitive, mitigator, moderator, mollifier, pacificator, pacifier, palliative, peacemaker, restraining hand, salve, sedative, shock absorber, soother, soothing syrup, stabilizer, temperer, tranquilizer, wiser head

module

• module, Earth insertion, LEM, LM, apogee, article, attitude-control rocket, ballistic capsule, burn, capsule, deep-space ship, docking, docking maneuver, entity, ferry rocket, fuel ship, individual, injection, insertion, integer, item, lunar excursion module, lunar module, manned rocket, moon ship, multistage rocket, orbit, parking orbit, perigee, person, persona, point, reentry, rocket, shuttle rocket, single, singleton, soft landing, soul, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship, unit

modus operandi

• modus operandi, MO, algorithm, approach, attack, course, fashion, form, guise, line, line of action, lines, manner, manner of working, means, method, methodology, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, order, practice, procedure, proceeding, process, routine, style, system, tack, technique, the drill, the how, the way of, tone, way, wise

modus vivendi

• modus vivendi, Pax Dei, Pax Romana, Peace of God, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, armistice, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, breathing spell, buffer zone, carriage, cease-fire, comportment, conduct, cooling-off period, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, demilitarized zone, deportment, doing, doings, folkway, gestures, goings-on, guise, hollow truce, maintien, manner, manners, method, methodology, methods, mien, motions, movements, moves, neutral territory, observable behavior, pacification, pattern, pax in bello, peace, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, social science, stand-down, style, suspension of hostilities, tactics, temporary arrangement, tone, treaty of peace, truce, way, way of life, ways

mogul

• mogul, Establishment, VIP, avalanche, baron, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, blizzard, brass, brass hat, celebrity, crystal, czar, dignitary, dignity, driven snow, elder, father, figure, flake, flurry, granular snow, great man, hotshot, igloo, important person, interests, king, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, mandarin, mantle of snow, merchant prince, nabob, name, notability, notable, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, prince, ruling circle, sachem, slosh, slush, snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence, snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath, snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift, snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape, snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, somebody, something, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, wet snow, worthy

moiety

• moiety, allotment, allowance, ashram, big end, bigger half, bisection, bit, bite, body, budget, butt, caste, chip, chunk, clan, class, clip, clipping, collop, colony, commission, commonwealth, commune, community, contingent, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, destiny, dividend, division, dole, dollop, economic class, end, endogamous group, equal share, equidistance, extended family, family, fate, fifty percent, fifty-fifty, fragment, gens, gob, gobbet, half, half-and-half, halfway house, halver, helping, hemisphere, hunk, interest, kinship group, lot, lump, measure, mediety, meed, member, mess, mid-distance, midcourse, middle distance, midway, modicum, morsel, nuclear family, order, parcel, paring, part, particle, percentage, phratria, phratry, phyle, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scoop, scrap, section, segment, semicircle, semisphere, settlement, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, social class, society, splinter, stake, stitch, stock, stump, subcaste, tatter, totem

moil

• moil, agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig, dirty work, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, ebullition, embroilment, employment, excitement, fag, fatigue, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hubbub, hurly-burly, industry, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, labor, lather, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, malaise, manual labor, mill, mill around, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, peg, peg away, perturbation, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, rat race, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruction, scut work, seethe, seething, simmer, slavery, slog, slogging, smolder, spadework, stir, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swirl, task, tiresome work, to-do, toil, travail, treadmill, trepidation, trepidity, tug, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, wade through, work, work away

moire

• moire, Dalmatian, antigorite, burele, butterfly, candy cane, chameleon, chatoyant, cheetah, chrysotile, confetti, crazy quilt, firedog, harlequin, iridal, iridescent, iridial, iridian, iris, irisated, irised, jaguar, leopard, mackerel, mackerel sky, marble, marbled paper, mother-of-pearl, nacre, nacred, nacreous, nacry, ocelot, opal, opalescent, opaline, opaloid, ophite, patchwork quilt, pavonian, pavonine, peacock, pearlish, pearly, rainbow, rainbowlike, rainbowy, serpentine, serpentine marble, shot silk, spectrum, tortoise shell, tortoise-shell, zebra

moist

• moist, boggy, clammy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, drippy, drizzly, fenny, foggy, gooey, humid, lachrymose, marshy, maudlin, misty, muggy, mushy, rainy, roric, roriferous, sappy, slushy, soggy, soupy, steamy, sticky, swampy, tacky, tearful, teary, undried, wet, wettish

moisten

• moisten, asperge, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, dew, douche, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, irrigate, paddle, slobber, slop, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, swash, syringe, water, wet, wet down

moistening

• moistening, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, drenching, drowning, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humectant, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, irrigational, irriguous, laving, rinsing, soaking, sopping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swashing, watering, wetting

moisture

• moisture, Scotch mist, blood rain, chylifaction, chylification, drizzle, evening mist, fall, flow, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flurry, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gout of rain, juiciness, lactation, lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, milkiness, mist, misty rain, mizzle, patter, pitter-patter, precipitation, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, rheuminess, sappiness, serosity, sheet of rain, shower, splatter, sprinkle, succulence, suppuration, unfrozen hydrometeor, wateriness, wet

molar

• molar, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, dental, denticle, denticulation, dentiform, dentil, dentition, dentoid, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fanged, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, milk tooth, odontoid, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggle-toothed, snaggled, snaggletooth, tooth, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tush, tusk, tusked, wisdom tooth

molasses

• molasses, adherent, adhesive, albumen, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, barnacle, batter, blackstrap, bonnyclabber, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, cement, clabber, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cornstarch, cream, curd, cyclamates, decal, decalcomania, dough, edulcoration, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, jam, jell, jelly, leech, limpet, loblolly, maple syrup, mucilage, mucus, nectar, pap, paste, plaster, porridge, prickle, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, remora, rob, saccharification, saccharin, semifluid, semiliquid, size, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, soup, starch, sticker, sticky mess, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, thorn, treacle

mold

• mold, Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae, Platonic form, Platonic idea, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, acres, adapt, adapt to, adenovirus, adjust, adjust to, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aesthetic form, agree with, algae, alluvion, alluvium, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anatomy, animus, aptitude, arable land, archetype, architectonics, architecture, aroma, arrangement, art form, assemble, assimilate to, attribute, autophyte, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, badge, bake, be guided by, bean, bend, bent, bias, biodegradability, biodegradation, blast, blight, block out, blood, body-build, bracken, brand, break up, breakup, breed, brown algae, bug, build, building, cachet, cancer, canker, carve, cast, casting, character, characteristic, characteristics, chase, chime in with, chisel, clan, class, clay, climber, clod, coccus, coin, color, complexion, comply, comply with, compose, composition, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, conferva, confervoid, configuration, conform, conformation, constituents, constitution, construct, construction, correct, correspond, corrosion, corrupt, corruption, crasis, create, creation, creeper, crumble, crumble into dust, crust, cut, decay, decompose, decomposition, degradability, degradation, denomination, description, designation, devise, dharma, diathesis, diatom, die, differentia, differential, dilapidation, dirt, discipline, disease-producing microorganism, disintegrate, disintegration, disorganization, disposition, dissolution, distinctive feature, dream up, dry land, dry rot, dust, earmark, earth, eccentricity, echovirus, efform, elaborate, engrave, enterovirus, erect, ethos, evolve, experience imaginatively, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fall in with, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fancy, fantasize, fashion, fashioning, feather, feature, fern, fester, fiber, fictionalize, figuration, figure, filterable virus, fire, fit, fix, flavor, follow, forge, forging, form, formalize, format, formation, formulate, found, frame, freehold, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fudge together, fungi, fungus, gangrene, gear to, genius, genre, genus, germ, get up, getup, glaze, glebe, go bad, go by, go to pieces, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, grapevine, grassland, grave, green algae, ground, gulfweed, gust, habit, hallmark, harmonize, hatch, herb, heterophyte, hew, hue, humor, humors, ideate, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, imagine, impress, impression, inclination, index, indite, individualism, inner form, insculpture, intaglio, invent, ivy, kelp, keynote, kidney, kin, kind, knead, knock out, label, land, landholdings, last, lay out, layout, leaning, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, lick into shape, line, lineaments, lithosphere, liverwort, lot, make, make conform, make up, makeup, making, manner, mannerism, manufacture, marginal land, mark, marking, marl, matrix, mature, meet, mental set, mettle, microbe, microorganism, mildew, mind, mind-set, mint, modality, mode, model, molder, molding, molds, mortify, moss, moth, moth and rust, mushroom, must, nature, necrose, negative, nonfilterable virus, number, observe, odor, organic structure, organism, organization, originate, oxidation, oxidization, parasite, parasitic plant, particularity, patch together, pathogen, pattern, patterning, pea, peculiarity, persuasion, perthophyte, pest, phylum, physique, phytoplankton, picornavirus, piece together, plan, planktonic algae, plant families, pot, predilection, predisposition, prefabricate, preference, prepare, proclivity, produce, production, propensity, property, prototype, protozoa, protozoon, puffball, pulse, punch, put together, put up, putrefy, putresce, quality, quirk, race, raise, rankle, real estate, real property, rear, reconcile, rectify, red algae, region, regolith, reovirus, resolution, rhinovirus, rickettsia, rockweed, rot, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rub off corners, run up, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, savor, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seal, seaweed, set, set up, settle, setup, shape, shaping, shoe last, significant form, singularity, slant, smack, smut, sod, soil, solder, somatotype, sort, specialty, species, sphacelate, spirillum, spirit, spirochete, spoil, spoilage, spore, stamp, staphylococcus, straighten, strain, streak, streptococcus, stripe, structure, structuring, style, subaerial deposit, subsoil, succulent, suchness, suit, suppose, suppurate, system, tailor, taint, tally with, tang, taste, tectonics, temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, texture, thallogens, the country, the like of, the likes of, thermoform, think up, throw, tissue, toadstool, token, tone, topsoil, trait, tribe, trick, trypanosome, turn, turn a pot, turn of mind, twist, type, variety, vein, vetch, vibrio, vine, virus, warp, warp and woof, way, weave, web, weld, whomp up, woodland, work, worm, wort, wrack, write, yield

moldable

• moldable, adaptable, apt, bendable, bending, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, docile, ductile, educable, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, giving, impressible, impressionable, instructable, intelligent, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, motivated, plastic, pliable, pliant, quick, ready, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, submissive, supple, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, whippy, willing, willowy, yielding

molded

• molded, anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, assembled, built, carved, cast, ceroplastic, chased, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, embossed, engraven, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, glyphic, glyptic, graven, grown, hammered, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, in relief, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, modeled, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, sculpted, sculptile, sculptured, shaped, smelted, toreutic, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

molder

• molder, ablate, age, antiquate, atomize, become extinct, become obsolete, break down, break up, calm, calm down, canker, carver, cease, chaser, clay modeler, come apart, consume, corrode, corrupt, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, date, decay, decompose, die down, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dissolve, dwindle, earth artist, ebb, erode, fade, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, figurer, figuriste, fission, fossilize, fust, gangrene, gem carver, go bad, go to pieces, graver, grow old, halt, lose currency, lull, mason, mildew, modeler, mold, monumental mason, mortify, necrose, obsolesce, outdate, pacify, perish, putrefy, putresce, quiesce, quiet, quieten, rankle, rot, rust, sculptor, sculptress, sculpturer, soothe, sphacelate, split, spoil, statuary, stonecutter, stop, subside, superannuate, suppurate, taint, tranquilize, turn, wane, waste away, wax modeler, wear away, wood carver

moldering

• moldering, ablative, at rest, biodegradable, blasted, blighted, blown, calm, cloistered, cool, corrosive, crumbling, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, despoiled, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, dusty, dwindling, ebbing, erosive, even-tenored, flyblown, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gone to seed, halcyon, hushed, impassive, isolated, maggoty, mildewed, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, ravaged, reposeful, reposing, resolvent, restful, resting, ruined, ruinous, rusty, secluded, separative, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, smooth, smutted, smutty, solvent, stale, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, time-scarred, timeworn, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, waning, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, worn

molding

• molding, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, anatomy, architectonics, architectural sculpture, architecture, arrangement, assembly, bone-carving, build, building, cast, casting, ceroplastics, chasing, clay sculpture, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, decorative sculpture, devising, earth art, efformation, elaboration, embossing, engraving, erection, extraction, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, figuration, forging, form, format, formation, formature, forming, formulation, founding, frame, framing, garden sculpture, gem-cutting, getup, glass sculpture, glyptic, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, machining, make, makeup, making, manufacture, manufacturing, metal sculpture, milling, mining, modeling, mold, monumental sculpture, morphogenesis, morphogeny, organic structure, organism, organization, paper sculpture, pattern, patterning, physique, plan, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, production, raising, refining, relief, relief-carving, relievo, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, seal, setup, shape, shaping, shell-carving, smelting, stamp, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutting, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, tissue, warp and woof, weave, web, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carving, workmanship, xyloglyphy

moldy

• moldy, archaic, bad, bad-smelling, blasted, blighted, blown, bygone, crumbling, dated, despoiled, dilapidated, dusty, fecal, fetid, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, high, ill-smelling, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldering, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old hat, olid, outdated, passe, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rococo, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, stale, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, time-scarred, timeworn, vile, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, worn

mole

• mole, abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, bat, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, benign tumor, berth, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish, blind man, blister, blob, blotch, boom, boss, bow, brand, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, bubble, buffer, bulb, bulge, bulkhead, bulla, bulwark, bump, bunch, burl, button, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, cahot, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, caste mark, check, checkmark, chine, cicatrix, clump, cofferdam, comedo, condyle, convex, corn, crack, crater, craze, cut, cyst, dam, dapple, defacement, defect, defense, deformation, deformity, dike, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, ditch, dock, dockage, dockyard, dot, dowel, dry dock, ear, earmark, earthwork, embankment, engraving, excrescence, fault, fence, flange, flap, flaw, fleck, flick, flying buttress, freckle, fungosity, fungus, gall, gash, gate, gnarl, graving, gravity dam, groin, growth, hack, handle, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, hydraulic-fill dam, intumescence, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jog, joggle, jot, jutty, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, landing, landing place, landing stage, leaping weir, lentigo, levee, lip, logjam, loop, lump, macula, malignant growth, marina, mark, marking, metastatic tumor, milium, milldam, moat, moorings, morbid growth, mottle, mound, mountain, needle scar, neoplasm, nevus, nick, nonmalignant tumor, notch, nub, nubbin, nubble, outgrowth, papilloma, parapet, patch, peg, pier, pier buttress, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, portcullis, prick, protected anchorage, proud flesh, puncture, pustule, quay, rampart, retaining wall, rib, ridge, rift, ring, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead, rock-fill dam, sarcoma, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seaport, seawall, sebaceous cyst, shipyard, shoulder, shutter dam, slip, speck, speckle, spine, splash, split, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, stone wall, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, tattoo, tattoo mark, the blind, the sightless, the unseeing, tick, tittle, track, tubercle, tubercule, tumor, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, wall, warp, wart, watermark, weal, weir, welt, wen, wharf, whitehead, wicket dam, work

molecular

• molecular, atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable

molecule

• molecule, Kekule formula, ace, acid, acidity, agent, air, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, atomic cluster, atomic particles, base, benzene ring, biochemical, bit, branched chain, brute matter, building block, cation, chain, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, closed chain, component, compound, compound radical, constituent, copolymer, cycle, dab, dimer, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, earth, electron, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, farthing, fire, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, fundamental particle, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, heavy chemicals, heterocycle, high polymer, homocycle, homopolymer, hydracid, hyle, hypostasis, inorganic chemical, ion, iota, isomer, jot, lattice, little, little bit, lota, macromolecule, material, material world, materiality, matter, meson, metamer, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, monad, monomer, mote, natural world, nature, neutralizer, nonacid, nuclear particle, nutshell, organic chemical, ounce, oxyacid, particle, pebble, physical world, pinch, pittance, plenum, point, polymer, proton, pseudoisomer, quark, radical, ray, reagent, ring, scruple, side chain, simple radical, smidgen, smitch, space-lattice, speck, spoonful, spot, straight chain, stuff, substance, substratum, sulfacid, the four elements, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trimer, trivia, unit of being, water, whit

molehill

• molehill, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, anthill, bagatelle, bank, barrow, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brae, brass farthing, butte, button, cent, cock, curio, down, drift, drumlin, dune, embankment, farce, farthing, feather, fell, fig, fleabite, folderol, foothills, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, hill, hill of beans, hillock, hummock, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knob, knoll, minikin, mockery, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mow, peppercorn, picayune, pile, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pyramid, rap, red cent, rick, row of pins, rush, sand dune, shit, snap, sneeshing, snowdrift, sou, stack, straw, swell, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-wham

molest

• molest, abuse, accost, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, annoy, attack, badger, bait, batter, be at, bedevil, befoul, beleaguer, beset, bewitch, blight, bother, bristle, brown off, bruise, buffet, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chivy, condemn, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, devil, disadvantage, discompose, disserve, distemper, distress, disturb, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, do wrong to, dog, doom, envenom, exasperate, exercise, fash, gall, get, get into trouble, gripe, harass, harm, harry, heckle, hector, hex, hound, hunt, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, impair, infect, injure, interfere with, irk, irritate, jinx, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, maul, meddle with, menace, miff, mishandle, mistreat, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outrage, paw, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, pluck the beard, poison, pollute, pother, prejudice, provoke, pursue, ride, rile, roil, rough, rough up, ruffle, savage, scathe, taint, tease, threaten, torment, torture, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, victimize, violate, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

mollify

• mollify, abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, benumb, calm, calm down, compose, conciliate, cool, cradle, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, decrease, defuse, diminish, dulcify, dull, ease, ease matters, even out, fluff, foment, gentle, give relief, hush, knead, laxate, lay, lay the dust, lessen, lighten, limber, limber up, loosen, lull, mash, massage, mellow, milden, mitigate, numb, pacify, pad, palliate, placate, plump, poultice, pour balm into, pour balm on, pour oil on, propitiate, pulp, quell, quiet, reduce, relax, relieve, rest, rock, rock to sleep, salve, shake up, slacken, slake, smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smoothen, soften, soften up, soothe, squash, stabilize, steady, still, stupe, subdue, supple, sweeten, temper, tenderize, tone down, tranquilize, tune down

mollifying

• mollifying, appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, demulcent, dreamy, drowsy, easing, emollient, gentling, hushing, irenic, loosening, lulling, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, quietening, reconciliatory, relaxing, restful, rocking, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing

mollycoddle

• mollycoddle, Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, Percy, baby, bay, big baby, cater to, chicken, cocker, coddle, cosset, cream puff, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, effeminate, enfant terrible, favor, give way to, goody-goody, gratify, gutless wonder, humor, indulge, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, lily, meek soul, milksop, much, namby-pamby, nance, nancy, naughty child, nebbish, nonentity, oblige, old woman, pamper, pansy, pantywaist, please, pushover, sad sack, satisfy, sissy, softling, softy, sop, spoil, spoiled child, weak sister, weakling, yield to

Moloch

• Moloch, Adad, Adapa, Anu, Anunaki, Ashur, Baal, Beltu, Dagon, Damkina, Dumuzi, Ea, Enlil, Ereshkigal, Gibil, Girru, Gish Bar, Gishzida, Gula, Igigi, Inanna, Isimud, Ki, Lahmu, Mama, Marduk, Merodach, Nabu, Nammu, Namtar, Nanna, Nebo, Nergal, Neti, Nina, Ningal, Ningirsu, Ninhursag, Ninlil, Ninmah, Ninsar, Nintoo, Nusku, Papsukai, Ramman, Shala, Shamash, Sin, Utnapishtim, Uttu, Utu, Zarpanit, Zubird

mom

• mom, dam, foster mother, genetrix, ma, mam, mama, mammy, mater, materfamilias, maternal ancestor, matriarch, mommy, mother, mummy, old lady, old woman, stepmother, the old woman

moment of truth

• moment of truth, A-day, D day, H hour, charged moment, critical moment, crucial moment, day, deadline, decisive moment, eleventh hour, fateful moment, hour, instant, interval, juncture, kairos, kairotic moment, minute, moment, nick of time, period, point, pregnant moment, psychological moment, season, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, target date, time, time lag, while, zero hour

moment

• moment, a breath, abundant year, academic year, accent, advantage, annum, ascendancy, authority, avail, bissextile year, bit, breath, breathing, calendar month, calendar year, century, charisma, charm, clout, common year, compulsion, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, control, coup, crack, credit, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dominance, domination, drive, driving force, effect, eminence, emphasis, enchantment, esteem, excellence, fateful moment, favor, fiscal year, flash, force, fortnight, good feeling, gravity, greatness, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, high order, high rank, hold, hour, impellent, impelling force, impetus, import, importance, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incidental power, incitement, influence, influentiality, influentialness, insinuation, instant, interest, interval, irresistible force, jiff, jiffy, juncture, kairos, leadership, leap year, leverage, little, little bit, little while, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, magnetism, magnitude, man-hour, mark, mastery, materiality, merit, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment of truth, momentousness, momentum, month, moon, motive power, no time, note, pair of winks, paramountcy, period, personality, persuasion, pith, point, potency, power, precedence, predominance, preeminence, pregnant moment, preponderance, pressure, prestige, primacy, priority, profit, prominence, propulsion, psychological moment, purchase, quarter, quinquennium, rank, regular year, reign, repute, rule, say, season, sec, second, self-importance, semester, seniority, seriousness, session, shake, short spell, short time, sidereal year, significance, signification, small space, solar year, space, span, spell, split second, spurt, stage, stature, stress, stretch, stroke, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, sun, superiority, supremacy, sway, term, thrust, tick, time, time lag, trice, trimester, twelvemonth, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, upper hand, use, value, week, weekday, weight, weightiness, while, whip hand, wink, worth, year

momentarily

• momentarily, briefly, fleetingly, flickeringly, flittingly, for a moment, immediately, in an instant, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, just now, just then, momentaneously, momently, on the dot, on the instant, on the nail, on the spot, quickly, shortly, swiftly, transiently

momentary

• momentary, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, brief, brittle, capricious, catamenial, centenary, centennial, changeable, corruptible, daily, decennial, deciduous, diurnal, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fortnightly, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, hasty, hebdomadal, hourly, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instant, instantaneous, insubstantial, lightning-like, menstrual, momentaneous, momently, monthly, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, presto, quarterly, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, short, short-lived, temporal, temporary, tertian, transient, transitive, transitory, triennial, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile, weekly, yearly

momentous

• momentous, absolute, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, bustling, charged, charismatic, charming, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, critical, crucial, decisive, dominant, double-barreled, duly constituted, earthshaking, effective, effectual, efficacious, eminent, empowered, enchanting, epochal, estimable, eventful, ex officio, fraught, full of incident, governing, grand, grave, great, heavyweight, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high-powered, imperative, important, influential, laden, leading, magnetic, major, material, meaningful, mighty, monocratic, name, of concern, official, personable, persuasive, phenomenal, pivotal, portentous, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, reputable, ruling, self-important, senior, serious, significant, stirring, strong, suasive, substantial, superior, supreme, telling, totalitarian, vital, weighty, winning, world-shaking

momentum

• momentum, clout, compulsion, drive, driving force, energy, force, impellent, impelling force, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, inertia, irresistible force, moment, motive power, power, propulsion, push, strength, thrust

monad

• monad, I, ace, air, an existence, atom, atomic particles, being, body, brute matter, building block, chemical element, component, constituent, creature, critter, earth, electron, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, entelechy, entity, fire, fundamental particle, hyle, hypostasis, individual, ion, life, material, material world, materiality, matter, meson, molecule, natural world, nature, no other, none else, nothing else, nought beside, nuclear particle, object, one, one and only, organism, person, persona, personality, physical world, plenum, proton, quark, something, soul, stuff, substance, substratum, the four elements, thing, unit, unit of being, water

monarch

• monarch, anointed king, boss, chief, chieftain, crowned head, czar, dynast, emperor, empress, grand duke, high chief, imperator, king, king-emperor, kinglet, lord, lord paramount, majesty, master, overlord, owner, paramount, petty king, potentate, prince, prince consort, queen, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, sovereign, suzerain, tetrarch

monarchical

• monarchical, absolute, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, dynastic, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, imperious, kinglike, kingly, majestic, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, princelike, princely, purple, queenlike, queenly, regal, republican, royal, self-governing, sovereign, theocratic, totalitarian

monarchism

• monarchism, Bourbonism, Nazism, Toryism, backwardness, centralism, collectivism, communism, conservatism, conservativeness, constitutionalism, democratism, die-hardism, extreme right, extreme right wing, extreme rightism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, governmentalism, imperialism, know-nothingism, laissez-faireism, national socialism, neofascism, old school tie, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, pluralism, political principles, radical rightism, reaction, reactionariness, reactionaryism, republicanism, rightism, royalism, social Darwinism, socialism, standpattism, statism, ultraconservatism, unprogressiveness

monarchist

• monarchist, Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, conservatist, conservative, diehard, extreme right-winger, hard hat, imperialist, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, right, right wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, ultraconservative

monarchy

• monarchy, Caesarism, Stalinism, absolute monarchy, absolutism, aristocracy, autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, autonomy, benevolent despotism, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, country, czarism, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, domain, dominion, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, empire, federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state, gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, kaiserism, kingdom, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchism, monocracy, nation, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, one-man rule, one-party rule, pantisocracy, paternalism, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, principality, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, royalism, self-determination, self-government, social democracy, sovereignty, state, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, totalitarianism, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, welfare state

monastic

• monastic, abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous, monachal, monasterial, monk, monkish, nun, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, priest, prior, religieux, religious, single, stylite, unmarried

monasticism

• monasticism, Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, celibacy, continence, eremitism, fasting, flagellation, friarhood, maceration, maidenhead, maidenhood, mendicantism, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monkery, mortification, puritanism, rigor, self-denial, self-mortification, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, unwed state, virgin state, virginity, voluntary poverty

monaural system

• monaural system, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

monde

• monde, Vanity Fair, beau monde, beautiful people, best people, cafe society, carriage trade, cream of society, drawing room, elite, fashionable society, good society, haut monde, high life, high society, in-crowd, jet set, jeunesse doree, people of fashion, polite society, right people, salon, smart set, social register, societe, society, the Four Hundred, upper crust, uppercut, world of fashion

money changer

• money changer, Realtor, bank clerk, bank manager, bank officer, bank president, banker, banking executive, bill broker, broker, cambist, cashier, cotton broker, diamond broker, discount broker, discounter, estate agent, furniture broker, grain broker, hotel broker, insurance broker, investment banker, land broker, loan officer, money broker, money dealer, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage broker, note broker, pawnbroker, real estate agent, real estate broker, ship broker, stockbroker, teller, trust officer

money hungry

• money hungry, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avaricious, avid, bottomless, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious

money mad

• money mad, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avaricious, avid, bottomless, coveting, covetous, devouring, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, omnivorous, overgreedy, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious

money order

• money order, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, check, checkbook, cheque, commercial paper, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, letter of credit, negotiable instrument, note, note of hand, paper, postal order, promissory note, sight bill, sight draft, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant

money saving

• money saving, Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, conserving, economic, economizing, forehanded, frugal, labor-saving, parsimonious, penny-wise, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, thrifty, time-saving, unwasteful

money

• money, Swiss bank account, affluence, affluent, assets, balance, bank account, banknotes, bankroll, bills, blunt, boodle, bottom dollar, bottomless purse, brass, bread, bucks, budget, bulging purse, bundle, cabbage, capital, cash, cash reserves, change, checking account, chink, chips, coin, coinage, coins, command of money, currency, dinero, do-re-mi, dough, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, exchequer, fat, filthy lucre, finances, flush, folding money, fortune, fund, funds, gain, gelt, gold, greenbacks, handsome fortune, hard cash, hay, high income, high tax bracket, in clover, in the money, independence, jack, kale, kitty, legal tender, lettuce, life savings, liquid assets, loaded, lolly, loot, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, material wealth, mazuma, means, medium of exchange, money to burn, moneybags, moneyed, moneys, monied, moolah, mopus, needful, nest egg, net, notes, on Easy Street, ooftish, opulence, opulency, paper money, pecuniary resources, pelf, percentage, pocket, pool, possessions, profit, property, prosperity, prosperous, prosperousness, purse, rake-off, ready money, reserves, resources, rhino, rich, riches, richness, rocks, savings, savings account, scratch, shekels, simoleons, six-figure income, small change, smash, specie, spinach, stiff, stuff, stumpy, substance, sugar, swag, take, the ready, treasure, unregistered bank account, upper bracket, wampum, wealth, wealthiness, wealthy, well-heeled, well-to-do, wherewithal

moneybags

• moneybags, Daddy Warbucks, affluence, assets, billionaire, bloated plutocrat, bottomless purse, bulging purse, capitalist, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, fat cat, fortune, gold, handsome fortune, high income, high tax bracket, independence, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, man of means, man of substance, man of wealth, material wealth, millionaire, money, money to burn, moneyed man, multimillionaire, nabob, opulence, opulency, parvenu, pelf, plutocrat, possessions, property, prosperity, prosperousness, rich man, riches, richling, richness, six-figure income, substance, treasure, upper bracket, warm man, wealth, wealthiness, wealthy man

moneyed

• moneyed, abounding in riches, affluent, big-rich, comfortable, disgustingly rich, fat, flush, frightfully rich, in funds, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, loaded, luxurious, made of money, oofy, opulent, prosperous, provided for, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

moneylender

• moneylender, Shylock, bank clerk, bank manager, bank officer, bank president, banker, banking executive, bill broker, cambist, cashier, discounter, investment banker, lender, loan officer, loan shark, loaner, money broker, money changer, money dealer, moneymonger, mortgage holder, mortgagee, note broker, pawnbroker, teller, trust officer, usurer

moneymaking

• moneymaking, accession, acquirement, acquisition, addition, advantageous, attainment, banausic, breadwinning, businesslike, coming by, commercial, compensating, compensative, compensatory, dragging down, earnings, fat, gainful, gaining, getting, getting hold of, good, lucrative, making, materialistic, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, obtainment, obtention, paying, practical, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, productive, profitable, prosaic, realistic, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retributive, retributory, rewardful, rewarding, satisfying, securement, trover, utilitarian, well-paying, winning, workaday, workday, working, worthwhile

monger

• monger, arab, chandler, dealer, distributor, duffer, hawk, hawker, higgler, huckster, importer, jobber, marketer, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, storekeeper, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, vend, vendor, wholesaler

mongolism

• mongolism, Christmas disease, Hartnup disease, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, achromatic vision, albinism, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, color blindness, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, dichromatic vision, dysautonomia, half-wittedness, hemophilia, ichthyosis, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mongolianism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, mucoviscidosis, muscular dystrophy, pancreatic fibrosis, profound idiocy, retardation, retardment, sickle-cell anemia, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, subnormality, thalassemia

mongoloid

• mongoloid, arrested, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dithering, driveling, drooling, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, moronic, not all there, retarded, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, subnormal

mongrel

• mongrel, Cape Colored, Eurasian, animal, bastard, beast, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbred, crossbreed, crossed, cur, dog, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow, hinny, hound, hybrid, hyena, insect, interbred, ladino, liger, lurcher, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis, metisse, mixblood, mixed-blood, mulatto, mule, mustee, mutt, octoroon, pariah dog, pig, plumcot, polecat, quadroon, quintroon, reptile, sambo, serpent, skunk, snake, swine, tangelo, tigon, varmint, vermin, viper, whelp, worm, zebrass, zebrule

moniker

• moniker, appellation, appellative, binomen, binomial name, byname, byword, cognomen, cryptonym, denomination, designation, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, handle, honorific, hyponym, label, name, namesake, nomen, nomen nudum, proper name, proper noun, scientific name, secret name, sobriquet, style, tag, tautonym, title, trinomen, trinomial name

monition

• monition, admonishment, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, alarm, alerting, briefing, caution, cautioning, caveat, certiorari, citation, clue, consultation, council, counsel, cue, determent, deterrence, deterrent example, direction, example, exhortation, expostulation, final notice, final warning, forewarning, frightening off, garnishment, guidance, habeas corpus, hint, hortation, idea, instruction, intimidation, lesson, moral, notice, notification, object lesson, office, opinion, parley, passing word, pointer, proposal, recommendation, remonstrance, steer, subpoena, suggestion, summons, talking out of, thought, threat, tip, tip-off, ultimatum, venire, venire de novo, venire facias, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, whisper, writ of summons

monitor

• monitor, ARRL, Big Brother, CRT, Cassandra, Dutch uncle, Jeremiah, Polonius, TV man, admonisher, adviser, amateur radio operator, announcer, annunciator, apprentice teacher, audit, auditor, authority, autodidact, autopsy, backseat driver, boatswain, boss, buttinsky, cameraman, canvass, cautioner, channel, check, check out, check over, check up on, chief, communicant, communicator, comptroller, confidant, consultant, control engineer, controller, counsel, counselor, custodian, display, educatee, enlightener, examine, expert, expert witness, flagman, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, follow, foreman, gaffer, ganger, give an examination, go over, gossipmonger, graduate assistant, grapevine, guard, guardian, guide, ham, head, headman, informant, information center, information medium, informer, inquirer, inspect, inspector, instructor, intern, interviewee, keep track of, kibitzer, learner, lighthouse keeper, look at, look over, lookout, lookout man, meddler, mentor, mixer, mouthpiece, nestor, newsmonger, noncommissioned officer, notifier, observe, orienter, overhaul, overlook, overman, oversee, overseer, paraprofessional, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, pore over, postmortem, practice teacher, praepostor, preceptist, prefect, press, proctor, prophet of doom, public relations officer, publisher, pupil, pupil teacher, radio, radio electrician, radio engineer, radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher, radiotrician, record, reporter, review, run over, scan, scholar, scrutinize, self-taught person, sentinel, sentry, set an examination, signaler, signalman, sirdar, size, size up, slave driver, source, spokesman, straw boss, student, student assistant, studier, study, subforeman, super, superintend, superintendent, supervise, supervisor, survey, surveyor, take stock of, take the measure, taskmaster, teacher, teaching assistant, teaching fellow, teaching intern, television, television technician, teller, tipster, tout, trace, track, trainee, vet, visitor, warner, watch, watchdog, witness

monitoring

• monitoring, custodianship, custody, eagle eye, guard, guardedness, guardianship, interlaced scanning, invigilation, lookout, mixing, observance, peeled eye, proctoring, prudence, qui vive, scanning, shading, sharp eye, stewardship, surveillance, switching, telecasting, televising, vigil, vigilance, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye

monitory

• monitory, admonishing, admonitory, advisory, augural, cautionary, cautioning, communicative, consultative, consultatory, counseling, critical, deterrent, didactic, directive, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive, educational, educative, enlightening, exemplary, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, heavy with meaning, hortative, hortatory, indicative, informational, informative, informing, instructive, intimidating, intuitive, meaningful, monitorial, moralistic, moralizing, notificational, notifying, preachy, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging, prognostic, prognosticative, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, sententious, significant, warning

monk

• monk, Cape polecat, abbacomes, abbot, ape, ascetic, bar, beadsman, bear, brother, caloyer, cavy, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, chimp, chimpanzee, coenobite, conventual, conventual prior, coon, ferret, foumart, friar, glutton, grand prior, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamist, misogynist, monastic, monkey, mousehound, nun, opossum, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, priest, prior, quill pig, raccoon, religieux, religious, single, skunk, stylite, unmarried, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

monkey with

• monkey with, Paul-Pry, busybody, butt in, fool, fool with, horn in, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, kibitz, make, meddle, meddle with, mess with, nose, pry, snoop, tamper with

monkey

• monkey, Cape polecat, Chiroptera, Irish, Lagomorpha, Primates, Rodentia, ape, ass, babe, bad temper, bantam, bar, bawbee, bear, boob, butt, byword, byword of reproach, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, chump, cinch, conformist, coon, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, coquet, counterfeiter, credulous person, crown, cuckoo, cull, dabble, dally, dander, derision, devil, dissembler, dissimulator, dollar, dupe, duplicate, easy mark, easy pickings, echo, echoer, echoist, fair game, faker, fall guy, farthing, ferret, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, figure of fun, finger with, fish, fiver, flirt, florin, fool, fool around, fool with, forger, foumart, fourpence, fourpenny, fribble, frivol, game, gamin, gazingstock, glutton, goat, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, groat, groundhog, gudgeon, guinea, guinea pig, gull, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, hedgehog, horse around, hypocrite, idle, imitate, imitator, imp, impersonate, impersonator, impostor, innocent, interfere with, jerk off, jest, jestingstock, joke, kid around, laughingstock, leadpipe cinch, little, loiter, mag, mark, meddle with, meg, mess around, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mischief-maker, mite, mocker, mockery, mockingbird, monk, monkey around, mousehound, new pence, np, opossum, p, parrot, patsy, pence, penny, petite, phony, piddle, pigeon, plagiarist, play, play around, play with, plaything, polecat, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, pony, porcupine, poseur, possum, potter, pound, prairie dog, primate, prize sap, pushover, putter, quid, quill pig, raccoon, rapscallion, rascal, sap, saphead, scamp, schlemiel, sheep, shilling, simian, simulator, sitting duck, sixpence, skunk, smallish, smatter, stock, stooge, sucker, tamper with, target, temper, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, trusting soul, tuppence, twiddle, twopence, victim, weasel, whistle-pig, wolverine, woodchuck, zoril

monkeying

• monkeying, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, idling, jerking off, kidding around, loitering, messing around, monkeying around, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, puttering, smattering, tinkering, toying, trifling

mono

• mono, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

monochromatic

• monochromatic, chromatic, cold, colorific, coloring, cool, dichromatic, glowing, harmonious, many-colored, matching, medley, monochrome, monochromic, motley, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychromatic, prismatic, rainbow, spectral, tinctorial, tingent, toning, variegated, warm

monochrome

• monochrome, Maxwell triangle, Munsell scale, acrylic painting, chromatic, chromatic circle, chromatic spectrum, chromaticity diagram, cold, color circle, color cycle, color index, color mixture curve, color solid, color spectrum, color system, color triangle, colorific, coloring, complementary color, cool, demitint, dichromatic, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, finger painting, flower painting, freehand, fresco painting, full color, fundamental colors, genre painting, glowing, gouache, graphic, grisaille, half tint, halftone, harmonious, hue cycle, illumination, illustration, impasto, many-colored, matching, medley, metamer, monochromatic, monochromic, motley, mural painting, oil painting, painting, painty, parti-colored, pastose, photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural, picturesque, picturization, pigmentary, polychromatic, polychrome, portraiture, poster painting, primary, primary color, prismatic, pure color, rainbow, scenographic, scumbled, secondary, secondary color, solar spectrum, spectral, spectral color, spectrum, spectrum color, tertiary, tertiary color, the brush, tinctorial, tingent, toning, variegated, warm, wash, wash drawing

monocle

• monocle, Polaroid glasses, bifocals, blinkers, cheaters, colored glasses, contact lens, dark glasses, divided spectacles, eyeglass, eyeglasses, glasses, goggles, granny glasses, harlequin glasses, horn-rimmed glasses, lorgnette, lorgnon, mini-specs, nippers, pair of glasses, peepers, quizzing glass, readers, reading glasses, shades, specs, spectacles, sun-specs, sunglasses, trifocals

monocratic

• monocratic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, ascendant, autarchic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, autonomous, bossy, bureaucratic, civic, civil, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, constitutional, controlling, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, dominant, domineering, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, ex officio, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, governing, governmental, great, grinding, gubernatorial, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heteronomous, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, important, influential, leading, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, matriarchal, matriarchic, mighty, momentous, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, peremptory, pluralistic, political, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, repressive, republican, ruling, self-governing, senior, severe, strict, substantial, superior, suppressive, supreme, theocratic, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous, weighty

monody

• monody, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord, accordance, alba, anacreontic, attune, attunement, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, chime, chiming, clerihew, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, consonance, consonancy, consort, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, diapason, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, euphony, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral song, georgic, ghazel, graveside oration, haiku, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, idyll, jingle, keen, knell, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monochord, monophony, muffled drums, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, requiem, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, tanka, tenso, tenzone, three-part harmony, threnode, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, tune, unison, unisonance, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

monogamy

• monogamy, beena marriage, bigamy, common-law marriage, companionate marriage, concubinage, deuterogamy, left-handed marriage, levirate, leviration, love match, marriage of convenience, monandry, monogyny, morganatic marriage, picture marriage, polyandry, polygamy, polygyny, trial marriage, trigamy

monogram

• monogram, ID card, John Hancock, X, alphabetic character, autograph, badge, calligram, calling card, card, character, christcross, cipher, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, credentials, cross, device, dog tag, endorsement, graph, grapheme, hand, identification, identification badge, identification tag, initials, letter, letter of introduction, lexigraphic character, mark, mark of signature, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, pictographic character, press card, seal, serial number, sigil, sign, sign manual, signature, signet, subscription, syllabic, symbol, tessera, visa, vise, visiting card, writing, written character

monograph

• monograph, article, causerie, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exposition, feature, first approach, homily, introductory study, lucubration, memoir, morceau, note, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, piece, preliminary study, prolegomenon, research paper, screed, sketch, special article, study, survey, term paper, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment

monolith

• monolith, aa, abyssal rock, arch, barrow, basalt, bedrock, block lava, boundary stone, brash, brass, breccia, bust, cairn, cenotaph, column, conglomerate, crag, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, footstone, gneiss, granite, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, igneous rock, inscription, lava, limestone, living rock, magma, mantlerock, marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, metamorphic rock, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, pahoehoe, pillar, pillow lava, plaque, porphyry, prize, pudding stone, pyramid, regolith, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rock, ropy lava, rostral column, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, shaft, shelly pahoehoe, shrine, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, talus, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy, tufa, tuff

monolithic

• monolithic, accordant, alike, austere, automatic, balanced, bare, basic, characterless, chaste, colossal, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, craggy, crystal, crystalline, elementary, enormous, equable, equal, essential, even, featureless, flat, fundamental, giant, gigantic, gravelly, gritty, homely, homespun, homogeneous, huge, immovable, immutable, impenetrable, imposing, indivisible, inflexible, intractable, invariable, invulnerable, irreducible, lapideous, level, lithoid, lithoidal, massive, measured, mechanical, mere, methodic, monumental, of a piece, ordered, orderly, pebbled, pebbly, persistent, plain, porphyritic, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, regular, rigid, robotlike, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, sandy, severe, shingled, shingly, simon-pure, simple, single, smooth, solid, spare, stable, stark, steadfast, steady, stolid, stonelike, stony, systematic, trachytic, unadorned, unbending, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncluttered, undeviating, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying

monologist

• monologist, Hamlet, Roscius, actor, actress, antagonist, bad guy, barnstormer, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, feeder, foil, heavy, histrio, histrion, ingenue, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, playactor, player, protean actor, reciter, soliloquist, soliloquizer, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain

monologue

• monologue, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, aside, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, charade, cliff hanger, clockwork regularity, closet drama, comedy drama, constancy, critical success, daily round, daytime serial, dialogue, dingdong, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, drone, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, even pace, even tenor, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, invariability, legitimate drama, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monology, monotone, monotonousness, monotony, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, opera, orderliness, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, regularity, review, revue, sameliness, sameness, sensational play, serial, show, singsong, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, smoothness, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, soliloquy, solo, spectacle, stage play, stage show, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, treadmill, undeviation, undifferentiation, unvariation, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

monomania

• monomania, absorbed attention, absorption, application, complex, compulsion, concentration, contemplation, deep study, deep thought, engagement, engrossment, fascination, fixation, fixed idea, hang-up, hypercathexis, idee fixe, immersion, intentness, involvement, irresistible impulse, meditation, morbid drive, obsession, obsessive compulsion, possession, preoccupation, prepossession, profound thought, rapt attention, ruling passion, single-mindedness, studiousness, study, submersion, tic

monopolist

• monopolist, careerist, censor, egotist, fortune hunter, hog, individualist, lone wolf, loner, narcissist, protectionist, restrictionist, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, tufthunter

monopolize

• monopolize, absorb, absorb the attention, adopt, appropriate, arrest, arrogate, assume, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, catch, charm, colonize, complete a purchase, conquer, consume, control, corner, devour, dominate, employ, enchant, engage, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enslave, enthrall, exercise, fascinate, forestall, grab, grip, have, hog, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hypnotize, immerse, indent, involve, involve the interest, jump a claim, make a buy, make free with, make use of, manage, mesmerize, obsess, occupy, occupy the attention, overrun, own, possess, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, procure, purchase, rebuy, regrate, repurchase, requisition, sew up, sit on, spellbind, squat on, subjugate, take all of, take it all, take over, take possession of, take up, tie up, use, usurp, utilize

monopoly

• monopoly, a corner on, arrest, arrestation, bear raid, bull raid, cartel, check, consortium, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, copyright, corner, corner in, cornering, curb, curtailment, deceleration, engrossment, exclusive possession, forestallment, hindrance, inhibition, injunction, interdict, legal restraint, manipulation, monopolization, ownership, pool, possessorship, prohibition, proprietorship, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, raid, rationing, rein, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retrenchment, rigging, self-control, slowing down, syndicate, tariff wall, thought control, trust, wash sale, washing

monorail

• monorail, Amtrak, L, baggage train, branch, cable railroad, cable railway, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog railway, el, electric, electric railway, electric train, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, express, express train, feeder, feeder line, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, goods train, gravity-operated railway, horse railway, interurban, junction, light railroad, lightning express, limited, line, local, main line, metro, milk train, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railroad, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railroad train, railway, rattler, roadbed, roadway, rolling stock, shuttle, shuttle train, sidetrack, siding, special, streamliner, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, terminal, terminus, track, train, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground, way train

monosyllable

• monosyllable, antonym, articulation, expression, free form, homograph, homonym, homophone, lexeme, linguistic form, locution, logos, metonym, minimum free form, polysyllable, syllable, synonym, term, usage, utterance, verbalism, verbum, vocable, word

monotheism

• monotheism, acosmism, allotheism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, cosmotheism, deism, ditheism, dualism, dyotheism, henotheism, hylotheism, monolatry, multitheism, myriotheism, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, polytheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, zootheism

monotheist

• monotheist, allotheist, anthropolater, anthropotheist, autotheist, cosmotheist, deist, ditheist, dualist, henotheist, hylotheist, multitheist, myriotheist, pantheist, physitheist, polytheist, psychotheist, tetratheist, theist, theriotheist, tritheist, zootheist

monotone

• monotone, AF, Indian file, alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, array, articulation, assonance, assonant, audio frequency, banausic, bank, belabored, blah, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche-ridden, clockwork regularity, concatenation, connection, consecution, constancy, continuum, course, cycle, daily round, descent, dim, dingdong, dreary, drone, droning, endless belt, endless round, even pace, even tenor, file, filiation, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, gamut, gradation, harmonic, harping, hum, humdrum, intonation, invariability, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, line, lineage, monologue, monotonic, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, nexus, orderliness, overtone, partial, partial tone, pedestrian, pendulum, periodicity, pitch, pitter-patter, plenum, poky, powder train, progression, queue, range, rank, recurrence, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, reticulation, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, rotation, round, routine, row, run, sameliness, sameness, scale, sequence, series, single file, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, soniferous, sonorous, sounded, sounding, spectrum, stale repetition, stodgy, string, succession, swath, tedious, tedium, thread, tier, tonal, tone, toneless, tonelessness, train, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, unnecessary repetition, unvariation, windrow

monotonous

• monotonous, alliterating, alliterative, articulated, assonant, banal, banausic, belabored, blah, boring, broken-record, catenated, ceaseless, chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, colorless, commonplace, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dim, dingdong, direct, drab, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, endless, everlasting, everyday, featureless, gapless, gray, harping, ho-hum, humdrum, immediate, incessant, interminable, invariable, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, jogtrot, joined, jointless, labored, linked, long-winded, mechanical, monotone, monotonic, never-ending, nonstop, ordinary, pedestrian, perennial, periodic, poky, prolix, prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, rhymed, rhyming, round-the-clock, routine, run-of-the-mill, running, same, samely, seamless, serried, singsong, sleep-inducing, smooth, soporific, stable, steady, stodgy, straight, tedious, tiresome, tiring, treadmill, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, unending, uneventful, unexciting, uniform, uninteresting, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome, wearying

monotonously

• monotonously, ad infinitum, again and again, at a stretch, boresomely, boringly, ceaselessly, connectedly, constantly, continually, continuously, cumulatively, cyclically, drearisomely, dully, endlessly, equably, evenly, everlastingly, fatiguingly, harpingly, in a rut, incessantly, interminably, irksomely, on a stretch, on and on, on end, perennially, repetitively, round the clock, routinely, tediously, tiresomely, together, unbrokenly, unceasingly, uniformly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unrelievedly, unvaryingly, wearisomely, wearyingly, without a break, without cease, without stopping

monotony

• monotony, AF, alliteration, assonance, audio frequency, boredom, broken record, ceaselessness, chime, clockwork regularity, consecutiveness, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, continuousness, daily round, dingdong, drone, dryness, endlessness, ennui, equilibrium, even pace, even tenor, featurelessness, flatness, frequency, fullness, fundamental, fundamental tone, gaplessness, harmonic, harping, humdrum, incessancy, intonation, invariability, irk, irksomeness, jingle, jingle-jangle, jointlessness, monologue, monotone, monotonousness, near rhyme, orderliness, overtone, partial, partial tone, pitch, pitter-patter, plenitude, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, sameliness, sameness, seamlessness, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, stability, stale repetition, steadiness, steady state, successiveness, tedium, the beaten track, the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill, the weary round, tone, tonelessness, treadmill, trot, unbrokenness, undeviation, undifferentiation, uniformity, unintermittedness, uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unnecessary repetition, unrelievedness, unvariation, wearisome sameness

monsoon

• monsoon, air current, cat-and-dog weather, crosscurrent, current, current of air, dirty weather, downdraft, draft, fall wind, flow of air, following wind, head wind, indraft, inflow, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, jetstream, katabatic wind, movement of air, predominance of Aquarius, raininess, rains, rainy day, rainy season, rainy weather, spell of rain, spring rains, stormy weather, stream, stream of air, tail wind, undercurrent, updraft, wet, wet season, wet weather, wind

monster

• monster, Argus, Atlantean, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Cerberus, Charybdis, Cyclopean, Cyclops, Dracula, Echidna, Frankenstein, Gargantuan, Gorgon, Harpy, Herculean, Homeric, Hydra, Loch Ness monster, Mafioso, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Talos, Typhon, Wolf-man, Young Turk, abortion, abysmal, amplitudinous, ape-man, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, baboon, bag, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, blemish, blot, bogey, bogeyman, bomber, boundless, brute, bugaboo, bugbear, bulky, centaur, chimera, cockatrice, colossal, cosmic, deformity, demon, devil, devil incarnate, dinosaur, dog, dragon, drake, elephant, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, eyesore, fee-faw-fum, fiend, fiend from hell, fire-eater, firebrand, freak, freak of nature, fright, frightener, fury, galactic, gargantuan, gargoyle, ghost, ghoul, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goon, gorilla, griffin, gunsel, hag, hardnose, harpy, harridan, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellkite, heroic, hippo, hippocampus, hippopotamus, hobgoblin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, horror, hothead, hotspur, huge, immeasurable, immense, incendiary, incubus, infinite, jumbo, killer, king-size, lamia, large, leviathan, mad dog, madcap, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodon, mermaid, merman, mess, mighty, miscreation, missing link, monstrosity, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, mugger, mutant, mutation, nightmare, nixie, no beauty, ogre, ogress, outsize, overgrown, phantom, prodigious, profound, rapist, revenant, revolutionary, roc, salamander, satyr, savage, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, sea horse, sea serpent, she-wolf, sight, siren, sizable, spacious, specter, spitfire, stupendous, succubus, teratism, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, titanic, tough, tough guy, towering, tremendous, troll, ugly customer, ugly duckling, unicorn, vampire, vast, violent, virago, vixen, voluminous, weighty, werewolf, whale, wild beast, windigo, witch, wolf, xiphopagus, zombie

monstrosity

• monstrosity, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, abortion, absurdity, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, anticness, awfulness, baboon, bag, barbarity, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blemish, blot, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, curiousness, defacement, deformation, deformity, derangement, deviation, difference, disfigurement, divergence, dog, dreadfulness, eccentricity, enormity, enormousness, erraticism, eyesore, fantasticality, fiendishness, flatfoot, freak, freak of nature, freakishness, fright, frightfulness, gargoyle, ghoulishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hag, harelip, harridan, heinousness, hellishness, heteromorphism, hideousness, horribleness, horridness, horror, hugeness, humpback, hunchback, immensity, inferiority, irregularity, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, mess, miscreation, misproportion, misshape, monster, monstrousness, mutilation, no beauty, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, prodigiousness, quaintness, queerness, scarecrow, sight, singularity, splayfoot, strangeness, stupendousness, subnormality, superiority, swayback, talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, tremendousness, truncation, ugly duckling, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, valgus, vastness, weirdness, witch, wryneck

monstrous

• monstrous, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abject, abominable, absurd, abysmal, amplitudinous, appalling, arrant, astronomic, astronomical, atrocious, awesome, awful, awfully, bad, bandy, bandy-legged, barbaric, barbarous, baroque, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beyond belief, big, bizarre, black, blamable, blameworthy, blemished, bloated, boundless, bowlegged, brutal, brutish, bulky, cacogenic, cheesy, club-footed, cockamamie, colossal, contemptible, cosmic, cracking, crazy, criminal, cruel, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, defaced, deformed, degraded, deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disfigured, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, dwarfed, egregious, elephantine, enormous, epic, evil, exaggerated, excessive, execrable, exorbitant, extensive, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fabulous, fancy, fantastic, fateful, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, flatfooted, foolish, foul, freak, freakish, frightful, fulsome, galactic, gargantuan, gargoylish, ghoulish, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous, grandiose, grave, grievous, grisly, gross, grotesque, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hellish, heroic, hideous, high, high-flown, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, immeasurable, immense, immoderate, impressive, improper, incontinent, incredible, infamous, infinite, inhuman, iniquitous, inordinate, insensitive, intemperate, jumbo, king-size, knavish, knock-kneed, lamentable, large, laughable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, ludicrous, lumpen, magnificent, malformed, mammoth, mangy, marred, massive, massy, mean, measly, merciless, mightily, mighty, misbegotten, miserable, misproportioned, misshapen, monster, monumental, mortal, mountainous, mutilated, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, nonsensical, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, out of bounds, out of shape, out of sight, outrageous, outre, outsize, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overweening, paltry, peccant, petty, pigeon-toed, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, poppycockish, portentous, preposterous, prodigious, profound, pug-nosed, rachitic, rank, rattling, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, revolting, rickety, ridiculous, rococo, rotten, ruthless, sad, savage, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shapeless, shocking, shoddy, showy, simous, sinful, sizable, small, snapping, snub-nosed, sordid, spacious, splendid, squalid, steep, stiff, stumpy, stupendous, superb, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic, teratogenic, teratoid, terrible, titanic, too bad, too much, towering, tremendous, truncated, ugly, unbridled, unclean, unconscionable, undue, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unreasonable, unrestrained, unshapely, unspeakable, unworthy, vast, vicious, vile, villainous, voluminous, weighty, weird, wicked, wild, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong

monstrously

• monstrously, abjectly, abominably, arrantly, atrociously, basely, contemptibly, despicably, eerily, execrably, fancifully, fantastically, flagrantly, foully, grossly, grotesquely, heinously, meanly, miserably, mysteriously, nefariously, obnoxiously, odiously, outlandishly, peculiarly, pettily, poorly, quaintly, queerly, scurvily, shabbily, shoddily, singularly, strangely, supernaturally, vilely, wretchedly

montage

• montage, Telephoto, Wirephoto, abstract, abstraction, aerial photograph, altarpiece, black-and-white photograph, block print, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, collage, color photograph, color print, copy, cyclorama, daub, diapositive, diptych, engraving, fresco, heliochrome, heliograph, icon, illumination, illustration, image, likeness, miniature, mosaic, mug, mug shot, mural, panorama, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup, portrait, print, representation, reproduction, shot, slide, snap, snapshot, stained glass window, stencil, still, still life, still photograph, tableau, tapestry, telephotograph, transparency, triptych, wall painting

month

• month, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year

monthly

• monthly, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, daybook, decennial, diary, diurnal, ephemeris, fortnightly, gazette, hebdomadal, hourly, journal, magazine, menstrual, momentary, momently, newsmagazine, organ, periodical, pictorial, quarterly, quotidian, review, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, serial, slick magazine, tertian, trade magazine, triennial, weekly, yearbook, yearly

monument

• monument, antenna tower, arch, archives, barbican, barrow, belfry, bell tower, bench mark, bookmark, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, campanile, carving, catstone, cenotaph, colossus, column, commemorate, commemoration, cromlech, cross, cup, cupola, cyclolith, derrick, doll, dolly, dolmen, dome, dummy, evidence, example, exemplar, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, fire tower, footstone, gingerbread man, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, landmark, lantern, lay figure, ledger, lighthouse, lightship, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, mark, marker, martello, martello tower, mast, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, milepost, milestone, minaret, model, monolith, monumentalize, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, observation tower, pagoda, pharos, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, plaque, platform, pole, portrait bust, prize, puppet, pylon, pyramid, record, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, scarecrow, sculpture, seamark, shaft, shrine, skyscraper, snowman, spire, standpipe, statuary, statue, statuette, steeple, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, television mast, testament, testimonial, testimony, token, tomb, tombstone, tope, tour, tower, tribute, trophy, turret, watchtower, water tower, wax figure, waxwork, windmill tower, witness, wood carving

monumental

• monumental, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, Olympian, abject, abysmal, aerial, airy, altitudinous, amplitudinous, ascending, aspiring, astronomic, astronomical, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, boundless, bulky, calamitous, catastrophic, classic, colossal, commemorative, cosmic, cracking, dominating, egregious, elephantine, elevated, eminent, enduring, enormous, epic, ethereal, exalted, extensive, fantastic, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glorious, grand, haughty, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, historic, huge, immeasurable, immense, impressive, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, lasting, lofty, magnificent, mammoth, marmoreal, massive, massy, memorable, memorial, mighty, monster, monstrous, mortal, mountainous, mounting, notable, noteworthy, outsize, outstanding, outtopping, overgrown, overlooking, overtopping, overwhelming, permanent, prodigious, profound, prominent, sculptitory, sculptural, sculpturesque, significant, sizable, soaring, spacious, spectacular, spiring, staggering, statuary, statuelike, statuesque, steep, striking, stupendous, sublime, superlative, supernal, terrible, titanic, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, tremendous, unbelievable, unforgettable, unforgivable, uplifted, upreared, vast, voluminous, weighty, whopping, wonderful, wondrous

moo

• moo, bark, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, blare, blat, blate, bleat, bray, call, caterwaul, cry, give tongue, give voice, howl, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, neigh, nicker, pule, roar, screak, scream, screech, squall, squeak, squeal, troat, ululate, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

mooch

• mooch, bat, bat around, beg, bum, bum around, cadge, count ties, divagate, do nothing, drift, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, goof off, hang around, hit, hit the road, hit the trail, hit up, hobo, idle, jaunt, knock about, knock around, laze, lazy, lie around, loaf, loiter about, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, meander, mooch around, moon, moon around, nomadize, panhandle, pass the hat, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, run about, saunter, scrounge, sit around, slouch, slouch around, stand around, straggle, stray, stroll, touch, traipse, tramp, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

moocher

• moocher, beggar, bum, bummer, cadger, caller, company, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, frequenter, gate-crasher, guest, habitue, hobo, idle rich, leisure class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, rentiers, schnorrer, scrounger, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, uninvited guest, visitant, visitor

mood

• mood, Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, action, affection, air, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, attitude, aura, background, catastrophe, categorical syllogism, character, characterization, color, complication, conditional, continuity, contrivance, cue, denouement, design, development, device, dilemma, disposition, eager, emotion, enthymeme, episode, fable, falling action, feel, feeling, figure, frame, frame of mind, gimmick, heart, humor, imperative, in the mood, incident, inclination, inclined, indicative, individuality, jussive, keen, line, local color, mind, minded, mode, modus tollens, morale, motif, movement, mythos, nature, note, obligative, optative, paralogism, peripeteia, permissive, personality, plan, plot, potential, prosyllogism, pseudosyllogism, ready, recognition, response, rising action, rule, rule of deduction, scheme, secondary plot, semblance, sense, slant, sorites, soul, spirit, spirits, state of mind, story, strain, structure, subject, subjunctive, subplot, switch, syllogism, sympathetic, temper, temperament, thematic development, theme, timbre, tone, topic, twist, vein, well-disposed, willing

moodiness

• moodiness, arbitrariness, bouderie, caprice, capriciousness, crankiness, crotchetiness, dejection, desultoriness, deviability, dumpishness, eccentricity, erraticism, fancifulness, fantasticality, fickleness, flightiness, freakishness, glumness, grimness, grumness, humorsomeness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, instability, irregularity, melancholy, mercuriality, moodishness, mopishness, moroseness, motivelessness, petulance, quirkiness, restlessness, shiftiness, sulkiness, sullenness, surliness, temperamentalness, uncertainty, undependability, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variety, wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness, whimsy

moody

• moody, abrupt, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, blue, brooding, broody, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, changeful, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, crotchety, crusty, curt, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, desultory, deviable, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, dizzy, dour, downcast, downhearted, dumpish, eccentric, erratic, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, frowning, giddy, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, harebrained, huffish, huffy, humorsome, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, in the doldrums, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, irritable, kinky, long-faced, lowering, lugubrious, maggoty, mazy, melancholy, mercurial, moodish, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, motiveless, mumpish, notional, out of sorts, peevish, petulant, piqued, quirky, rambling, restless, roving, sad, saturnine, scatterbrained, scowling, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short, short-tempered, shuffling, snappish, snappy, spasmodic, spineless, sulking, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, testy, touchy, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, uneven, unfixed, unhappy, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, waspish, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

moolah

• moolah, blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, cabbage, chips, dinero, dough, gelt, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, jack, kale, mazuma, mopus, needful, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pelf, rhino, rocks, scratch, shekels, simoleons, smash, spondulics, stuff, sugar, the needful, tin, wampum

moon shaped

• moon shaped, Cynthian, S-shaped, bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, horn-shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moonlike, semicircular, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, two-horned

moon struck

• moon struck, abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, hallucinated, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless

moon

• moon, April showers, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Cynthia, Diana, Hecate, Hekate, Luna, Phoebe, Proteus, Selene, abundant year, academic year, annum, artificial satellite, be absent, bissextile year, bum around, calendar month, calendar year, candle, century, chameleon, cloud shapes, common year, crescent, crescent moon, day, daydream, decade, decennary, decennium, decrescent, decrescent moon, defective year, demilune, divagate, do nothing, dream, electric light bulb, fantasy, fire, fiscal year, flame, fortnight, full moon, gibbous moon, glim, go woolgathering, goof off, half-moon, hang around, harvest moon, hour, idle, illuminant, illuminator, incandescent body, increscent, increscent moon, kaleidoscope, lamp, lantern, laze, lazy, leap year, lie around, light, light bulb, light source, loaf, loiter about, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, luminant, luminary, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, match, mercury, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, mooch around, moon around, muse, new moon, orb of night, pipe-dream, quarter, queen of heaven, queen of night, quicksilver, quinquennium, regular year, rolling stone, satellite, second, semester, session, shifting sands, sidereal year, silvery moon, sit around, slouch, slouch around, solar year, source of light, stand around, stargaze, stars, stray, sun, taper, term, the wandering Moon, the weather, torch, trimester, twelvemonth, wander, waning crescent moon, waning moon, water, waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, weather vane, weathercock, week, weekday, wet moon, wheel of fortune, whirligig, year

mooning

• mooning, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, half-awake, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, meditative, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, reverie, somewhere else, stargazing, study, taken up, trance, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

moonlight

• moonlight, be employed, bootleg, brew, carry on business, distill, do business, follow a trade, have a job, keep up, labor, moonbeam, moonglow, moonshine, practice a profession, set up shop, stay employed, toil, transact business, work, work at, work for

moonlighting

• moonlighting, appointment, berth, billet, employment, engagement, gig, incumbency, job, office, opening, place, position, post, second job, service, situation, station, tenure, vacancy

moonlit

• moonlit, ablaze, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bespangled, brightened, candlelit, enlightened, firelit, gaslit, illuminated, in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, luminous, spangled, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, tinseled

moonshine

• moonshine, BS, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, balderdash, balls, baloney, bathtub gin, begging the question, bilge, black-market, black-marketeer, blague, blah, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, blether, blockade, bootleg, bootleg liquor, bop, bosh, brew, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, circular argument, claptrap, con, crap, crowd-pleasing argument, distill, drivel, empty words, eyewash, fallacy, fence, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, formal fallacy, gammon, garbage, gas, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, home brew, hooch, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, hysteron proteron, insincere argument, jiggery-pokery, jive, line, logical fallacy, malarkey, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, moonbeam, moonglow, moonlight, mountain dew, non sequitur, paralogism, petitio principii, philosophism, piffle, poppycock, pseudosyllogism, push, rot, rubbish, scat, shine, shit, shove, smoke, solecism, sophism, sophistry, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, verbal fallacy, weak point, white lightning, white mule, wind

moonshiner

• moonshiner, Mafioso, barkeep, barkeeper, barmaid, barman, bartender, black marketeer, bootlegger, brewer, brewmaster, dealer, distiller, drug pusher, gray marketeer, liquor dealer, liquor store owner, mixologist, publican, pusher, racketeer, tapster, tapstress, vintner, wine merchant

moor

• moor, affix, agricultural region, alight, alkali flat, alluvial plain, anchor, annex, anthill, arable land, attach, barrow, basin, batten, batten down, baygall, belay, berth, billet at, bind, bivouac, black belt, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, brae, bridle, buffalo wallow, burrow, bushveld, butte, camp, campo, cast anchor, catch, cement, chain, champaign, champaign country, cinch, citrus belt, clamp, clinch, coastal plain, colonize, come to anchor, come to land, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, cramp, debark, debus, delta, deplane, desert, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dock, domesticate, down, downs, drop anchor, drop the hook, drumlin, dune, dust bowl, enchain, engraft, ensconce, entrammel, establish residence, everglade, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fasten, fasten down, fell, fen, fenland, fetter, fix, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, foothills, fruit belt, glade, go ashore, graft, grapple, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing region, gyve, hamper, handcuff, heath, highland, highlands, hill, hillock, hive, hobble, hog wallow, hog-tie, holm, hopple, hummock, inhabit, kedge, kedge off, keep house, knit, knob, knoll, land, lande, lash, lash and tie, lay anchor, leash, level, live at, llano, locate, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, make a landfall, make fast, make land, make port, make secure, make sure, manacle, marais, mare, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, meadows and pastures, mere, mesa, mesilla, mire, molehill, monticle, monticule, moorland, moors, morass, moss, mound, move, mud, mud flat, nest, open country, pampa, pampas, park, peat bog, peg down, peneplain, people, perch, picket, pin down, pinion, plain, plains, plateau, playa, populate, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, put in, put in irons, put into port, put to, quagmire, quicksand, reach land, relocate, reside, restrain, rolling country, roost, rope, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sand dune, savanna, screw up, sebkha, secure, set, set to, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shackle, sit down, slob land, slough, sough, squat, stand, stay at, steppe, steppes, straitjacket, strap, strike root, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swell, table, tableland, taiga, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tether, the country, the soil, the sticks, tie, tie down, tie up, tighten, tobacco belt, trammel, tree veld, trice up, trim, tundra, unboat, upland, uplands, vega, veld, wallow, wash, wasteland, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

moored

• moored, aground, anchored, caught, chained, fast, fastened, fixed, grounded, held, high and dry, impacted, inextricable, jammed, packed, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, tethered, tied, transfixed, wedged

mooring

• mooring, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, colonization, debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment, dock, dockage, docking, dockyard, dropping anchor, dry dock, embankment, establishment, fixation, foundation, going ashore, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, hook, inauguration, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, jetty, jutty, landfall, landing, landing place, landing stage, lodgment, marina, mole, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, peopling, pier, plantation, population, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, settlement, settling, shipyard, slip, tying up, wharf

moot point

• moot point, bone of contention, catechism, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, debating point, demand, feeler, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, issue, leader, leading question, point at issue, point in question, problem, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, topic, trial balloon, vexed question

moot

• moot, abstract, academic, advance, agitate, arguable, argue, argufy, armchair, at issue, bandy words, bicker, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, canvass, cavil, choplogic, commend to attention, confutable, confuted, conjectural, contend, contest, contestable, contested, controversial, controvertible, cross swords, cut and thrust, debatable, debate, deniable, disbelieved, discept, discredited, disputable, dispute, disputed, doubtable, doubted, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, exploded, give and take, hassle, have it out, hypothetic, ideal, iffy, impractical, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, indefinite, introduce, join issue, launch, lay before, lock horns, logomachize, make a motion, mistakable, mistrusted, move, notional, offer a resolution, open to doubt, open to question, open up, pettifog, plead, polemicize, polemize, pose, posit, postulate, postulatory, prefer, problematic, problematical, proffer, propose, proposition, propound, put forth, put forward, put it to, questionable, questioned, quibble, recommend, refutable, set before, set forth, spar, speculative, start, submit, suggest, suppositional, suspect, suspected, suspicious, take sides, theoretical, thrash out, try conclusions, uncertain, undecided, under a cloud, under suspicion, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, ventilate, wrangle

mop up

• mop up, baptize, bath, bathe, beat, button up, cap, carry to completion, clean up, climax, clobber, close out, close up, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, douche, drub, dust, end, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, flush, flush out, gargle, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, holystone, irrigate, lambaste, larrup, lather, launder, lave, lick, mop, overwhelm, perfect, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, round out, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shellac, shower, sluice, sluice out, soap, sponge, swab, syringe, terminate, toivel, top off, top out, tub, wash, wash out, wash up, wind up, wrap up

mop

• mop, baptize, bath, bathe, crop, douche, fleece, flush, flush out, gargle, grimace, head, head of hair, holystone, irrigate, lather, launder, lave, locks, make a face, make a mouth, mane, mat, mop and mow, mop up, mouth, mow, mug, pout, pull a face, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, shag, shampoo, shock, shower, sluice, sluice out, soap, sponge, swab, syringe, thatch, toivel, tresses, tub, wash, wash out, wash up

mope

• mope, ache, agonize, amble, bitch, bleed, brood, brood over, brooder, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, depressive, despond, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drift, faineant, fret, gentleman of leisure, gloomy Gus, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, grieve, grouch, grump, idler, laggard, linger, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, melancholiac, melancholic, moper, mosey, mourn, muck, pine, pine away, potterer, pout, putterer, slouch, sloucher, slug, sluggard, sorrow, sourpuss, stick-in-the-mud, stroll, sulk, take on, time killer, time waster, trifler, waiter on Providence

mopey

• mopey, autistic, bad, bashful, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, blue, brooding, broody, cast down, chapfallen, close, crestfallen, dark, dejected, depressed, dispirited, dissociable, dour, down, dumpish, frowning, glowering, glum, grim, grum, incompatible, insociable, long-faced, low, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, nongregarious, scowling, self-contained, self-sufficient, snug, socially incompatible, spiritless, sulky, sullen, surly, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial

moping

• moping, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, brooding, broody, chapfallen, crestfallen, dark, dejected, dour, dumpish, frowning, glowering, glum, grim, grum, long-faced, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, mopish, morose, mumpish, scowling, sulky, sullen, surly

moral climate

• moral climate, Ten Commandments, Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist, axiology, behavioral norm, business ethics, climate, climate of opinion, code, code of ethics, code of morals, decalogue, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, ideology, intellectual climate, legal ethics, medical ethics, moral code, moral principles, morals, mores, new morality, norm, normative system, norms, principles, professional ethics, social ethics, spiritual climate, standards, value system, world view

moral code

• moral code, Ten Commandments, Zeitgeist, axiology, behavioral norm, business ethics, code, code of ethics, code of morals, decalogue, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, legal ethics, medical ethics, moral climate, moral principles, morals, new morality, norm, normative system, principles, professional ethics, social ethics, standards, value system

moral support

• moral support, aid, backing, carriage, carrying, maintenance, psychological support, reliance, security blanket, subsidy, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upholding, upkeep

moral turpitude

• moral turpitude, abandon, abandonment, abjection, baseness, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, dissoluteness, knavery, knavishness, moral pollution, profligacy, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, rottenness, scampishness, scoundrelism, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, villainy

moral

• moral, Christian, adage, admonishment, admonition, alarm, ana, analects, angelic, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, assignment, axiological, axiom, behavior, belief, blameless, brocard, byword, canon, catchword, caution, caveat, chalk talk, chaste, clean, code, collected sayings, commandment, conduct, conscientious, convention, creditable, current saying, customs, decent, deferential, deterrent example, dictate, dictum, discourse, disquisition, distich, duteous, dutiful, epigram, erect, estimable, ethical, ethics, ethological, example, exercise, exposition, expression, fair, final notice, final warning, form, formula, full of integrity, general principle, gnome, godly, golden rule, golden saying, good, guideline, guiding principle, habits, harangue, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, hint, homework, homily, honest, honorable, ideals, immaculate, imperative, incorruptible, instruction, integrity, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, manly, maxim, message, mitzvah, modest, monition, moral lesson, moralistic, morality, moralization, moralizing, morals, mores, mot, motto, noble, norm, notice, notification, obedient, object lesson, observant, oracle, ordinance, phrase, pithy saying, point, practices, preachment, preachy, precept, prescript, principium, principle, principled, principles, probity, proper, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, pure, recital, recitation, rectitude, regulation, reputable, respectable, respectful, right, right-minded, righteous, rubric, rule, saintlike, saintly, saw, saying, scruples, scrupulous, sentence, sententious expression, seraphic, sermon, sermonizing, set task, settled principle, skull session, slogan, sloka, spotless, stainless, standard, standards, sterling, stock saying, straight, sutra, talk, task, teaching, teachy, tenet, text, threat, tip-off, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, truism, ultimatum, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, verbum sapienti, verse, virtuous, warning, warning piece, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, working principle, working rule, worthy, yeomanly

morale

• morale, angelicalness, assurance, attitude, bipartisanship, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, confidence, cooperation, cooperativeness, cue, dedication, disposition, drive, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, esprit, esprit de corps, ethicality, ethicalness, fellow feeling, fellowship, frame, frame of mind, godliness, goodness, harmony, heart, humor, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, mass action, mind, mood, moral rectitude, morality, morals, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, note, octet, pooling, pooling of resources, probity, pulling together, quartet, quintet, reciprocity, rectitude, right conduct, righteousness, saintlikeness, saintliness, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-possession, septet, sextet, solidarity, spirit, spirits, state of mind, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, temper, tone, trio, triumvirate, troika, united action, unity, vein, vigor, virtue, virtuousness

moralistic

• moralistic, admonitory, advisory, axiological, cautionary, consultative, consultatory, didactic, directive, ethical, ethological, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, hortative, hortatory, instructive, monitorial, monitory, moral, noble, preachy, principled, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, right-minded, righteous, sententious, virtuous, warning

morality

• morality, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, angelicalness, antimasque, assignment, audience success, ballet, behavior, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, chalk talk, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, conduct, critical success, customs, daytime serial, decency, dialogue, discourse, disquisition, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, epic theater, ethicality, ethicalness, ethics, exercise, experimental theater, exposition, extravaganza, failure, fair play, fairness, flop, gasser, giveaway, godliness, goodness, habits, happening, harangue, hit, hit show, homework, homily, honesty, ideals, improvisational drama, instruction, integrity, justice, lecture, lecture-demonstration, legitimate drama, lesson, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, moral, moral lesson, moral rectitude, morale, morality play, moralization, morals, mores, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, object lesson, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playlet, preachment, principles, probity, problem play, propriety, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, recital, recitation, rectitude, review, revue, right, right conduct, righteousness, rightness, saintlikeness, saintliness, sensational play, serial, sermon, set task, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, skull session, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, standards, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk, talk show, task, teaching, teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty, total theater, uprightness, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, virtue, virtuousness, word-of-mouth success, work

moralize

• moralize, annotate, censure, criticize, critique, discourse, explain, exposit, expound, harangue, hold forth, lecture, moralize upon, point a moral, pontificate, preach, preachify, read a lesson, review, sermonize

morals

• morals, Ten Commandments, Zeitgeist, axiology, behavioral norm, business ethics, code, code of ethics, code of morals, conduct, decalogue, ethic, ethical system, ethicality, ethicalness, ethics, ethos, habits, legal ethics, medical ethics, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morale, morality, mores, new morality, norm, normative system, principles, professional ethics, social ethics, standards, value system, virtue

morass

• morass, anarchy, baygall, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, chaos, clutch, complication, confusion, crunch, dunghill, embarrassing position, embarrassment, entanglement, everglade, fabulous formless darkness, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, foul-up, glade, hassle, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, jam, jungle, knot, labyrinth, license, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mesh, mess, mire, misrule, mix, mix-up, moor, moorland, moss, mud, mud flat, muddle, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, scrape, screw-up, skein, slob land, slough, snafu, snarl, sough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, tangle, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, view, wallow, wash, web

moratorium

• moratorium, afterthought, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, cancellation, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, detention, double take, dragging, freeze, grace period, halt, hang-up, hiatus, hindrance, holdup, interim, jam, lag, lagging, logjam, obliteration, obstruction, paperasserie, pause, postponement, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, stay, stay of execution, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, tie-up, time lag, wait, write-off

morbid

• morbid, agape, agog, all agog, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, blue, burning with curiosity, cankered, consumed with curiosity, contaminated, curious, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, dire, direful, diseased, disordered, downcast, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable, gangrened, gangrenous, ghastly, ghoulish, gloomy, glum, gossipy, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, infected, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itchy, lugubrious, macabre, melancholic, melancholy, monstrous, moody, morbidly curious, morose, mortified, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, poisoned, prurient, psychotic, quizzical, redoubtable, sad, saturnine, schrecklich, scopophiliac, septic, shocking, sick, sickly, sphacelated, sullen, supercurious, tainted, terrible, terrific, tremendous, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound, unwholesome, voyeuristic

morbidity

• morbidity, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cachexia, cachexy, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, chronic ill health, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, debilitation, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delicacy, delicate health, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enervation, epidemic disease, exhaustion, feebleness, fragility, frailty, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, healthlessness, hereditary disease, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, iatrogenic disease, ill health, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, languishing, languishment, malady, malaise, morbidness, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peakedness, plant disease, poor health, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickliness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, urogenital disease, valetudinarianism, virus disease, wasting, wasting disease, weakliness, worm disease

morbific

• morbific, bad, bad for, contaminated, foul, harmful, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, noisome, noxious, pathogenic, peccant, pestiferous, polluted, septic, tainted, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome

morceau

• morceau, article, causerie, chip, crumb, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exposition, feature, first approach, homily, introductory study, lucubration, memoir, monograph, morsel, nip, note, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, patch, piece, preliminary study, prolegomenon, research paper, scrap, screed, shiver, shred, sketch, sliver, smithereen, snick, snip, snippet, special article, splinter, stitch, study, survey, tag, tatter, term paper, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment

mordancy

• mordancy, acerbity, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, asperity, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitterness, causticity, causticness, corrosiveness, cuttingness, drive, edge, effectiveness, fierceness, force, forcefulness, grip, guts, harshness, impressiveness, incisiveness, keenness, mordacity, nervosity, nervousness, piercingness, piquancy, poignancy, point, power, punch, pungency, rigor, roughness, severity, sharpness, sinew, sinewiness, sourness, stabbingness, sting, strength, stridency, stringency, strong language, tartness, teeth, trenchancy, vehemence, vigor, vigorousness, violence, virulence, vitality

mordant

• mordant, Attic, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, actual cautery, asperous, astringent, biting, bitter, brand, brand iron, branding iron, brilliant, caustic, cauter, cauterant, cauterizer, cautery, clever, corroding, corrosive, cutting, double-edged, driving, droll, edged, effective, electrocautery, escharotic, facetious, fierce, forceful, forcible, funny, gutsy, harsh, hot iron, humorous, humorsome, imperative, impressive, incisive, irritating, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, lunar caustic, mordacious, moxa, nervous, nimble-witted, nose-tickling, penetrating, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, potential cautery, powerful, punchy, pungent, quick-witted, radium, rapier-like, rigorous, rough, salt, salty, scathing, scintillating, scorching, sensational, severe, sharp, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, smart, sour, sparkling, sprightly, stabbing, stinging, strident, striking, stringent, strong, tart, telling, trenchant, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, whimsical, withering, witty

more or less

• more or less, about, all but, almost, approximately, approximatively, as good as, circa, fairly, for practical purposes, generally, generally speaking, in round numbers, just about, kind of, moderately, most, nearly, plus ou moins, practically, pretty, rather, roughly, roughly speaking, roundly, say, some, something, sort of, well-nigh

more than enough

• more than enough, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bellyful, beyond measure, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, copiousness, deluge, embarras de richesses, engorgement, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantly, exuberance, fertility, fill, flood, flow, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, inundation, landslide, lavishly, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, maximum, money to burn, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, out of measure, outpouring, overabundance, overabundantly, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifully, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, prevalence, prodigality, prodigally, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, redundancy, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, saturatedness, saturation, saturation point, scads, shower, skinful, snootful, spate, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superabundantly, superflux, supersaturation, surfeit, teemingness, wealth, without measure

more

• more, a certain number, a few, above, accessory, added, additional, additionally, again, all included, along, also, altogether, among other things, ancillary, and all, and also, and so, another, as well, au reste, auxiliary, beside, besides, better, beyond, certain, collateral, composite, contributory, else, en plus, ever more, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fresh, further, furthermore, greater and greater, growingly, in addition, increasingly, inter alia, into the bargain, item, likewise, more and more, more than one, moreover, new, nonuniqueness, not singular, numerous, numerousness, on and on, on the side, on top of, other, over, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, plurality, pluralness, plurative, plus, several, similarly, some, spare, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, then, therewith, to boot, too, ulterior, variety, various, yet

moreover

• moreover, above, additionally, again, all included, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, as well, au reste, beside, besides, beyond, else, en plus, extra, farther, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, in addition, inter alia, into the bargain, item, likewise, more, on the side, on top of, over, plus, similarly, then, therewith, to boot, too, yet

mores

• mores, Weltanschauung, acculturation, amenities, bon ton, civilities, civility, civilization, climate, climate of opinion, comity, complex, conformity, consuetude, convention, courtliness, cultural drift, culture, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, custom, decencies, decorum, dictates of society, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, established way, ethos, etiquette, exquisite manners, fashion, folkway, folkways, formalities, good form, good manners, ideology, intellectual climate, key trait, manner, manners, moral climate, morality, morals, natural politeness, norms, observance, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, proprieties, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, ritual, rules of conduct, social code, social conduct, social convention, social graces, social procedures, social usage, society, spiritual climate, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, the conventions, the mores, the proprieties, the right things, time-honored practice, tradition, trait, trait-complex, usage, use, way, what is done, wont, wonting, world view

moribund

• moribund, apathetic, bad, benumbed, blase, bored, cachectic, dead, debilitated, decadent, declining, despaired of, deteriorating, done for, dopey, dormant, drained, droopy, drugged, dull, dying, ending, enervated, exanimate, exhausted, expiring, facing death, fading, failing, feeble, frail, given up, going, healthless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, in articulo mortis, in extremis, in poor health, inanimate, incapable of life, inert, infirm, invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, low, lumpish, near death, nonviable, numb, obsolescent, on the wane, pale, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pooped, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sated, sickly, sinking, sleepy, slipping, slipping away, slow, sluggish, somnolent, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, terminal, torpid, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vegetable, vegetative, wan, waning, weak, weakened, weakly, weary, with low resistance, world-weary

morn

• morn, AM, Ack Emma, ante meridiem, aurora, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, daylight, foreday, forenoon, grey-eyed morn, incense-breathing morn, light, matins, morning, morning time, morntime, sunrise, sunup, this AM, this morning, waking time

moron

• moron, ament, born fool, clot, congenital idiot, cretin, defective, dullard, dullhead, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, golem, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, juggins, mongoloid idiot, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, simp, simpleton, stupid, zany

moronic

• moronic, apish, arrested, asinine, babbling, backward, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blithering, brainless, buffoonish, burbling, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, credulous, cretinistic, cretinous, daffy, daft, dazed, dim-witted, dithering, dizzy, doting, driveling, drooling, dull, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, feebleminded, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, not all there, nutty, retarded, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, slow-witted, stupid, subnormal, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless

morose

• morose, autistic, bashful, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, brooding, broody, brusque, chapfallen, choleric, close, crabbed, cranky, crestfallen, dark, dejected, dissociable, dour, dumpish, frowning, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, gruff, grum, incompatible, insociable, irascible, irritable, long-faced, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, mumpish, nongregarious, saturnine, scowling, self-contained, self-sufficient, sick, sickly, snug, socially incompatible, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, ugly, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, waspish

morpheme

• morpheme, IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, bound morpheme, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, form, formative, free form, glosseme, icon, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, lexeme, lexical form, morph, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, paradigm, phrase, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, root, semasiological unit, sememe, sign, signifiant, significant, stem, suffix, suffixation, symbol, term, theme, token, type, word, word-formation

morphine

• morphine, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, lullaby, mandrake, meperidine, methadone, morphia, narcotic, nightcap, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, poppy, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-bringer, sleep-inducer, sleep-producer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

morphological

• morphological, affixal, anatomic, architectonic, architectural, constructional, derivational, descriptive, edificial, formal, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, infixal, inflectional, inflective, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, metalinguistic, morphemic, morphologic, morphophonemic, organic, organismal, paradigmatic, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, prefixal, psycholinguistic, semantic, structural, substructural, superstructural, syntactic, tectonic, textural

morphologist

• morphologist, anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy, geomorphology, histologist, histology, morphology, myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography, osteology, splanchnography, splanchnology, tectology, zootomy

morphology

• morphology, IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy, bound morpheme, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, descriptive grammar, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, difference of form, dingdong theory, enclitic, etymology, form, formative, free form, generative grammar, geomorphology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, grammatical analysis, grammatical theory, grammaticality, graphemics, histologist, histology, historical linguistics, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphologist, morphophonemics, myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography, osteology, paleography, paradigm, parsing, philology, phonetics, phonology, phrase-structure grammar, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, psycholinguistics, radical, root, rules of language, school grammar, semantics, sociolinguistics, splanchnography, splanchnology, stem, stratificational grammar, structural grammar, structuralism, suffix, suffixation, syntactics, tagmemic analysis, tectology, theme, traditional grammar, transformational grammar, transformational linguistics, word-formation, zootomy

morsel

• morsel, ambrosia, atom, bait, bit, bite, bolus, bonne bouche, butt, cate, champ, chaw, chew, chip, choice morsel, chomp, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cud, cut, cutting, dainty, delicacy, dessert, dollop, drop, end, fraction, fragment, gnash, gob, gobbet, goody, grain, granule, hunk, kickshaw, lump, manna, modicum, moiety, morceau, mouthful, munch, nectar, nibble, nip, paring, particle, patch, piece, pinch, quid, rasher, remnant, sample, savory, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, smidgin, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, soupcon, speck, splinter, spoonful, stitch, stump, swallow, tag, taste, tatter, tidbit, titbit, treat, whit

mortal

• mortal, Adamite, Adamitic, abject, anthropocentric, anthropological, awful, baneful, being, bitter, bodily, body, brittle, brutal, capricious, cat, changeable, chap, character, conceivable, corporal, corporeal, corruptible, cracking, creature, customer, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deciduous, destructive, dire, disastrous, duck, dying, earthling, earthly, earthy, enormous, ephemeral, evanescent, extreme, fading, fantastic, fatal, fellow, feral, fickle, finite, fleeting, fleshly, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, great, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic, impermanent, impetuous, implacable, impulsive, inconstant, individual, inordinate, insubstantial, intense, internecine, joker, killing, lethal, life, likely, living soul, malign, malignant, man, man-centered, massive, merciless, momentary, monumental, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, nose, one, only human, party, passing, perishable, pernicious, person, personage, personality, pestilent, pestilential, physical, possible, prodigious, relentless, ruthless, savage, short-lived, single, somebody, someone, soul, stupendous, subject to death, sworn, tellurian, temporal, temporary, terminal, terran, terrible, towering, transient, transitive, transitory, tremendous, unangelic, unappeasable, unceasing, undurable, unenduring, unflinching, unrelenting, unremitting, unstable, unyielding, virulent, volatile, weak, woman, worldling, worldly

mortality

• mortality, Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, banefulness, caducity, changeableness, clay, corruptibility, deadliness, death, death rate, death toll, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, fallen humanity, fatality, finitude, fleetingness, flesh, frailty, fugacity, generation of man, genus Homo, hominid, homo, human equation, human family, human frailty, human nature, human race, human species, human weakness, humanity, humankind, humanness, impermanence, impermanency, instability, le genre humain, lethality, malignance, malignancy, malignity, man, mankind, momentariness, mortal flesh, mortalness, mortals, mutability, perishability, perniciousness, race of man, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, virulence, volatility, weakness

mortar and pestle

• mortar and pestle, cheese grater, comminutor, crusher, granulator, grater, grinder, kominuter, levigator, masher, mill, millstone, nutmeg grater, pestle, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, shredder, steamroller, triturator

mortar

• mortar, adobe, aim at, alembic, anvil, ashlar, barrage, blast, blitz, bombard, brick, bricks and mortar, caldron, cannon, cannonade, cement, clinker, commence firing, concrete, covering materials, crucible, enfilade, engine, ferroconcrete, fire a volley, fire at, fire upon, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flooring, fusillade, grout, lath and plaster, lathe, machine, masonry, mastic, melting pot, motor, open fire, open up on, parget, pavement, paving, paving material, pepper, plaster, plasters, pop at, prestressed concrete, rake, retort, roofage, roofing, roughcast, shell, shoot, shoot at, siding, snipe, snipe at, stone, strafe, stucco, take aim at, test tube, tile, tiling, torpedo, transducer, transformer, walling, zero in on

mortgage

• mortgage, adjustment mortgage, antichresis, blanket mortgage, bond, bottomry, bottomry bond, chattel mortgage, closed mortgage, dead pledge, deed of trust, deposit, dip, first mortgage, go bail, handsel, hock, hypothec, hypothecate, hypothecation, impignorate, installment mortgage, leasehold mortgage, lien, living pledge, mortgage deed, mortuum vadium, participating mortgage, pawn, pledge, post, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, second mortgage, security agreement, spout, stake, third mortgage, trust mortgage, vadium mortuum, vadium vivum

mortgagee

• mortgagee, Shylock, banker, bill collector, collection agent, credit man, creditor, creditress, debtee, dun, dunner, godchild, goddaughter, godson, insuree, lender, loan officer, loan shark, loaner, money broker, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder, mortgage-holder, note-holder, pawnbroker, policyholder, usurer, warrantee

mortification

• mortification, Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abasement, abashment, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, awkwardness, caries, carrion, chagrin, cold purgatorial fires, comedown, confusion, debasement, decay, decomposition, deflation, descent, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, disgrace, distress, disturbance, dry gangrene, dry rot, dump, embarrassment, eremitism, fasting, flagellation, foulness, gangrene, gas gangrene, hair shirt, hangdog look, humbled pride, humiliation, letdown, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, moist gangrene, monachism, monasticism, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, put-down, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, repentance, rigor, rot, rottenness, sackcloth and ashes, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-diminishment, self-mortification, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, slough, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoilage, tooth decay, voluntary poverty

mortified

• mortified, abashed, afflicted, agitated, annoyed, ascetic, ashamed, astringent, austere, bad, beset, blushing, bothered, cankered, carious, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, confused, contaminated, corrupt, crestfallen, crushed, decayed, decomposed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, diseased, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, festering, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad, hangdog, harassed, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, infected, morbid, necrosed, necrotic, out of countenance, pathological, peccant, perturbed, poisoned, put-out, put-upon, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, red-faced, rotten, rotting, septic, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sphacelated, spoiled, stern, suppurating, suppurative, tainted, troubled, ulcerated, ulcerous, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, worried

mortify

• mortify, abash, break up, bring down, canker, cast down, castigate, chagrin, chasten, confound, confuse, control, corrupt, crumble, crumble into dust, crush, decay, decompose, deflate, degrade, discipline, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disgrace, disintegrate, disturb, downgrade, embarrass, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, gangrene, go bad, go to pieces, humble, humiliate, let down, mildew, mold, molder, necrose, punish, put down, put out, put to shame, putrefy, putresce, rankle, rebuff, reduce, rot, shame, sphacelate, spoil, subdue, subjugate, suppress, suppurate, throw into confusion, upset

mortise

• mortise, ankle, articulate, articulation, batten, batten down, bolt, boundary, buckle, butt, button, cervix, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip, closure, coact, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, cooperate, coupling, dovetail, elbow, embrace, engage, gliding joint, hasp, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch, hook, interact, interchange, interface, interlace, intermesh, interplay, intertwine, interweave, interwork, jam, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, latch, link, lock, mesh, miter, nail, neck, peg, pin, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, rivet, scarf, screw, seam, sew, shoulder, skewer, snap, staple, stick, stitch, suture, symphysis, tack, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union, wedge, weld, wrist, zipper

mortuary

• mortuary, blue, burning ghat, cadaverous, charnel house, cinerary, corpselike, crematorium, crematory, deadhouse, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dirgelike, dismal, eerie, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, gruesome, haggard, livid, lurid, macabre, mausoleum, morgue, mournful, necrological, obituary, obsequial, pale, sepulchral, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird

mosaic

• mosaic, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, block print, check, checked, checker, checkerboard, checkered, checkerwork, chessboard, chimera, collage, color print, colors in patches, copy, crazy-work, cyclorama, daub, diptych, engraving, fresco, harlequin, icon, illumination, illustration, image, likeness, marquetry, miniature, montage, mural, panorama, parquet, parquetry, patchwork, photograph, picture, plaid, pomato, potomato, print, representation, reproduction, stained glass window, stencil, still life, tableau, tapestry, tartan, tessellate, tessellated, tessellation, tesserae, topato, triptych, variegated pattern, wall painting

Mosaic

• Mosaic, Biblical, Gospel, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apocalyptic, apostolic, canonical, evangelic, evangelistic, gospel, inspired, prophetic, revealed, revelational, scriptural, textual, textuary, theopneustic

Moses

• Moses, Abraham, Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, Hosea, Isaac, Isaiah, Jacob, Jeremiah, Joel, Jonah, Joseph, Joshua, Malachi, Micah, Nahum, Samuel, Zephaniah, prophet, vates sacer

mosey

• mosey, amble, be getting along, buzz off, claudicate, come away, crawl, creep, depart, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, drift, exit, gang along, get along, get away, get off, get on, get under way, go, go along, go away, go dead slow, go off, go on, go slow, hobble, idle, inch, inch along, jog-trot, laze, leave, limp, linger, march off, mope, move away, move off, move out, muck, poke, poke along, pull out, sashay, sashay off, saunter, shuffle along, stagger along, stroll, take flight, take wing, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, up and go, waddle, walk, wing it, worm, worm along

moss

• moss, algae, autophyte, baygall, bean, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, bracken, brown algae, buffalo wallow, climber, club moss, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, everglade, fen, fenland, fern, flowering moss, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, glade, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, hog wallow, holm, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, mold, moor, moorland, morass, mud, mud flat, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, peat bog, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, quag, quagmire, quicksand, red algae, red tipped moss, rockweed, rust, salt marsh, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, slob land, slough, smut, sough, sphagnum moss, succulent, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, toadstool, vetch, via, vine, wallow, wash, wort, wrack

mossback

• mossback, Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, backwoodsman, bumpkin, clodhopper, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, dad, diehard, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, laudator temporis acti, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old school, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, provincial, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, right-winger, rightist, square, standpat, standpatter, starets, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, ultraconservative, yokel

mossbacked

• mossbacked, anile, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, infirm, moth-eaten, mummylike, palsied, papery-skinned, ravaged with age, rickety, run to seed, rusty, senile, shaky, shriveled, stricken in years, timeworn, tottering, tottery, weak, withered, wizened

most

• most, A per se, a outrance, about, absolutely, ace, acme, all but, all out, almost, approximately, at the height, at the limit, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, best, best part, better, better part, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, blue ribbon, body, boss, bulk, champion, championship, chief, command, commander, completely, control, dead, dean, directorship, dominion, downright, effectiveness, egregiously, eminently, essence, essentially, exceedingly, extreme, extremely, far and away, far out, first place, first prize, first-class, first-rate, flat out, fugleman, fundamentally, furthest, generality, genius, gist, gravamen, greater, greatest, head, headship, hegemony, height, higher-up, highest, immeasurably, imperium, in the extreme, incalculably, incomparably, indefinitely, infinitely, influence, inimitably, jurisdiction, kingship, laureate, leader, leadership, lordship, main body, major part, majority, management, mass, master, mastership, mastery, maximal, maximum, meat, mightily, more than half, mortally, much, ne plus ultra, nearabout, new high, nigh, nonpareil, palms, par excellence, paragon, paramountcy, paramountly, perfectly, plurality, power, practically, preeminently, preponderance, preponderancy, presidency, primacy, principal, prodigy, prominently, purely, radical, radically, record, remarkably, rule, ruler, say, senior, sovereignty, star, substance, super, superior, superlative, superlatively, superman, superstar, supremacy, supreme, supremely, surpassingly, sway, the greatest, the greatest number, the most, thrust, tip-top, to crown all, too, too much, top, top dog, top spot, top-notch, topmost, totally, transcendently, ultra, ultra-ultra, unconditionally, unequivocally, uppermost, utmost, utterly, uttermost, virtuoso, way out, well-nigh, with a vengeance, zenith

mostly

• mostly, a fortiori, above all, all in all, all the more, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as per usual, as things go, as usual, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, customarily, dominantly, effectually, especially, essentially, even, ever so, first of all, generally, generally speaking, habitually, in chief, in general, in the main, indeed, largely, mainly, more than ever, most often, naturally, never so, no end, normally, normatively, on balance, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, particularly, peculiarly, predominantly, prescriptively, prevailingly, primarily, principally, regularly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, still more, substantially, to be expected, usually, virtually, yea

mot

• mot, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, byword, catchword, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, expression, facetiae, flash of wit, flight of wit, gibe, gnome, golden saying, happy thought, maxim, moral, motto, nasty crack, oracle, persiflage, phrase, pithy saying, play of wit, pleasantry, precept, prescript, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quip, quips and cranks, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, saw, saying, scintillation, sentence, sententious expression, sloka, smart crack, smart saying, snappy comeback, stock saying, stroke of wit, sutra, teaching, text, turn of thought, verse, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, wisecrack, witticism, word, words of wisdom

mote

• mote, ace, acropolis, air, atom, bastion, beachhead, bit, black sheep, blemish, blockhouse, bridgehead, bubble, bunker, castle, chaff, chip, citadel, cobweb, cork, crumb, dab, dole, donjon, dot, down, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dust, dwarf, ether, fairy, farthing, fasthold, fastness, feather, fleck, flue, fluff, flyspeck, foam, foreign body, foreign intruder, fort, fortress, fragment, froth, fuzz, garrison, garrison house, gnat, gobbet, gossamer, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hold, impurity, intruder, iota, jot, keep, little, little bit, martello, martello tower, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, misfit, mite, modicum, molecule, monkey wrench, motte, nutshell, oddball, ounce, particle, pebble, peel, peel tower, pillbox, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, post, rath, safehold, scrap, scruple, sliver, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, sponge, spoonful, spot, spume, stone, straw, strong point, stronghold, thimbleful, thistledown, tiny bit, tittle, tower, tower of strength, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, ward, weed, whit

moth eaten

• moth eaten, anile, archaic, back-number, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, common, commonplace, corny, crabbed, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dated, debilitated, decrepit, despoiled, dilapidated, dingy, doddered, doddering, doddery, down-at-heel, dusty, fade, faded, familiar, feeble, flyblown, fossilized, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gerontal, gerontic, gone to seed, hackney, hackneyed, infirm, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, mossbacked, mummylike, musty, old hat, outdated, palsied, papery-skinned, passe, platitudinous, ravaged, ravaged with age, rickety, rococo, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run-down, rusty, seedy, senile, set, shabby, shaky, shriveled, smutted, smutty, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stricken in years, tattered, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tottering, tottery, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, weak, weevily, well-known, well-worn, withered, wizened, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, worn thin

Mother of God

• Mother of God, Dei Mater, Deipara, Holy Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mariolatry, Mariology, Notre Dame, Our Lady, Queen of Angels, Queen of Heaven, Regina Angelorum, Regina Coeli, Sancta Virgo Virginum, Stella Maris, Theotokos, Virgin Most Glorious, Virgin Most Merciful, Virgin Most Powerful, Virgin Most Renowned, Virgin Most Venerable, Virgin Most Wise, Virgo Clemens, Virgo Gloriosa, Virgo Potens, Virgo Praedicanda, Virgo Sapientissima, Virgo Sponsa Dei, Virgo Veneranda, mater dolorosa, the Blessed Virgin, the Sorrowful Mother, the Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mother

mother superior

• mother superior, abbess, canoness, chatelaine, clergywoman, conventual, dame, dowager, first lady, goodwife, governess, great lady, homemaker, housewife, lady superior, madam, matriarch, matron, mistress, novice, nun, postulant, prioress, religieuse, secular canoness, sister, superioress, the reverend mother

mother

• mother, SOB, agent, ancestorial, ancestors, ancestral, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, attend to, aunt, auntie, author, baby, baby-sit, bastard, bear, beget, begetter, beginner, birth, blood brother, breed, breed true, brethren, bring to birth, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, bugger, builder, care for, catalyst, causer, chaperon, cherish, coddle, conceiver, conserve, constructor, copulate, cosset, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, cradle, craftsman, creator, creep, crossbreed, cultivate, dam, daughter, designer, deviser, discoverer, dry-nurse, effector, engender, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fart, father, fatherlike, fatherly, feed, first cousin, fondle, foster, foster brother, foster mother, founder, frater, generate, generator, genesis, genetrix, get, give birth to, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandnephew, grandniece, grandparental, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, grower, half brother, heel, hood, hooligan, inaugurator, inbreed, indulge, industrialist, initiator, innate, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, jerk, journeyman, keep watch over, kid brother, lavish care on, look after, look out for, look to, louse, ma, make love, maker, mam, mama, mamma, mammy, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mater, materfamilias, maternal, maternal ancestor, matriarch, matronize, maw, meanie, mind, minister to, mom, mommy, motherlike, motherly, mover, multiply, mum, mummy, native, natural, nephew, niece, nourish, nuncle, nunks, nunky, nurse, nurture, nurturer, old, old lady, old woman, organizer, origin, originator, outbreed, pamper, parent, parental, past master, paternal, patriarchal, pill, planner, precursor, preserve, prime mover, primum mobile, procreate, producer, progenitrix, proliferate, propagate, protect, protege, provide for, raiser, rat, realizer, reproduce in kind, ride herd on, second cousin, see after, see to, serve, shaper, shelter, shepherd, shit, shithead, shitheel, sire, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, smith, son, source, spoil, spoon-feed, stepbrother, stepmother, stepsister, stinkard, stinker, suckle, support, sustain, take care of, take charge of, tend, the old woman, turd, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, wellspring, wet-nurse, wright

motherhood

• motherhood, affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity, kindred, kinship, maternalness, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherliness, mothership, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of blood

mothering

• mothering, TLC, bread, care, daily bread, economic support, endowment, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, manna, meat, nourishment, nurture, price support, provision, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, upkeep

motherless

• motherless, abandoned, aidless, bereaved, bereft, defenseless, deprived, deserted, desolate, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, godforsaken, guideless, helpless, homeless, kithless, leaderless, orphan, orphaned, outcast, parentless, pregnable, unfriended, unprotected, untenable, vulnerable, widowed

motif

• motif, action, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, background detail, basis, beading, binding, bordering, bordure, burden, case, catastrophe, chapter, characterization, color, complication, concept, concern, continuity, contrivance, convention, decoration, decorative composition, decorative style, denouement, design, detail, development, device, edging, element, episode, essence, fable, falling action, figure, fimbria, fimbriation, flounce, focus of attention, focus of interest, foil, foreground detail, form, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, gimmick, gist, head, heading, hem, idea, incident, issue, leitmotif, leitmotiv, line, list, living issue, local color, main point, matter, matter in hand, meat, mood, motive, movement, mythos, national style, ornament, ornamental motif, pattern, period style, peripeteia, phrase, plan, plot, point, point at issue, point in question, problem, question, recognition, refrain, repeated figure, rising action, rubric, ruffle, scheme, secondary plot, selvage, setting, skirting, slant, story, structure, style, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subplot, substance, switch, text, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, touch, trimming, twist, valance, welt

motion picture

• motion picture, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, boom shot, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, close-up, color film, creepie, deuce shot, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, follow-focus shot, full shot, group shot, horror picture, horse opera, kinescope, long shot, matte shot, medium shot, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, pan shot, panoramic shot, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, process shot, rap shot, retake, short, shot, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, take, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, travel shot, trucking shot, underground film, zoom shot

motion sickness

• motion sickness, Minamata disease, airsickness, altitude sickness, anoxemia, anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthrax, black lung, caisson disease, car sickness, chilblain, decompression sickness, frostbite, immersion foot, itai, jet lag, lead poisoning, mal de mer, mercury poisoning, nausea, pneumoconiosis, qualm, qualmishness, queasiness, radiation sickness, radionecrosis, red-out, seasickness, squeamishness, sunstroke, the bends, trench foot, vomiting

motion

• motion, Zeitgeist, act, action, activeness, activism, activity, agitation, bearing, beck, beckon, bill, body language, business, calendar, carriage, change, charade, chironomy, clause, clockworks, commotion, commutation, companion bills amendment, course, crossing, current, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, direction, doings, dragnet clause, drift, drive train, dumb show, enacting clause, escalator clause, flag, fluctuation, gait, gear, gesticulate, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, glacial movement, globe-trotting, goad, going, goings-on, hand signal, hold-up bill, improper suggestion, impulse, incentive, indecent proposal, inducement, innards, instance, joker, journeying, kinesics, line, locomotion, machinery, main current, mainstream, measure, mechanism, militancy, mime, mobility, motility, motion to, motive, movability, move, movement, movements, moving, offering, omnibus bill, oscillation, pantomime, pass, passage, poise, political activism, pose, posture, power train, privileged question, procedure, proceeding, proceedings, process, progress, proposal, proposition, proviso, question, recommendation, request, resolution, rider, run, saving clause, saw the air, servomechanism, set, sexual advance, shift, shifting, shrug, shrug the shoulders, sign, sign language, signal, signalize, spring, spur, stance, step, stir, stirring, stream, submission, suggestion, sway, swing, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, time spirit, tone, tourism, touristry, traject, trajet, transit, travel, traveling, tread, trend, turbulence, turmoil, walk, watchworks, wave, wave the arms, wavering, wheels, wheels within wheels, workings, works

motionless

• motionless, at a standstill, at anchor, contemplative, dead-still, do-nothing, dormant, fixed, idle, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, inactive, inert, irremovable, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, meditative, moveless, neuter, neutral, out of commission, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, riding at anchor, sedentary, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, statuelike, steadfast, still, stock-still, unactive, unemployed, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, vegetable, vegetative

motivate

• motivate, activate, actuate, animate, arouse, bring, bring about, bring on, cajole, call forth, cause, coax, compel, contrive, draw down, draw on, drive, drive on, effect, egg on, elicit, encourage, energize, evoke, excite, force, forward, foster, galvanize, get, give an impetus, give momentum, goad, impel, incite, induce, influence, inspire, instigate, lead, mobilize, move, move to action, nudge, obtain, occasion, persuade, pique, power, procure, prod, promote, prompt, propel, provoke, push, put in motion, quicken, rouse, set agoing, set going, set in motion, shove, spark, spur, stimulate, stir up, superinduce, tempt, thrust, urge, wheedle, whip on

motivated

• motivated, actuated, animated, apt, bright, clever, docile, educable, facile, formable, impelled, impressionable, inclined, inner-directed, instructable, intelligent, malleable, minded, moldable, moved, other-directed, plastic, pliable, prompted, quick, ready, receptive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, stimulated, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, willing

motivation

• motivation, activity, actuation, animation, aptitude, aptness, brightness, catalyst, cleverness, direction, docility, dynamics, educability, facility, going, impetus, impressionability, impulse, incentive, incitation, incitement, influence, inner-direction, instigation, intelligence, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, malleability, mobilization, moldability, motion, move, movement, moving, other-direction, plasticity, pliability, prompting, quickness, readiness, receptivity, restlessness, running, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stir, stirring, susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, trainableness, unrest, velocity, willingness

motivational

• motivational, active, actuating, animating, causal, causative, compelling, directive, driving, impelling, impulsive, in motion, inducive, mobile, motile, motivating, motive, motor, moving, pressing, propellant, propelling, stirring, transitional, traveling, urgent

motive power

• motive power, activator, animator, appliance, arouser, bunt, butt, clout, compulsion, convenience, drive, driving force, energizer, engine, enginery, facility, fixture, human dynamo, impellent, impelling force, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, irresistible force, life, locomotion, machine, machinery, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, mobility, moment, momentum, motility, motivating force, motivity, motor, movableness, power, power plant, power source, propelling, propelment, propulsion, pulsion, push, pushing, restorative, shove, shoving, shunt, spark plug, stimulant, stimulator, stimulus, thrust, tonic, utility

motive

• motive, activating, active, actuating, aim, ambition, angle, animating, animus, antecedent, argument, aspiration, attraction, basis, burden, case, causal, causative, cause, chapter, compelling, concern, consideration, counsel, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determinant, determination, device, directive, driving, effect, emotion, end, enticement, essence, feeling, figure, fixed purpose, focus of attention, focus of interest, function, gist, goad, goal, grounds, head, heading, idea, impellent, impelling, impulsive, in motion, incentive, incitement, inducement, inducive, influence, intendment, intent, intention, issue, kinetic, leitmotiv, living issue, lure, main point, matter, matter in hand, meaning, meat, mind, mobile, motif, motile, motivating, motivating force, motivation, motivational, motor, moving, nisus, object, objective, operative, passion, pattern, phrase, plan, point, point at issue, point in question, pressing, problem, prod, project, propellant, propelling, proposal, propulsive, propulsory, prospectus, pulsive, purpose, pushing, question, rationale, reason, resolution, resolve, rubric, sake, shoving, spring, spur, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, striving, study, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, text, theme, thrusting, topic, transitional, traveling, urge, urgent, view, will

motley

• motley, Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, assortment, at odds, at variance, ballet skirt, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bicolor, bicolored, bladder, blended, blotch, buffo, buffoon, buskin, calico, cap and bells, capricious, changeable, changing, check, checker, choppy, chromatic, clouded, clown, cold, colluvies, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, costume, coxcomb, crazy, daedal, dapple, dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disguise, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, dot, eclectic, equivocal, erose, erratic, fifty-fifty, flake, fleck, fool, freckle, gallimaufry, getup, glowing, half-and-half, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous, hodgepodge, idiot, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indiscriminate, inharmonious, intricate, iris, ironic, irreconcilable, irregular, jack-pudding, jagged, jerky, jester, jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, maculate, many, many-colored, many-sided, marble, marbled, marbleize, masquerade, matching, medley, mercurial, merry-andrew, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley fool, mottle, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multifaceted, multifarious, multihued, multinational, multiracial, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, omnium-gatherum, outfit, parti-color, parti-colored, pastiche, patchy, pepper, pepper-and-salt, pickle-herring, piebald, pied, pigmentary, pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, polychromize, prismal, prismatic, promiscuous, ragged, rainbow, rig, rough, salad, scrambled, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald, slapstick, sock, spangle, spasmodic, speck, speckle, spectral, splotch, sporadic, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, syncretic, tattoo, tessellate, thrown together, thunder and lightning, tights, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, tutu, two-tone, unconformable, uncongenial, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varicolored, varied, variegate, variegated, variform, various, varying, vein, versicolor, versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart, zany

motor oil

• motor oil, avgas, crude, crude oil, ethyl, ethyl gas, fossil oil, gas, gasoline, high-octane gas, high-test, kerosene, lead-free gas, low-lead gas, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, premium gas, regular, rock oil

motor vehicle

• motor vehicle, auto, autocar, automobile, boat, buggy, bus, car, crate, heap, jalopy, machine, motor, motorcar, motorized vehicle, tub, voiture, wheels, wreck

motor

• motor, active, aeromotor, alembic, anvil, appliance, arc-jet engine, auto, autocar, automobile, axial-flow turbojet, bicycle, bike, boat, buggy, bus, caldron, cam engine, car, catch a train, charioteer, chauffeur, convenience, crate, crucible, cycle, drive, driving, engine, enginery, entrain, facility, fixture, gas jet, go by rail, heap, impelling, impulse duct engine, in motion, inverted engine, jalopy, joyride, lathe, machine, machinery, make a train, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, melting pot, mobile, mortar, motile, motivational, motive, motive power, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorcycle, motorized vehicle, moving, pancake engine, pedal, pilot, piston engine, power plant, power source, propellant, propeller-jet engine, propelling, propjet, radial engine, ramjet, reciprocating engine, retort, ride, rocket motor, rotary engine, stirring, supercharged engine, take a joyride, taxi, test tube, tool, transducer, transformer, transitional, traveling, tub, turbine, turbojet, turboprop, utility, vertical engine, voiture, wheel, wheels, wreck

motorboat

• motorboat, boat, cabin cruiser, canoe, carry sail, circumnavigate, coast, cross, cruise, cruiser, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, launch, make a passage, motor launch, navigate, ply, power cruiser, powerboat, row, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, scull, seafare, sedan cruiser, speedboat, steam, steam launch, steamboat, take a voyage, traverse, voyage, yacht

motorcade

• motorcade, caravan, cavalcade, column, cortege, dress parade, flyover, funeral, line, march past, mule train, pack train, parade, pomp, procession, promenade, review, skimmington, stream, string, train

motorcar

• motorcar, auto, autocar, automobile, boat, buggy, bus, car, crate, heap, jalopy, machine, motor, motor vehicle, motorized vehicle, tub, voiture, wheels, wreck

motorcycle

• motorcycle, bicycle, bike, bus, catch a train, chauffeur, chopper, cycle, drive, entrain, go by rail, iron, joyride, make a train, minibike, motocycle, motor, motorbike, pedal, pedicab, pig, ride, road-bike, take a joyride, taxi, trail bike, tricycle, trike, wheel

motorist

• motorist, Sunday driver, backseat driver, bus driver, busman, cabby, cabdriver, chauffeur, driver, hack, hackdriver, hackman, hacky, hit-and-run driver, jitney driver, joyrider, operator, road hog, speeder, taxidriver, teamster, truck driver, trucker, truckman

mottle

• mottle, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checker, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, cut, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, dot, dottedness, earmark, engrave, engraving, flake, fleck, flick, freckle, freckliness, gash, graving, hack, harlequin, hatch, impress, imprint, iris, jot, lentigo, line, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a mark, marble, marbleize, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mole, motley, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, polychrome, polychromize, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rainbow, riddle, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, seal, seam, spangle, speck, speckle, speckliness, splash, splotch, spot, spottedness, spottiness, sprinkle, stain, stamp, stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tattoo mark, tessellate, tick, tick off, tittle, trace, underline, underscore, variegate, vein, watermark

mottled

• mottled, blotched, blotchy, brindled, calico, clouded, dapple, dappled, flecked, freckled, marbled, motley, multicolored, patchy, pepper-and-salt, piebald, pied, pinto, skewbald, spattered, speckled, splashed, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, streaked, streaky, variegated

motto

• motto, achievement, adage, alerion, ana, analects, animal charge, annulet, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, axiom, azure, bandeau, banner, banner head, bar, bar sinister, baton, battle cry, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, byword, cadency mark, canton, caption, catchword, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, collected sayings, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cry, current saying, device, dictate, dictum, difference, differencing, distich, drop head, dropline, eagle, epigram, epigraph, epithet, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, expression, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gnome, golden saying, griffin, guide, gules, gyron, hanger, hatchment, head, heading, headline, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, inscription, jump head, label, legend, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, maxim, metal, moral, mot, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, oracle, ordinary, orle, overline, pale, paly, pean, pheon, phrase, pithy saying, precept, prescript, principle, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, purpure, quarter, quartering, rallying cry, rose, rubric, rule, running head, running title, sable, saltire, saw, saying, scarehead, screamer, scutcheon, sentence, sententious expression, shibboleth, shield, slogan, sloka, spread, spread eagle, spreadhead, stock saying, streamer, subhead, subheading, subordinary, subtitle, superscription, sutra, tag line, teaching, tenne, text, tincture, title, title page, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, verse, vert, war cry, watchword, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, wreath, yale

mould

• mould, Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae, Platonic form, Platonic idea, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, acres, adapt, adapt to, adenovirus, adjust, adjust to, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aesthetic form, affect, agree with, algae, alluvion, alluvium, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anatomy, animus, aptitude, arable land, archetype, architectonics, architecture, aroma, arrangement, art form, assemble, assimilate to, attribute, autophyte, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, badge, be guided by, bean, bend, bent, bias, biodegradability, biodegradation, blast, blight, block out, blood, body-build, bracken, brand, break up, breakup, breed, brown algae, bug, build, building, cachet, cancer, canker, carve, cast, casting, character, characteristic, characteristics, chime in with, chisel, clan, clay, climber, clod, coccus, color, complexion, comply, comply with, compose, composition, compound, concoct, conferva, confervoid, configuration, configure, conform, conformation, constituents, constitution, construct, construction, control, correct, correspond, corrosion, corrupt, corruption, crasis, create, creation, creeper, crumble, crumble into dust, crust, cut, decay, decompose, decomposition, degradability, degradation, denomination, description, design, designation, devise, dharma, diathesis, diatom, die, differentia, differential, dilapidation, direct, dirt, discipline, disease-producing microorganism, disintegrate, disintegration, disorganization, disposition, dissolution, distinctive feature, dry land, dry rot, dust, earmark, earth, eccentricity, echovirus, efform, elaborate, enterovirus, erect, ethos, evolve, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fall in with, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fashion, fashioning, feather, feature, fern, fester, fiber, figuration, figure, filterable virus, fit, fix, flavor, follow, forge, forging, form, formalize, format, formation, formulate, found, frame, freehold, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fudge together, fungi, fungus, gangrene, gear to, genius, genre, genus, germ, get up, getup, glebe, go bad, go by, go to pieces, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, grapevine, grassland, green algae, ground, guide, gulfweed, gust, habit, hallmark, harmonize, herb, heterophyte, hew, hue, humor, humors, humus, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, impression, inclination, index, indite, individualism, influence, inner form, intaglio, ivy, kelp, keynote, kidney, kin, kind, knead, knock out, label, land, landholdings, last, lay out, layout, lead, leaning, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, lick into shape, line, lineaments, lithosphere, liverwort, loam, lot, make, make conform, make up, makeup, making, manner, mannerism, manufacture, marginal land, mark, marking, marl, matrix, mature, meet, mental set, mettle, microbe, microorganism, mildew, mind, mind-set, mint, modality, mode, model, mold, molder, molding, molds, mortify, moss, moth, moth and rust, mushroom, must, nature, necrose, negative, nonfilterable virus, number, observe, odor, organic structure, organism, organization, oxidation, oxidization, parasite, parasitic plant, particularity, patch together, pathogen, pattern, patterning, pea, peculiarity, persuasion, perthophyte, pest, phylum, physique, phytoplankton, picornavirus, piece together, plan, planktonic algae, plant families, predilection, predisposition, prefabricate, preference, prepare, proclivity, produce, production, propensity, property, prototype, protozoa, protozoon, puffball, pulse, punch, put together, put up, putrefy, putresce, quality, quirk, race, raise, rankle, real estate, real property, rear, reconcile, rectify, red algae, region, regolith, reovirus, resolution, rhinovirus, rickettsia, rockweed, rot, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rub off corners, run up, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, savor, sculpt, sculpture, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seal, seaweed, set, set up, settle, setup, shape, shaping, shoe last, significant form, singularity, slant, smack, smut, sod, soil, somatotype, sort, specialty, species, sphacelate, spirillum, spirit, spirochete, spoil, spoilage, spore, stamp, staphylococcus, straighten, strain, streak, streptococcus, stripe, structure, structuring, style, subaerial deposit, subsoil, succulent, suchness, suit, suppurate, system, tailor, taint, tally with, tang, taste, tectonics, temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, texture, thallogens, the country, the like of, the likes of, thermoform, tissue, toadstool, token, tone, topsoil, trait, tribe, trick, trypanosome, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, variety, vein, vetch, vibrio, vine, virus, warp, warp and woof, way, weave, web, whomp up, woodland, work, worm, wort, wrack, write, yield

moulder

• moulder, Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae, Platonic form, Platonic idea, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, acres, adapt, adapt to, adenovirus, adjust, adjust to, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aesthetic form, agree with, algae, alluvion, alluvium, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anatomy, animus, aptitude, arable land, archetype, architectonics, architecture, aroma, arrangement, art form, assemble, assimilate to, attribute, autophyte, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, badge, be guided by, bean, bend, bent, bias, biodegradability, biodegradation, blast, blight, block out, blood, body-build, bracken, brand, break up, breakup, breed, brown algae, bug, build, building, cachet, cancer, canker, carve, cast, casting, character, characteristic, characteristics, chime in with, chisel, clan, clay, climber, clod, coccus, color, complexion, comply, comply with, compose, composition, compound, concoct, conferva, confervoid, configuration, conform, conformation, constituents, constitution, construct, construction, correct, correspond, corrosion, corrupt, corruption, crasis, create, creation, creeper, crumble, crumble into dust, crust, cut, decay, decompose, decomposition, degradability, degradation, denomination, description, designation, devise, dharma, diathesis, diatom, die, differentia, differential, dilapidation, dirt, discipline, disease-producing microorganism, disintegrate, disintegration, disorganization, disposition, dissolution, distinctive feature, dry land, dry rot, dust, earmark, earth, eccentricity, echovirus, efform, elaborate, enterovirus, erect, ethos, evolve, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fall in with, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fashion, fashioning, feather, feature, fern, fester, fiber, figuration, figure, filterable virus, fit, fix, flavor, follow, forge, forging, form, formalize, format, formation, formulate, found, frame, freehold, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fudge together, fungi, fungus, gangrene, gear to, genius, genre, genus, germ, get up, getup, glebe, go bad, go by, go to pieces, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, grapevine, grassland, green algae, ground, gulfweed, gust, habit, hallmark, harmonize, herb, heterophyte, hew, hue, humor, humors, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, impression, inclination, index, indite, individualism, inner form, intaglio, ivy, kelp, keynote, kidney, kin, kind, knead, knock out, label, land, landholdings, last, lay out, layout, leaning, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, lick into shape, line, lineaments, lithosphere, liverwort, lot, make, make conform, make up, makeup, making, manner, mannerism, manufacture, marginal land, mark, marking, marl, matrix, mature, meet, mental set, mettle, microbe, microorganism, mildew, mind, mind-set, mint, modality, mode, model, mold, molder, molding, molds, mortify, moss, moth, moth and rust, mushroom, must, nature, necrose, negative, nonfilterable virus, number, observe, odor, organic structure, organism, organization, oxidation, oxidization, parasite, parasitic plant, particularity, patch together, pathogen, pattern, patterning, pea, peculiarity, persuasion, perthophyte, pest, phylum, physique, phytoplankton, picornavirus, piece together, plan, planktonic algae, plant families, predilection, predisposition, prefabricate, preference, prepare, proclivity, produce, production, propensity, property, prototype, protozoa, protozoon, puffball, pulse, punch, put together, put up, putrefy, putresce, quality, quirk, race, raise, rankle, real estate, real property, rear, reconcile, rectify, red algae, region, regolith, reovirus, resolution, rhinovirus, rickettsia, rockweed, rot, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rub off corners, run up, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, savor, sculpt, sculpture, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seal, seaweed, set, set up, settle, setup, shape, shaping, shoe last, significant form, singularity, slant, smack, smut, sod, soil, somatotype, sort, specialty, species, sphacelate, spirillum, spirit, spirochete, spoil, spoilage, spore, stamp, staphylococcus, straighten, strain, streak, streptococcus, stripe, structure, structuring, style, subaerial deposit, subsoil, succulent, suchness, suit, suppurate, system, tailor, taint, tally with, tang, taste, tectonics, temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, texture, thallogens, the country, the like of, the likes of, thermoform, tissue, toadstool, token, tone, topsoil, trait, tribe, trick, trypanosome, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, variety, vein, vetch, vibrio, vine, virus, warp, warp and woof, way, weave, web, whomp up, woodland, work, worm, wort, wrack, write, yield

mouldy

• mouldy, Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae, Platonic form, Platonic idea, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, acres, adapt, adapt to, adenovirus, adjust, adjust to, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aesthetic form, aged, agree with, algae, alluvion, alluvium, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anatomy, ancient, animus, antediluvian, aptitude, arable land, archetype, architectonics, architecture, aroma, arrangement, art form, assemble, assimilate to, attribute, autophyte, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, badge, be guided by, bean, bend, bent, bias, biodegradability, biodegradation, blast, blight, block out, blood, body-build, bracken, brand, break up, breakup, breed, brown algae, bug, build, building, cachet, cancer, canker, carious, carve, cast, casting, character, characteristic, characteristics, chime in with, chisel, clan, clay, climber, clod, coccus, color, complexion, comply, comply with, compose, composition, compound, concoct, conferva, confervoid, configuration, conform, conformation, constituents, constitution, construct, construction, correct, correspond, corrosion, corrupt, corruption, crasis, create, creation, creeper, crumble, crumble into dust, crust, cut, decay, decayed, decaying, decompose, decomposed, decomposing, decomposition, degradability, degradation, denomination, description, designation, devise, dharma, diathesis, diatom, die, differentia, differential, dilapidation, dirt, discipline, disease-producing microorganism, disintegrate, disintegration, disorganization, disposition, dissolution, distinctive feature, dry land, dry rot, dust, earmark, earth, eccentricity, echovirus, efform, elaborate, enterovirus, erect, ethos, evolve, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fall in with, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fashion, fashioning, feather, feature, fern, fester, fiber, figuration, figure, filterable virus, fit, fix, flavor, follow, forge, forging, form, formalize, format, formation, formulate, found, frame, freehold, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fudge together, fungi, fungus, gangrene, gear to, genius, genre, genus, germ, get up, getup, glebe, go bad, go by, go to pieces, grain, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, grapevine, grassland, green algae, ground, gulfweed, gust, habit, hallmark, harmonize, herb, heterophyte, hew, hue, humor, humors, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, impression, inclination, index, indite, individualism, inner form, intaglio, ivy, kelp, keynote, kidney, kin, kind, knead, knock out, label, land, landholdings, last, lay out, layout, leaning, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, lick into shape, line, lineaments, lithosphere, liverwort, lot, make, make conform, make up, makeup, making, manner, mannerism, manufacture, marginal land, mark, marking, marl, matrix, mature, meet, mental set, mettle, microbe, microorganism, mildew, mildewed, mind, mind-set, mint, modality, mode, model, mold, molder, molding, molds, mortify, moss, moth, moth and rust, mushroom, must, musty, nature, necrose, negative, nonfilterable virus, number, observe, odor, old-fashioned, organic structure, organism, organization, outdated, oxidation, oxidization, parasite, parasitic plant, particularity, patch together, pathogen, pattern, patterning, pea, peculiarity, persuasion, perthophyte, pest, phylum, physique, phytoplankton, picornavirus, piece together, plan, planktonic algae, plant families, predilection, predisposition, prefabricate, preference, prepare, proclivity, produce, production, propensity, property, prototype, protozoa, protozoon, puffball, pulse, punch, put together, put up, putrefy, putresce, putrescent, putrid, quality, quirk, race, raise, rancid, rank, rankle, real estate, real property, rear, reconcile, rectify, red algae, region, regolith, reovirus, resolution, rhinovirus, rickettsia, rockweed, rot, rotten, rotting, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rub off corners, run up, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, savor, sculpt, sculpture, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seal, seaweed, set, set up, settle, setup, shape, shaping, shoe last, significant form, singularity, slant, smack, smut, sod, soil, somatotype, sort, specialty, species, sphacelate, spirillum, spirit, spirochete, spoil, spoilage, spoiled, spoilt, spore, stale, stamp, staphylococcus, straighten, strain, streak, streptococcus, stripe, structure, structuring, style, subaerial deposit, subsoil, succulent, suchness, suit, suppurate, system, tailor, taint, tally with, tang, taste, tectonics, temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, texture, thallogens, the country, the like of, the likes of, thermoform, tissue, toadstool, token, tone, topsoil, trait, tribe, trick, trypanosome, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, unused, variety, vein, vetch, vibrio, vine, virus, warp, warp and woof, way, weave, web, whomp up, woodland, work, worm, wort, wrack, write, yield

mound

• mound, abatis, advanced work, anthill, arch, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, bank up, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, barrow, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, boundary stone, brae, brass, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bust, butte, cairn, casemate, cenotaph, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cock, cofferdam, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cromlech, cross, cup, curtain, cyclolith, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, dolmen, down, drawbridge, drift, drumlin, dune, earthwork, elevation, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fell, fence, fieldwork, foothills, footstone, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, grave, gravestone, gravity dam, groin, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, headstone, heap, heap up, hill, hillock, hoarstone, hummock, hump, hydraulic-fill dam, inscription, iron curtain, jam, jetty, kitchen midden, knob, knoll, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, marker, mass, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, molehill, monolith, monticle, monticule, monument, moor, mountain, mow, necrology, obelisk, obituary, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pile, pile up, pillar, plaque, portcullis, postern gate, prize, pyramid, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rick, rise, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rostral column, sally port, sand dune, scarp, sconce, seawall, shaft, shock, shrine, shutter dam, slope, snowdrift, stack, stack up, stela, stockade, stone, stone wall, stupa, swell, tablet, tell, tenaille, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tor, trophy, tumulus, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

mount up to

• mount up to, add up to, afford, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, bring, bring in, come to, come up to, comprise, contain, cost, fetch, number, reckon up to, run into, run to, sell for, set one back, tot up to, total, total up to, tote up to, unitize

mount

• mount, Everest, Houyhnhnm, Olympus, accrue, accumulate, advance, aggravate, alp, amble, anabasis, appreciate, arise, arrange, arrangement, ascend, ascension, ascent, aspire, augment, back, back up, backdrop, background, backing, ball, balloon, be a gas, be a hit, be intimate, bearing, bestraddle, bestride, bidet, bill, bloat, board, bomb, boom, breed, broaden, brood mare, budge, build, build up, bushing, buss the clouds, canter, caracole, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, chandelle, change, change place, charger, chassis, circle, clamber, clamber up, climb, climb on, climb over, climb up, climbing, cohabit, colt, come together, come up, commit adultery, compose, coordinate, copulate, couple, courser, cover, crescendo, critter, curl upwards, curvet, deepen, descend, develop, diddle, dobbin, draft horse, dramatize, dray horse, driving horse, ebb, elevation, enhance, enlarge, entire, entire horse, equine, escalade, escalate, expand, fail, feature, fill horse, filler, filly, flop, flow, fly up, foal, fornicate, fountain, frame, frig, frisk, gain, gain altitude, gain strength, gallop, gelding, get ahead, get in, get on, get over, gigster, give a boost, give a lift, go, go aboard, go around, go on board, go on horseback, go round, go sideways, go up, grow, grow up, gush, gyrate, gyring up, hack, hackney, have sex, have sexual relations, headline, heighten, help up, hoick, hop in, horse, hump, hunter, increase, infrastructure, install, intensify, jet, jument, jump, jump in, launch, lay, lead, leader, leap, levitate, levitation, lie with, lift, lofty mountains, loom, lope, magnify, make a hit, make it with, make love, make out, mare, mat, mate, melodramatize, mountain, mounting, move, move over, multiply, nag, open, open a show, organize, pace, pack horse, palfrey, peak, piaffe, pile in, pile up, plow horse, plunge, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, prance, prancer, premiere, prepare, present, preview, produce, progress, proliferate, put in place, put on, ramp, ready, rear, rear up, redouble, regress, remount, retrogress, ride bareback, ride hard, rider, riding horse, rise, rise up, rising, road horse, roadster, rocketing up, rotate, rouncy, rouse, run, run up, saddle horse, saddler, saltation, scale, scale the heights, scenarize, scene, scrabble up, scramble up, screw, seat, serve, service, set, set in motion, set off, set the stage, set up, setting, settle, shaft horse, shift, shin, shin up, shinny, shoot up, shooting up, show, sink, skeleton, sleep with, snowball, soar, soaring, spin, spiral, spire, spout, spread, spring, spurt, stage, stalking-horse, stallion, stand on tiptoe, stand up, star, steed, stir, straddle, stream, strengthen, struggle up, stud, studhorse, subside, succeed, sumpter, sumpter horse, support, surge, surmount, swarm up, sweep up, swell, take horse, takeoff, taking off, tarpan, the wooded mountains, theatricalize, thill horse, thiller, tittup, top horse, tor, tower, towering alps, travel, trot, try out, underframe, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprear, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, upwind, vault, vise, wane, war-horse, wax, wheeler, wheelhorse, whirl, widen, wild horse, workhorse, zoom, zooming

mountain lion

• mountain lion, Leo, Siberian tiger, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cheetah, cougar, jaguar, leopard, lion, lynx, ocelot, painter, panther, puma, simba, tiger, wildcat

mountain man

• mountain man, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bushman, clam digger, cracker, desert rat, forester, frontiersman, hillbilly, hinterlander, mountaineer, piny, redneck, ridge runner, woodlander, woodman, woodsman

mountain

• mountain, Everest, Olympus, abundance, accumulation, acres, alp, bags, bald, bank, bar, barrel, barrels, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bluff, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, bushel, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, copiousness, countlessness, dome, dowel, drift, ear, elevation, eminence, fell, flange, flap, flood, gall, gnarl, great deal, handle, heap, heaps, height, hill, hump, hunch, impediment, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, load, lofty mountains, loop, lot, lump, mass, mesa, mole, mound, mount, much, multitude, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, numerousness, obstruction, ocean, oceans, papilloma, peak, peck, peg, pile, piles, plenitude, plenty, profusion, prominence, pyramid, quantities, quantity, rib, ridge, ring, rub, sea, shock, shoulder, sierra, sight, snag, spate, spine, stack, stacks, stud, stumbling block, style, summit, superabundance, superfluity, tab, the wooded mountains, tons, tor, towering alps, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, volcano, volume, wale, wart, welt, world, worlds

mountaineer

• mountaineer, adventurer, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bumpkin, bushman, camper, clam digger, climber, clodhopper, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cracker, cragsman, cruiser, desert rat, excursionist, explorer, fare, forester, frontiersman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, hajji, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hinterlander, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, mariner, mountain man, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, piny, pioneer, provincial, redneck, ridge runner, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, woodlander, woodman, woodsman, world-traveler, yokel

mountainous

• mountainous, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, craggy, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, formidable, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, high, hilly, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, knobby, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monticuline, monumental, mountained, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, rolling, sizable, spacious, staggering, steep, stupendous, subalpine, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty

mountaintop

• mountaintop, acme, apex, apogee, brow, cap, climax, cloud nine, crest, crown, culmen, culmination, edge, extreme limit, extremity, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hilltop, knoll, limit, lofty peak, maximum, meridian, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, peak, pic, pico, pike, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, precipice, ridge, seventh heaven, sky, spire, spur, summit, tip, tip-top, top, tor, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, vertex, very top, zenith

mountebank

• mountebank, artist, artiste, belly dancer, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, burlesque queen, charlatan, cheat, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, con man, confidence man, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, defrauder, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, fake, faker, female impersonator, flimflammer, fourflusher, fraud, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, gyp, hoofer, humbug, impersonator, impostor, magician, malingerer, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, phony, poser, poseur, prestidigitator, pretender, public entertainer, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, sharper, show girl, singer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

mounted policeman

• mounted policeman, G-man, MP, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, captain, catchpole, cavalier, cavalryman, chevalier, chief of police, circus rider, commissioner, constable, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, equestrian, equestrienne, fed, federal, flic, gaucho, gendarme, government man, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, inspector, jockey, knight, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, marshal, narc, officer, patrolman, peace officer, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, portreeve, postboy, postilion, puncher, reeve, rider, roughrider, roundsman, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, steeplechaser, superintendent, tipstaff, tipstaves, trick rider, trooper, vaquero

Mounties

• Mounties, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county police, highway patrol, law enforcement agency, military police, police, police force, political police, posse, provincial police, riot police, secret police, security force, shore patrol, special police, state police, tactical police, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes

mounting

• mounting, Brownian movement, Olympian, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aerial, aggrandizement, airy, altitudinous, amplification, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion, appreciation, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, aspiring, augmentation, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing, backing, backward, backward motion, ballooning, bearing, bloating, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, bushing, career, chassis, clamber, climb, climbing, colossal, course, crescendo, current, descending, descent, development, direction, dominating, down-trending, downward, downward motion, dress rehearsal, drift, driftage, drifting, ebbing, edema, elevated, elevation, eminent, enlargement, escalade, ethereal, exalted, expansion, extension, flight, flood, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forward motion, fountain, frame, gain, going, greatening, growth, gush, gyrational, gyratory, gyring up, haughty, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hike, in the ascendant, increase, increment, inflation, infrastructure, jet, jump, leap, leaping, levitation, lofty, mise-en-scene, monumental, mount, multiplication, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, passage, passing, plunging, production, productiveness, progress, progressive, proliferation, prominent, radial motion, raise, rampant, random motion, rearing, reflowing, refluence, refluent, reflux, regression, regressive, rehearsal, retrogression, retrogressive, rise, rising, rocketing up, rotary, rotational, rotatory, run, run-through, running, rush, rushing, saltation, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, set, setting, shooting up, sideward, sideward motion, sinking, skeleton, skyrocketing, snowballing, soaring, spiraling, spiring, spout, spread, spring, springing, spurt, stage management, staging, steep, sternway, stream, streaming, sublime, subsiding, superlative, supernal, surge, swelling, takeoff, taking off, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, traject, trajet, trend, tumescence, underframe, up, up-trending, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, uplifted, upping, upreared, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, upward, upward motion, upwith, vault, walk-through, waxing, widening, zooming

mourn

• mourn, ache, agonize, bemoan, bewail, bleed, brood over, deplore, dirge, discomfort, dismay, distress, elegize, fret, give sorrow words, grieve, grieve over, keen, knell, lament, moan, mope, pain, pine, pine away, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sing the blues, sorrow, take on, weep for, weep over

mournful

• mournful, Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak, blue, calamitous, careworn, catastrophic, cheerless, cinerary, comfortless, complaining, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, dirgelike, disastrous, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downhearted, dreary, dumb with grief, epitaphic, exequial, faultfinding, feral, forlorn, fretful, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, heartbroken, heartsick, howling, in grief, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive, lugubrious, melancholy, moanful, mortuary, moving, necrological, obituary, obsequial, overcome, painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, prostrate, puling, querulous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, sepulchral, sharp, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, touching, tragic, ululant, uncomfortable, unhappy, upsetting, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, woebegone, woeful, wretched

mournfulness

• mournfulness, aggrievedness, bitterness, bleakness, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dolorousness, dreariness, funerealness, grief, grievousness, joylessness, lamentability, lamentation, lugubriousness, pain, painfulness, pathos, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, plangency, poignancy, regrettableness, ruefulness, sadness, sharpness, sorrowfulness, tearfulness, woebegoneness, woefulness

mourning

• mourning, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, black, crape, cypress, cypress lawn, deep mourning, desolation, despair, despondency, grief, grieving, heartache, howling, in mourning, keening, lament, lamentation, lamenting, loss, melancholy, misery, moaning, mourning band, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, sadness, sorrow, sorrowing, ululation, wailing, weeds, weeping, woe, woefulness, yew

mouse colored

• mouse colored, Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, iron-gray, lead-gray, leaden, livid, mouse-gray, mousy, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, taupe

mouse

• mouse, Milquetoast, baby, bantam, banty, big baby, black eye, black-and-blue mark, bruise, busybody, button, chick, chicken, chicken liver, chit, contusion, coward, creep, diminutive, ecchymosis, featherweight, fingerling, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gal, girl, glide, invertebrate, jellyfish, lady friend, lass, lightweight, lily liver, milksop, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, modest violet, nose, nubbin, peewee, poke, pony, pry, runt, scaredy-cat, shiner, shrimp, shrinking violet, sissy, slide, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, snook, tit, wart, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, wisp

mouser

• mouser, Cheshire cat, Chinchilla cat, Maltese cat, alley cat, blue cat, calico cat, cat, feline, gib, gib-cat, grimalkin, house cat, kit, kitling, kitten, kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat, silver cat, tabby, tabby cat, tiger cat, tom, tomcat, tortoise-shell cat

mousetrap

• mousetrap, Dionaea, Mark, baited trap, bazooka, booby trap, calliope, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, firetrap, flytrap, gin, hedgehog, launch pad, launching pad, launching platform, launching tube, mine, mole trap, pitfall, projector, rattrap, set gun, silo, spring gun, springe, trap, trapfall

mousse

• mousse, Charlotte, Jell-O, blancmange, breakers, candy, carrot pudding, chocolate mousse, collar, comfit, compote, confection, confectionery, confiture, conserve, custard, duff, flan, foam, frosting, froth, gelatin, glaze, head, honey, icing, jam, jelly, junket, lather, marmalade, meringue, offscum, plum pudding, preserve, pudding, puff, rennet, scud, scum, sea foam, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, steamed pudding, stinging, suds, surf, sweet, sweet stuff, sweetmeat, sweets, syllabub, tapioca pudding, trifle, tutti-frutti, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, white water

mousy

• mousy, Quaker-colored, acier, afraid, ashen, ashy, bashful, brown, brownish, canescent, chicken, chickenhearted, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, cowering, coy, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, daunted, demure, diffident, dingy, dismal, dismayed, dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusty, echoless, fainthearted, fearful, fearing, fearsome, flat, funking, funky, glaucescent, glaucous, goosy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, henhearted, hush as death, hushed, in fear, inarticulate, inaudible, intimidated, iron-gray, jumpy, lead-gray, leaden, lily-livered, livid, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mouselike, mousey, nervous, noiseless, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pigeonhearted, plain, quiescent, quiet, rabbity, ratty, rodent, rodential, sad, scary, self-conscious, self-effacing, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shivery, shrinking, shy, silent, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, sissified, sissy, skittery, skittish, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, soft, somber, soundless, stammering, startlish, steel-gray, steely, still, still as death, stilly, stone-colored, subaudible, taupe, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unarticulated, unhearable, unmanly, unmanned, unpronounced, unsounded, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, verminous, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, whist, white-livered, yellow

mouth watering

• mouth watering, acceptable, adorable, agreeable, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, desirable, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, enviable, exciting, exotic, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, good-tasting, gusty, hypnotic, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, mesmeric, piquant, pleasing, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, relishing, savory, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, tasteful, tasty, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, to be desired, toothsome, toothy, unobjectionable, winning, winsome, witching, worth having

mouth

• mouth, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, access, announce, aperture, arm, armlet, articulate, audacity, back talk, backchat, bay, bayou, bazoo, be hypocritical, belt, betray, bight, bite, blandish, blow, blubber, blue, board-and-roomer, boarder, boasting, boca, boldness, bombast, bon vivant, brag, braggadocio, bragging, brashness, cannibal, cant, carnivore, champ, chaps, chatter, chaw, cheek, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chomp, chops, claptrap, cock-a-doodle-doo, connoisseur of food, consumer, converse, cove, creek, crestfallen, crow, debate, debouch, debouchment, declaim, dejected, delta, demagogue, despondent, diner, diner-out, disclose, discover, disheartened, dispirited, disrespect, divulge, door, doorway, downcast, drone, eater, eater-out, elocute, embouchure, entrance, entree, entry, enunciate, epicure, estuary, euripus, exit, express, face, feeder, fjord, flesh-eater, flippancy, freshness, frith, fruitarian, fustian, gab, gabble, gas, gasconade, gastronome, gate, gateway, gibber, give away, give lip service, give mouth honor, glutton, gnash, gnaw, gob, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, grimace, grind, gulf, gum, gut, harangue, harbor, herbivore, high liver, hold forth, hot air, hungry mouth, idle talk, impertinence, impudence, inlet, insolence, jabber, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, kyle, lactovegetarian, lap, lick, lip, lips, loch, luncher, make a face, make a mouth, man-eater, mandibles, masticate, maunder, maw, maxilla, meat-eater, melancholy, mop, mop and mow, moue, mouthing, mouthpiece, mow, mug, mumble, munch, murmur, mush, mutter, muzzle, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nibble, omnivore, omophagist, opening, oral cavity, orate, orifice, out-herod Herod, outfall, outlet, pantophagist, passage, passageway, patter, perorate, pertness, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, play the hypocrite, pout, prate, predacean, premaxilla, presumptuousness, pronounce, puff, pull a face, rabble-rouse, rant, rave, reach, read, recite, reek of piety, render lip service, road, roads, roadstead, rodomontade, rudeness, ruminate, sad, sass, sauce, sauciness, say, snivel, snuffle, soapbox, sob, soft-soap, sorrowful, sound, speak, speak incoherently, speaker, spiel, spill, splutter, spokesperson, spokeswoman, spout, sputter, stoma, strait, straits, susurrate, sweet-talk, talk, tell, tongue, trap, trencherman, tub-thump, unhappy, utter, vaunt, vegetarian, vent, vocalize, voice, wag the tongue, way, way in, way out, whisper, yap

mouthful

• mouthful, bellyful, bit, bite, bolus, bumper, capacity, champ, charge, chaw, chew, chomp, chunk, complement, cram, crush, cud, fill, full house, full measure, gnash, gob, hard words, high-sounding words, hunk, jam up, jawbreaker, jawtwister, lading, lexiphanicism, load, long word, lump, morsel, munch, nibble, nip, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, polysyllabism, quid, sesquipedalian word, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, skinful, snap, snootful, spoonful, swallow, technical jargon, two-dollar word

mouthing

• mouthing, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, cant, drone, droning, empty gesture, face, false piety, gabble, gibber, gibbering, grimace, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, jabber, jibber, lip service, maundering, mealymouthedness, moue, mouth, mow, mug, mumble, mumbling, mummery, murmuring, mutter, muttering, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, pharisaism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, snuffling, soft soap, susurration, sweet talk, tokenism, unctuousness, whisper, whispering

mouthpiece

• mouthpiece, AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, adviser, advocate, aerophone, agent, amicus curiae, announcer, annunciator, attorney, attorney general, attorney-at-law, authority, barrister, barrister-at-law, bell, bit, call box, channel, civilian, coin telephone, communicant, communicator, connection, corporation lawyer, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, delegate, deputy, desk telephone, dial telephone, district attorney, double reed, embouchure, enlightener, expert witness, extension, friend at court, front, front man, go-between, gossipmonger, grapevine, herald, horn, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, intervener, interventionist, interventor, interviewee, junior counsel, key, law agent, lawyer, leader, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, lip, mediator, medium, middleman, monitor, mouth, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, newsmonger, notifier, official spokesman, ombudsman, pay station, phone, pipe, pleader, press, private attorney, proctor, procurator, prolocutor, prolocutress, prolocutrix, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, public prosecutor, public relations officer, public telephone, publicist, publisher, push-button telephone, radio, rapporteur, receiver, reed, reporter, representative, sea lawyer, self-styled lawyer, shyster, silk, silk gown, slide, solicitor, solicitor general, source, speaker, special pleader, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, telephone, telephone booth, telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone mechanics, telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, television, teller, tipster, tooter, tout, transmitter, valve, voice, wall telephone, wind, wind instrument, witness

mouthwash

• mouthwash, abstergent, cathartic, cleaner, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, depurant, detergent, diuretic, emetic, enema, gargle, holystone, lotion, nauseant, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purifier, rinse, shampoo, soap, solvent, synthetic detergent, tooth powder, toothpaste, wash

mouthy

• mouthy, bombastic, declamatory, euphuistic, flatulent, florid, flowery, fustian, gabby, garrulous, gassy, high-flown, inflated, loose-tongued, loquacious, multiloquent, oratorical, overblown, pompous, swollen, talky, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, windy

movable

• movable, able to adapt, accessible, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, amenable, assignable, changeable, changeful, checkered, communicable, conductive, consignable, contagious, conveyable, ever-changing, expressable, flexible, floating, fluid, impartable, impermanent, impressionable, influenceable, interchangeable, kaleidoscopic, mailable, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, metathetic, mobile, modifiable, motile, moveable, moving, mutable, nonuniform, open, open-minded, permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, portable, portative, protean, proteiform, receptive, removable, resilient, responsive, roving, rubbery, suasible, suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, transferable, transfusable, transient, transitory, transmissible, transmissive, transmittable, transportable, transportative, transposable, unfixed, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, variable, weak

movables

• movables, accessories, appanages, appendages, appointments, appurtenances, belongings, chattels, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, effects, goods, lares and penates, material things, paraphernalia, perquisites, personal effects, things, trappings

move away

• move away, be getting along, buzz off, come away, decline, depart, die away, diminish, drift away, dwindle, ebb, exit, fade, fade away, gang along, get along, get away, get off, get on, get under way, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, leave, march off, mosey, move off, move out, pull away, pull out, recede, retire, retreat, retrocede, sashay, sashay off, shrink, sink, stagger along, stand off, take flight, take wing, toddle along, up and go, wane, widen the distance, wing it, withdraw

move into

• move into, accept, assume, attack, attempt, buckle to, embark in, embark upon, endeavor, engage in, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get under way, go about, go at, go in for, go into, go upon, have at, launch forth, launch into, lay about, pitch into, plunge into, proceed to, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set to, tackle, take on, take up, turn to, undertake, venture upon

move out

• move out, be getting along, buzz off, come away, depart, exit, gang along, get along, get away, get off, get on, get under way, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, leave, march off, mosey, move away, move off, pull out, sashay, sashay off, stagger along, take flight, take wing, toddle along, up and go, wing it

move

• move, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, acquit, act, acta, action, activate, activity, actuate, actuation, ad hoc measure, admonish, advance, advancing, adventure, advocate, affect, agitate, alteration, anchor, animate, annoy, answer, approach, arouse, art, artful dodge, artifice, ascend, assay, attempt, awake, awaken, back, back up, be, bear, begin, behave, bend, bias, bid, billet at, bivouac, blind, blow, blow the coals, blow up, bowl, break the ice, breathe, bring, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, budge, bunt, burrow, busy, butt, call forth, call up, camp, caper, carry, carry away, carry off, cart away, caution, change, change place, change-over, charge, chicanery, circle, climb, close out, colonize, color, come along, come home to, come on, come to anchor, commence, commend to attention, commute, compel, comport, conduct, conspiracy, contrivance, convert into cash, convey, countermove, coup, course, course of action, cover ground, crack, craft, cut under, cute trick, dealings, decamp, deceit, deed, delocalize, demarche, demean, depart, deport, descend, design, device, dislocate, dislodge, displace, dispose, disquiet, disturb, do, dodge, doing, doings, domesticate, drive, drive on, drop anchor, dump, dynamics, ebb, effect a sale, effort, emigrate, encourage, endeavor, energize, enjoin, enkindle, enrage, ensconce, enterprise, essay, establish residence, excite, exhort, exist, exit, expedient, experiment, exploit, expostulate, fait accompli, fakement, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fare, fare forth, feat, feed the fire, feint, fetch, fire, flame, fling, flit, flow, foment, force, forward, foster, frenzy, function, gain ground, galvanize, gambit, game, gang, gather head, gather way, gest, gesticulation, gesture, get, get ahead, get along, get away, get cracking, get going, get moving, get off, get on, get over, get under way, gimmick, give an impetus, give momentum, go, go ahead, go along, go around, go deep, go fast, go forward, go off, go on, go round, go sideways, go through one, goad, going, grieve, grift, gyrate, hand, handiwork, hasten, heat, hie, hive, hurry, impassion, impel, impress, improvisation, in transit, incense, incite, incline, induce, inflame, influence, infuriate, inhabit, inspire, intrigue, introduce, issue a caveat, job, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keep house, key up, kindle, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lather up, launch, lay aside, lay before, lead, leave, lick, light the fuse, light up, little game, live, live at, locate, madden, make, make a motion, make a move, make a sale, make good time, make haste, make head against, make headway, make off, make progress, make progress against, make strides, make up leeway, makeshift, maneuver, manhandle, march, market, means, measure, melt, melt the heart, merchandise, misbehave, mobilization, mobilize, modification, moor, moot, motion, motivate, motivation, mount, move along, move away, move forward, move on, move out, move over, move to action, movement, moving, nest, nudge, occupied, offer, offer a resolution, on the go, on the move, on the road, on the run, on the way, open up, operate, operation, opportunity, overexcite, overt act, park, pass, pass along, pass on, passage, pedal, penetrate, people, perch, performance, persuade, pierce, pique, pis aller, play, plot, ploy, plunge, pole, populate, pose, postulate, power, practice, preach, predispose, prefer, prevail, procedure, proceed, proceeding, prod, production, progress, progressing, promote, prompt, propel, propose, proposition, propound, provoke, pull out, pull up stakes, push, put aside, put forth, put forward, put in motion, put it to, quicken, racket, reach, recommend, red herring, regress, relocate, relocation, remind, remonstrate, removal, remove, replace, res gestae, resell, reside, resort, resource, restlessness, retail, retrogress, rise, roll, roll on, roost, rotate, rouse, row, ruffle, run, running, ruse, rush, sacrifice, sadden, sashay, scheme, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, send, serve, set agoing, set aside, set astir, set before, set fire to, set forth, set going, set in motion, set on fire, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shake up, shake-up, shift, ship, shot, shove, shunt, side, sink, sit down, sleight, smart, smite, soar, soften, soften up, solution, spark, spin, spur, squat, stab, stand, start, stay at, steam up, stem, step, step forward, stimulate, sting, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirring, stop, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stream, strike, strike root, stroke, stroke of policy, strong bid, stunt, submit, subside, subsist, subterfuge, succeeding, suggest, summon up, supersede, supplant, sway, sweep, sweep along, tactic, take away, take off, take residence at, take root, take up residence, temporary expedient, tentative, thing, thing done, thrust, time, tinge, tone, touch, touch a chord, tour de force, transaction, transfer, transmit, transport, travel, treadle, trial, trial and error, trick, trickery, troll, trump, trundle, try, turn, turn into money, turn on, turn over, undercut, undersell, undertaking, unload, unrest, up, upset, urge, variation, velocity, wake, wake up, waken, wane, warm, warm the blood, warn, wayfare, wear down, weigh with, wend, whack, whip on, whip up, whirl, wholesale, wile, wily device, withdraw, work, work into, work up, working, working hypothesis, working proposition, works

moved

• moved, actuated, affected, agog, agonized, animated, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, bursting, carried away, devoured by, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, high, hopped up, imbued with, impassioned, impelled, impressed, impressed with, inclined, inflamed, inner-directed, keyed up, lathered up, manic, minded, motivated, obsessed, obsessed by, other-directed, penetrated with, prompted, racked, ready to burst, roused, seized with, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, stricken, thrilled, tingling, tingly, torn, tortured, touched, turned-on, whipped up, worked up, wracked, wrought up, yeasty

movement

• movement, Alexandrine, American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan school, BM, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese, British, Cobra, Dutch, Flemish, Fontainebleau, French, Italian, Mannerist, Milanese, Modenese, Momentum, Neapolitan, New York, Paduan, Parisian, Phases, Pre-Raphaelite, Raphaelite, Reflex, Restany, Roman, Scottish, Sienese, Spur, Suprematism, The Ten, Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian, Washington, Zeitgeist, accent, accentuation, act, action, activeness, activism, activity, actuation, advance, age group, amotion, amphibious operations, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anagnorisis, anapest, angle, antispast, architectonics, architecture, argument, arsis, art schools, atmosphere, bacchius, background, band, bass passage, bat, battalion, bearing, beat, beck, beckon, bevy, bloody flux, body, body language, bourdon, bowel movement, bridge, brigade, buffalo chips, bunch, burden, business, ca-ca, cabal, cadence, caesura, campaign, carriage, cast, catalexis, catastrophe, catharsis, cause, change, characterization, charade, chironomy, chloriamb, chloriambus, chorus, clique, clockworks, coalition, coda, cohort, colon, color, combined operations, commitment, communist front, commutation, company, complement, complication, contingent, continuity, contrivance, coprolite, coprolith, corps, coterie, counterpoint, course, covey, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, cretic, crew, crossing, crowd, crusade, current, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dactylology, deaf-and-dumb alphabet, decline, decrease, deed, defecation, dejection, delocalization, denouement, design, detachment, detail, development, device, diaeresis, diarrhea, dimeter, dingleberry, dipody, direction, displacement, division, dochmiac, doings, drift, drive, drive train, droppings, dry run, dumb show, dung, dynamics, dynamism, dysentery, eclectic, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, episode, epitrite, evacuation, exposition, fable, faction, faith, falling action, feces, feculence, feminine caesura, figure, fleet, flicker, flow, fluid operations, flux, folderol, foot, front, gang, gear, gears, genre, gesticulation, gesture, gesture language, gimmick, glacial movement, globe-trotting, going, goings-on, grass-roots movement, great cause, ground swell, group, grouping, groupment, groups, guano, hand signal, harmonic close, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, in-group, incident, increase, innards, interest, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, ionic, issue, jakes, jingle, journeying, junta, kinematics, kinesics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lientery, lifework, lilt, line, lines, local color, locomotion, logistics, loose bowels, machinery, main current, mainstream, maneuver, maneuvers, manure, masculine caesura, mass movement, measure, mechanism, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, migration, militancy, military operations, minor operations, mission, mob, mobilization, molossus, mood, mora, motif, motion, motivation, move, movements, moving, musical phrase, musical sentence, mythos, night soil, number, numbers, operation, operations, ordure, ornament, out-group, outfit, overseas operations, pack, paeon, pantomime, part, party, passage, peer group, pencil, pentameter, pentapody, period, peripeteia, phalanx, phrase, plan, platoon, plein-air, plot, poise, political activism, political front, popular front, pose, posse, posture, power train, principle, proceedings, proceleusmatic, progress, prosody, purgation, purge, pyrrhic, quantity, reason for being, recognition, refrain, regiment, relocation, remotion, removal, removement, resolution, response, restlessness, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rising action, ritornello, run, running, runs, salon, scheme, school, secondary plot, section, servomechanism, set, sewage, sewerage, shift, shit, shits, shrug, sign, sign language, signal, slant, spondee, sprung rhythm, squad, stable, staff work, stance, stanza, statement, stir, stirring, stool, story, strain, stream, stress, string, structure, style, subject, subplot, swing, switch, syzygy, tailpiece, team, tendency, tenor, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, the general tendency, the grand style, the main course, thematic development, theme, thesis, time spirit, tone, topic, tourism, touristry, traject, trajet, transfer, transit, travel, traveling, trend, tribe, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, troop, trots, troupe, turd, turistas, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unrest, variation, velocity, verse, voidance, war game, war plans, watchworks, wheels, wheels within wheels, wing, workings, works

movements

• movements, act, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, clockworks, comportment, conduct, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, drive train, employment, exercise, folkway, function, functioning, gear, gestures, goings-on, guise, innards, machinery, maintien, manner, manners, mechanism, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motion, motions, movement, moves, observable behavior, occupation, operation, operations, pattern, play, poise, port, pose, posture, power train, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, servomechanism, social science, style, swing, tactics, tone, watchworks, way, way of life, ways, wheels, wheels within wheels, work, working, workings, works

mover

• mover, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, abettor, actor, actuator, agent, agitator, ancestors, animator, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, bird of passage, builder, cajoler, catalyst, causer, coax, coaxer, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, drifter, effector, encourager, energizer, engenderer, engineer, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, father, firer, floater, fomenter, founder, gad, gadabout, gadfly, galvanizer, generator, go-about, grower, impeller, inaugurator, inciter, inducer, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, itinerant, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, medium, mother, moving spirit, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, parent, past master, peregrinator, peregrine, performer, peripatetic, perpetrator, persuader, planner, pleader, practitioner, precursor, prime mover, primum mobile, producer, prompter, raiser, rambler, realizer, roamer, rolling stone, rover, runabout, shaper, sire, smith, spark, spark plug, sparker, stimulator, straggler, stroller, strolling player, subject, tempter, troubadour, visitant, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wheedler, worker, wright

movie

• movie, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, actor-proof, all-star, animated cartoon, ballet, balletic, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, cinematic, cinematographic, cinematography, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, educational film, feature, film, filmic, flick, flicker, flicks, ham, hammy, histrionic, horror picture, horse opera, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, motion picture, motion-picture show, movies, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, operatic, overacted, overplayed, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, scenic, short, show, silent, silent film, silver screen, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, talkie, talking picture, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thriller, thrown away, trailer, underacted, underground film, underplayed, vaudevillian

moving picture

• moving picture, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film

moving spirit

• moving spirit, abettor, actuator, afflatus, animating spirit, animation, animator, animus, cajoler, coax, coaxer, divine afflatus, encourager, energizer, enlivenment, exhilaration, fire, firer, firing, gadfly, galvanizer, genius, impeller, inducer, infection, infusion, inspiration, inspirer, mover, persuader, pleader, prime mover, prompter, spark, spark plug, sparker, stimulator, tempter, wheedler

moving

• moving, active, activity, actuating, actuation, advancing, affecting, affective, afflictive, agitating, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, amotion, animating, animation, arousing, awakening, bitter, bleak, breathless, breathtaking, causal, causative, charged, cheerless, circuit-riding, cliff-hanging, comfortless, commutation, compelling, course, crossing, delocalization, deplorable, depressing, depressive, dignified, direction, directive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, displacement, disquieting, distracting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, driving, dynamics, effective, electric, elevated, eloquent, emotional, emotive, exciting, exhilarating, expeditionary, expressive, facund, forward, forward-looking, galvanic, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-ahead, going, grand, grave, grievous, gripping, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, heartrending, impellent, impelling, impressive, impulsive, in motion, inducive, inflammatory, influence, inner-direction, inspirational, inspiring, intoxicating, itinerant, itinerary, jarring, jolting, journeying, joyless, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lamentable, locomotion, locomotive, lofty, maddening, majestic, meaningful, mind-blowing, mobile, mobilization, motile, motion, motivating, motivation, motivational, motive, motor, mournful, move, movement, mundivagant, noble, on the move, on tour, oncoming, ongoing, onward, operating, other-direction, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, painful, passage, passing, pathetic, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, persuasive, perturbing, pilgrimlike, piquant, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, pregnant, pressing, proceeding, progress, progressing, progressive, prompting, propellant, propelling, provocative, provoking, pulsive, quickening, rallying, ravishing, regrettable, relocation, remotion, removal, removement, restlessness, rousing, rueful, running, sad, saddening, sententious, serious, sharp, shift, significant, solemn, sore, sorrowful, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stately, stimulating, stimulation, stimulative, stir, stirring, striking, strolling, sublime, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, thrusting, touching, touring, tourism, touristic, touristry, touristy, traject, trajet, transit, transitional, travel, traveling, trekking, troubling, uncomfortable, unfixed, unrest, unsettling, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, upsetting, urgent, velocity, walking, wayfaring, weighty, woebegone, woeful, working, wretched

mow down

• mow down, beat down, blow down, blow over, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, cut down, dash down, deck, down, drop, fell, fetch down, flatten, floor, ground, hew down, knock down, knock over, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, rase, raze, send headlong, smash, spread-eagle, steamroller, supinate, take down, tear down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble, whack down

mow

• mow, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, anthill, bank, bob, boil down, bring in, capsulize, clip, cock, compress, condense, contract, crib, crop, crop herbs, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dab, dig, dock, drag, dress, drift, dub, dune, elevator, elide, embankment, epitomize, equalize, even, face, flatten, foreshorten, frown, garner, gather, gather in, glean, glower, grabble, grade, grain bin, grain elevator, granary, grease, grimace, harrow, harvest, hay, haycock, hayloft, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, hill, lay, level, long face, lower, lubricate, make a face, make a mouth, molehill, mop, mop and mow, moue, mound, mouth, mouthing, mug, nip, nut, oil, pare, pick, pile, plane, planish, plaster, pluck, poll, pollard, pout, prune, pull a face, pyramid, reap, reap and carry, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, rick, rictus, ruck, scowl, shave, shear, shock, shorten, silo, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, snarl, snowdrift, snub, stack, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, wry face, wry mouth

mowed

• mowed, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, mown, nipped, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, trimmed

moxie

• moxie, amperage, animation, armipotence, authority, backbone, beef, birr, black power, bottom, breeziness, briskness, brute force, bubbliness, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, courage, dauntlessness, dint, drive, duress, ebullience, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effervescence, energy, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, gameness, go, grit, guts, hardihood, heart, influence, intestinal fortitude, life, liveliness, main force, main strength, mana, mettle, mettlesomeness, might, might and main, mightiness, muscle power, nerve, pep, peppiness, piss and vinegar, pith, pizzazz, pluck, pluckiness, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, resolution, sand, sinew, spirit, spiritedness, sprightliness, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, toughness, true grit, tuck, validity, vehemence, verve, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, wattage, weight

MP

• MP, Cheka, FBI, G-man, Gestapo, Interpol, MVD, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, alderman, assemblyman, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, captain, catchpole, chief of police, chosen freeholder, city father, commissioner, congressman, congresswoman, constable, constabulary, councilman, county police, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, fed, federal, flic, floor leader, gendarme, government man, highway patrol, inspector, law enforcement agency, lawgiver, lawmaker, legislator, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer, majority leader, marshal, military police, minority leader, mounted policeman, narc, officer, party whip, patrolman, peace officer, police, police captain, police commissioner, police constable, police force, police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, political police, portreeve, posse, provincial police, reeve, representative, riot police, roundsman, secret police, security force, senator, sergeant, sergeant at arms, sheriff, shore patrol, solon, special police, state police, state senator, superintendent, tactical police, tipstaff, tipstaves, trooper, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes, whip

MS

• MS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, article, autograph, brain disease, brainchild, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, composition, computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version, emotional disorder, engrossment, epilepsy, essay, fair copy, falling sickness, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, holograph, ischialgia, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, nonfiction, opus, organic psychosis, original, palsy, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, printed matter, printout, production, radiculitis, reading matter, recension, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis, the jerks, the written word, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

much ado about nothing

• much ado about nothing, big deal, emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, idleness, inanity, levity, lightness, nugacity, overreaction, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, superficiality, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity

much

• much, a deal, a great deal, a lot, abounding, abundance, abundant, abundantly, acres, affluence, affluent, again and again, all-sufficing, ample, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, aplenty, as all creation, as all get-out, avalanche, bags, barrel, barrels, bay, beaucoup, bonanza, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, bushel, cater to, cocker, coddle, considerable, considerably, copious, copiousness, cosset, countless, countlessness, diffuse, effuse, eminently, epidemic, ever so, ever so much, exceedingly, exceptionally, excess, exhaustless, extravagance, extravagant, extremely, exuberance, exuberant, fat, fertile, fertility, flood, flow, flush, foison, frequently, full, full measure, fullness, galore, generosity, generous, generousness, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, greatly, gush, heap, highly, hugely, humor, in great measure, in plenty, in quantity, indulge, inexhaustible, landslide, largely, lashings, lavish, lavishness, liberal, liberality, liberalness, load, lot, lots, lump, luxuriance, luxuriant, many, mass, maximal, maximum, mess, mollycoddle, more than enough, mountain, muchly, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinous, myriad, myriads, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, notably, numerous, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oft, oftentimes, ofttimes, opulence, opulency, opulent, outpouring, over and over, overage, overflow, overflowing, oversupply, pack, pamper, peck, pile, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenteousness, plentiful, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, power, pretty much, prevailing, prevalence, prevalent, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productiveness, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, quantities, quantity, rampant, repeatedly, replete, repleteness, repletion, rich, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rife, riot, riotous, riotousness, running over, scads, sea, shower, sight, so, so very much, spate, spoil, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity, surpassingly, teeming, teemingness, to the skies, tons, very much, volume, wealth, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-nigh, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, world, worlds

mucilage

• mucilage, adherent, adhesive, albumen, antifriction, barnacle, batter, black lead, bonnyclabber, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, cement, clabber, cornstarch, cream, curd, decal, decalcomania, dough, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, glycerin, goo, gook, goop, graphite, gruel, gumbo, gunk, jam, jell, jelly, leech, limpet, loblolly, lubricant, lubricating oil, lubricator, molasses, mucus, pap, paste, plaster, plumbago, porridge, prickle, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, remora, rob, semifluid, semiliquid, silicone, size, soup, starch, sticker, sticky mess, syrup, thorn, treacle, wax

mucilaginous

• mucilaginous, adhesive, amylaceous, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, doughy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, pasty, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous

muck up

• muck up, ball up, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bloomer, blooper, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, bugger, bugger up, complicate, confound, confuse, cook, dirt, dirty, dirty up, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dumb trick, dust, embrangle, entangle, fluff, fool mistake, foozle, foul up, foul-up, fumble, garble, goof, grime, gum up, hash up, howler, implicate, involve, jumble, knot, louse up, louse-up, mess up, mire, mix up, muck, muddle, muddy, perplex, pi, play hell with, play hob with, pratfall, pull a boner, queer, ramify, ravel, riffle, scramble, screamer, screw up, screw-up, shuffle, sink, slime, smoke, snafu, snarl, snarl up, soot, tangle, tumble

muck

• muck, amble, ammonia, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bilge, bitch up, blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, botch, bugger up, bungle, carrion, castor-bean meal, clay, commercial fertilizer, compost, corruption, dandruff, debris, decay, destroy, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dressing, drift, droppings, dung, dust, enrichener, entangle, excrement, feculence, fertilizer, filth, fool around, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, garbage, glop, goo, gook, goop, grime, grind, grub, guano, gum up, gumbo, gunk, idle, junk, linger, litter, loiter, louse up, manure, mess, mess around, mess up, mire, mope, mosey, muck up, mucker, mucky, mucus, mud, muddle, muddy, murk, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, obscenity, offal, ooze, ordure, organic fertilizer, perplex, phosphate, plod, pus, putrid matter, ravel, rot, rubbish, ruin, screw up, scum, scurf, scuz, sewage, slab, slave, slime, slip, slob, slog, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush, smirch, smoke, smooch, smudge, smut, snarl, snot, soot, sordes, splosh, squash, stroll, superphosphate, swill, tangle, toil, trash, waste, waste time, wreck

mucked up

• mucked up, Byzantine, anarchic, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, balled up, bollixed up, buggered, buggered up, chaotic, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, cooked, crabbed, daedal, devious, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fouled up, galley-west, gummed up, hashed up, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, implicated, in a mess, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, muddled, multifarious, perplexed, queered, ramified, roundabout, scattered, screwed up, shot, skimble-skamble, snafu, snafued, snarled, snarled up, subtle, sunk, tangled, tangly, topsy-turvy, twisted, upside-down

mucker

• mucker, bitch up, blighter, blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, bullyboy, bungle, churl, clodhopper, clown, gum up, louse up, lowlife, muck, no-good, punk, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, worm, yahoo

muckraker

• muckraker, Thersites, annotator, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, captious critic, carper, caustic critic, caviler, censor, censurer, cognoscente, commentator, commenter, connoisseur, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, editor, faultfinder, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, literary critic, man of letters, mudslinger, railer, reviewer, scholiast, slanderer, smellfungus, social critic, textual critic, traducer

muckraking

• muckraking, attack, blackening, character assassination, defamation, defamation of character, defilement, denigration, dirty politics, last-minute lie, malicious defamation, mudslinging, mudslinging campaign, name-calling, political canard, revilement, roorback, smear, smear campaign, smear word, vilification, whispering campaign

mucky

• mucky, barfy, begrime, besoil, black, cloudy, crappy, dirty, disgusting, dungy, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, gloppy, grime, grubby, gunky, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miry, muck, muddy, muggy, murk, nasty, nauseating, odious, oozy, ordurous, plashy, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, soggy, sordid, splashy, sposhy, squalid, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, sultry, turbid, unclean, vile, vomity, wormy, yecchy