demerge | demersal | demerse | demersion | emerge | emergence | emergency | emergent | emersion | immerge | immergence | immerse | immersible | immersion | immersive | merge | reemerge | reemergence | reimmerse | submerge | submergence | submerse | submersible | submersion


From Latin 'merc-' (stem of 'merx') meaning 'goods, wares, price'.


Mesopotamia | mesothorax | mesoderm | mesolithic | mesoamerica | mesalliance | mesaticephalic | mesophile | mesophilic | mesoscopic | mesosphere | mesozoic | mesophyte | mesophytic | mesostatic | mesencephalon | mesenchyme | mesial | mesne | mesobenthos | mesomorph | meson | mesophyll | mesothelioma

meson | mesons | mesogen | mesonic | mesonet | dimeson

medi / medi, meri / meri, mezz / mezz, mid / mid

Position indicator | preposition-like | Positional | Spatial

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From Nahuatl 'mescalli' (ritual drink) via Spanish 'mescal'


contraction of 'ma dame' (my lady) + 'demoiselle'


Greek mesos 'middle' + enteron 'intestine'


meshy | enmesh | inmesh | meshes | meshed | meshing


mesiobuccal | mesiodistal | mesiofacial | mesiolabial | mesiodorsal | mesiopulpal


to hypnotize | to fascinate | to hold spellbound

mesmeree | mesmerize | mesmerism | mesmerees | mesmerized | mesmerizes

from 'hypnos' (sleep) via the use of hypnosis


messy | messes | messed | messer | messily | messing

Middle English meten Old English metan : to allot, to distribute, to mete out


messages | messaged | messager | remessage | messageing | messageless

Latin 'mittere' (to send) + prefix 'mis-' (from 'mittere' via assimilation) or 'ex-' + 'mittere'. The root 'mit' means 'to send'. 'Message' comes from Old French 'message', from Vulgar Latin 'missaticum', from Latin 'missus', past participle of 'mittere'.


one who carries a message | communicator

messenger, messenger bag, messenger bird

Latin 'messengerus' (agent noun derived from 'mittere' meaning 'to send')


messiahs | messiahship | messiahless | messiahlike | messiahships | pseudomessiah


above | among | beyond | abstract | after | beside | beyond or change

mets | unmet | mettest | metness | metenkephalin

μετά (metá) | Greek μετᾰ́ (metá) | with | among | along with | in common with


metals | bimetal | metaled | dimetal | metally | metaller


Latin metallum 'mine, quarry, metal', from Greek metallon 'mine, quarry'


Soul, Spirit, Metempsychosis, Core concept

Greek 'metempsychosis' from 'meta-' (after) + 'psyche' (soul)


meteor, meteoric, meteorite, meteorology, meteroid

meteors | meteoric | meteoroid | meteorite | meteorous | meteorize

part of meta / meta / : meteor - a flash or streak of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere; meteoroid - a rock travelling through space, which burns when it enters the atmosphere and creates a meteor; meteorite - the remains of a meteoroid after hitting the surface of the earth; meteorology - the study of phenomena in the sky (ie, weather)


derivational suffix affix bound morpheme

quantify | allocate | context | measuring device | assess dimensions | quantifying tool

anemometer | anemometric | antisymmetric | antisymmetry | asymmetric | asymmetry | axonometric | barometer | barometric | bathometer | diameter | diametric | dysmetria | graphometer | hexameter | hygrometer | hygrometry | isodiametric | isometric | isoperimetric | meter | metre | metric | metrology | metronome | monosymmetric | parameter | parameterize | parametric | parametrize | pentameter | perimeter | polymeter | symmetric | symmetry | telemeter | telemetric | telemetry | tetrameter | thermometer | trimeter | trimetric | acidimetry | actinometry | algometry | alkalimetry | sphygmomanometer | centimeter | ammeter | flowmeter | accelerometer | speedometer

ammeter | oometer | ohmmeter | ammeters | biometer | bimeters

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methane, methyl, methanol, methanogenesis

From Greek 'methy' (wine) + 'hyle' (wood, matter), originally referring to methanol derived from wood distillation.


method | systematic procedure | way of doing something

Greek methodos 'way, course of study' from meta- 'after, along' + hodos 'way'


method, methodology, methodical, methodologically

methods | Methodist | Methodism | methodize | submethod | methodist

Greek methos 'speech, discourse, method' (related to mein 'to think')


combination of methyl (from Greek μῆτις) and oxy- (from Greek ὀξύ, 'sharp/acid')


Truncated form of 'methamphetamine', a synthetic stimulant drug.


Biblical Hebrew name of the son of Enoch


methane, methanol, methylamine, methylated, dimethyl

dimethyl | methylic | methylol | trimethyl | methylase | methylome


Latin meticulosus 'fearful, anxious', from metus 'fear'


Old French mestier, from Latin materia 'matter, material'


metrorrhagia | haplometrosis | metrocyte | metropolis | pleometrosis | Demetrius | endometrium | metralgia | metritis | metropolitan

Demetrius, endometrium, metralgia, metritis, metropolis, metropolitan, metrorrhagia


of or pertaining to measurement | characterized by measurement

isometric | biometric | zoometric | pyrometric | barometric | volumetric

Greek -metrikos 'of or pertaining to measurement'


metro- | meter- | short for | metropolis

metros | nonmetro | MetroCard | metrotomy | metromania | metrogenic


act of measuring | suffix derived from 'meter' (see -meter) | quantification | allocation | surrounding matter | field of study | method of measuring the specified element | quantification of the root element

optometry | anemometer | anemometric | antisymmetric | antisymmetry | asymmetric | asymmetry | axonometric | barometer | barometric | bathometer | diameter | diametric | dysmetria | graphometer | hexameter | hygrometer | hygrometry | isodiametric | isometric | isoperimetric | meter | metre | metric | metrology | metronome | monosymmetric | parameter | parameterize | parametric | parametrize | pentameter | perimeter | polymeter | symmetric | symmetry | telemeter | telemetric | telemetry | tetrameter | thermometer | trimeter | trimetric | acidimetry | actinometry | algometry | alkalimetry | geometry | spectrometry | trigonometry

Greek -metria (measurement) from -metron (measure)


spirit | courage | fortitude | resilience

mettled | mettlesome | mettlesomely | mettlesomeness

Old French metail 'metal' (referring to the quality of metal/temper)


From Nahuatl 'Mēxihco', the name of the Aztec capital and the people.


biology, biography, biome, amorphous, amiable


From Muscogee 'Amalisi', the name of a Seminole chief or the tribe itself.


micas | micaless | micaceous | hydromica


optimistic | hopeful | expecting improvement

Named after Wilkins Micawber, the eternally optimistic character in Charles Dickens' 'David Copperfield'


Ojibwe word 'mishigami' meaning 'large lake'


derivational prefix affix morpheme | Derivational

tiny | extremely small | one part in a million | a fraction representing one millionth

microscope, microorganism, micrometer, microwave, microchip

micros | microJy | microSD | microbot | microamp | microRNA

Descriptives | Medical and Scientific | Number division 1 | 000 | Comparator less than | Diminutive | scale

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microbes | antimicrobe | microbeless | supermicrobe | pseudomicrobe | supermicrobes


microscope, microphone, microchip, microbe, microcosm


mictoplasm | mictomagnetic | mictomagnetism | mictocalcification


Midas touch, Midas touch of gold, Midas touch of wealth


middles | middler | middled | middlers | middleman | middlebox


midi-length | Midibus | dimidiation | immediate | intermediary | media | median | mediate | mediation | medieval | mediocre | Mediterranean | medium | moiety | multimedia | postmeridian | submediant | mediolateral


mighty | mighta | mightly | almighty | mightily | mightest

Old English mægen 'strength, force, power'


roam | relocate | shift location | alter position

countermigration | emigrant | emigrate | emigration | émigré | immigrant | immigrate | immigration | migrant | migrate | migration | migrational | migratory | nonmigratory | remigrant | remigrate | remigration | transmigrant | transmigrate | transmigration | transmigratory | transmigrate unrelated: migraine

Latin migrare 'to move, change residence'


Greek hemikrania 'half-skull' (hemi- 'half' + kranion 'skull')


From Japanese 御 (mi, honorific prefix) + 代 (kado, generation, reign, or era); literally 'honorable reign' or 'honorable generation', historically referring to the imperial court or the emperor's residence.


From Proto-Germanic *melk- 'milk', from Proto-Indo-European *melg- 'to rub, smear'.


milds | mildly | milden | mildens | mildish | mildness

Old English mild 'gentle, kind, temperate'


mildewy | mildewed | mildewing | mildewers | mildewcide | antimildew


miles | miler | milers | mileage | milepost | milelong


military personnel | to serve in a military capacity

militant | military | militia | demilitarize | militate

Latin 'miles' (soldier) + '-it-' (agent noun suffix)

Cognatarium | http://www.palosverdes.com/jesse/pvphs/www—freecollege—com—vocab.htm | Wikidata


military, militarism, militarize, militaristic

Latin militāris, from miles (genitive militis) 'soldier'


militia, militarism, militarize, militarization

militias | militiaman | militiamen | militialike | antimilitia | militiawoman

Latin militia 'military service', from miles (genitive militis) 'soldier'


the white nutritious liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals

milky | milks | milkt | milkie | milker | milked

From Proto-Germanic *meluks, from the root *melk- 'to milk', cognate with Old English meolc, Old High German miluh, Latin lac, and Sanskrit máksati.


a numerical value of one thousand | a group comprising one thousand units | the ordinal number indicating one thousandth position | the ordinal form of one thousand with parentheses | a fraction representing one part in a thousand

mile | millennium | million | millisecond | milligram | millivolt | mill (.001) | mille-feuille | millefiori | millenarian | millenary | millesimal | milli- (10⁻) | milliard | milliary | millibar | millier | millimeter | milliliter | millipede | milliwatt Variant Spellings: mil unrelated: millinery

mills | miller | milled | sawmill | milling | endmill

mille | Greek mimos : imitator | actor --> mimeomai : I imitate


from milli- (Latin mille 'thousand') + micro- (Greek mikros 'small')


Greek mimētikos 'imitative', from mimeisthai 'to imitate'


Greek mimēma 'imitation' from mimēsis 'imitation'


mimetics | comimetic | biomimetic | nonmimetic | mimeticity | zoomimetic

Greek mīmētikos 'pertaining to imitation'


amimic | mimicry | mimical | mimicker | mimickers | mimicries


minute | contracted | reduced | more diminutive | most minimal | minimum

minuscule, minimize, minimum, diminish, diminish

superlative of parv / parv / : compare maxim / maxim


Arabic minār (منارة) 'lighthouse, beacon', from nāra (نار) 'to shine, be bright'


intellect | thought | consciousness | memory

minds | amind | remind | minder | minded | mindes

Proto-Germanic *mindo- 'mind, memory', from PIE *men- 'to think'


miner | mines | mined | miners | mineral | unmined

From Old English 'mīn' (possessive pronoun) or 'mīnan' (to mine/dig), but given the definition 'ore, to dig', it derives from the verb 'to mine' (dig for ore), from Old English 'mīnan' meaning 'to dig, excavate'.


Latin mineralis, from minera 'mine, vein of ore'


Named after the Roman goddess Minerva (Greek Athena), derived from Latin 'mens' (mind) or Etruscan 'Menrva'


Latin gerundive suffix -mentum, from mone- 'to warn' or related to facere 'to make'


Latin 'minutus', past participle of 'minuere' meaning 'to make small'


Latin minimus, superlative of parvus 'small'


minions | minionly | minioning | minionish | miniondom | minionship

Latin 'minio' (to serve) + '-on' (agent suffix)


Latin minusculus 'diminutive', from minus 'less'


minister, administration, administrator, ministerial

ministers | ministered | ministerly | ministering | ministereth | ministerest

Latin minister 'servant, attendant', from minus 'less' (comparative of multus 'much')


administer | administration | minister | ministry Variant Spellings: minestrone | minstrel | ministration | minestrone

minor / minor / : compare magistr / magistr

Latin ministrare 'to serve, attend', from minister 'servant', from minus 'less'


minkish | minklike | minkless | minkhound | minkhounds

Middle English, from Old French minque, from Medieval Latin minucula, diminutive of Latin mus 'mouse'


minnows | minnower | minnowers | topminnow | mudminnow | pikeminnow

Middle English minnow, related to Old English minne


minors | minorly | minority | nonminor | minorish | Minorite


minsters | Westminster | Pestminster | Westminsterian

Latin monasterium, from Greek monastērion 'monastery', from monos 'alone'


Old French 'menestrel' from 'mesne' (household)


to create or produce | to make fresh | to purify

minty | mints | minter | minted | remint | minting

Creation, Production, Purification, Finance

From Old English 'myntan' (to coin money), from 'mynt' (money), of Germanic origin; the verb sense 'to make fresh' is a later development from the noun 'mint' (place of production).


lessening | softening | reduced in size | reduce in size

diminuendo | comminute | diminution | diminutive | minuend | minus | minuscule | minute (all senses) | minutiae Variant Spellings: diminish | menu | mince | diminish

positive form: parv / parv / : superlative form: mimim / mimim / : meio / meio

Latin minuere 'to lessen, make smaller', from minui 'to diminish'


Latin minus (neuter of minus 'less'), from minus 'less, smaller', comparative of multus 'much'.


Latin 'minuscule' (diminutive of 'minus' meaning 'less')


minutes | minuter | minuted | minutely | arcminute | unminuted

Latin minutus, past participle of minuere 'to make small'


Latin minutiae, plural of minutia 'a small thing', derived from minutus 'small, fine'


flirtatious behavior | impudent manner | mischievous conduct

minxy | minxes | minxish | minxlike | minxship | minxships

derived from Old English 'mænc' meaning mischievous


astonishment | marvel | gaze | observe | gaze in awe | direct gaze toward | marvel at

admirability | admirable | admiration | admirative | admire | marvel | marvelous | miracle | miraculous | mirage | Miranda | mirative | mirativity | mirror | mirabile dictu | mirador | mirror Variant Spellings: marvel unrelated: admiral | admiral


wonderful event | divine intervention | marvel

Latin mirāculum 'wonder, marvel', from mirāri 'to wonder at'


illusion | optical illusion | deceptive appearance

mirages | miraged | miragelike | mirageless

French 'mirage' from 'mirer' 'to look at'


wonderful | admirable | worthy of admiration

Latin mirandus, gerundive of mirari 'to wonder at, admire'


mires | mired | bemire | enmire | pismire | bemired


specular, speculate, spectator, spectacle, specious

Latin speculum 'mirror' (root spec- 'to look at')


mirrors | mirrory | mirrored | bemirror | mirroring | submirror

Latin speculum 'mirror' (from specere 'to look')


negative | incorrect | negation | poorly | incorrectly | absence | off course

misbehave, misunderstand, mislead, misplace, misfortune

misdo | misgo | mislay | misfit | misuse | mishap

Latin 'mis-' (variant of 'dis-') meaning 'bad, wrong, ill, apart'

Cognatarium | MorphoQuantics | Wikipedia | Stein


admix | admixtion | admixture | commix | commixture | immiscibility | immiscible | immix | immixture | intermix | intermixture | maslin | meddle | mestizo | Métis | miscellanea | miscellaneous | miscellany | miscibility | miscible | mix | mixture | permiscible | permix | permixtion | postmix | premix | promiscuity | promiscuous | remix | miscegenation

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Latin miscellāneus 'mixed, miscellaneous', from miscēre 'to mix'


Playful trouble | annoying behavior | mischievous act

mischiefs | mischiefful | mischiefless | mischiefmaking

Derived from Old English 'mæsceafu,' meaning 'torment' or 'trouble.'


From Old French meschief 'mischance, misfortune', from mes- 'badly' + chief 'head, condition'


Latin miscreant- 'wandering, straying', present participle stem of miscreare 'to wander, stray'


sympathetic | sorrowful | desolate | to feel compassion

misers | miserly | miserite | miserable | miserably | unmiserly


misogyny | misogamy | misanthrope | misandry | misogamist | misogynist | misology | misoneism

misogyny | misogamy | misozoic | misoneism | misoneist | misosophy


mission, missile, dismiss, transmit, intermission

amiss | missy | missed | misses | missie | misser


Latin missa 'dismissal (of the congregation)', from missus, past participle of mittere 'to send'


missile, ballistic missile, missile launcher

missiles | missilery | missileer | nonmissile | missileers | submissile

Latin missus, past participle of mittere 'to send'


missionary, transmission, intermission, dismissal

missions | missional | missioner | missionary | submission | missioners

Latin -missiōn- (stem of missiō) 'a sending away', from past participle stem missus of mittere 'to send'


missive, transmission, dismiss, mission, remit


misty | mists | mister | demist | misted | bemist

Old English mist, from Proto-Germanic *mistaz (cf. Old Norse mistr, Old High German mist)


expert | proficient | skilled | controller | leader

master, mastery, masterpiece, mastermind

From Latin 'magister' meaning 'master' or 'teacher'


Middle English 'mite', from Old English 'mȳte'


to render gentle | to lessen harshness | to make delicate

Latin mitigatus, past participle of mitigare 'to make mild', from mitis 'mild' + agere 'to make, do'


to make less severe | to lessen | to moderate

mitigated | mitigates | mitigateth | mitigatest | unmitigated | unmitigatedly

Latin mitigatus, past participle of mitigare 'to make soft, lessen', from mitis 'soft' + agere 'to do, make'


A slender fiber or filament | A thin strand or line

mitochondrion | mitosis | mitospore | amitosis

mitosome | mitotane | mitosomes | mitomycin | mitoflash | mitomycins


amitosis | endomitosis | antimitosis | karyomitosis

Greek mitos 'thread' + -osis (process/condition)


mitred | mitres | unmitre | unmitred | unmitres | mitreless


admissibility | admissible | admission | admissive | admit | admittatur | admittee | commissar | commissariat | commissary | commission | commissive | commissural | commissure | commit | commitment | committal | committee | compromis | compromise | compromissary | decommission | decommit | decommitment | demise | demiss | demit | dimissory | dimit | dismiss | dismissal | dismissive | emissary | emission | emissitious | emissive | emissivity | emit | emittent | entremet | fideicommissary | fideicommissum | impermissible | inadmissibility | inadmissible | intermission | intermittent | intromissible | intromission | intromissive | intromit | intromittent | manumission | manumit | mess | message | messenger | missile | mission | missionary | missive | mittimus | noncommittal | omissible | omission | omissive | omit | permissible | permission | permissive | permissory | permit | permittee | premise | premiss | premit | pretermission | pretermit | promise | promisee | promissive | promissory | readmission | readmit | recommit | remise | remiss | remissible | remission | remissive | remissory | remit | remittal | remittance | remittee | remittence | remittent | remittitur resubmit | retransmission | retransmit | subcommittee | submission | submissive | submit | surmise | transmissibility | transmissible | transmission | transmissive | transmit | transmittal | admittance

mitten | mitted | mittens | mittful | mittened | mittfuls


admix | admixtion | admixture | commix | commixture | immiscibility | immiscible | immix | immixture | intermix | intermixture | maslin | meddle | mestizo | Métis | miscellanea | miscellaneous | miscellany | miscibility | miscible | mix | mixture | permiscible | permix | permixtion | postmix | premix | promiscuity | promiscuous | remix | amphimixis | mixologist

mixy | mixed | admix | mixer | mixes | remix

miscere | mixtus | Greek mnēmōn : mindul | remembering mnasthai : to remember | akin to mimnēskein : to remember


admix, admixtion, admixture, commix, commixture, immiscibility, immiscible, immix, immixture, intermix, intermixture, maslin, meddle, mestizo, Métis, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, miscibility, miscible, mix, mixture, permiscible, permix, permixtion, postmix, premix, promiscuity, promiscuous, remix


the third mast from the bow | a sail on the third mast

mizzenmast, mizzen sail, mizzenmast sail

mizzentop | mizzenmast | mizzensail | mizzentops | mizzenmasts | mizzensails


amnesia | amnesty | anamnesis | anamnestic | dysmnesia | Mneme | mnemonic

μνᾶσθαι (mnâsthai) | μνήμη (mnḗmē) | μνᾶσθαι(mnâsthai) | μνήμη(mnḗmē)


Greek mnemonikos 'of memory', from mnemon 'mindful'


amoral, atypical, anonymous, asymmetrical, atheist

sixmo | sixmos | twelvemo | umohoite | umohoites

Greek a- (alpha privativum) 'without, not'


moans | moany | bemoan | moaner | moaned | moaning

Middle English monen, from Old English mænan


immobilize | mobile | mobility | automobile | immobile | mob | mobilize

mobs | moble | mobed | mobled | mobbed | mobber


mocks | mocker | mocked | bemock | mockney | mocking

Middle English, from Old French mocque, from Vulgar Latin *muticare 'to mock', of imitative origin


quantify | alter | manner | method | at measured pace | assess | adjust

moderate, modification, modulate, modulus

mods | modder | modbot | modders | modchip | modette


pattern | standard | exemplar | prototype

modeler | remodel | modeled | modelly | modeling | modelers

Latin 'modulus' diminutive of 'modus' meaning 'measure, manner, way'


Latin moderatus, past participle of moderari 'to keep within bounds, regulate', from modus 'measure, manner'


moderates | moderated | immoderate | moderately | unmoderate | unmoderated

Latin moderatus, past participle of moderari 'to keep within bounds, regulate'


moderns | modernly | moderner | unmodern | modernist | modernity

Latin modernus, from modernus 'recent, contemporary', derived from modo 'just now, recently'


Humble and unpretentious | Not boastful | Moderate in behavior or appearance

immodest | modestly | modester | unmodest | modestest | immodestly

Derived from Latin 'modestus,' meaning moderate or measured.


remodify | modifying | premodify | submodify | postmodify | overmodify

Latin 'modi' (genitive of 'modus' meaning 'measure, manner') + '-ficare' (to make)


modules | moduled | bimodule | comodule | submodule | bimodules


British slang, likely a diminutive or playful variation of 'moggy'


from Mughal (Hindi/Persian), referring to the Mughal Empire


Arabic muḥammad (مُحَمَّد), passive participle of ḥammada (حَمَّدَ) 'to praise'


From French moire, from Old French moier 'to moiré', from moie 'moire cloth', from moie 'hair, wool'


moisty | moisten | moistly | unmoist | moistens | moistful

Middle English moist, from Old French moiste


crush | pile | large quantity | volume | heaviness | load | grinding tool | grinding process | processed grain

Latin 'mol-' (stem of 'mola' millstone, 'molere' to grind)


premolar | molarize | submolar | premolars | molarized | molarizes

Latin molaris 'of grinding', from mola 'millstone'


moldy | molds | molded | remold | molder | unmold

Latin 'moldus' (mold, cast) or 'moliri' (to form, shape)


From Romanian 'Moldova', likely derived from the river Moldova or the Vlach leader Molda


molecule, ridicule, animalcule, bimolecular, intermolecular, macromolecular, bascule, bimodule, board_rule, bulbule, cagoule, campylotropous_ovule, canicule, capsule

Latin -culus, diminutive suffix of -culus, -cula, -culum


a group of atoms bonded together | a chemical unit

molecules | biomolecule | polymolecule | biomolecules | antimolecule | nanomolecule

Latin 'molecula', diminutive of 'moles' meaning 'mass, bulk'


to harass | to bother | to torment intentionally

molests | molester | molested | molestee | molesting | molesters

from Latin 'molestare', meaning to annoy


emollience | emollient | moil | mollescence | mollescent | mollient | mollification | mollify | mollitude | mollusc | molluscicide | molluscivore | mollusk


molluscs | molluscous | molluscivore | molluscicide | molluscicides | molluscivores

Latin molluscus 'soft', from mollis 'soft'


mollusks | mollusklike | molluskicide | micromollusk | molluskicides | micromollusks

Latin 'molluscus' meaning 'soft', from 'mollis' (soft)


ymolten | remolten | unmolten | moltenly | nonmolten

Old English molten, past participle of melten


moms | mommy | momic | momly | momism | momoir

From Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr


moment (all senses), momentary, momentous, momentum

moments | momently | momentary | momentous | momentarily | momentously

Latin momentum 'a moving, motion', from movēre 'to move'


celestial satellite | luminous body in the night sky

Monday | month Variant Spellings: moon | moon

mons | monarchy | monaster | monaulic | monatomic | monarchic

From Proto-Germanic *mēnō (moon), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥ (moon, month), from the root *mē- (to measure). Cognate with Old English mōna, Old High German mōn, Latin mēnsis.


infectious mononucleosis | monarch | monotone | monachism | monad | monadic | monadic_operation | monal | monandrous | monandry | monarchal | monarchic | monarchical | monarchism | monarchist | monarchy | monarda


admonish | admonishment | admonition | admonitor | admonitory | monition | monitor | monitory | monument | monumental | premonition | premonitory | resummon | summon | summons | remonstrate


Examples: Chlamydomonas ("cloak unit"); Pseudomonas ("false unit"); Metamonad ("encompassing unit")

monads | monadic | comonad | bimonad | comonads | monadist

μονάς (monás)

Greek monas "unit, single" from monos "alone"


Greek monastērion 'monastery', from monachos 'monk'


Latin monet- 'money, warning' (from monere 'to warn'), from Proto-Indo-European *men- 'to think'


a person who trades, deals or promotes what is spe

a person who engages in trading, dealing, or promoting the item specified by the preceding element

mongers | mongered | warmonger | mongering | lawmonger | haymonger

Old English mangere 'merchant, dealer' (from mangian 'to trade'), of Germanic origin; the suffixal use in English compounds is of uncertain origin but likely influenced by the word itself or Old French monger.


mongols | mongoloids | Mongolicist | mongoloidism | Mongolianist | Mongolianness


Middle English mongrel, from Old French mongrel


monitors | monitored | monitorer | monitoring | monitorial | biomonitor

Latin monitor 'one who warns, adviser', from monēre 'to warn, advise'


religious ascetic | member of a monastic community

monks | monkly | monkish | monkery | monking | monkess

Latin monachus, from Greek monachos 'solitary'


assmonkeys | monkeypods | monkeyfaces | hosemonkeys | weremonkeys | supermonkeys

Middle English monke, from Old English monaca (monk)


monoid | monome | monose | monomer | mononym | monopod


monologue, monochrome, monoculture, monoclinic


Latin mons (genitive montis) 'mount, hill'


unnatural | strange | frightening creature

monster, monstrosity, monstrous, monster truck

monsters | monstery | bemonster | bemonsters | monsterdom | monsterlet

Greek monstēr 'portent, prodigy' from monstrō 'to show, warn'


reveal | indicate | omen | caution | counsel | reprimand

monster, demonstrate, monitor, monstrosity

Latin monstrum 'portent, omen', from monere 'to warn'


a prominent natural elevation | to ascend

amount | Belmont | cismontane | dismount | insurmountable | intermontane | montage | montan | Montana | montane | montant | monticello | monticule | montiform | montigenous | mount | mountaineer | mountainous | nonremontant | paramount | piedmont | remontancy | remontant | remontoire | remount | submontane | surmount | surmountable | tantamount | tramontana | tramontane | transmontane | ultramontane | Vermont | Montagnais | Montagnard | monte | Monte Carlo | Montevideo | Montreal | promontory


montages | montaged | photomontage | supermontage | photomontages | supermontages

French 'montage' from 'monter' 'to assemble/mount'


Latin 'montanus' meaning 'of or belonging to a mountain', from 'mons' (mountain)


From Spanish Monterey, named after the Marquis of Monterey; ultimately from Basque 'monte' (mountain) + 'ey' (place)


a period of approximately 30 days | the time it takes for the moon to complete one cycle

From Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs, from *mēnō- (moon) + *-ōþs (suffix forming abstract nouns or time periods), cognate with Old English mōnaþ, Old High German mōnat.


From French Montréal, from Mont Royal 'Royal Mountain'


memorial | structure | commemorative object

monuments | monumental | monumented | monumentous | monumentally | unmonumental

Latin monumentum 'memorial, warning', derived from monere 'to warn, advise'


occurring in essentially abstract nouns mainly den

found in abstract nouns that primarily signify a state | condition | action | or resulting state/condition

alimony | harmony | testimony | acrimony

From Latin -monium, from monere 'to warn, advise'


mood, accommodate, commode, commodity, demote, promote, remove, transmute

moody | moods | bemood | moodily | moodish | moodlet

Latin 'mōs' (gen. 'mōris') meaning 'custom, habit, way'


moony | Moonie | mooned | moonly | moonet | mooner

From Old English mōna, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, from Proto-Indo-European *mēn- (to measure, moon)


Moors | moors | moory | moored | moorer | unmoor


a person considered unattractive | someone regarded as unpleasant in appearance

mooses | moosey | moosebird | moosewood | mooseskin | mooseling


habitual practice | inclination | tendency | behavior | approach | irritable | easily annoyed

moral, morality, immoral, amoral, moralize, moralist


moras | moraic | bimoraic | dimoraic | nonmoraic | trimoraic


morality, immoral, moralist, moralize, amoral

Latin moralis 'pertaining to manners', from mos (genitive moris) 'custom, habit'


Latin morātus, past participle of morārī 'to delay, linger'


morbidly | comorbid | unmorbid | nonmorbid | premorbid | morbidness

from Latin morbidus, from morbus 'disease'


bite (to grasp with teeth) | bite (to tear with teeth)


mores | moreish | moredom | moreover | evermore | moresome


mores, moral, morality, moralize, immoral, amoral, moralist, moralistic

Latin 'mōrēs' (plural of 'mōs') meaning 'custom, habit, character'


Proto-Germanic *murgaz (late) + *nahts (night), from PIE *merg- 'to rub, wear away' (referring to the fading of night)


Old French 'morgue' (a lookout, from 'morguer' to watch)


cessation of life | process of life ending


moribunds | moribundly | moribundity | moribundness

Latin moribundus, from mori 'to die' + -bundus 'about to'


Proper noun referring to the ancient American prophet in Mormon theology who compiled the Book of Mormon | religious figure central to Mormonism | title of the prophet in the Book of Mormon

Mormondumb | Mormonistic | Mormonization


morns | tomorn | morning | mornings | mornward | morningly


morons | moronic | moronism | moronity | submoron | unmoronic


Latin morosus 'capricious, peevish', from mos (gen. moris) 'custom, habit'


form | shape | state defined by shape or form

metamorphosis | endorphins | amorphous | actinomorphic | allelomorphic | allomorphic | anamorphic | anthropomorphic | dimorphic | dysmorphic | ectomorphic | enantiomorphic | endomorphic | epimorphic | gynandromorphic | hemimetamorphic | hemimorphic | holomorphic | isomorphous

metamorphosis, endorphins, amorphous, actinomorphic, allelomorphic, allomorphic, anamorphic, anthropomorphic, dimorphic, dysmorphic, ectomorphic, enantiomorphic, endomorphic, epimorphic, gynandromorphic, hemimetamorphic, hemimorphic, holomorphic, amorphous, isomorphous

dimorphic | isomorphic | zoomorphic | trimorphic | geomorphic | epimorphic


morphines | morphined | apomorphine | normorphine | neomorphine | paramorphine


amorphism | dimorphism | amorphisms | isomorphism | zoomorphism | dimorphisms


epimorphosis | zoomorphosis | pedomorphosis | holomorphosis | pathomorphosis | phyllomorphosis

Greek -morphōsis (a shaping/formation) from morphē (form)


metamorphosis | endorphins | amorphous | actinomorphic | allelomorphic | allomorphic | anamorphic | anthropomorphic | dimorphic | dysmorphic | ectomorphic | enantiomorphic | endomorphic | epimorphic | gynandromorphic | hemimetamorphic | hemimorphic | holomorphic | isomorphous

trimorphous | pyromorphous | idiomorphous | monomorphous | xeromorphous | ophiomorphous


amorphy | zoomorphy | geomorphy | polymorphy | automorphy | homomorphy


morrows | tomorrow | tomorrows | morrowtide | morrowless | tomorrowless


Latin mors (genitive mortis) meaning 'death'


signal | code | communication | information

From 'Morse code', named after Samuel Morse; used as a bound root in technical contexts.


morsels | morselize | morselized | morselizer

Middle English morsel, from Old French morsel, diminutive of mors 'bite'


mortal, mortality, immortal, mortuary, mortician

morts | remort | remorts | mortling | mortlings | micromort

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antemortem | immortal | immortality | mortal | mortality | mortician | mortiferous | mortification | mortify | mortuary

mortals | mortally | mortalin | mortality | nonmortal | premortal


mortars | mortared | mortarman | unmortared | mortarless | mortarlike

Latin 'mortarium' (noun) meaning 'stone mortar', derived from 'mortarius' (adjective) meaning 'of or belonging to a mortar', from 'mortarium' itself, ultimately from the root 'mort-' related to grinding or crushing (cf. 'molaris' relating to a molar tooth).


mortgagor, mortgagee, mortgageable, mortgagee's, mortgaged

mortgagee | mortgager | mortgages | mortgaged | mortgagers | mortgagees

Old French 'mortgage' (mort gage), from 'mort' (dead) + 'gage' (pledge)


antemortem, immortal, immortality, mortal, mortality, mortician, mortiferous, mortification, mortify, mortuary


creative, relating to art | inspired by a muse

Greek mosaikos 'pertaining to the Muses'


composed of small pieces | patterned | variegated

mosaics | demosaic | mosaical | mosaicist | mosaicism | mosaicked


From Russian 'Moskva', the name of the capital city of Russia.


Dialectal variant of 'mose' (to move), possibly from 'moss' or 'mosey' as a frequentative form of 'move', first attested in the 19th century.


an older spelling of Muslim | a term historically used to denote a follower of Islam | a variant form of Muslim that is now considered archaic

Moslemise | Moslemess | Moslemdom | Moslemism | Moslemist | Moslemness


mosques | mosqued | unmosqued | mosqueful | mosqueing | mosquelike

Arabic masjid 'place of prostration', from s-j-d 'to prostrate'


mosquitos | mosquitoes | mosquitoey | mosquitoed | mosquitoish | mosquitofish


mossy | mosses | demoss | mossen | mossily | firmoss


to the maximum degree | in the highest level

mosts | almost | mostly | upmost | topmost | endmost

From Old English -mæst, superlative suffix derived from mæst 'most'


displacement | movement | the act of shifting

motion, motivate, motor, remote, commute

Latin 'motus', past participle of 'movere' meaning 'to move'

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Latin 'mōtus', past participle of 'movere' meaning 'to move'


Latin motetum, from motus 'moved' (past participle of movere)


moths | mothy | budmoth | Mothman | bagmoth | webmoth


mother, maternal, maternity, motherhood, stepmother, godmother

mothers | mothery | motherly | mothered | motherer | unmother


motifs | motific | submotif | motifless | minimotif | motifemic

French motif, from Italian motivo 'reason, cause'


motions | motioned | motional | motioner | motioning | biomotion

Latin -mōtiō (stem -mōtiōn-), from movēre 'to move'


motive, motivation, demotivate, locomotive

motives | motived | nonmotive | unmotived | automotive | motiveless


motors | motored | motoric | motorway | motorcar | motorize

Latin 'movere' (to move) + '-tor' (agent noun suffix)


mottled | mottles | mottler | mottlers | unmottled | nonmottled


mottos | mottoes | mottoed | mottoless | mottoware

Latin mōtus, past participle of movēre 'to move'


moulds | mouldy | moulded | moulder | remould | unmould

Latin 'moldus' or 'mouldus' (a type, form, or cast), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (to grind, crush) referring to the shaping of materials.


moults | moulted | moulter | moulters | unmoulted


mounds | amound | mounded | remound | mounding | moundlet

Old English mund 'mound, hill, embankment'


tantamount, amount, paramount, mountaineer, insurmountable

mounts | unmount | remount | mounted | mounter | demount


large landform | elevated terrain | peak

mountains | mountainy | mountainer | mountainet | mountainous | mountaineer

From Old French 'montaigne', derived from Latin 'montanus' (of a mountain), from 'mons' (mountain)


mourns | mourner | mourned | bemourn | mourning | mournful


mouses | mouser | moused | mousers | mousery | demouse

Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *mūs


moustaches | moustached | unmoustached | bemoustached | moustachelike | moustacheless


oral opening | orifice of the digestive tract

mouths | mouthy | mouther | mouthly | bemouth | mouthful


moved | mover | moves | movers | moveth | comove


mows | mower | mowed | bemow | haymow | mowing


blessed | blessed by God | fortunate | auspicious

Mubarak, Baraka, Mubarakah, Tabarakallah

From Arabic root b-r-k (ب ر ك) meaning 'to bless' or 'to have baraka (blessing)'; past tense form meaning 'he was blessed'.


muciferous, mucilage, mucin, mucoprotein, mucous, mucus


muchly | muchness | insomuch | overmuch | muchwhat | forasmuch


Latin mucilāgō (gen. mucilāginis) 'slime, slime-like substance', derived from mucidus 'sticky, slimy'


mucky | mucks | mucker | mucked | mucking | muckers


mucousy | mucously | nonmucous | submucous | mucousness | seromucous

Latin mucosus 'slimy, moist', from mucor 'mucus'


muds | muddy | bemud | mudded | mudbug | MUDder


muddles | muddled | muddler | muddlers | remuddle | bemuddle

Middle English 'muddelen', possibly related to 'mud'


a garment made of fur or cloth, typically with open ends, used to keep hands warm | a type of hand covering

muffs | Muffs | muffed | earmuff | muffing | muffish


muffin top, blueberry muffin, bran muffin

muffins | muffiny | McMuffin | studmuffin | minimuffin | muffinlike

originally a dialectal variant of 'muff' (a type of muffler or hood), later applied to the baked good


to make dull or muffled | to conceal or suppress

muffler | muffled | muffles | mufflers | unmuffle | bemuffle


mugs | mugger | mugful | mugged | muggen | muggee

Middle Dutch mugge, mugge 'drinking vessel'


Arabic muḥammad, passive participle of ḥammada 'to praise', from root ḥ-m-d


Scottish Gaelic 'muir' meaning 'sea' or 'island' (from Proto-Celtic *morios)


to fine | to penalize | to extract money from

Latin mulctum, past participle of mulcere 'to soften, soothe', from PIE *mulk- 'to soften'


hybrid offspring of a donkey and a horse

mules | muleteer | mulelike | muleback | muleless | muleload


to draw cards from the deck into the hand

mulls | mulled | muller | mulling | mullock | mullocks

Card Game Action, Drawing, Game Mechanics

Shortened form of 'mulligan', a term for a do-over or second chance in golf, adopted into card game terminology.


religious scholar | Islamic cleric | teacher

Persian mullā, from Arabic mawlā 'master, patron, client'


From Middle Low German mullere, from Old High German mullar, from Proto-Germanic *mullōną (to grind), related to Latin molere.


to replace | to shuffle again | to discard and redraw

Named after golfer David Mulligan, who claimed a do-over shot; adopted in gaming contexts to mean a 'do-over' or redraw.


multilingual, multiple, multiplex, multiplication, multiplicity, multiply, multitude, multitudinous

multimer | multibay | multiset | multiage | multimap | multicar


multiples | multiplets | circummultiple | hypermultiplets


multitude, multivalent, multivitamin, multilateral, multilingual


mums | mumoir | mumming | stepmum | mumhood | supermum

From Old English 'mōdor', from Proto-Germanic '*mōdēr', from Proto-Indo-European '*méh₂tēr'.


speak indistinctly | low sound | indistinct

mumbled | mumbles | mumbler | mumblers | mumbleth | mumblest


mummyji | mummyjis | mummylike | mummyhood | mummykins | grandmummy

Arabic mumiyā (bitumen, pitch) < Persian mūm (wax), originally referring to the bitumen used in embalming, later applied to the preserved body itself


From the verb 'to mump' (to make a grimace or scowl), referring to the swollen cheeks characteristic of the disease.


shared | general | present | accomplishment | protect | strengthen | state duties | government roles | compensation | tax-free

munificent | commune | remunerate | excommunicate | ammunition | muniment | munitions | immune | municipal | premunition

Latin munus (genitive muneris) 'gift, service, duty'


munchy | munchie | muncher | munched | munches | munchies

Middle English munchen, from Old English mucan


anima mundi | antemundane | demimondaine | demimonde | extramundane | intramundane | map | mondain | mondaine | mondial | mondo | mundane | mundanity | ultramundane | beau monde | sic transit gloria mundi


mundanes | mundanely | unmundane | nonmundane | submundane | antemundane

Latin mundanus 'of the world', from mundus 'world'


to serve | to attend | to perform duties

Latin munus (gen. muneris) 'gift, service, duty'


Latin 'municipium' (free town), from 'municeps' (citizen), from 'munus' (duty/service) + 'capere' (to take)


Latin munificus, from munus (gift) + facere (to make)


munitions | munitioner | remunition | submunition | munitioners | submunitions

Latin munitio (genitive munitonis) 'a fortifying, fortification', from munire 'to fortify, equip, supply'


a vertical barrier | a structural division

antemural | immuration | immure | immurement | intramural | murage | mural | extramural


a vertical barrier | a structural surface

murals | muraled | muralist | muralism | muralists | photomural

Latin 'murus' (wall) + '-alis' (adjective suffix)


to devour violently | to commit sexual violence | to kill

murders | murderer | murdered | murderee | unmurder | murderess


murky | murks | murked | murken | murking | murkily


The divine patrons of artistic and intellectual pursuits | The mythological figures representing creative inspiration

amusia | Muse | museology | musette | museum | music Variant Spellings: mosaic | mosaic


Musca, muscarine, Muscicapa, Muscicapidae, Muscidae, musciform, mosquito


muscles | muscled | muscley | muscleman | nonmuscle | outmuscle

Latin 'musculus', diminutive of 'mus' (mouse), referring to the shape of contracting muscles resembling mice under the skin


musculomotor | musculotropic | musculofacial | musculotropics | musculophrenic | musculofascial

From Latin 'musculus' meaning 'little mouse' or 'muscle', referring to the shape of contracting muscles.


to linger aimlessly | to remain without purpose

mused | muses | muser | bemuse | musers | museth

Old French muser : to stare, to ponder, to loiter


place for preservation | collection of artifacts

museums | nonmuseum | ecomuseum | museumize | geomuseum | museumlike


mushy | smush | musher | mushes | mushed | smushy

Middle English mush, mushum, of unknown origin, possibly related to mushy


μουσική  OED

From Latin musicus, from Greekmousikos 'of or pertaining to music', from mousa 'muse'. The form 'musico-' is a learned combining form derived from the Latin stem.


musky | musks | muskily | muskwood | muskroot | muskmelon


muskets | musketry | musketed | musketeer | musketoon | musketeers


mussy | musses | mussed | mussing | mussily | unmussed

From Old English 'mōt' (past tense of 'magan', meaning 'to be able, to have power'), evolving to denote necessity or compulsion.


musty | musts | mustily | mustest | mustiness | mustimeter

Latin 'mustum' (gen. 'musti') meaning 'new wine', from 'mulsum' (honeyed wine), related to 'mulcere' to soothe


Italian 'mostacciuolo' (small mustache) from 'mustaccio'


musters | mustered | musterer | mustering | mustereth | musterers

Latin muster 'gathering, levy' (noun), from musterare 'to gather, collect', frequentative of emere 'to take, buy'


Latin mutabilis, from mutare 'to change'


mutants | nonmutant | epimutant | nonmutants | antimutant | epimutants


mutated | mutates | unmutated | dismutate | nonmutated | paramutate


silent | unable to speak | lacking sound

muter | muten | mutes | muted | muters | mutely


Latin mutilatus, past participle of mutilare 'to maim, disfigure', from mutilus 'maimed, mutilated'


French mutin 'rebellious' + -eer (agent suffix)


Latin mutinus 'pertaining to a mutiny' (of uncertain origin, possibly from mutare 'to change')


mutts | muttnik | muttish | muttniks | Euromutt | muttrimony


to speak in a low, indistinct, or barely audible manner

mutters | muttery | amutter | muttered | mutterer | muttering


mutuals | mutually | mutualism | mutuality | nonmutual | mutualize

Latin mutuus 'reciprocal, borrowed, lent'


from German 'Musik' (music) + 'Kakophonie' (cacophony), coined by the company Muzak to imply music that is pleasant but not intrusive.


part of an animal's face | snout | restraint for a mouth

muzzles | muzzled | muzzler | unmuzzle | muzzlers | muzzleth


myth, mythology, mythological, mythical, demy

myself | myalgia | myalgic | mystory | myselves | mystorical

μῦς, μυός(mûs, muós), μυών


miosis | myopia | myopic | myosis | mystery | myocardium | myasthenia | myosin

miosis, myopia, myopic, myosis, mystery, myocardium, myasthenia, myosin

μύειν (múein), μύσις (músis), μύστης (mústēs)


a fungal organism | member of the fungal kingdom

ascomycete | basidiomycete | mycology | mycobacteria | mycologist | mycomycin | mycophagist | mycophagy | mycoplasma | mycotoxin | zygomycete | zygomycosis | neomycin | Aureomycin™ | botryomycosis | erythromycin | mycelium | -mycete | mycetoma | -mycin | mycosis | streptomycin


Mycenaean, Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean civilization

From Mykēnē (Μυκῆναι), the name of the ancient Greek city-state.


ascomycete | basidiomycete | mycology | mycobacteria | mycologist | mycomycin | mycophagist | mycophagy | mycoplasma | mycotoxin | zygomycete | zygomycosis | neomycin

ascomycete, basidiomycete, mycology, mycobacteria, mycologist, mycology, mycomycin, mycophagist, mycophagy, mycoplasma, mycotoxin, zygomycete, zygomycosis, neomycin

micromycete | actinomycete | micromycetes | actinomycetes | saccharomycete | saccharomycetes

μύκης, μύκητος (múkēs, múkētos)


134 e) | ascomycete | basidiomycete | mycology | mycobacteria | mycologist | mycomycin | mycophagist | mycophagy | mycoplasma | mycotoxin | zygomycete | zygomycosis | neomycin

neomycin | mitomycin | neomycins | monomycin | vancomycin | fosfomycin

μύκης, μύκητος (múkēs, múkētos)


soft tissue within bones | central nervous system structure | inner bone tissue | nerve-insulating substance


amyloid | amyloidosis | amylolysis | amylopectin | amylophagia | amyloplast | amylose | amylum

μύλη (múlē) | μύλος (múlos)


miosis | myopia | myopic | myosis | mystery | myocardium | myasthenia | myosin | leiomyoma | myoblast | myocardial | mydynamics | myoma | amyotonia | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | myology | myopathy | myotonia unrelated: myopia

myoma | myoid | myomas | amyous | myorod | myology

μύειν (múein) | μύσις (músis) | μύστης (mústēs) | μυς (mys) | Greek μῦς | μυ- (mûs | mu-) | muscle | mouse | mussel | < ancient Greek μυ- | μῦς muscle | mussel OED

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myosin, myositis, myopathy, myalgia, myocyte

myosins | myosinic | isomyosin | meromyosin | paramyosin | isomyosins

Greek 'mys' (muscle) + '-in' (suffix denoting a substance)


ten thousand | innumerable quantity | numerical value of 10,000

myriagon | myriagram | Myriapoda | myriagons | myrialitre | myriametre


myringotomy | myringotomies | myringoplasty | myringomycosis | myringoplasties

Greek myringos 'drum, membrane' (referring to the tympanic membrane)


myrmecochory | myrmecoid | myrmecology | myrmecophobia | myrmomancy

myrmecochory, myrmecoid, myrmecology, myrmecophobia, myrmomancy

myrmecoid | myrmecoidy | myrmecology | myrmecophile | myrmecophyte | myrmecophagy

μύρμηξ (múrmēx)


mysophobe | mysophile | mysophilia | mysophiles | mysophobes | mysophobia


mystagogue, mystery, mysterious, mystic, mysticism, mystify, mystique unrelated: mysticeti

Greek mystikos 'secret, occult' from mystes 'initiate'


μυστικός  OED


['mystique', 'mystical', 'mysticism', 'mystic']

Greek mystikos 'secret, religious' from mystes 'initiate'


traditional tale | narrative | oral account | folk tale

mythic | mythology | mythomania | mythopoeia | mythos | myth | mythical | mythmaker | mythographer | stichomythia

myths | mythy | mythic | demyth | nonmyth | geomyth


pertaining to myths or legendary tales | relating to the realm of folklore

μυθικός  OED

< mythic adj. < ancient Greek μυθικός < μῦθος mythos n. speech, narrative, fiction, myth, plot OED


match | myxedema | myxoedema | Myxini | myxogastrid | myxocyte | myxoid | myxoma | myxomycete | myxovirus | paramyxovirus | polymyxin

From Greek myxa (genitive myxos) meaning 'slime' or 'mucus'.


myxedema | myxoedema | myxomycetes | myxogastrid | myxovirus | myxomatosis | myxocyte | myxoma

myxoma | myxomas | myxovirus | myxogenic | myxomatous | myxomatoid

μύσσομαι | μύξα (múxa) | < ancient Greek μυξο- | combining form of μύξα mucus OED | Greek μύξᾰ (múxa) | mucus | nasal discharge


From Greek myxa 'mucus' + -omatosis (from soma 'body')


μυζάω (muzáō) | μύζησις (múzēsis) | μυζάω(muzáō) | μύζησις(múzēsis)


made of, similar to what is denoted by the noun

composed of | resembling the noun's referent

ns | Utahn | slown | Burman | thetan | Median

Past Participle, Adjectival Suffix, Germanic Origin

From Old English -en, -an, past participle suffix derived from Proto-Germanic *-anaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-eno- or *-no- suffixes used to form adjectives and past participles.


anonymous, ateleia, athermia, ataxia, atherosclerosis


inflectional | derivational suffix affix bound morpheme


nabs | nabbed | nabber | nabman | nabbing | nabbers

Shortening of 'snatch' or 'grab', first recorded in the 1880s


Latin nadir, from Arabic nadhir 'the direction under the foot'


An old, useless horse | a term for a worn-out horse | a pejorative reference to an aged, unproductive horse

nags | naggy | nagger | nagged | padnag | nagware

From Old English 'næg' meaning an old horse.


originate | stem from | arise | origin | genesis | clan | generate | emerge

adnascent | adnate | adnation | agnate | agnatic | agnation | binational | cognate | cognatic | cognation | connascence | connascent | connate | connation | connatural | denature | enascent | enate | enatic | enation | impregnate | innate | international | multinational | nada | naïf | naissant | naïve | nascency | nascent | natal | natality | nation | national | nationality | native | nativity | natural | naturality | nature | née | nonnative | postnatal | pregnancy | pregnant | prenatal | preternatural | renaissance | renaissant | renascence | renascent | renature | subnational | supernatural | supranational | transnational | transnationality


nails | naily | nailer | nailed | renail | unnail


Latin nātīvus 'of birth, native, natural', from nāscī 'to be born'


nakedly | unnaked | nakedish | nakedness | seminaked | nakedhood

From Old English 'nāg', meaning 'naked', reflecting a Germanic origin.


name, rename, nickname, surname, firstname

namer | named | rename | namely | byname | nameth

Latin nomen (genitive nominis) meaning 'name'


nannyism | nannydom | nannyish | Nannygate | nannylike | supernanny

Middle English 'nany', likely from 'nannygoat' or related to 'nurse'


one part per billion | a fraction equal to one billionth | a value of one divided by a billion

nanosecond | nanobucks | nanogram | nanometer | nanotechnology

nanoid | nanobot | nanoamp | nanorod | nanogap | nanodot


abduct in order to extract a ransom, seize, steal

naps | nappy | naped | kidnap | catnap | napped

Middle English 'nappen' (to seize, catch)


portmanteau of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid


petroleum-based liquid | asphalt-like substance

naphtha, naphthalene, naphthene, naphthol, naphthyl


From Latin Neapolis, from Greek Neapolis 'new city'


Napoleon Bonaparte | First Consul | Emperor of the French

Proper noun derived from the Italian name Napoleone, likely of Germanic origin (Nobele + one)


Middle English nappe 'napkin, cloth' from Old French nappe


internarial | nares | narial | naris | prenarial


counternarrative | inenarrable | narration | narrative | narrator | unnarratable


narrated | narrates | narratee | narrateth | narratest | narrateme

Latin narratus, past participle of narrare 'to tell, relate', from gnarus 'knowing'


narrows | narrowly | narrower | narrowed | unnarrow | narrowing


the facial organ for breathing and smelling | to come into existence | to carry or endure | to be brought into existence

intranasal | nasal | nasalance | nasalis | nasality | nasolabial | nonnasal | nascent | renascent Variant Spellings: renaissance | nasturtium | postnasal | native | prenatal | natural | innate | renaissance


nasals | nasally | denasal | binasal | nasality | nasalize


Latin nasci 'to be born', from PIE *gn- 'to know, give birth'


native, prenatal, natural, innate, renaissance

Latin nasci 'to be born', perfect passive participle stem of nāscor


Named after Don Nash, a pioneer who settled in the area; the name 'Nash' is of English origin.


originate | emerge | origin | kin group | produce

adnascent | adnate | adnation | agnate | agnatic | agnation | binational | cognate | cognatic | cognation | connascence | connascent | connate | connation | connatural | denature | enascent | enate | enatic | enation | impregnate | innate | international | multinational | nada | naïf | naissant | naïve | nascency | nascent | natal | natality | nation | national | nationality | native | nativity | natural | naturality | nature | née | nonnative | postnatal | pregnancy | pregnant | prenatal | preternatural | renaissance | renaissant | renascence | renascent | renature | subnational | supernatural | supranational | transnational | transnationality | au naturel | Natalie | naturopathy | neonatal | supernatural Variant Spellings: naïve

Latin nasci 'to be born', past participle natus


to move through water | to propel oneself in water


Latin natus, past participle of nasci 'to be born'


prenatal, postnatal, perinatal, natalism

natals | conatal | natally | prenatal | neonatal | natalist

Latin nātus, past participle of nāscī 'to be born'


natantly | subnatant | supernatant | infranatant | undernatant | supernatants


atypical, amoral, anonymous, asymmetry, apathy

Greek prefix an- (before vowels) or a- (before consonants) meaning 'not, without'


Latin -natus, past participle of nasci 'to be born'


nations | national | nationist | nationism | nationals | anational

Latin natio 'birth, race, people', from nasci 'to be born'


nation, multinational, international, nationhood

Latin natio 'birth, origin, race, people', from nasci 'to be born'


natives | natively | unnative | nativeness | nativelike | nativenesses


natters | nattery | nattered | natterer | nattering | natterers

imitative of the sound of rapid, continuous speech


From 'natty' meaning neat or trim, possibly from Dutch 'natte' or dialectal English 'natty' (neat), unrelated to the suffix -natty found in words like 'natty' (archaic) or potentially confused with -nasty/-nasty-like formations, but primarily a free-standing adjective root in modern usage.


natural | essence | character | constitution

natures | natured | renature | unnature | renatured | renatures

Latin 'natura' birth, character, from 'nasci' to be born


naughty | naughts | naughtily | naughties | fearnaught | naughtiness

Old English naught 'nothing', from negation + naught


sickness feeling | revulsion | motion sickness at sea

ad nauseam, nausea, nauseant, nauseate, nauseous

Greek nauaia 'seasickness', from nauaia 'sick at sea', from naua 'ship'


ship | boat | seafaring | spaceflight | voyager

aeronautic | Argonaut | astronaut | cosmonaut | nausea | nautical | nautilus | antenave | naval | nave | navicular | navigable | navigate | navy | nonnavigable

aeronaut | aquanaut | oceanaut | infonaut | moonnaut | cryonaut


nautilite | nautiloid | nautilites | nautiloids

Greek nautilus 'sailor', from nautes 'sailor', from naus 'ship'


navel | naves | naved | navels | naveless | navelike

Latin navigare 'to sail', from navis 'ship' + agere 'to drive'


Old French 'nive' (snow) via 'navie' (fleet) or 'navy' (fleet)


nays | nayward | naysayer | naysayers | naycation | naycations

Old English nǣg, nǣi 'no', from Proto-Germanic *nai (cf. Old Saxon nē, Old High German nī, Gothic neis), from Proto-Indo-European *ne 'not'


running, walking, talking, singing, jumping

From Proto-Germanic *-nd- (present participle marker), from Proto-Indo-European *-nt- (active participle suffix).


Neolithic | neologism | neon | neonate | neophyte

ned | neds | never | nevers | neverwet | nevermind

νέϝος | νέος (néos)


Latin negative prefix ne- (also n- before vowels), from Proto-Indo-European *ne- 'not'

http://www.palosverdes.com/jesse/pvphs/www—freecollege—com—vocab.htm | Wiktionary | Wikidata


axoneme, diplonema, leptonema, nematocyst, nematocyte, nematode, nematology, pachynema, synnema, treponema, zygonema

νεῖν (neîn), νῆσις ~spinning~, νῆμα, νήματος (nêma, nḗmatos)


extinct species of archaic human | archaic human

Proper name from the Neander Valley (Neander Tal)


Neapolitan ice cream, Neapolitan dialect, Neapolitan cat

From Italian 'Napoli' (Naples), derived from Latin 'Neapolis' (new city), from Greek 'Nea' (new) + 'polis' (city).


nears | nearby | nearly | neared | unnear | nearest


neats | neato | neatly | neaten | neatnik | neatens


beneath, underneath Variant Spellings: nether


nebula | nebular | nebulosity | nebulous | nuance | nubilous | obnubilate


a visible mass of condensed vapor | a collection of airborne water droplets


lifeless | lifeless form | lifeless remains

necrosis, necromancer, necropolis, necrophilia, necrotic

necromancy | necrophilia | necrophobia | necropolis | necropsy | necrosis | necrospermia | necrotic | necrotize | necrotomy | internecine Variant Spellings: pernicious | internecine | innocuous | obnoxious | pernicious

νεκρός (nekrós) | νέκρωσις (nékrōsis) | Greek


necessary, necessitate, necessity, nonetheless

Latin necessus, past participle of nectere 'to bind, tie'


part of the body connecting the head to the torso | the upper part of the body

necks | necked | necker | redneck | wryneck | necktie


relating to death | pertaining to dead tissue | associated with the deceased

necropsy | necronym | necrosol | necrology | necropost | necrotomy

derived from Greek 'nekros' meaning dead


localized death of cells or tissues | tissue death due to injury or disease | cell death from interrupted blood supply

bionecrosis | pannecrosis | myonecrosis | aponecrosis | pyronecrosis | cytonecrosis

from Greek nekros (dead) + -sis (suffix for process or condition)


νηκτός (nēktós)


sweet liquid | food for bees | drink of the gods

nectars | nectared | nectarine | nectarous | nectarize | nectarines


needs | needy | needed | needly | needer | needing

Old English nēod 'need, necessity, hardship'


needles | needled | needler | needlet | needlers | needlets


Latin nefarius 'wicked, impious', from nefas 'impious, forbidden'


refuse to accept | cancel out | refusal to acknowledge | act of denying

abnegation | negative | renegade | renege | abnegate | negate | neglect | negligee | negligent | negligible | negotiate

negs | negger | neggers | negative | negamile | negatives

Latin negare 'to deny, say no', from neg- (no) + -are (verb suffix)


negarchy | negabinary | negarchical | negadecimal

Latin prefix neg- (variant of ne- 'not') + -atus (past participle suffix)


abnegation | negative | renegade | renege


neglect, neglectful, neglecting, neglectable

neglects | neglected | neglecter | neglectee | neglectful | neglecteth

Latin neglectus, past participle of negligere 'to disregard' (neg- 'not' + legere 'to gather, choose')


Latin negotium 'business, occupation' (neg- 'not' + opium 'work, effort')


negros | negroid | negroes | benegro | negrofy | negroids


neighs | neighed | neigher | neighing | neighers | neighings


neighbors | neighbored | neighboring | neighborhood | neighborless | neighborship

Old English nægebura (neah 'near' + gebura 'dweller')


Old English nēahgebūr, from nēah 'near' + gebūr 'dweller, farmer'


anomie, anomy, antinome, antinomic, antinomy, archnemesis, autonomy, isonomy, metronomic, nemesis, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, nomadize, nomarch, nomarchy, nome, nomology, nomothetic, Numidia, numismatics

νέμειν (némein), νομός (nomós), νόμος(nómos), νέμεσις (némesis), νομάς, νομάδος (nomás, nomádos), νομαδικός (nomadikós), νομαδία, νομή, νομίζειν(nomízein), νόμισμα (nómisma)


Greek a- 'without' + nema 'thread, strand'


fine filament | slender fiber | filamentous | parasitic organism with a threadlike body

nematocyst | nematocyte | nematode | nematology | chromonema | nemathelminth | nematic | Nematomorpha | protonema | treponema

nematogen | nematocide | nematicide | nematocyst | nematogens | nematology

νῆμα | νήματος (nêma | nḗmatos) | Greek neos : young | new


From Greek -nēma, from nein 'to spin, weave'


vengeance | retribution | divine retribution


neons | neonist | neonide | neonists | radioneon


nephews | nephewly | stepnephew | nephewless | stepnephews | grandnephews

Old English neveu, from Latin nepos 'grandson, descendant'


nephogram | nephomancy | nephoscopy | nephograms | nephograph | nephophobia


relating to the kidney or kidneys | concerning the kidney | kidney

nephroma | nephroid | nephrosis | nephrosic | nephroids | nephromas

< ancient Greek νεϕρο- | combining form of νεϕρός kidney OED | Greek νεφρός (nephrós) | kidney

MorphoQuantics | Wikipedia | Stein | Wikidata


Latin nepotismus, from nepos 'grandson, nephew'


the Roman god of the sea | the deity known as Neptune

From Latin Neptunus, the god of the sea, possibly of Etruscan origin (Nethuns).


From Greek nereis (genitive nereidos), a sea nymph, from nereus (the sea)


enervate | enervation | enervative | innervate | innervation | nerval | nervate | nerve | nervose | nervosity | nervous | reinnervation | trinervate | anorexia nervosa | nervy


Chersonesus | Indonesia | Micronesia | Peloponnese | Polynesia | chersonese | Dodecanese | Melanesia | Peloponnesus

νῆσος (nêsos) | Greek neuron : nerve | tendon


state | quality | condition | occurrence of a specific trait | similarity

Nessie | nesses | isness | PCness | upness | meness

Old English -nes, from Proto-Germanic *-izō, from PIE *-ti- (abstract noun suffix)


place of breeding | home | hollow | cluster

nestle | nested | nester | renest | unnest | nesting

From Proto-Germanic *nizdą, from PIE *nid- 'nest'


nets | benet | netty | botnet | nettie | netted


below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position

nethergarment | netherling | netherlook | netherman | nethermind | nethermost | netherverse | netherworld

nethergarment, netherling, netherlook, netherman, nethermind, nethermost, netherverse, netherworld

netherman | netherdom | netherling | netherhose | netherwear | nethermind


From Middle Dutch 'netherland' (low land)


From Middle Dutch 'netherlanden' (low lands)


Latin 'nettus' meaning 'clean, pure, clear'


nettles | nettled | nettler | nettlers | benettle | nettlebed


neuron, neural, neurology, neurosis, neurotic

neurism | neurile | neuraxis | neuralgia | neuralgic | neurility

Greek 'neuron' meaning 'sinew, cord, nerve'


non- + neither | derived from 'not' and 'neither'

neuters | neutered | neutering | unneutered | neuterings

From Latin neuter 'neither', composed of the negative prefix ne- and the interrogative pronoun uter 'which of two'.


non-choice between two alternatives | absence of selection between two options

neuter, neutral, neutralize, neutrino, neutron


Spanish nevada 'snowfall' or 'snow-covered'


news | newel | newly | renew | newer | newsy

Old English nēowe, from Proto-Germanic *naiwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *snaiwós


landing platform | balcony | railing | post

Architecture, Staircase, Structural component

From Latin 'nervus' (sinew, tendon) via Old French 'nouel', referring to the sturdy posts or railings of a staircase.


Proper Noun, Geographical Location, Place Name

From the place name Newfoundland, derived from Portuguese 'nova' (new) and 'foundland' (found land).


Old English 'neah' (near) + '-st' (superlative suffix)


Latin nexus, past participle of nectere 'to bind, connect'


nibs | denib | nibbed | niblet | niblets | niblike

Dutch 'nibbe' meaning 'point' or 'tip', likely from Old Dutch 'nippa'


necromancy, necrophilia, necrophobia, necropolis, necropsy, necrosis, necrospermia, necrotic, necrotize, necrotomy

νεκρός (nekrós), νέκρωσις (nékrōsis)


niched | niches | nichey | enniche | econiche | enniched

Old French 'niche' meaning 'recess' or 'hollow'


nicks | nicker | nicked | nicking | nickase | nickases

Middle English 'nikke', a diminutive of 'Nicholas', later generalized to mean a familiar or shortened form of a name.


a small coin used as currency | the numeral representing five

nickelates | nickelized | nickelizes | nickelizing | allylnickels | cupronickels

From Middle High German 'nīgelin', a diminutive of 'nī' (five), derived from the Proto-Germanic root for the number five.


named after nicotine, derived from 'nicotiana' (tobacco)


nictate, nictation, nictitate, nictitation


nide, nidicolous, nidifugous, nidify, nidus


ornidazole | azanidazole | etanidazole | sulnidazole | benznidazole | ipronidazole

From Greek 'nitron' (native soda) + 'azole' (a class of heterocyclic compounds), referring to the nitro group attached to an imidazole ring.


nieces | niecely | stepniece | nieceless | nieceship | grandniece

Old French 'niece' (feminine of 'neveu'), from Latin 'neptis' meaning 'granddaughter, niece'.


unwilling to spend money or resources | excessively frugal | characterized by stinginess

niggards | niggardy | niggardly | niggardry | niggardish | niggardous


A steam-powered capstan used on Mississippi river boats to haul vessels over river bars and snags | A type of mechanical device used in river navigation | A historical term for a specific type of capstan on riverboats

niggers | niggery | niggerly | niggeress | niggerism | niggerish


to focus excessively on small matters | to be overly concerned with trivial details


nighly | nighen | fornigh | nighens | nigheth | nighness


equinoctial, equinox, noctambulous, noctiluca, noctilucent, noctule, nocturn, nocturnal, nocturnality, nocturne, notturno, seminocturnal, trinoctial, midnight

nights | nighty | anight | nightie | nightly | benight


absence of all things | not one | no instance

annihilate | annihilation | annihilator | nihil | nil | nihilism Variant Spellings: nil | nihilism

Latin nihil 'nothing', from ne- 'not' + hilum 'a trifle'


An individual associated with the meaning of the initial component | Someone who is a {prev}

warnik | neatnik | jazznik | folknik | peaknik | sicknik

< Yiddish -nik and its etymon Russian -nik, suffix forming nouns usually denoting a member of a class or group OED


Middle English 'nimel', related to 'nim' (to take/seize)


Latin nimb- 'raincloud, shower' (stem of nimbus)


nines | ninety | ninepin | nineish | stanine | ninefold

Proto-Germanic *niuną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥


From Greek Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, whose name is associated with weeping or tears.


a small amount of food or drink | a small portion of something edible or drinkable

nips | nipt | nippy | nipper | nipped | nipping

from Old English 'nippian' meaning to drink


nipponize | Nipponism | Nipponese | nipponium | nipponized | nipponizes

From Old Japanese Nippon/Nihon, meaning 'sun origin', referring to Japan's position east of China where the sun rises.


extinction | liberation | state of profound peace

nirvanic | Beervana | nerdvana | nirvanol

Sanskrit nirvāṇa, literally 'blowing out' or 'extinguishing', from ni- 'down' + vā 'to blow'


nitrogen-containing | related to nitrogen

nitrox | nitrogen | nitrosyl | nitroxyl | nitrokeg | nitroform

Greek nitron "natron" + -gen "producing"


Nevada | névé | nival | nivation | niveus | subnival | subnivean


nohow | noway | nowhy | nobody | nowise | nowhen


high-born | aristocratic | distinguished

Latin nōbilis 'well-known, famous, of good family', from nōscere 'to know'


of high social rank | aristocratic | of good character

nobler | ennoble | unnoble | nobleman | noblemen | ennobled


nobility | high social rank | aristocratic


innocence | innocent | innocuity | innocuous | nocebo | nocent | nociception | nociceptive | nocifensor | nocument | nocuous | internecine | obnoxious | noxious | obnoxious unrelated: noct / equinox.

Latin prefix in- (variant of im-, il-, ir-) from PIE *ne- 'not'

http://www.palosverdes.com/jesse/pvphs/www—freecollege—com—vocab.htm | https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/ | Cognatarium


time of darkness | period when sunlight is absent


time of darkness | period when daylight ends

equinoctial | equinox | noctambulous | noctiluca | noctilucent | noctule | nocturn | nocturnal | nocturnality | nocturne | notturno | seminocturnal | trinoctial | midnight | noctambulism | Noctuidae | nocturne Variant Spellings: equinox


nodes | noded | binode | subnode | oscnode | antinode


nodules | noduled | micronodule | macronodule | micronodules | macronodules

Latin nodulus, diminutive of nodus 'knot'


Latin 'nativitas' (birth) via Old French 'Noel'


noirs | noirish | noirishly | misogynoir | noirishness | transmisogynoir


noises | noised | noiseth | noisest | denoise | denoised

From Old French 'noise' (noise, uproar), of uncertain origin, possibly from Vulgar Latin *noiosa (from Latin 'nosus' meaning troublesome).


Latin noxius 'harmful', from noxa 'hurt, injury'


arrangement | law | order | specified area of knowledge

agronomy | antinomy | astronomy | autonomous | autonomy | bionomics | economics | economy | gastronomy | metronome | nomology | polynomial | taxonomy | numismatic

noms | binom | binoms | mononom | nomology | mononoms

νόμος (nómos) | νομή


nominate | misnomer | nomenclature | agnomen | cognomen | denomination | denominator | ignominious | innominate | nom de guerre | nom de plume | nomen | nominal | nominative | nominee | polynomial | praenomen Variant Spellings: noun | pronoun | renown


nomads | nomadic | nomadism | nomadian | nomadize | technomad

νομάς, νομάδος (nomás, nomádos), νομαδικός (nomadikós)


agnomen | agnominal | agnomination | binomen | binominal | denomination | denominational | denominative | denominator | ignominious | ignominy | innominate | innomine | interdenominational | multidenominational | multinominal | nomenclator | nomenclature | nominal | nominate | nomination | nominative | nominator | nominee | nondenominational | noun | postnominal | praenomen | prenominal | pronominal | pronoun | redenomination | renominate | renown | surnominal | trinomen | trinominal

Latin nōmen 'name', from the root of nōnō 'to name'


Latin nomenclatura, from nomenclator 'name-caller'


icon, iconography, iconic, iconoclast, telephoto, panorama

Greek nomos 'law' + icon 'image/likeness'


ergonomics | caponomics | Bidenomics | cronynomics | bleakonomics | Trumponomics

Greek -nomia (system of laws) from nomos (law)


agnomen, agnominal, agnomination, binomen, binominal, denomination, denominational, denominative, denominator, ignominious, ignominy, innominate, innomine, interdenominational, multidenominational, multinominal, nomenclator, nomenclature, nominal, nominate, nomination, nominative, nominator, nominee, nondenominational, noun, postnominal, praenomen, prenominal, pronominal, pronoun, redenomination, renominate, renown, surnominal, trinomen, trinominal


legal principles | scientific discipline

Greek νόμος (nomos) 'law, custom, usage'


derivational | derivational suffix affix bound morpheme

system | rule | sequence | particular field of study | condition | existence as a whole | examination of a defined concept | analysis of the preceding term's subject

agronomy | antinomy | astronomy | autonomous | autonomy | bionomics | economics | economy | gastronomy | metronome | nomology | polynomial | taxonomy

eunomy | zoonomy | dysnomy | isonomy | bionomy | geonomy

νόμος (nómos) | νομή | < ancient Greek -νομία ... of the base of νέμειν  to deal | distribute | hold | manage OED


negation | absent | lacking | deprived of (less intense than IN/UN) | contrary to | absence | refraining from | having not performed | none | 9

nonpermissive | non-alcoholic | non-English | non-smoking | nonexistent | non-fiction | nonconforming | nondescript | none | nonentity | nonfiction | nonsense | nonstop

nonage | nonfat | nonose | nonuse | nongay | nonart

From Latin 'non' meaning 'not', derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ne-.

Cognatarium | http://www.palosverdes.com/jesse/pvphs/www—freecollege—com—vocab.htm | MorphoQuantics | Wikipedia | Stein


the numeral nine | possessing nine | ordinal position of nine | nine per unit

nonagon | nonamer | nonagons | nonamers | nonagram | nonalead

Latin non- 'not, no' (from ne 'not' + -un 'one', cf. unus)

MorphoQuantics | http://www.palosverdes.com/jesse/pvphs/www—freecollege—com—vocab.htm | Stein


Latin nonageni 'ninety each', from nonaginta 'ninety'


Middle English, from Anglo-French nonce, from Medieval Latin nonce 'for the occasion', from Latin nunc 'now'


indifferent | unconcerned | lack of care

French nonchalant, from non- 'not' + chaloir 'to matter/concern'


nonplused | nonplussed | nonplusing | nonplussing | nonplusment | nonplussedness

From Latin 'non' (not) + 'placere' (to please); literally 'not pleased'.


a type of food made from unleavened dough

noodles | noodler | noodled | noodlers | noodledom | noodlefish

From German Nudel, from Medieval Latin nudella, diminutive of Latin nudus 'bare' (referring to the thin, bare dough).


A historical unit of land area, originally equivalent to a yardland, later standardized as 20 acres | a small or enclosed portion of land | a term used in land measurement in historical contexts

nooks | nooky | nooked | nookery | nooklet | nooklike

Derived from the Old English term 'yardland', a unit of land measurement.


a loop of rope or wire for hanging or capturing

nooses | nooser | noosers | nooselike | nooseless

From Old English 'nōs' meaning 'noose, snare', of Germanic origin.


the northern direction | the top side on a map

Nordic | Norfolk | Norge (Norway) | Norman | Normandy | Norse | north | Norton | Norway | Norwich

Nordic, Norfolk, Norge (Norway), Norman, Normandy, Norse, north, Norton, Norway, Norwich

norlignane | norbornane | norgestrel | nortropane | nordazepam | norcodeine

Proto-Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ner- 'to turn, move'


Nordicism | Nordicist | Nordicity | Nordicness

From Old Norse 'norr' (north) + 'vegr' (way), referring to the direction of the rising sun in Scandinavia.


Norman | of Normandy | from the Northmen

Norman, Normandy, Norman conquest, Norman French

from Norman (the people) via Old French 'Normand'


Geography, Proper Noun, Historical Region

From Old Norse 'Norman' meaning 'Northman' or 'Viking', referring to the Norse settlers who established the Duchy of Normandy.


typical | usual | standard size | frequency

abnormal | abnormality | binormal | circumnormal | denormal | enormity | enormous | nonnormal | nonnormative | norm | normable | normal | normality | normative | quasinorm | seminorm | seminormable | seminormal | subnormal | normotensive | normotension | normoblast

normosmia | normosmic | normocyte | normopath | normoergy | normotonic

Latin normus 'rule, pattern' (of uncertain origin, possibly from Greek kanōn 'straight stick, rule')


pertaining to Norway | Old Norse | Scandinavian


north-central, north-polar, northbound, northerly, northmost, northwesterly

norths | norther | northly | northie | northing | northers

From Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *norþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (down, below)


From Old English norð 'north' + field 'open land', a native Germanic compound.


region in the north | northern territory

Compound of North (Old English norð) + Land (Old English land)


From Old Norse 'Norðvegr' meaning 'North Way'


the facial structure used for breathing and detecting scents


nosey | nosed | noser | nosely | nosers | nosegay


noshed | noshes | nosher | noshing | noshery | noshers


nosonomy | nosomania | nosogenic | nosophyte | nosophilia | nosophobia


Greek nostos "return home" + algos "pain"


Latin noster "our, ours", from PIE *nos-tero- (superlative of *nos "we")


direction opposite to north | southern geographical position

Notogaea | Notomys | Nototherium | notornis

nots | cannot | notion | notions | whatnot | notness


Latin nōtus, past participle of nōscere 'to get to know'


annotate, annotation, annotator, connotation, connotational, connotative, connote, denotation, denotational, denotative, denotatum, denote, nondenotative, nonnotable, nonnotational, notability, notable, notarial, notariat, notary, notate, notation, notational

notes | noted | noter | noters | benote | noteth


Nothocrax | nothogenus | Nothofagus | nothospecies | nothosubspecies


to see | to observe | to become aware of

noticed | notices | noticer | noticers | noticeth | noticest

Latin 'notitia' (knowledge, acquaintance) from 'noscere' (to get to know)


Latin notio, notionis 'a notion, idea' from noscere 'to know'


notochord | notoungulate Variant Spellings: notum | notum

notochord | notoplate | notochords | notorhizal | notoplates | notochordal


Latin notus, past participle of noscere 'to know'


noughts | noughth | noughties | dreadnought | dreadnoughts | superdreadnought

Old English nūht, from ne (not) + āught (anything)


malnourish | malnourishment | nourish | nourishment

Latin 'nourrire' meaning 'to feed, nourish'


to provide food | to foster | to promote growth

nourished | nourishes | nourisher | renourish | nourishing | nourisheth


pronoia | paranoid | paranoia | noosphere | paranoids | paranoias


innovate | innovation | innovational | innovative | innovator | innovatory | nova | novation | novel | novella | novelty | novice | novitiate | renovatable | renovate | renovation | renovative | renovator | supernova | Nova Scotia | Novocain™ | noval (new) | novel (new book) | novice (new person) | nova (new material (from a star)) | Nova Scotia (New Scotland)

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the numeral indicating eight plus one | the quantity one less than ten

November | novennial | Nonillion | Nomedecillion | novena | November (9th month | It used to be the 9th month | but now it is the 11th month)


unnova | novalike | kilonova | bosenova | supernova | hypernova


novels | novelly | novelist | novelize | nonnovel | novelism

Latin novellus, diminutive of novus 'new'


the cardinal number representing a quantity one greater than eight


Latin November, from novem 'nine' + -ember (from mensis 'month'), literally 'ninth month'


each group of nine | the cardinal number nine | the ordinal number for the ninth position


novice, novitiate, novella, innovate, renovate

novices | novicey | noviceship | novicehood | noviceships


nows | benow | erenow | nowish | nowness | nowcast


noxious | obnoxious | internecine | innocuous


equinoctial | equinox | noctambulous | noctiluca | noctilucent | noctule | nocturn | nocturnal | nocturnality | nocturne | notturno | seminocturnal | trinoctial | midnight


noxiously | nonnoxious | noxiousness | noxiousnesses

Latin noxius 'hurtful, injurious', from noxa 'hurt, injury'


a spout or tip for directing a stream of liquid or gas

nozzles | nozzled | nozzleman | micronozzle | micronozzles

From Latin 'nucula', diminutive of 'nux' (nut), referring to the hard shell or core.


a gesture indicating agreement | to incline the head in acknowledgment | to imply subtly

circumnutate | circumnutation | counternutation | innuendo | innuent | numen | numinous | nutant | nutation | nutation unrelated: nuance

Latin 'nu-' (variant of 'in-' or 'ne-') or from Latin 'nutare' 'to nod', but given the root status and meaning 'nod', it derives from the PIE root *new- 'to nod'.


nuanced | nuances | unnuanced | nuancedly | nuanceless

Latin 'nuntiare' (to announce) via Old French 'nuance' (shade, tint)


nebula, nebular, nebulosity, nebulous, nuance, nubilous, obnubilate

nubs | nubby | nubbin | nubber | nubbins | nubcake


to unite in matrimony | to enter into a marital bond | the state of being married

connubial | connubiality | nubile | nuptial | postnuptial | prenuptial

Latin nubere 'to marry' (of women) or 'to cover/veil'


Latin nubilus 'marriageable' (from nubere 'to marry')


enucleate, enucleation, extranuclear, internuclear, intranuclear, multinucleate, nougat, nucament, nucellar, nucellus, nucifer, nuciferine, nuciferous, nuciform, nucivorous, nuclear, nucleate, nucleation, nucleolar, nucleolate, nucleolus, nucleus, pronuclear, pronucleus, supranuclear, binuclear, mononuclear, thermonuclear


central part | central mass | hard seed | middle point

mononucleosis | nucellus | nuclear | nuclease | nucleic acid | nucleon | nucleoplasm | nucleotide | nucleus | nuclide


anuclear | binuclear | dinuclear | nuclearly | pronuclear | nonnuclear


nucleoid | nucleome | nucleoids | nucleobase | nucleosome | nucleopore

From Latin nucleus meaning 'kernel' or 'core'


nudged | nudges | nudger | nudgers | unnudged | nudgeable


denudation, denude, nonnude, nude, nudist, nudity, seminude, seminudity


Latin nugatorius 'trifling', from nugae 'trifles'


nuisance, nuisance value, public nuisance

nuisances | nuisancer | nuisancers | nuisanceless

Latin 'nuisance' from Old French 'nuisance' (harm, annoyance), from 'nuire' (to harm), from Latin 'nocere' (to hurt)


nullify | nullification | annul | null | nullity | nulliparous

From Latin 'nullus' meaning 'none' or 'no one', derived from 'ne-' (not) + 'ullus' (any).


numbs | numby | number | benumb | numbly | numbed

From Old English 'numb' meaning 'numb, senseless, stupid', related to 'niman' (to take) or 'numen' (sense).


numbers | numbery | numbered | renumber | numberer | denumber


a value indicating quantity | a unit of count

denumerable | enumerable | enumerate | enumeration | enumerative | enumerator | equinumerant | equinumerous | innumerable | innumeracy | innumerate | innumerous | nonenumerative | numerable | numeracy | numéraire | numeral | numerary | numerate | numeration | numerative | numerator | numerical | numero | numerosity | numerous | renumerate | supernumerary | alphanumeric | numerarary | numerology | numero uno | supernumerary Variant Spellings: number | number


Latin numen 'divine power, will' (from nuere 'to nod')


Latin numisma 'coin, money' (from Greek nomisma 'coinage')


announce | announcement | annunciation | denounce | denouncement | denunciation | enounce | enouncement | enunciable | enunciate | enunciation | enunciative | internuncial | internuncio | nunciature | nuncio | obnounce | pronounce | pronouncement | pronunciation | pronuntiatio | renounce | renouncement | renunciation


From Proto-Italic *nunkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *ne 'now' + *-kʷe 'then'


Latin nuntiare 'to announce', from nuntius 'messenger'


connubial, connubiality, nubile, nuptial, postnuptial, prenuptial


nuptials | nuptially | prenuptial | nuptiality | midnuptial | antenuptial


the time of darkness | the absence of daylight

nurse | nurture | nursary | nursemaid | nursery | nurture Variant Spellings: nourish | nourish


Old French nurrir, nourrir, from Latin nutrire 'to suckle, nourish'


nurtures | nurturer | nurtured | nurturers | nurtureth | nurturest


donut | nutty | nutly | wonut | peanut | nutter


sustain | edible matter | maintenance of life

malnutrition | nutrient | nutrition | nutritive | nutriment


to rub gently with the nose or snout | to caress

imitative of the sound or action of a snout


equinoctial, equinox, noctambulous, noctiluca, noctilucent, noctule, nocturn, nocturnal, nocturnality, nocturne, notturno, seminocturnal, trinoctial, midnight


nycturia | nyctalgia | nyctinasty | nyctophile | nyctograph | nyctophobia


Female nature spirit associated with natural elements | Young female figure in mythology | Spirit of water or forest

nymphs | nymphet | nymphal | nymphic | nymphly | nymphets

Derived from Greek 'nymphē' meaning a young woman or female spirit


hyponymy | polynymy | hypernymy | organonymy | contranymy


in the direction of | opposing | over | descending | supporting | in the direction of | obstructing


panorama | cyclorama | diorama | cosmorama | panorama Variant Spellings: Cinerama™ | Cinerama™

Greek -orama (view, sight) used as a playful or emphatic suffix


Middle English 'oaf', originally meaning a child born with a deformity


oaks | oaky | oaken | oaked | tanoak | oakleaf

From Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōks


Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, Oakland Tribune

Named after Oakland, California, which was named after the oak trees in the area; ultimately from Old English 'ac' (oak) + 'land' (land).


oars | oary | oared | oarage | oarsman | oarlock


oats | oaty | oater | oaten | oaters | oatcake


oaths | oathlet | oathable | oathlike | oathless | oathlets

Old English 'oþ' (to, toward) + 'hātan' (to call, command); originally 'oath' meant 'a calling to witness' or 'a solemn declaration'.


having a shape that is reversed or inverted | opposite in form or orientation | characterized by inversion of structure

oboval | obround | obconic | obovate | obovoid | obrounds

Derived from Latin 'ob-' meaning 'opposite' or 'reversed', used to denote inverted shape.


Latin obligatus, past participle of obligare 'to bind to, bind up, bind oneself', from ob 'toward' + ligare 'to bind'


Latin obdurus 'hard, unyielding', from ob- 'against' + durus 'hard'


Latin obdūrātus, past participle of obdūrāre 'to harden', from ob- 'against' + dūrus 'hard'


aerobe, aerobic, anaerobic, cenobite, microbe


compliance | submission | following orders

obedient, disobedience, disobedient, obedience

Latin oboedientia, from oboedire 'to listen, obey', from ob- 'toward' + audire 'to hear'


Latin 'obediens' (present participle of 'obaudire' 'to listen to'), from 'ob-' 'toward' + 'audire' 'to hear'


Greek obeliskos 'small obelisk', diminutive of obeliskos


obesely | nonobese | preobese | obeseism | postobese | obeseness

Latin obesus 'fat, emaciated', from ob 'out of' + edere 'to eat'


obeys | obeyed | obeyer | obeying | obeyeth | obeyest

Latin oboedire 'to listen to, obey', from ob- 'toward' + audire 'to hear'


obfuscated | obfuscates | deobfuscate | unobfuscated | deobfuscates | deobfuscated

Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfundere 'to pour over, cover up', from ob- 'over' + fundere 'to pour'


Japanese obi (帯) meaning 'belt' or 'sash', referring to the wide sash worn with traditional Japanese clothing.


Latin obit(u)arius 'relating to death', from obitus 'a dying, death', past participle of obire 'to go against, die'


object, objective, project, subject, reject

Latin 'ob' (toward) + 'jectus' (thrown), from 'jacere' (to throw)


oblates | oblated | nonoblate | suboblate | oblateness | oblatenesses

Latin ob 'down, under' + clare 'to press, crush'


Latin obligatus, past participle of obligare 'bind to, bind up, bind oneself', from ob 'toward' + ligare 'to bind'


obliged | obliger | obliges | obligee | obligees | obligers

Latin obligare 'to bind to, bind up', from ob- 'to, toward' + ligare 'to bind'


obliques | obliqued | obliquely | suboblique | obliqueness


to erase entirely | to remove completely

Latin oblitteratus, past participle of oblitterare 'to blot out, erase', from ob- 'against' + littera 'letter'


Latin oblivisci 'to forget', past participle stem obliti-


oblongs | oblongly | oblongish | suboblong | oblongness

Latin oblongus, from ob- 'across' + longus 'long'


Latin obloquium, from obloqui 'speak against, revile'


obols | diobol | triobol | diobols | triobols

ὀβολός, ὀβολοῦ (obolós, oboloû)


Latin obscenus 'unlucky, impious, obscene'


obscured | obscures | obscurer | obscurers | unobscure | unobscured

Latin obscurus "dark, shady, hidden," possibly from obscurare "to darken" or related to obscaenus "unlucky, foul"


Latin obsequium 'compliance, obedience', from obsequi 'to comply, obey', from ob 'toward' + sequi 'to follow'


observer | observers | observees | reobserved | misobserved | misobserves

Latin observare 'to watch, observe', from ob- 'toward' + servare 'to keep, hold'


to preoccupy | to fixate | to haunt the mind

obsessed | obsessor | obsessive | obsession | obsessing | obsessors

Latin obsessus, past participle of obsidere 'to besiege, occupy' (ob- 'against' + sedere 'to sit')


Latin obsidianus, from Obsius (a Roman who first discovered it in Ethiopia)


Latin obsolescens, present participle of obsolescere 'to grow old, fall into disuse', from ob- 'against' +olescere 'to grow'


oblivion, obsolete, oblique, object, obscure

Latin obsolete preposition 'ob' meaning 'in the way of, against, towards'


obstacle, obstruct, obstruction, obstructive, obtrude

Latin obstaculum, from obstare 'to stand against'


Latin obstare 'to stand against', from ob- 'against' + stare 'to stand'


obstetrics | obstetrician | nonobstetric | obstetricate | obstetricious | obstetricated

Latin obstetric- 'midwife', from obstetrix, from ob- 'against' + stat- 'standing'


the branch of medicine concerned with childbirth and the care of women giving birth

Latin obstetrix, obstetric- 'midwife', from ob 'against' + stare 'to stand'


Latin obstinatus, past participle of obstinare 'to persist, be stubborn', from ob- 'against' +stinare 'to fix, establish' (related to stans 'standing')


Latin obstreperus 'noisy, unruly', from obstreperare 'to make a noise, resist', from ob- 'against' + strepere 'to make a noise'


obstruction, obstructive, obstructed, obstructing

obstructs | obstructed | obstructer | deobstruct | obstruction | obstructive

Latin obstruere 'to build up against, block', from ob- 'against' + struere 'to build'


obtuses | obtused | unobtuse | nonobtuse | obtuseness | obtusenesses

Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere 'to blunt, beat against'


Latin obviare 'to meet, oppose, prevent', from ob- 'against' + via 'way'


obviously | unobvious | nonobvious | obviousness | overobvious | unobviously

Latin 'obvius' meaning 'in the way, exposed to view', from 'ob-' (toward) + 'via' (way)


blocking | against | concealing | towards | in the way of


occasions | occasional | occasioned | occasioner | occasionate | occasioning

Latin occasio 'opportunity, occasion', from occidere 'to fall upon, strike'


occidental | occidentals | occidentally | nonoccidental | occidentalize | occidentalist

Latin occidens (genitive occidentis) 'west, sunset', from occidere 'to fall down, set (of the sun)', from ob 'down' + cadere 'to fall'


Latin occiput, occipitis 'back of the head'


Latin occiput (gen. occipitis) 'back of the head', from ob 'against' + caput 'head'


occluder | occluded | occludes | occluders | reocclude | unoccluded

Latin occludere 'to shut up, enclose', from ob- 'against' + claudere 'to shut'


occults | occulted | occulter | occultly | occultic | occultist

Latin occultus 'hidden, concealed', from ob- 'over' + celare 'to hide'


to take up space | to inhabit | to seize control of

reoccupy | preoccupy | occupying | preoccupying | nonoccupying

Latin occupatus, past participle of occupare 'to seize, take possession of', from ob- 'against, in the way of' + capere 'to take'


to happen | to take place | to be present

occurs | reoccur | occured | occurred | occuring | reoccurs

Latin 'occurrere' (to run to meet, happen), from 'ob-' (toward) + 'currere' (to run)


oceans | oceany | oceanic | oceanaut | midocean | nonocean

ὠκεανός (ōkeanós)


visual organ | capacity for sight | eye-shaped mark

ocular | oculus | binoculars | monocle | inoculate | oculist | oculomotor | oculonasal | ocellate | ocellation | ocellus

oculus | oculare | Greek ochlos : a mob | populace


group of people gathered together | disorderly assembly

ochlology | ochlocratic | ochlophilia | ochlophobic

Middle English -ok Old English -oc, -uc : diminutive suffix


Derivational | derivational suffix affix bound morpheme

a small version of the noun it modifies | suffix denoting smallness

buttock | bollock | wazzock | maddock | paddock | hillock

In some cases -ock has lost the diminutive sense

Middle English -ok, from Old French -oc, from Latin -ocus


ocular, oculus, binoculars, monocle, inoculate, oculist, oculomotor, oculonasal


system of governance | control | power | governance structure based on the preceding element | administration led by the prior component

acrasia | akrasia | akratic | anocracy | aristocracy | autocracy | autocrat | autocratic | bureaucracy | democracy | democratic | pancratium | plutocracy | technocracy | technocrat | theocracy

κράτος (krátos) | κρατία (kratía) | < Greek κρατία (in compounds) power | rule OED


number eight | the numeral 8 | shifted by an octave in pitch

octad | octads | octyne | octene | octose | octlet

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a unit representing the eighth part | the numeral corresponding to eight


Latin octo 'eight' + -ber (month suffix)


Latin octogeni 'eighty each' (plural of octo 'eight' + -geni 'each')


the eye | visual perception | relating to the eye

ocular | oculus | binoculars | monocle | inoculate | oculist | oculomotor | oculonasal | ullage | binocular | inoculate Variant Spellings: monocle


route | method | melody | movement | trip

ods | odic | odize | odism | odized | odizes


odds | oddly | odden | oddity | nonodd | oddish


trail | method | a specific kind of trail or method

anode | diode | episode | odometer | parodos | pentode | tetrode | triode | cestodes | diodes | electrode

odes | diode | odelet | triode | optode | diodes

ὁδός (hodós) | < ancient Greek ὁδός way | path | travel OED


likeness. Used for species that resemble other species.

Examples: Hypocnemoides ("like Hypocnemis"); Aetobarbakinoides ("like the long-legged buzzard"); Callianthemoides ("like Callianthemum"); Argyrodes ("like silver")

εἶδος (eîdos)


Latin odiosus 'hateful, offensive', from odium 'hatred'


isodont | anodont | cynodont | homodont | acrodont | mesodont

ὀδούς | ὀδόντος (odoús | odóntos) | Greek odynē : pain


endodontia | hypodontia | radiodontia | megalodontia | erythrodontia


pleasant aroma | olfactory perception | fragrance | the act of perceiving a scent

malodorous | odoriferous | odorous | deodorant | deodorize | inodorous | odor

odors | odored | odorous | malodor | odorant | odorize


allodynia | anodyne | glossodynia | mastodynia | pleurodynia | urodynia

allodynia, anodyne, glossodynia, mastodynia, pleurodynia, urodynia

orodynia | urodynia | allodynia | vulvodynia | mastodynia | metrodynia

ὀδύνη (odúnē)


ϝοῖκος (woîkos) | οἶκος (oîkos) | οἶκος(oîkos)


dioecious | metoecious | autoecious | synoecious | paroecious | trioecious


Greek oikos 'house, dwelling' + -ion (diminutive)


angioedema | edema | edematous | oedema | oedematous

οἶδος (oîdos) | οἰδεῖν (oideîn) | οἴδημα | οἴδηματος (oídēma | oídēmatos) | οἰδεῖν(oideîn)


relating to or characterized by the Oedipus complex

from Oedipus, the protagonist of Sophocles' tragedy


alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes

enology | oenochoe | oenologist | oenology | oenophile | oenophilia | oinochoe | oenomel


oesophagectomy | oesophagitis | oesophagus


οἶστρος (oîstros) | οἰστράω | οἴστρησις | οἴστρημα


estrogen, estradiol, estrone, estriol, antiestrogen, estrogenic

Greek oistros 'sharp pain, frenzy' + genos 'origin, race'


in the direction of | from one side to another | on behalf of | opposing | moving in the direction of | obstructing the path of


doff | offs | offer | offal | offed | doffs

Partly < off adv. (compare earlier of- prefix), and partly < off prep OED


offences | reoffence | reoffences | offenceless | offencelessness

Latin offensa 'offense, injury', from offendere 'to strike against'


to insult | to cause resentment | to violate

offense, offensive, offender, indefensible

offends | offended | reoffend | offendor | offendee | offending

Latin offendere 'to strike against, insult', from ad- 'to' + ferre 'to carry, bear'


offenses | offenseful | offenseless | offenselessness | offensensitivity

Latin offendere 'to strike against, assault', from ad- 'to' + ferre 'to carry, bear'


present | present for acceptance | propose

offers | offered | offeree | offeror | offerer | reoffer

Latin offerre 'to present, propose' (ob- 'toward' + ferre 'to carry')


Latin offertorius, from offerre 'to present, offer'


officer, official, officiating, officeholder

offices | coffice | hoffice | officed | officey | hoffices

Latin officium 'service, duty, function'


Latin officium 'service, duty, function', from opus 'work' + facere 'to make'


officiously | unofficious | inofficious | officiousness | inofficiously | overofficious

Latin officiosus 'obliging, attentive', from officium 'duty, service'


unoften | oftenly | oftentime | oftenness | oftentide | oftensith


ὄγδοος (ógdoos) | ὀγδοάς | ὀγδοάδος (ogdoás | ogdoádos)


From Dutch oogen (eyes) + -le (diminutive suffix), literally 'little eyes', referring to the act of looking with one's eyes.


Greek -gonos 'offspring, progeny' + -geneia 'birth, generation'


Examination of a specific subject area | scientific discipline | practice or scholarly exploration related to a particular topic

calligraphy | biography | oceanography | typography

-γραϕία  OED

repr. Greek -γραϕία in nouns adapted OED


Greek -logia (study of) from -logia, from logos (word, reason, discourse)


interjection expressing surprise, realization, or emphasis

Interjection, Discourse marker, Exclamation

From Old English 'oh' or 'o', an interjection of surprise or pain, of imitative origin.


ohms | ohmic | abohm | abohms | ohmage | subohm