Starting with M

Disurbing because concerned with or causing fear of death

Soften food by soaking in liquid

Engage in plots, scheme

A plot or scheme

Strong or aggressive masculine pride

The whole of a complex structure, especially the world or universe, contrasted with a small part of it

Visible to the naked eye

Spotted or stained

To become mad or insane

A situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil

A frenzied or raging woman (a female follower of Bacchus, traditionally associated with divine possession and frenzied rights)

With great honour

Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person

A great or dominant person in some field of business

Extrenely beautiful, elaborate or impressive

A very powerful, important or eminent person

using high-flown or bombastic language

Size or extent

A work or art, music or literature that is regarded as the most important or best work that an artist, composer or writer has produced

Wound or injure so that part of the body is permanently damaged

A chief support

Head waiter of a restaurant

Having or showing impressive beauty or scale

Large lettering, in which all letters are of the same height

In certain Aboriginal tribesa, a peacemaking ceremony marking a resumption oof normal relations after a cessation of hostilities

A temporary expedient

Not adjusting adequately or appropriately to the environment or situation

Failing to cope with the demands of a normal social environment

Manage or administer inefficiently or dishonestly

Lacking in adroitness, unskilful, awkward

A disease or ailment

A general feeling of discomfort, illness or unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify

Boldly disrespectful, impudent

Badly apportioned

The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one

In an inopportune or inappropriate way

Meaningless talk, nonsense

Discontented, dissatisfied

A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil, a curse

A person who commits a crime or some other wrong

Causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means

The doing of evil or harm

Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Wrongdoing, especially by a public official

An abnormally formed part of the body

To fail to function properly

The desire to harm someone

Characterised by malice

Evil in nature or effect

Speak about someone in a spitefully critical manner

Evil in nature of effect

Pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work

Easily influenced, pliable

To fail to supply with proper nutrition

Smelling very unpleasant

Improper, illegal or negligent professional behaviour

To treat badly

Corrupt behaviour in a position of trust, especially in public office

Wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion

Huge

In the indefinite future

A judicial writ issued as a command to an inferior court or ordering a person to perform a public or statutory duty

A powerful official or senior bureaucrat, especially one perceived as reactionary and secretive

An official order or commission to do something

Required by law or mandate, compulsory

An excessive enthusiasm or desire

Exhibiting extremely wild or violent behaviour

Showing wild, apparently deranged, excitement and energy

Clear or obvious to the eye or mind

The action or fact of showing something

A public declaration of policy and aims, especially one issued before an election

Many and various and having many different forms and elements

Handle or control in a skilful manner

Exercising unscrupulous control or influence over a person or situation

A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

Having failed to become what one might have been

Meekness, gentleness

Relating to divination or prophecy

A statement or slogan repeated frequently

Release from slavery, set free

Make-up, cosmetics

Go about in search of things to steal or people to attack

Marginal notes

Treat a person as insignificant or peripheral

An unconsummated marriage

The cultivation of the sea's resources, especially fish for food

To an extent which is clearly noticeable, significantly

A make of a car, as distinct from a specific model

Leading, pre-eminent

Relating to fighting or war

A person who demands complete obedience, a strict disciplinarian

A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs

Be filled with wonder or astonishment

Causing great wonder, extraordinary

The tendency to derive sexual gratification from one's own pain or humiliation

A false show or pretence OR the wearing of disguise

Performed or performing very skilfully

Showing great skill, very accomplished

A very skilful and opportune act

A comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular subject or activity

Chew food

The female head of a family or household

The body of remedial substances used in the practice of medicine

Excessively concerned with material possessions

A tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than physical values

Military materials and equipment

A woman holding a position of leadership in a family, clan etc

Someone who kills their mother

Derived or inherited from the mother and her line

To be admitted to membership of a university

The cultural, social or political environment in which something develops

The action or process of maturing

Of or occurring in the morning

Self-pitying or tearfully sentimental

Talk in a rambling manner

Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way

A short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or a rule of conduct

Violent or extreme disorder; chaos

Deficient in quantity or quality

To proceed by a winding course

Having meaning

Able to be measured

Interfere in something that is not one's concern

Intervene in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation

A substance used for medical treatment

Relating to the Middle Ages

Of only average quality; not very good

The quality or state of being mediocre

Quiet, gentle and easily imposed on, submissive

Obsession with the exercise of power

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

A varied mixture

Blend, combine

A confused fight or scuffle

The belief that the world can be made better by human effort

Pleasingly smooth and musical to hear

Pleasantly smooth or soft; free from harshness

Relating to or characterised by melody

A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions

An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means

An object kept as a reminder of a person or event

An object kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death, such as a skull

A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge

Objects kept or collected because of their associations with memorable people or events

Worth remembering or easily remembered, especially because of being special or unusual

A person or thing that is likely to cause harm, a threat or danger

The members of a household

An arrangement in which a married couple and the lover of one of them live together

A strange or diverse collection of people or things

Not telling the truth, lying

Untruthfulness

Given to begging

Not requiring much skill and lacking prestige

The intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime, as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused

Foul-smelling, noxious

Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics

Showing or exercising mercy

Showing no mercy

Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

Compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm

Apparently attractive but having no real value

The quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward

A society governed by people selected according to merit

A person who has succeeded in a meritocracy

Deserving reward or praise

Gaiety and fun

A marriage with a person thought to be unsuitable

Capture the complete attention of someone

A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Spread to other sites in the body by metastasis

Dispense or allot justice, or measure

Very rapid

Done according to a systematic or established form or procedure

A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity

Showing great attention to detail, very careful and precise

A trade, profession or occupation

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant eg the track for horse racing

A name derived from the name of a mother or female ancestor

A person's ability to cope well with difficulties or to face a demanding situation in a spirited and resilient way

Full of spirit and courage

Child crying feebly

Half or moderately

A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour OR an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere that surrounds or emanates from something

Unjustified or irresponsible optimism

Very large

To make small or insignificant

A community, place or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristic qualities or features of something much larger

One millionth of a metre

Produced by sexual reproduction

To urinate

Demanding or involving only a moderate degree of intellectual application

In the middle of

A person's look or manner, especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood

Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially on account of size

Small and pretty

Move from one region or habitat to another

Not serious or dangerous

An action or event marking a significant change or stage in development

A person's social environment

Combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause

(of a fact or circumstance) be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing

A period of a thousand years

A thousandth part

One thousandth of a gram

One thousandth of a litre

One thousandth of a metre

One thousandth of a second

A heavy burden

Imitate in order to entertain or ridicule

The act or craft of mimicing someone

Menacing, threatening

Expressing or conveying a threat

Affectedly dainty in manner or gait

Conscious or aware of something

Without intelligence, senseless

The established set of attitudes held by someone

To become mixed, blended

Least possible

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one

The provision of assistance or care

A person or organisation of relatively small size, power or influence

A quantity of number from which another is to be subtracted

Very small, tiny

Extremely small, minuscule

The small, precise or trivial details of something

An impudent, cunning or boldly flirtatious girl or young woman

Excessive constriction of the pupil of the eye

Wonderful to relate

Highly improbable and extraordinary and bringing very welcome consequences

A situation or state of difficulty, distress or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself

Amusement, especially as expressed in laughter

An unfortunate incident, a mishap

The incorrect arrangement or position of something in relation to something else

An unsuitable, unhappy or unworkable alliance or marriage.

Dislike of, or contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against men

Hater of humankind

Use something for the wrong purpose or in the wrong way

Misunderstand words, a person, a situation etc

Dishonestly or unfairly take something especially money

To arrange wrongly

To attribute incorrectly

To become unsuitable, unbecoming or unsuitable for

Badly conceived, designed or planned

To behave badly

Erroneous belief, false opinion

To bestow improperly

Calculate wrongly

An unsuccessful outcome of something planned

The interbreeding of people considered to be part of different racial types

Miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together

Items or people gathered or considered together of various types or from different sources

A group or collection of different items, a mixture

Bad luck, an unlucky occurrence

Harm or trouble caused by someone or something

Causing or intended to cause harm or trouble

Forming a homogenous mixture when added together

To fail to communicate such that there is mutual understanding

Fail to understand correctly

A view or opinion that is incorrect because it is based on faulty thinking or understanding

Unacceptable or improper behaviour

The action of misconstruing words or actions; misinterpretation

Interpret wrongly

To advise wrongly

A person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law

A miscalculated action, a mistake

To wrongly date something

A bad deed, a wicked action

To deliver wrongly, as to a wrong address

A minor wrongdoing

To diagnose incorrectly

To do wrongly

Have doubts about the truth, reality or existence of

A settlement or agreement

The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play

To employ wrongly, misuse

A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible

Wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable

Mercy

Wretchedness of condition or circumstances

A transgression, especially the wrongful exercise of authority

Someone guilty of misfeasance

File in an incorrect place

A badly adjusted person

Ill or adverse fortune

Feelings of doubt, distrust or apprehension

To govern or manage badly

To guide wrongly, mislead

To manage or deal with something wrongly or ineffectively

An unfortunate accident

To hear incorrectly

Give someone false or inaccurate information

Interpret something or someone wrongly

Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about

Unintentionally put an object where it cannot readily be found and so lose it temporarily

Cause someone to have a wrong idea or impression about someone or something

Manage something badly or wrongly

A bad or unsatisfactory match

To measure incorrectly

A wrong or inaccurate name or designation

Hatred of marriage

Extreme prejudice against women

The hatred of reasoning, the revulsion or distrust of logical debate

A hatred, fear or intolerance of innovation and change

Perceive wrongly or incorrectly

A wrong or incorrect understanding or interpretation

To put in a wrong place

To despise, undervalue, scorn

The deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony

Give a false or misleading account of the nature of

A letter, especially a long or official one

Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately

Make wrong or inaccurate statements about

Be suspicious of, have no confidence in

Make less severe, serious or painful

A device such as a pattern of letters, ideas or associations that assists in remembering something

Rule by a mob

Ridicule or derision

Relating to mode or form as opposed to substance

A way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced, expressed or done

Unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements

A small quantity of a particular thing

Conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable

A fashionable milliner or dressmaker

Employing or involving a module or modules as the basis of design and construction

Exert a modifying or controlling influence on, vary the strength, tone or pitch of a voice

Each of a set of standardised parts or independent units that can be used to construct a more complex structure

Mode of operating or working

The rule of logic stating that if a conditional statement (if, then) is accepted and the antecedent holds, then the consequent may be inferred

An arrangement or agreement allowing conflicting parties to coexist peacefully, either indefinitely or until a final settlement is reached

An important person

Each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided

Work hard

To assault sexually

Appease the anger or anxiety of someone

Treat someone very indulgently or protectively

Liquified by heat

For a moment

Lasting but a moment

Of great importance or significance, especially in its bearing on the future

The impetus gained by a moving object

The practice of having only one husband at a particular time

Form of government with a monarch at the head

A misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song

To express in the form of currency

A dealer or trader in a specified commodity

Having only one spouse at a particular time

A motif of two or more letters, typically a person's initials.

A detailed written study of a single specialised subject or an aspect of it

Able to speak only one language

A very large and characterless building

A long and typically tedious speech by one person during a conversation

Exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupied with one thing

Consisting of only one term in algebra

Desire for only one food

Morbid dread of being alone

The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service

A market situation in which there is only one buyer

Using brief words to signify reluctance to engage in conversation

Doctrine that there is only one God

A continuing sound, that is unchanging in pitch and intonation

Dull, tedious and repetitious, lacking in variety and interest

Lack of variety and interest, tedious repetition and routine

Having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster

The process or technique of selecting, editing and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole

Of or inhabiting mountainous country

Great in importance, extent or size

Loiter in a bored or listless manner

Subject to debate, dispute or uncertainty and typically not admitting of a final decision

Principles governing the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour

A temporary suspension of some activity

Characterised by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects

Denoting or using biting sarcasm or invective

Especially of humour, having or showing a sharp or critical quality

The essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community

Denoting a marriage in which neither the spouse of lower rank nor any children have any claim to the possessions or title of the spouse of higher rank

At the point of death, in terminal decline, lacking vitality or vigour

Sullen and ill-tempered

A mouthful of food

Relating to humanity as subject to death

The state of being subject to death

Cause someone to feel embarrassed, ashamed or humiliated

A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small coloured pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile or glass

The exact, appropriate word

A rich source of something

A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition

A reason for doing something

Incongruously varied in appearance or character, disparate

Mark with spots or smears of colour

Maxim adopted as a guiding principle

A pouting expression used to convey annoyance or distaste

The process of casting off skin, hair, feathers etc

A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money

Feeling, expressing or inducing sadness, regret or grief

Bring into a disordered or confusing state

Extract money from someone by fine or taxation

Womanly qualities; womanhood

Stubborn, obstinate

Having many facets

Having many varied parts or aspects

A women who is or has been pregnant for at least a second time

Having many sides

Able to speak at least 3 languages with equal facility

Having several or many parts or divisions

A quantity that is to be multiplied by another

A large number

Very numerous

Lacking interest or excitement, dull

Larger or more general than is usual or necessary

Dark or gloomy, especially due to thick mist

Be absorbed in thought

Liable to change

To change

(Used when comparing two or more cases or situations) making necessary alterations while not affecting the main point at issue

Refraining from speech or temporarily speechless

Lack of imagination, foresight or intellectual insight

Lacking imagination, foresight or intellectual insight

An unscrupulous subordinate

A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomena and typically involving supernatural beings or events