This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 39 of 66: from “moose” to “neocoon”.
- moose noun An Asian girl taken as a lover.
- mooseburger noun Minced moose meat.
- moot adj Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- mop noun GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
- mop head noun A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop.
- morning report noun A teaching round, based on clinical cases, for medical resident physicians.
- mosey verb To set off, get going; to start a journey.
- mosquito hawk noun A crane fly (US) / daddy longlegs (UK), a large, mosquito-like insect in the suborder Tipulomorpha
- mossback noun Synonym of mossyback (“a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary”).
- mossyback noun A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
- most adv Almost.
- most Rikki-Tik adv Quickly, immediately.
- motard noun In the United States Marine Corps, one who expresses his/her motivation for the Marine Corps to the point of obnoxiousness.
- Mother's Day noun A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
- motherfreaking adj An intensifier, used in the same contexts as freaking, but more intense.
- motherhood statement noun A vague, feel-good platitude, especially one made by a politician, that most people would agree with.
- Mothers' Day noun Misspelling of Mother's Day.
- motorbike noun A small and light motorcycle.
- motorcar noun A self-propelled railway vehicle.
- motorhead noun A car, truck, or motorcycle enthusiast.
- motorway noun A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- mound noun The mons veneris.
- mountain hare noun Any of various hares found in mountainous country, especially a snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) or a white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus…
- Mountie noun A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.
- mourning cloak noun A large butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, native to Eurasia and North America.
- mouser noun A moustache.
- mouthguard noun A device that fits into the mouth over one or both arches of the teeth and usually made of plastic. Such devices may protect against injury…
- move back verb To reschedule (something) to a later date or time.
- move forward verb To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
- move up verb To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
- movie noun A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film; a video.
- moving walkway noun A slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.
- moxie noun Nerve, spunk, strength of character.
- Mr. President noun An honorific used in addressing a (male) Presiding Officer of the United States Senate, commonly known as the president of the Senate.
- MSR noun Initialism of Mars Sample Return mission.
- muckamuck noun Food.
- muckety muck noun A high muckamuck; a person (especially self-important) in a position of power, authority, or status.
- muckraker noun One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or…
- mud noun Lean.
- mud hen noun Any of various rails and coots, especially the Virginia rail (Rallus limicola), or the American coot (Fulica americana).
- muffler noun A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- mug off verb To verbally abuse or insult (someone).
- mugwump verb To behave like a mugwump.
- mukluk noun A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik.
- mule killer noun Any of various unrelated arthropods, including whip scorpions, velvet ants, mantises, wheel bugs, and walking stick insects, that have been…
- mule's ear noun Any plant in the North American composite genus Wyethia, with woolly leaves and sunflower-like flowers.
- mullet noun A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes).
- mulley noun A hornless or polled animal.
- multicolor adj Having, resembling, or pertaining to many colors.
- mum noun A chrysanthemum.
- mumblety peg noun Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet.
- mumbo sauce noun A sweet, tangy, reddish-orange condiment found in Chinese takeout restaurants in the Washington, DC area.
- muppet noun Alternative form of muppet (fool).
- murdelize verb To kill; to murder.
- Murphy bed noun A light type of bed designed to be folded up or swung into a wall or closet for storage when not in use.
- murse noun A man's purse.
- musclebrain noun A person who actively participates in physical sports, possibly highly skilled in sports, but does not do well in academic activities, like…
- musette noun In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to…
- music noun Heated argument.
- muslin noun Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
- mustang verb To hunt mustangs (wild horses), either for military use or for slaughter as pet food.
- muster verb To enroll (into service).
- mutt noun An idiot, a stupid person.
- muttonfish noun Any of several Atlantic and Caribbean fishes which are said to taste of mutton, especially a mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), an ocean…
- my fellow Americans noun Used to establish credibility and connection with an audience of Americans; used mostly in speeches by US politicians.
- my man intj A term of address for a man, conveying awe or enthusiastic agreement.
- my word intj An expression of surprise.
- na-na na-na boo-boo phrase A taunt or putdown, typically used to indicate that the speaker believes they has beaten the listener in a competition or is better in some…
- Nader's raider noun An associate or assistant of Ralph Nader and of organizations led by him, who participates in Nader's legal, political, and social…
- nanny noun A godmother.
- Nantucket red adj Of red colour tending towards pale rose or orange originally associated with preppy pants.
- napkin math noun The act of performing quick mathematics often as a means of estimation, as if done on the back of a napkin (or in one's head).
- nappy adj Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
- nard noun A testicle.
- nasal cannula noun A device used to deliver supplemental oxygen or increased airflow to a patient in need of respiratory help.
- nasty adj Dirty, filthy.
- nastyass adj disgusting, gross
- national convention noun A meeting of the major figures in a political party to outline a party platform, set party rules, select a nominee for president as well as…
- National Republican noun A member of the National Republican Party, a short-lived political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning…
- nationalize verb To make into, or to become, a nation.
- native adj Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians.
- nativism noun A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
- natural noun A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
- naturalista noun A person with Afro-textured hair who embraces their natural hairstyle; a follower of the natural hair movement.
- naught noun Alternative spelling of nought.
- navigable waters noun Those waters that are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide and/or are presently used, or have been used in the past, or may be…
- NC noun NASA research cargo plane designations.
- nearshore verb To move operations to locations near the US, such as Mexico or the Caribbean.
- nearside noun A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.
- neat adj Good, excellent, desirable; interesting; cool.
- neck verb To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
- need-blind adj That requires the admitting institution to not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.
- Negroness noun The state of quality of being of black African origin, or of having qualities, experiences etc. characteristic of black people.
- neighbor noun US standard spelling of neighbour.
- neighborhood noun The residential area near one's home.
- neo-McCarthyism noun political policies or ideology seen as a resurgence or continuation of McCarthyism after its heyday in the 1950s
- neocon noun A neoconservative.
- neoconservatism noun A right-wing political movement that supports free markets, supply-side economics and an interventionist foreign policy.
- neoconservative noun A supporter of neoconservatism.
- neocoon noun A neoconservative.