| multivalent |
having a chemical valence of three or more. |
| multivitamin |
containing or composed of several vitamins. [2 definitions] |
| multivolume |
combined form of volume. |
| multiwall |
combined form of wall. |
| multiwarhead |
combined form of warhead. |
| multiwavelength |
combined form of wavelength. |
| multiyear |
combined form of year. |
| mum1 |
not speaking or telling; silent. [2 definitions] |
| mum2 |
to act as a mummer on stage or in a street carnival. |
| mum3 |
(informal) a chrysanthemum. |
| mum4 |
(informal, chiefly British) mother. |
| mumble |
to speak low and indistinctly; mutter. [3 definitions] |
| mumbletypeg |
a children's game in which the players toss a knife in various prescribed ways, trying to stick the blade in the ground, with the loser having to withdraw a peg from the ground with his or her teeth. |
| mumbo jumbo |
language or ritual activity that is unintelligible, meaningless, or confusing; hocus-pocus. |
| mummer |
a masked and often costumed participant in a street carnival or parade. [2 definitions] |
| mummery |
an empty, pretentious, or hypocritical display or ceremony. |
| mummify |
to transform (a dead body) into a mummy by embalming and drying. [3 definitions] |
| mummy |
a corpse preserved by embalming, esp. one embalmed and wrapped by or in the manner of the ancient Egyptians. |
| mumps |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) an infectious disease, usu. affecting children, that causes inflammation of the salivary glands and sometimes of the reproductive organs. |
| mum's the word |
keep this a secret. |
| munch |
to chew vigorously and often noisily, with a crunching sound. |