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| footprint |
an outline or indentation created by pressing the foot on a surface, such as a step in wet sand or a muddy print left by a shoe. |
| foul |
extremely dirty or muddy. [1/21 definitions] |
| gooey |
(informal) resembling or covered with goo; gluey; sticky; muddy. [1/2 definitions] |
| mimic octopus |
a type of brown octopus that lives along the shallow muddy bottoms of river mouths off the coast of Southeast Asia that has the capability of mimicking toxic species, such as sole, lionfish, and seasnake. |
| miry |
covered or spattered with mire; muddy or dirty. [1/2 definitions] |
| mudder |
a racehorse that runs well on a muddy track. |
| muddle |
to stir up (a drink, muddy water, or the like). [1/6 definitions] |
| muddy |
to cover, smear, or spatter with mud; make muddy. [1/6 definitions] |
| mudfish |
any of various fishes, such as the bowfin, inhabiting mud or muddy water. |
| mudroom |
a room in a house, esp. a farmhouse, that is used for the removal and storage of wet and muddy footwear and outerwear. |
| ooze2 |
any particularly soft mud, or an area, such as a marsh, that is soft and muddy. [1/2 definitions] |
| rile |
to stir up and make (water or the like) cloudy or muddy; roil. [1/2 definitions] |
| roil |
to make (a liquid) turbid by stirring; make cloudy or muddy. [1/3 definitions] |
| roily |
showing the effects of roiling; cloudy, muddy, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| sloppy |
wet or muddy. [1/5 definitions] |
| turbid |
clouded or murky because of stirred-up particles or sediment; muddy. [1/3 definitions] |
| wallow |
a muddy rut, pool, or other site where animals wallow. [1/6 definitions] |
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