Missouri River The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the United States. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison River, Jefferson River, and Gallatin River rivers in Montana, and flows into the Mississippi north of St. Louis, Missouri.
	Misspelling Misspelling refers to spelling a word incorrectly. Misspelling is distinguished from other errors in writing, such as grammatical errors, incorrect capitalization or misuse of punctuation. A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelt word at all or a correct spelling of another word.
	Mist Mist is a phenomenon of a liquid in small droplets floating through air. It can occur naturally as part of natural weather or volcanic activity, and is common in cold air above hot water, in exhaled air in the cold, and in a steam room of a sauna. It can also be created artificially with Aerosol spray.
	Mistle Thrush The Mistle Thrush is a common member of the Thrush family Turdidae. It is found in open woods and cultivated land over all of Europe and much of Asia. Many northern birds move south during the winter. The Mistle Thrush averages about 27 cm long, larger than the similar Song Thrush.
	Mistletoe Mistletoe is the common name for various parasitic plants in the order Santalales, belonging to the families Santalaceae, Loranthaceae and Misodendraceae. The species in Santalaceae were formerly commonly treated in a separate family Viscaceae. The name was originally applied to Viscum album, and subsequently to other related species, including Phoradendron.
	Mitchella repens Mitchella repens , or Partridge Berry, is the best known plant in the genus Mitchella. It is a herbaceous woody shrub, occurring in North America and Japan, and belonging to the madder family. This evergreen plant is a creeping, but not climbing, vine, 15-30 cm long.
	Mite Mites, together with ticks, belong to the order Acarina and the class Arachnida. Mites are among the most diverse and successful of all the invertebrate groups. They have exploited an incredible array of habitats, and because of their small size most go totally unnoticed.
	Mite box The term mite box refers to a box that is used to save coins for charitable purposes. Contemporary mite boxes are usually made of cardboard and given out to church congregations during the Lenten season. The mite boxes are collected by the church and donations are given to the poor. Mite boxes are popular with children because they can fill them with small change and it teaches them the principals of giving to the poor.
	Miter joint A mitre or miter joint is a joint made by beveling each of two parts to be joined, usually at a 45 angle, to form a corner, usually a 90 angle. It is often used in making picture frames. In woodwork, it is one way of joining two pieces of molding that meet at an angle.
	Mithra Mithra is an important Yazata of Zoroastrianism and later Persian mythology and culture. Mithra is descended, together with the Vedas deity Mitra, from a common proto-Indo-Iranian entity *mitra. The Graeco-Roman Mithras may, in turn, have evolved from a Zoroastrian Mithra, but such a connection has yet to be conclusively established.
	Mithraism Mithraism was a mystery religion prominent in the Roman world. It is uncertain when it began; some say in the 1st century BC, some in the 1st century AD to the 5th century AD. It was centered around worship of the god Mithras. Only limited information about Mithras has come down to us, and scholars disagree on how it should be interpreted.
	Mithras Mithras was the central god of Mithraism, a syncretism Hellenism mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd century BCE and 1st century BCE centuries BCE and was practiced in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BCE to the 5th century CE.
	Mitochondrion In cell biology, a mitochondrion is an organelle, variants of which are found in most eukaryote cell . Mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants," because they convert organic materials into energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate via the process of oxidative phosphorylation.
	Mitomycin The mitomycins are a family of aziridine-containing Secondary metabolite isolated from Streptomyces lavendulae. One of these compounds, mitomycin C, finds use as a chemotherapy agent by virtue of its antitumour antibiotic activity. It is given intravenous to treat upper gastro-intestinal and breast cancers, as well as by bladder instillation for superficial bladder cancer.
	Mitosis Mitosis is the process by which a cell separates its duplicated genome into two identical halves. It is generally followed immediately by cytokinesis which divides the cytoplasm and cell membrane. This results in two identical daughter cells with a roughly equal distribution of organelles and other cellular components.
	Mitral stenosis Mitral stenosis is a narrowing of the orifice of the mitral valve of the heart.
	Mitral valve prolapse Mitral valve prolapse is a heart valve condition marked by the displacement of an abnormally thickened mitral valve leaflet into the atria of the heart during systole. In its nonclassic form, MVP carries a low risk of complications. In severe cases of classic MVP, complications include mitral regurgitation, infective endocarditis, and — in rare circumstances — cardiac arrest usually resulting in sudden death.
	Mitre The mitre or miter is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots in the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and also bishops and certain other clergy in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy.
	Miwok Miwok refers to a group of Native Americans in the United States who lived in what is now Northern California. The word Miwok means people in the Miwok language. There are four geographically detached and documented ethnic subgroups of Miwok people, as follows:
	Mixed economy A mixed economy is an Economic system that has a mix of economic systems. It is usually defined as an economy that contains both Property and Government-owned corporation Business or that combines elements of capitalism and Socialist economics, or a mix of market economy and command economy.
	Mnemonic A mnemonic is a memory aid, and most serve as an educational purpose. Mnemonics are often verbal, something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists. Mnemonics rely not only on repetition to remember facts, but also on associations between easy-to-remember constructs and lists of data, based on the principle that the humanistic mind much more easily remembers insignificant data attached to spatial, personal, or otherwise meaningful information than that occurring i
	Mnemosyne Mnemosyne was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. This titan was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the Muses by Zeus. In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.
	Moa Moa were giant flightless birds native to New Zealand. They are unique in having no wings, not even small wings, unlike other ratites. Ten species of varying sizes are known, with the largest species, the giant moa , reaching about 3 metre in height and about 250 kilogram in weight.
	Moat A moat is a manmade body of water that surrounds an area or building of significance, and almost always exist for the purpose of keeping something from crossing. Moats are known for their wide use in castles, but are not limited to this use.
	Mobile Bay Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by a peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side. Rivers Mobile River and Tensaw River empty into the northern end of the bay.
	Mobile home Mobile homes are housing units built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied. They are usually transported by semi-trucks over public highways. They are less expensive per square foot than site-built homes, and are often associated with rural areas and high-density developments, sometimes referred to as trailer parks.
	Mobile phone A mobile or cell telephone is a long-range, portable electronic device for personal telecommunications over long distances. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations , which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network .
	Mobile River The Mobile River is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee River and Alabama River rivers, the approximately 45-mile-long river drains an area of 44,000 sq mi of Alabama, with a Drainage basin extending into Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee.
	Mobilization Mobilization or Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. The word mobilization was first used, in a military context, in order to describe the preparation of the Prussian army during the 1850s and 1860s. Mobilization theories and techniques have continuously changed from then till today.
	Mobilize Their fifth release, Mobilize is a punk rock/hardcore punk album by Anti-Flag. Relesed in the wake of the September 11th attacks, Their name was viewed as "un-American" by many, and they found themselves on the receiving end of a minor album ban. On top of that, their anti-violence stance was very unpopular in the revenge-happy environment immediately following the attacks.
	Mocambique Moambique is a city in Mozambique with a population of 42,207. It is located on Mozambique Island, in the Mozambique Channel. Known for its diverse architecture, it served as the capital city during the Portugal occupation of that territory. Category:Cities in Mozambique
	Mock-up In common usage, a mock-up is a scale model of a structure or device, usually used for teaching, demonstration, testing, etc. In Software engineering and systems engineering, the word mock-up comes from the idea of making a prototype. Even though the word is often confused with the word prototype, it actually implies a graphic, image, paper illustration or simple configuration of the prototype being made.
	Mockery simple:Mockery
	Mockingbird Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds, often loudly and in rapid succession. Most species are tropical, but the Northern Mockingbird breeds throughout the United States and Canada.
	Modem A modem is a peripheral device that modulation an analog carrier wave Signal to encode digital information, and also demodulation such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data.
	Modern dance Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term modern dances has also been applied to a category of 20th century ballroom dances, modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance. In the early 1900s, a few dancers in Europe started to rebel against the rigid constraints of classical ballet.
	Modernism Modernism is a trend of thought which affirms the power of human beings to make, improve and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation. The term covers a variety of political, cultural and artistic movements rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
	Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Music of Russia. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his major List of works by Modest Mussorgsky were inspired by History of Russia, Russian folklore, and other nationalism themes, including the opera Boris Godunov , the orchestral tone poem
	Modesty Modesty comprises a set of culturally or religiously determined values that relate to the presentation of the self to others. It can include: * Moderation in one's actions or appearance, not wishing to attract undue attention to oneself; * Downplaying one's accomplishments; * False or Sham modesty, a form of boasting through excessive self-degradation;
	Modulate Modulate is Bob Mould's fifth solo album, released in 2002 after a four-year layoff. Although a few tracks on his previous release, The Last Dog And Pony Show, had featured tape loops and samples, Mould shocked his fans with such a dramatic embrace of electronica. Rolling Stone magazine gave the album 2 1/2 stars out of five, declaring: "Ultimately, this is a rock record with electronic effects, not a techno record with guitars, and it falls short of being totally satisfying as either."
	Mogadishu Mogadishu , is the largest city in Somalia, and its nominal capital. Mogadishu lies on the historically important Indian Ocean Benadir coast, and the city has served as an important regional port for centuries. With the 1991 collapse of central governance in Somalia, Mogadishu has seen 15 years of fighting by rival militias.
	Mohave The Mojave are a Native Americans in the United States tribe, many of whom live on or near the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Chemehuevi Indian Reservation and Fort Mojave Indian Reservations on the Colorado River in California and Arizona.
	Mohawk River The Mohawk River is a major waterway in north-central New York, United States. The river flows about 230 km ESE from Oneida County, New York entering the Hudson River near Albany, New York. The cities of Schenectady, New York, Amsterdam, New York, Utica, New York, and Rome, New York are built on its banks.
	Mohorovicic discontinuity The Mohorovicic discontinuity, usually referred to as the Moho, is the boundary between the Earth's Crust and the Mantle. The Mohorovicic discontinuity was first identified in 1909 by Andrija Mohorovicic, a Croatian seismologist, when he observed the abrupt increase in the velocity of earthquake waves at this point.
	Moira Shearer Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy,, was an internationally famous Scotland ballet and actor. She was born Moira Shearer King in Dunfermline, Fife, the daughter of actor Harold V. King, and educated in Scotland, England, and Africa.
	Moirae The Moirae or Moerae in Greek mythology, were the white-robed personifications of destiny (Roman mythology equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the "sparing ones", or Fata; also equivalent to the Germanic mythology Norns).
	Moisture Moisture generally refers to the presence of water, often in trace amounts. The moisture content is often an important aspect of various Food including cheese and many dried goods such as tea where excess moisture can promote Bacteria, decay, Mold, or Rot over time.
	Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southern California and smaller parts of southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, and northwestern Arizona, in the United States. Named after the Mohave tribe of Native Americans of the United States, it occupies over 22,000 mi in a typical Basin and Range topography.
	Mold Molds, or moulds, are fungus that grow in the form of mycelium and usually produce masses of spores, which are most commonly asexual but sometimes sexual. Mold is the growth of these minute fungi on organic matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating. Molds do not form a specific taxonomy or phylogeny grouping – they can be found in the divisions Zygomycota, Deuteromycota and Ascomycota.
	Moldavia Moldavia is a geographical and historical region in north-eastern Romania. A former independent, later autonomous, principality until its union with Wallachia in 1859 as the basis for the modern Romanian state, Moldavia included at various times in its history the regions of Bessarabia and the whole of Bukovina; the larger part of the former is nowadays the independent state of Moldova, while the rest of it and the northern part of Bukovina are territories of Ukraine.
	Moldova The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east and south. Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1812 and reunited with other Romanian lands in Romania in 1918.
	Mole cricket The mole crickets comprise a family of thick-bodied insects about 3-5 cm long, with large beady eyes and shovel-like forelimbs highly developed for burrowing and swimming. They are also equipped with wings, and the ability to fly. The adult mole cricket may fly as far as 8 kilometers during mating season, is active most of the year, and spends the winter in hibernation.
	Mole salamander Mole salamanders are a group of salamander endemic to North America. The genus has become famous due to the presence of the Axolotl, widely used in research, and the Tiger Salamander which is the official amphibian of many states, and often sold as a pet.
	Molecular biology Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interrelationship of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and learning how these interactions are regulated.
	Molecule In chemistry, a molecule is an aggregate of two or more atoms in a definite arrangement held together by chemical bonds. Chemical substances are not infinitely divisible into smaller fractions of the same substance: a molecule is generally considered the smallest list of particles#Molecules of a pure substance that still retains its chemical compound and chemical properties.
	Molehill A molehill is a mound of soil raised by a burrowing mole. They are quite often the only sign to indicate the presence of a mole and can be advantageous to the environment. Molehills have an important benefit to soil by aerating and tilling it, adding to its fertility. They may however cause damage to gardens and areas of grass, and in 1702, William III of England died when his horse tripped on a molehill.
	Molidae Molidae is the family of the molas or ocean sunfishes, bizarre-looking fish whose bodies come to an end just behind the dorsal fin and anal fins, giving them a "half-a-fish" appearance. They are also the largest of the bony fish, with the ocean sunfish Mola mola recorded at up to 3.3 m in length.
	Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molire , was a France theatre writer, theatre director and actor, one of the masters of comedy satire.
	Molise Molise is a region of central Italy, the second smallest of the regions. It was formerly part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise and now a separate entity. It borders Abruzzo to the north-west, Lazio to the west, Campania to the south, Puglia to the south-east and the Adriatic Sea to the north-east.
	Mollusca The mollusks or molluscs are the large and diverse Phylum Mollusca, which includes a variety of familiar animals well-known for their decorative shells or as seafood. These range from tiny snails, clams, and abalone to squid, cuttlefish and the octopus .
	Molly Pitcher "Molly Pitcher" was a nickname given to a woman who may have fought briefly in the American Revolutionary War. Historians differ on who was the "real" Molly Pitcher, or even if she ever existed at all. Since the various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, historians now often regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history.
	Mollymawk The mollymawks are a group of medium sized albatrosses that form the genus Thalassarche. The name has sometimes been used for the genus Phoebetria as well, but these are correctly called sooty albatrosses. They are restricted to the Southern Ocean, where they are the most common of the albatrosses.
	Moloch Moloch or Molech or Molekh representing Hebrew ??? mlk is either the name of a god or the name of a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant.
	Molokai Molokai is the fifth largest island of the Hawaiian Islands. The island is 38 by 10 miles, with a land area of 260.02 sq mi. It lies east of Oahu across the 25 mile wide, Hawaiian islands channels and north of Lanai, separated from it by the Hawaiian islands channels.
	Molotov cocktail Molotov cocktail, named after Vyacheslav Molotov also known as petrol bomb, benzine torch, molotov grenade or molotov bomb, is the generic name for a variety of crude Incendiary device. While they are commonly associated with irregular military forces and rioters, they are actually more frequently used for basic arson.
	Mols Mols is a small Geography of Denmark peninsula located on the south of another peninsula, Djursland, which in turn is located on the east coast of a larger peninsula, Jutland. The largest town of Mols is Ebeltoft which is a very picturesque seaside town located on the coast.
	Molybdenite Molybdenite is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide, molybdenumsulfur2. Similar in appearance and feel to graphite, molybdenite has a lubricating effect that is a consequence of its layered structure. The atomic structure consists of a sheet of molybdenum atoms sandwiched between sheets of sulfide atoms.
	MOM *Management Object Model, in High-Level Architecture parlance *Master of Magic *Master Onboard Memory, from Alien *Order of Merit of the Police Forces *Message Oriented Middleware *Methods Of Mayhem *Microsoft Operations Manager, a network management product
	Mombasa Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya, lying on the Indian Ocean. It has a major Seaport and an international airport. The city is the centre of the coastal tourism industry. The original Arabic name is Manbasa; in Kiswahili it is called Kisiwa Cha Mvita, which means "Island of War", due to the many changes in its ownership.
	Moment of Truth Moment of Truth is the fifth album by Hip hop music duo Gang Starr. Released four years after their previous album, Hard to Earn, this could be seen as a comeback, with a newer, updated style to their already established jazz-tinged Hip-Hop, as stated by Guru in the introduction: