malodor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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malodorousness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, rankness, stinkiness |
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malodour | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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(noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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(noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
(noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
malted | (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
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maltha | (noun) a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt | Synonyms: mineral tar |
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maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
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maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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malvasia | (noun) grape used to make malmsey wine | - |
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malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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malware | (noun) malicious software, designed to break into a system | - |
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mammal | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammalian |
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mammalian | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
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mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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mammalogy | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies mammals | - |
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marmalade | (noun) a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits | - |
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marshmallow | (noun) spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar | - |
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minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, reductivism |
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minimalist | (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
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(noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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nonoptimality | (noun) The state of not being best, most favourable or desirable. | - |
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normal | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, pattern, rule |
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normalcy | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normality |
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(noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normality |
normalisation | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalization, standardisation, standardization |
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normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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normality | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normalcy |
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(noun) conformity with the norm | - |
(noun) (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter | Synonyms: N |
(noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normalcy |
normalization | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, standardisation, standardization |
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normalizer | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normaliser |
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osteomalacia | (noun) abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D | - |
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paleomammalogy | (noun) the paleobiology of ancient mammals | - |
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planetesimal | (noun) one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system | - |
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primality | (noun) the property of being a prime number | - |
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protomammal | (noun) probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | Synonyms: therapsid |
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pseudosmallpox | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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rosemaling | (noun) a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs | - |
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schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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schmalz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, shmaltz |
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shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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simal | (noun) East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok | Synonyms: Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree |
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small | (noun) a garment size for a small person | - |
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(noun) the slender part of the back | - |
smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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smallholding | (noun) a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation | - |
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smallmouth | (noun) a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye | Synonyms: Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass |
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smallness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: littleness |
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(noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, pettiness |
(noun) the property of being a relatively small amount | - |
(noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: littleness |
(noun) The quality of being minor in influence, power, or rank. | - |
smallpox | (noun) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars | Synonyms: variola, variola major |
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smaltite | (noun) a grey mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel; an important source of cobalt and nickel | - |
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subnormal | (noun) a person of less than normal intelligence | - |
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subnormality | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness |
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(noun) the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) | - |
tamal | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamale |
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tamale | (noun) dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed | Synonyms: tamal |
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tatterdemalion | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
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thermal | (noun) rising current of warm air | - |
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thermalgesia | (noun) pain caused by heat | - |
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tomalley | (noun) edible greenish substance in boiled lobster | - |
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tourmaline | (noun) a mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones | - |
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unmalleability | (noun) a lack of malleability | - |
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waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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