antimeson | (noun) the antiparticle of a meson | - |
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bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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chromesthesia | (noun) a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations | Synonyms: chromaesthesia |
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comestible | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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demesne | (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: domain, land |
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(noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, estate, land, landed estate |
detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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domestic | (noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household | Synonyms: domestic help, house servant |
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domestication | (noun) accommodation to domestic life | - |
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(noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: tameness |
(noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings | - |
domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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(noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
emesis | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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fumes | (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust, exhaust fumes |
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gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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haematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: hematemesis |
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hematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: haematemesis |
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homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
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homespun | (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
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homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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(noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
(noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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(noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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(noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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(noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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mesa | (noun) flat tableland with steep edges | Synonyms: table |
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mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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mescal | (noun) a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) | - |
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(noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mezcal, peyote |
mescaline | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: peyote |
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mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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mesh | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, meshing |
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(noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: meshing, meshwork, net, network |
(noun) the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component | Synonyms: mesh topology |
(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, meshing |
(noun) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles | - |
meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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(noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
meshugaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: mishegaas, mishegoss |
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meshuggeneh | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
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meshuggener | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
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meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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mesmerism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, suggestion |
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mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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mesoblast | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoderm |
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mesocarp | (noun) the middle layer of a pericarp | - |
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mesocolon | (noun) mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall | - |
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mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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mesomorph | (noun) a person with a well-developed muscular body | - |
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mesomorphy | (noun) muscular and big-boned | Synonyms: athletic type |
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meson | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: mesotron |
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mesophyron | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: glabella |
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mesophyte | (noun) land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte | Synonyms: mesophytic plant |
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mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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mesothelioma | (noun) a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust | - |
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mesothelium | (noun) epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity | - |
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mesotron | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: meson |
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mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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mess | (noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax | Synonyms: mess hall |
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(noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel | - |
(noun) soft semiliquid food | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness |
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle |
message | (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, subject matter, substance |
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(noun) a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled | - |
messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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messiahship | (noun) the position of messiah | - |
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messiness | (noun) the trait of being untidy and messy | Synonyms: untidiness |
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(noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, muss, mussiness |
messmate | (noun) (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | - |
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messuage | (noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household | - |
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mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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mestranol | (noun) a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives | - |
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mimesis | (noun) the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature | - |
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(noun) the representation of another person's words in a speech | - |
(noun) any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease | - |
names | (noun) verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument | Synonyms: name calling |
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namesake | (noun) a person with the same name as another | - |
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nemesis | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, scourge |
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rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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(noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
siamese | (noun) an inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building | Synonyms: siamese connection |
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somesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis |
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(noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
somesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia |
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synchromesh | (noun) an automotive system for shifting gears in which the gears revolve at the same speed and so shift smoothly | - |
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times | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: multiplication |
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(noun) a more or less definite period of time now or previously present | - |
timeserver | (noun) one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage | - |
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trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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(noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
tumescence | (noun) tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues | - |
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