| acetamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: ethanamide |
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| acrylamide | (noun) a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals | - |
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| agamid | (noun) a lizard of the family Agamidae | Synonyms: agamid lizard |
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| ambystomid | (noun) small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander | Synonyms: ambystomid salamander |
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| amide | (noun) any organic compound containing the group -CONH2 | - |
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| amidopyrine | (noun) a white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic | Synonyms: aminopyrine |
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| azoimide | (noun) a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling | Synonyms: HN, hydrazoic acid, hydrogen azide |
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| bromide | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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| (noun) any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs | - |
| carbamide | (noun) the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics | Synonyms: urea |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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| cosmid | (noun) (genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments | - |
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| cyanamid | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamide |
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| cyanamide | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamid |
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| (noun) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds | Synonyms: calcium-cyanamide |
| cyanuramide | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: melamine |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| deoxythymidine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of thymine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: thymidine |
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| desmid | (noun) freshwater green algae | - |
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| ethanamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: acetamide |
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| ethosuximide | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: Emeside, Zarontin |
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| formidability | (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: toughness |
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| furosemide | (noun) commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema | Synonyms: Lasix |
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| glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| hemidrachm | (noun) an ancient Greek silver coin equal to 1/2 drachm or 3 obols in value. | - |
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| humidifier | (noun) an appliance designed to add moisture to the air in a building | - |
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| humidity | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidness |
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| humidness | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidity |
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| imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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| imide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO- | - |
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| indapamide | (noun) diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Lozal |
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| intimidation | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, deterrence |
| (noun) the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid | - |
| (noun) the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. | - |
| leflunomide | (noun) an anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally; can slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis by slowing the proliferation of white blood cells which reduces inflammation in the synovium | Synonyms: Arava |
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| midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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| midair | (noun) some point in the air; above ground level | - |
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| midazolam | (noun) an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures | Synonyms: Versed |
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| midbrain | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: mesencephalon |
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| midday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon |
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| midden | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement | Synonyms: eitchen midden, kitchen midden |
| middle | (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: midriff, midsection |
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| (noun) an intermediate part or section | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart |
| (noun) the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process | - |
| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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| middleman | (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, wholesaler |
| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: interlocutor |
| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| middling | (noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | - |
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| middy | (noun) blouse with a sailor collar | Synonyms: middy blouse |
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| midfield | (noun) (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse) | - |
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| midge | (noun) minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water | - |
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| midget | (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: dwarf, nanus |
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| midgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of moderate height which covered the undisturbed prairie in the United States; includes most of the forage grasses of the temperate zone | - |
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| midinette | (noun) a Parisian salesgirl | - |
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| midiron | (noun) long iron with a nearly vertical face | Synonyms: two iron |
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| midland | (noun) the interior part of a country | - |
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| midline | (noun) the median plane of the body (or some part of the body) | Synonyms: midplane |
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| midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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| midplane | (noun) the median plane of the body (or some part of the body) | Synonyms: midline |
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| midpoint | (noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, centre |
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| midrib | (noun) the vein in the center of a leaf | Synonyms: midvein |
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| midriff | (noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: diaphragm |
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| (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: middle, midsection |
| midsection | (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: middle, midriff |
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| midshipman | (noun) a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training | - |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| midst | (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: thick |
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| midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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| midsummer | (noun) June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point | Synonyms: June 21, summer solstice |
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| midterm | (noun) an examination administered in the middle of an academic term | Synonyms: midterm exam, midterm examination |
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| (noun) middle of an academic term or a political term in office | - |
| (noun) the middle of the gestation period | - |
| midvein | (noun) the vein in the center of a leaf | Synonyms: midrib |
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| midwatch | (noun) a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.) | Synonyms: graveyard watch, middle watch, night watch |
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| midway | (noun) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located | - |
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| midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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| midwife | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: accoucheuse |
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| midwifery | (noun) assisting women at childbirth | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: OB, obstetrics, tocology |
| midwinter | (noun) the middle of winter | - |
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| muramidase | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: lysozyme |
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| myrmidon | (noun) a follower who carries out orders without question | - |
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| ornithomimid | (noun) lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes | - |
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| pentastomid | (noun) wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals | Synonyms: tongue worm |
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| phasmid | (noun) large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects | Synonyms: phasmid insect |
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| phensuximide | (noun) anticonvulsant (trade name Milontin) used to treat petit mal | Synonyms: Milontin |
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| phenylacetamide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, acetanilide |
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| plasmid | (noun) a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication | Synonyms: plasmid DNA |
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| polyamide | (noun) a polymer containing repeated amide groups | Synonyms: polymeric amide |
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| primidone | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Mysoline) used to treat grand mal seizures and essential tremor | Synonyms: Mysoline |
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| propanamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: proprionamide |
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| proprionamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: propanamide |
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| pyramid | (noun) (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases | - |
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| (noun) a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex | - |
| pyramiding | (noun) a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated | - |
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| pyrimidine | (noun) a heterocyclic organic compound with a penetrating odor | - |
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| (noun) any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine | - |
| semidarkness | (noun) partial darkness | - |
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| semidesert | (noun) a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions | - |
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| semidiameter | (noun) the apparent radius of a celestial body when viewed as a disc from the earth | - |
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| smidge | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smidgen | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smidgeon | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smidgin | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, tittle, whit |
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| sulfacetamide | (noun) a topical sulfonamide (trade name Sulamyd) used to treat eye infections | Synonyms: Sulamyd |
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| sulfanilamide | (noun) a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs | - |
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| sulfonamide | (noun) antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA | Synonyms: sulfa, sulfa drug, sulpha |
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| thalidomide | (noun) a sedative and hypnotic drug; withdrawn from sale after discovered to cause severe birth defects because it inhibits angiogenesis | - |
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| thymidine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of thymine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxythymidine |
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