| albuminuria | (noun) the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder | Synonyms: proteinuria |
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| aluminum | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminium, atomic number 13 |
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| arcminute | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: minute, minute of arc |
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| diminuendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
| diminutive | (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
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| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| dominus | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominie |
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| minuend | (noun) the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted | - |
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| minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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| (noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
| minus | (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| minuscule | (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| minute | (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
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| (noun) a short note | - |
| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: arcminute, minute of arc |
| (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: min |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, moment, second |
| minuteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| (noun) great precision; painstaking attention to details | - |
| minutes | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: proceedings, transactions |
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| minutia | (noun) (biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared. | - |
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| (noun) a small or minor detail | - |
| terminus | (noun) either end of a railroad or bus route | - |
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| (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: depot, terminal |
| (noun) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | Synonyms: term, terminal figure |
| (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: destination |
| (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, endpoint, termination |
| trigeminus | (noun) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication | Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminal nerve |
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