| allelomorph | (noun) (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character | Synonyms: allele |
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| allomorph | (noun) a variant phonological representation of a morpheme | - |
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| (noun) any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound | - |
| amora | (noun) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments | - |
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| amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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| amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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| amorousness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: enamoredness |
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| (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
| amorpha | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers | - |
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| amorphophallus | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorphophallus | - |
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| amortisation | (noun) payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers | Synonyms: amortization |
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| (noun) the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years | Synonyms: amortization |
| amortization | (noun) payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers | Synonyms: amortisation |
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| (noun) the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years | Synonyms: amortisation |
| anamorphism | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
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| (noun) metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals | - |
| (noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
| anamorphosis | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphism |
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| (noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphism |
| anthropomorphism | (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: theanthropism |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| apomorphine | (noun) a morphine derivative that is not as strong as morphine; used as an emetic and in small doses as a sedative | - |
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| armor | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armour |
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| (noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armour |
| (noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armour |
| armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
| (noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
| armory | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armoury, inventory |
| atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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| balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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| chemoreceptor | (noun) a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | - |
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| clamor | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamoring, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, cacophony, din |
| clamoring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamour, clamouring, hue and cry |
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| claymore | (noun) an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy | Synonyms: claymore mine |
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| (noun) a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders | - |
| commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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| (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
| commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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| demoralisation | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralization |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralization |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralization |
| demoralization | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralisation |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralisation |
| diacetylmorphine | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: heroin |
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| dimorphism | (noun) (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms | - |
| ectomorph | (noun) a person with a thin body | - |
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| ectomorphy | (noun) slender, weak, and lightweight | Synonyms: asthenic type |
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| enamoredness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: amorousness |
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| enantiomorph | (noun) either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical | Synonyms: enantiomer |
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| enantiomorphism | (noun) the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another | Synonyms: mirror-image relation |
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| endomorph | (noun) a heavy person with a soft and rounded body | - |
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| endomorphy | (noun) round, fat, and heavy | Synonyms: pyknic type |
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| femoris | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femur, thighbone |
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| geomorphology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: morphology |
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| glamor | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamour |
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| glamorisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorization, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| gynandromorph | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, hermaphrodite, intersex |
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| hackamore | (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: halter |
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| haemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, hemorrhage |
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| haemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: hemorrhoid, piles |
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| haemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: hemorrhoidectomy |
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| hemimetamorphosis | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetaboly |
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| hemimorphite | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: calamine |
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| hemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, haemorrhage |
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| hemorrhoid | (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: haemorrhoid, piles |
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| hemorrhoidectomy | (noun) surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them | Synonyms: haemorrhoidectomy |
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| homomorphism | (noun) similarity of form | Synonyms: homomorphy |
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| homomorphy | (noun) similarity of form | Synonyms: homomorphism |
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| humor | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humour |
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| (noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humour, sense of humor, sense of humour |
| (noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humour, liquid body substance |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humour |
| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humour, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humour, mood, temper |
| humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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| humorousness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness |
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| hydromorphone | (noun) a narcotic analgesic (trade name Dilaudid) used to treat moderate to severe pain | Synonyms: Dilaudid, hydromorphone hydrochloride |
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| immorality | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: evil, iniquity, wickedness |
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| (noun) the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct | - |
| immortal | (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, god |
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| (noun) a person (such as an author) of enduring fame | - |
| immortality | (noun) the quality or state of being immortal | - |
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| (noun) perpetual life after death | - |
| immortelle | (noun) mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere | Synonyms: Xeranthemum annuum |
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| inamorata | (noun) a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship | - |
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| inamorato | (noun) a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship | - |
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| isomorphism | (noun) (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure | Synonyms: isomorphy |
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| isomorphy | (noun) (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure | Synonyms: isomorphism |
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| katamorphism | (noun) metamorphism that occurs at or near the earth's surface; breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones | - |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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| memorabilia | (noun) a record of things worth remembering | - |
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| memorability | (noun) the quality of being worth remembering | - |
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| memoranda | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memorandum |
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| memorandum | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memoranda |
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| memorial | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: monument |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, remembrance |
| (noun) a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority | - |
| memorialisation | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialization |
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| memorialization | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialisation |
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| memorisation | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorization |
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| memoriser | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memorizer |
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| memorization | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorisation |
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| memorizer | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memoriser |
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| memory | (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store |
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| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: remembering |
| (noun) something that is remembered | - |
| (noun) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes | - |
| 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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| metamorphism | (noun) change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances | - |
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| metamorphopsia | (noun) a defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina | - |
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| metamorphosis | (noun) a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: transfiguration |
| (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | Synonyms: metabolism |
| moraine | (noun) accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier | - |
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| moral | (noun) the significance of a story or event | Synonyms: lesson |
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| morale | (noun) the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed | Synonyms: esprit de corps, team spirit |
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| (noun) a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose | - |
| moralisation | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralization |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralization, moralizing |
| moralism | (noun) judgments about another person's morality | - |
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| (noun) a moral maxim | - |
| moralist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems | - |
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| (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, martinet |
| morality | (noun) concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct | - |
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| (noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morals |
| moralization | (noun) the act of making moral (or more moral) | Synonyms: moralisation |
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| (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralizing |
| moralizing | (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralization |
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