amrinone | (noun) a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium | Synonyms: Inocor |
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benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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naphthoquinone | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood | Synonyms: antihemorrhagic factor, vitamin K |
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none | (noun) a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier | - |
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(noun) a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | - |
nonentity | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nobody |
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(noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonexistence |
nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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nones | (noun) the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. | - |
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nonessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
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nonesuch | (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
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nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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phylloquinone | (noun) a form of vitamin K, based on 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, with a 3-phytyl substituent | Synonyms: phytonadione, vitamin K1 |
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propanone | (noun) the simplest ketone; a highly flammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics | Synonyms: acetone, dimethyl ketone |
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quinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: benzoquinone |
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rotenone | (noun) a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube | - |
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ubiquinone | (noun) any of several quinones found in living cells and that function as coenzymes that transfer electrons from one molecule to another in cell respiration | Synonyms: coenzyme Q |
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