| homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
|---|
| homer | (noun) a base hit on which the batter scores a run | Synonyms: home run |
|---|
| (noun) pigeon trained to return home | Synonyms: homing pigeon |
| (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs | Synonyms: kor |
| homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
|---|
| homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
|---|
| homespun | (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
|---|
| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
|---|
| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| hometown | (noun) the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | - |
|---|
| homework | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: school assignment, schoolwork |
|---|
| hydromel | (noun) honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented | - |
|---|
| hydrometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: gravimeter |
|---|
| hydrometry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: gravimetry |
|---|
| hygrometer | (noun) measuring instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the atmosphere | - |
|---|
| hypsometer | (noun) an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation | - |
|---|
| hypsometry | (noun) measurement of the elevation of land above sea level | Synonyms: hypsography |
|---|
| inclinometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) | Synonyms: dip circle |
|---|
| (noun) an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon | - |
| (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: clinometer |
| income | (noun) the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | - |
|---|
| indomethacin | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Indocin) | Synonyms: Indocin |
|---|
| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
|---|
| interferometer | (noun) any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves | - |
|---|
| isomer | (noun) a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight | - |
|---|
| isomerase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes its substrate to an isomeric form | - |
|---|
| isomerisation | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerization |
|---|
| isomerism | (noun) the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers | - |
|---|
| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
|---|
| isometric | (noun) a line connecting isometric points | Synonyms: isometric line |
|---|
| isometrics | (noun) muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change) | Synonyms: isometric exercise |
|---|
| isometropia | (noun) equality of refractive power in the two eyes | - |
|---|
| isometry | (noun) equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.) | - |
|---|
| (noun) equality of elevation above sea level | - |
| (noun) a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points | - |
| (noun) the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same | - |
| katharometer | (noun) measures thermal conductivity | - |
|---|
| kilometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometre, klick, km |
|---|
| kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
|---|
| kilometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, klick, km |
|---|
| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
|---|
| lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
|---|
| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
|---|
| leptomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the leptomeninges | - |
|---|
| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
|---|
| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| liposome | (noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
|---|
| lissomeness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: litheness, suppleness |
|---|
| loathsomeness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
|---|
| loment | (noun) seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments | - |
|---|
| lonesomeness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitariness |
|---|
| loxodrome | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: rhumb, rhumb line |
|---|
| lysosome | (noun) an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells) | - |
|---|
| magnetometer | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: gaussmeter |
|---|
| manometer | (noun) a pressure gauge for comparing pressures of a gas | - |
|---|
| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
|---|
| meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
|---|
| metronome | (noun) clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music | - |
|---|
| mettlesomeness | (noun) courageous high-spiritedness | - |
|---|
| micrometeor | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeorite, micrometeoroid |
|---|
| micrometeorite | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeor, micrometeoroid |
|---|
| micrometeoroid | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeor, micrometeorite |
|---|
| micrometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter | Synonyms: micrometre, micron |
|---|
| (noun) caliper for measuring small distances | Synonyms: micrometer caliper, micrometer gauge |
| micrometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter | Synonyms: micrometer, micron |
|---|
| micrometry | (noun) measuring with a micrometer | - |
|---|
| microphotometer | (noun) special kind of densitometer that measures density variations over a very small area | - |
|---|
| microsome | (noun) a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA | - |
|---|
| microtome | (noun) scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination | - |
|---|
| mileometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, milometer, odometer |
|---|
| milometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, mileometer, odometer |
|---|
| misnomer | (noun) an incorrect or unsuitable name | - |
|---|
| mnemometer | (noun) An outdated mechanical device used for presenting a series of stimuli to be memorized. | Synonyms: memory apparatus |
|---|
| moment | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, import |
|---|
| (noun) the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value | - |
| (noun) a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) | - |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, minute, second |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, second |
| (noun) at this time | Synonyms: here and now, present moment |
| momentousness | (noun) utmost importance | - |
|---|
| momentum | (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: impulse |
|---|
| (noun) the product of a body's mass and its velocity | - |
| monochrome | (noun) a black-and-white photograph or slide | Synonyms: black and white |
|---|
| (noun) painting done in a range of tones of a single color | - |
| monomer | (noun) a simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers | - |
|---|
| monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
|---|
| myelomeningocele | (noun) a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation | - |
|---|
| myometritis | (noun) inflammation of the myometrium | - |
|---|
| myometrium | (noun) the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus | - |
|---|
| nanometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometre, nm |
|---|
| nanometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nm |
|---|
| newcomer | (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, starter |
|---|
| (noun) a recent arrival | - |
| nitrochloromethane | (noun) gaseous form of chloropicrin used as tear gas | - |
|---|
| noisomeness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: harmfulness, noxiousness |
|---|
| nomenclature | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, terminology |
|---|
| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
|---|
| odometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, mileometer, milometer |
|---|
| oedometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the rate and amount of consolidation of a soil specimen under pressure. | - |
|---|
| oenomel | (noun) wine mixed with honey | - |
|---|
| oligomenorrhea | (noun) abnormally light or infrequent menstruation | - |
|---|
| omega | (noun) the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
|---|
| (noun) the ending of a series or sequence | Synonyms: Z |
| omelet | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelette |
|---|
| omelette | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelet |
|---|
| omen | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
|---|
| omentum | (noun) a fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera | - |
|---|
| omeprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prilosec |
|---|
| omerta | (noun) a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities | - |
|---|
| optometrist | (noun) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses | Synonyms: oculist |
|---|
| optometry | (noun) the practice of an optometrist | - |
|---|
| outcome | (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, result, resultant, termination |
|---|
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, result, upshot |
| overcomer | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: subduer, surmounter |
|---|
| palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | - |
|---|
| palometa | (noun) smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies | Synonyms: California pompano, Palometa simillima |
|---|
| pedometer | (noun) measuring instrument for recording the number of steps taken in walking | - |
|---|
| perchloromethane | (noun) a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined | Synonyms: carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloromethane |
|---|