| linac | (noun) ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path | Synonyms: linear accelerator |
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| logic | (noun) the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference | - |
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| (noun) a system of reasoning | Synonyms: logical system, system of logic |
| (noun) reasoned and reasonable judgment | - |
| (noun) the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation | - |
| (noun) the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations | - |
| lunatic | (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: maniac |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, madcap, swashbuckler |
| lyric | (noun) a short poem of songlike quality | Synonyms: lyric poem |
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| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, words |
| mac | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: macintosh, mack, mackintosh |
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| magic | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| (noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: thaumaturgy |
| mandioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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| maniac | (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| (noun) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something | - |
| manioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: cassava |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca |
| marc | (noun) made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing | - |
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| mastic | (noun) an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin | Synonyms: lentisk, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus |
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| (noun) an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes | - |
| (noun) a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler | - |
| matric | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matriculation |
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| matronymic | (noun) a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor | Synonyms: metronymic |
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| mechanic | (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles | Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey |
| medevac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medical evacuation, medivac |
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| medic | (noun) a medical practitioner in the armed forces | Synonyms: medical officer |
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| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medick, trefoil |
| medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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| megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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| melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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| melancholic | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholiac |
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| metallic | (noun) a yarn made partly or entirely of metal | - |
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| (noun) a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal | - |
| metic | (noun) an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city | - |
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| metric | (noun) a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic | Synonyms: system of measurement |
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| (noun) a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds) | Synonyms: metric unit |
| (noun) a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them | Synonyms: metric function |
| metronymic | (noun) a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor | Synonyms: matronymic |
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| mic | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: microphone, mike |
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| mimic | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimicker |
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| miotic | (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic drug, myotic, myotic drug |
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| mnemonic | (noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |
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| mollusc | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusk, shellfish |
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| monastic | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| mosaic | (noun) art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass | - |
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| (noun) arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture | Synonyms: arial mosaic, photomosaic |
| (noun) transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube | - |
| (noun) a pattern resembling a mosaic | - |
| (noun) viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves | - |
| msec | (noun) one thousandth (10^-3) of a second | Synonyms: millisecond |
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| muntjac | (noun) small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark | Synonyms: barking deer |
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| music | (noun) musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) | - |
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| (noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: medicine |
| (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: euphony |
| (noun) (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) | - |
| (noun) an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | - |
| mydriatic | (noun) a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations | Synonyms: mydriatic drug |
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| myotic | (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic, miotic drug, myotic drug |
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| mystic | (noun) someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension | Synonyms: religious mystic |
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| narc | (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narcotics agent, nark |
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| narcoleptic | (noun) a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | - |
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| (noun) a person who has narcolepsy | - |
| narcotic | (noun) a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction | - |
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| narcotraffic | (noun) traffic in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug traffic, drug trafficking |
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| neurasthenic | (noun) a person suffering a nervous breakdown | - |
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| neuroleptic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic, antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| neurotic | (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, psychoneurotic |
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| nontricyclic | (noun) a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO | Synonyms: nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug |
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| nostoc | (noun) found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies | - |
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| nymphomaniac | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
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| optic | (noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: eye, oculus |
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| organic | (noun) a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter | Synonyms: organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer |
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| oxytocic | (noun) a drug that induces labor by stimulating contractions of the muscles of the uterus | Synonyms: oxytocic drug |
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| pandemic | (noun) an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world | - |
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| panegyric | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, pean |
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| panic | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: affright, terror |
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| (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: scare |
| paralytic | (noun) a person suffering from paralysis | - |
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| paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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| paranoiac | (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoid |
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| paraplegic | (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
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| parasympathetic | (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| paretic | (noun) a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis) | - |
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| parsec | (noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | Synonyms: secpar |
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| patronymic | (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronym |
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| pedelec | (noun) a bicycle built with a motor to aid the cyclist to turn the pedals | - |
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| peripatetic | (noun) a person who walks from place to place | - |
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| pharmaceutic | (noun) drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
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| phenolic | (noun) a thermosetting resin | Synonyms: phenolic resin, phenoplast |
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| philharmonic | (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: symphony, symphony orchestra |
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| philippic | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, tirade |
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| photomosaic | (noun) arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture | Synonyms: arial mosaic, mosaic |
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| physic | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, purgative |
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| pic | (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, picture |
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| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, picture, picture show |
| picnic | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion | - |
| (noun) a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | Synonyms: field day, outing |
| plastic | (noun) a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered | Synonyms: charge card, charge plate |
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| (noun) generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives | - |
| pneumogastric | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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| polemic | (noun) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) | - |
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| (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemicist, polemist |
| polytechnic | (noun) a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences | Synonyms: engineering school, polytechnic institute |
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| porc | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: pork |
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| postdoc | (noun) a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree | Synonyms: post doc |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoctoral |
| pragmatic | (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
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| precalc | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalculus |
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| probiotic | (noun) a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant | Synonyms: probiotic bacterium, probiotic flora, probiotic microflora |
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| (noun) A dietary supplement containing live bacteria, usually taken after a course of antibiotics to replenish the damaged gastrointestinal flora. | - |
| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| prognostic | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
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| propaedeutic | (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutics |
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| prophylactic | (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, rubber, safe, safety |
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| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
| psychic | (noun) a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception | - |
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| psychoneurotic | (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, neurotic |
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| psychotic | (noun) a person afflicted with psychosis | Synonyms: psycho, psychotic person |
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| public | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, world |
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| (noun) a body of people sharing some common interest | - |
| pyrectic | (noun) any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature | Synonyms: pyrogen |
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| pyromaniac | (noun) a person with a mania for setting things on fire | - |
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| pyrotechnic | (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: firework |
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| pyrrhic | (noun) an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare | - |
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| (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: dibrach |
| quadratic | (noun) a polynomial of the second degree | Synonyms: quadratic polynomial |
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| (noun) an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square | Synonyms: quadratic equation |
| quadric | (noun) a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree | Synonyms: quadric surface |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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| quartic | (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, biquadratic, fourth power |
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| quidnunc | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: busybody, nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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