mensh | (noun) a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics | Synonyms: mensch |
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menstruation | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruum, period |
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menstruum | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, period |
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(noun) (archaic) a solvent | - |
mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
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mentalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness | - |
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mentality | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, wit |
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(noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mind-set, mindset, outlook |
mentation | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, thinking, thought, thought process |
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mentee | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentoree |
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menthol | (noun) a lotion containing menthol which gives it the smell of mint | - |
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(noun) a crystalline compound that has the cool and minty taste and odor that occurs naturally in peppermint oil; used as a flavoring and in medicine to relieve itching, pain, and nasal congestion | - |
mention | (noun) an official recognition of merit | Synonyms: honorable mention |
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(noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: reference |
(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, quotation, reference |
mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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mentor | (noun) a wise and trusted guide and advisor | Synonyms: wise man |
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mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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mentum | (noun) a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin | - |
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(noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: chin |
(noun) a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids | - |
menu | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: fare |
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(noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte, carte du jour |
(noun) (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user | Synonyms: computer menu |
(noun) the dishes making up a meal | - |
meow | (noun) the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | Synonyms: mew, miaou, miaow, miaul |
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mepacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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meperidine | (noun) a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain | Synonyms: Demerol, meperidine hydrochloride |
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mephenytoin | (noun) a toxic anticonvulsant drug (trade name Mesantoin) used in the treatment of epilepsy when less toxic anticonvulsants have been ineffective | Synonyms: Mesantoin |
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mephitis | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, reek, stench, stink |
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(noun) a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth | - |
mephobarbital | (noun) a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Mebaral |
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meprobamate | (noun) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety | Synonyms: Equanil, Meprin, Miltown |
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meq | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: milliequivalent |
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meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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(noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
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mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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(noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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(noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
(noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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(noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
(noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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(noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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(noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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(noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
(noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
(noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
(noun) something for which to be thankful | - |
mere | (noun) a small pond of standing water | - |
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merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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merger | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, uniting |
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(noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, unification |
merging | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: confluence, conflux |
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(noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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meridian | (noun) an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator | Synonyms: line of longitude |
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(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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(noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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(noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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merl | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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merle | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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merlin | (noun) small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco columbarius, pigeon hawk |
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merlon | (noun) a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement | - |
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mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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merobenthos | (noun) benthos consisting of organisms in pre-adult stages that later become adult in the plankton. | - |
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meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
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meronym | (noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole | Synonyms: part name |
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meronymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole | Synonyms: part to whole relation |
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merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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(noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
merriness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity |
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merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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mesa | (noun) flat tableland with steep edges | Synonyms: table |
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mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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mescal | (noun) a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) | - |
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(noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mezcal, peyote |
mescaline | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: peyote |
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mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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mesh | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, meshing |
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(noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: meshing, meshwork, net, network |
(noun) the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component | Synonyms: mesh topology |
(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, meshing |
(noun) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles | - |
meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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(noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
meshugaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: mishegaas, mishegoss |
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meshuggeneh | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
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meshuggener | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
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meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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mesmerism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, suggestion |
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mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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mesoblast | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoderm |
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mesocarp | (noun) the middle layer of a pericarp | - |
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mesocolon | (noun) mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall | - |
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mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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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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meson | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: mesotron |
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mesophyron | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: glabella |
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mesophyte | (noun) land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte | Synonyms: mesophytic plant |
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mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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mesothelioma | (noun) a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust | - |
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mesothelium | (noun) epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity | - |
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mesotron | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: meson |
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