| 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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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| mess | (noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax | Synonyms: mess hall |
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| (noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel | - |
| (noun) soft semiliquid food | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle |
| message | (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, subject matter, substance |
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| (noun) a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled | - |
| messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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| messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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| messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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| messiahship | (noun) the position of messiah | - |
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| messiness | (noun) the trait of being untidy and messy | Synonyms: untidiness |
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| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, muss, mussiness |
| messmate | (noun) (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | - |
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| messuage | (noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household | - |
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| mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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| mestranol | (noun) a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives | - |
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