| monad | (noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | - |
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| (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monas |
| (noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one | - |
| monal | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monaul |
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| monandry | (noun) the state of having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
| monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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| monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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| monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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| monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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| monas | (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monad |
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| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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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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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| monaul | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monal |
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| monazite | (noun) a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium | - |
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| moneran | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
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| moneron | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneran |
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| monetarism | (noun) an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money | - |
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| monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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| monetisation | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetization |
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| monetization | (noun) establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetisation |
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| money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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| (noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
| (noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
| moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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| moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moneymaking | (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
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| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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| monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| mongolism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolianism, trisomy 21 |
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| mongoloid | (noun) a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense, now considered offensive) | - |
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| mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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| mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
| moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| monilia | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia | - |
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| moniliasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: candidiasis, monilia disease |
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| monism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element | - |
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| monition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, admonition |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: admonition, warning, word of advice |
| (noun) a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted | Synonyms: process of monition |
| monitor | (noun) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | Synonyms: monitor lizard, varan |
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| (noun) a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble | - |
| (noun) electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions | - |
| (noun) display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor | Synonyms: monitoring device |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, reminder |
| (noun) someone who supervises (an examination) | Synonyms: proctor |
| monitoring | (noun) the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it) | - |
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| monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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| monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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| (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
| (noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
| monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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| monkshood | (noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower |
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| mono | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mononucleosis |
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| monoamine | (noun) a molecule containing one amine group (especially one that is a neurotransmitter) | - |
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| monoblast | (noun) a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow | - |
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| monocarp | (noun) a plant that bears fruit once and dies | Synonyms: monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant |
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| monocentrism | (noun) the property of having or proceeding from a single center. | - |
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| monochromacy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| monochromat | (noun) a person who is completely color-blind | - |
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| monochromatism | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromia |
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| monochrome | (noun) a black-and-white photograph or slide | Synonyms: black and white |
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| (noun) painting done in a range of tones of a single color | - |
| monochromia | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism |
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| monocle | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: eyeglass |
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| monocline | (noun) a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| monoclonal | (noun) any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules | Synonyms: monoclonal antibody |
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| monocot | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocotyledon |
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| monocotyledon | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocot |
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| monocracy | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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| monocycle | (noun) a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals | Synonyms: unicycle |
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| monocyte | (noun) a type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteria | - |
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| monocytosis | (noun) increase in the number of monocytes in the blood; symptom of monocytic leukemia | - |
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| monody | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monophonic music, monophony |
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| monogamist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogynist |
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| monogamousness | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamy |
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| monogamy | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamousness |
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| monogenesis | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: sporulation |
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| monogram | (noun) a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing | - |
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| monograph | (noun) a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject | - |
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| monogynist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogamist |
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| monogyny | (noun) having only one wife at a time | - |
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| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| monoideism | (noun) a state of prolonged absorption in a single idea (as in mental depression, trance, hypnosis). | - |
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| monolatry | (noun) the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god | - |
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| monolingual | (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
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| monolith | (noun) a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) | - |
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| monologist | (noun) an entertainer who performs alone | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| monomer | (noun) a simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers | - |
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| 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. | - |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| mononucleosis | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono |
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| monophony | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monody, monophonic music |
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| monoplane | (noun) an airplane with a single wing | - |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| monopolisation | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolization |
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| monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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