| manduction | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, mastication |
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| (noun) the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist | Synonyms: Communion, Holy Communion, sacramental manduction |
| medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| medullated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: myelinated |
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| medusa | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusan, medusoid |
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| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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| medusoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a medusa | - |
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| (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusan |
| memorandum | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memoranda |
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| misconduct | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| (noun) bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | - |
| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| modular | (adjective) constructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use | - |
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| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| modulated | (adjective) changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume | - |
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| (adjective) altered in volume as well as tone or pitch | - |
| modulation | (noun) the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) | - |
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| (noun) (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: intonation, pitch contour |
| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: inflection |
| module | (noun) a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components | - |
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| (noun) computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware) | - |
| (noun) detachable compartment of a spacecraft | - |
| (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: faculty, mental faculty |
| modulus | (noun) (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance | - |
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| (noun) the absolute value of a complex number | - |
| (noun) an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers | - |
| nandu | (noun) smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan | Synonyms: Pterocnemia pennata, rhea |
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| nidus | (noun) a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs | - |
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| (noun) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism | Synonyms: focal point, focus |
| nodular | (adjective) relating to or characterized by or having nodules | - |
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| (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodulated, noduled |
| nodulated | (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodular, noduled |
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| nodule | (noun) a small node | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) | - |
| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: tubercle |
| noduled | (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodular, nodulated |
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| nodulose | (adjective) having minute nodules | - |
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| nonconducting | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconductive |
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| nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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| nonconductor | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: dielectric, insulator |
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| nondeductible | (adjective) not allowable as a deduction | - |
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| nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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| nonindulgent | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: strict |
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| nonindustrial | (adjective) not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises | - |
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| nonproductive | (adjective) not directly productive | - |
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| obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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| obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
| obdurately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| ordure | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool |
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| overcredulity | (noun) too much credulity | - |
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| overcredulous | (adjective) too credulous for your own good | - |
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| overdue | (adjective) past due; not paid at the scheduled time | Synonyms: delinquent |
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| overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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| overindulgent | (adjective) excessively indulgent | - |
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| overproduce | (verb) produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted | - |
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| (verb) produce in excess | - |
| overproduction | (noun) too much production or more than expected | Synonyms: overrun |
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| oviduct | (noun) either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus | Synonyms: Fallopian tube, uterine tube |
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| oxidoreductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes oxidation-reduction | - |
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| oxidoreduction | (noun) a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction | Synonyms: oxidation-reduction, redox |
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| pallidum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, paleostriatum |
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| pandurate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, panduriform |
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| panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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| peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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| (noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
| (noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
| pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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| pendulous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, weeping |
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| pendulum | (noun) an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity | - |
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| perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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| perdurable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, indestructible, undestroyable |
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| photoconduction | (noun) change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: photoconductivity |
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| photoconductive | (adjective) of or relating to photoconductivity | - |
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| photoconductivity | (noun) change in the electrical conductivity of a substance as a result of absorbing electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: photoconduction |
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| postgraduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: graduate |
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| (noun) a student who continues studies after graduation | Synonyms: grad student, graduate student |
| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| produce | (noun) fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market | Synonyms: garden truck, green goods, green groceries |
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| (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, make |
| (verb) bring forth or yield | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist | Synonyms: bring about, give rise |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, raise |
| (verb) bring onto the market or release | Synonyms: bring on, bring out |
| (verb) bring out for display | Synonyms: bring forth |
| producer | (noun) something that produces | - |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: manufacturer |
| (noun) someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) | - |
| product | (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: production |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, ware |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by multiplication | Synonyms: mathematical product |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, intersection |
| (noun) a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances | - |
| (noun) a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction | - |
| production | (noun) the act or process of producing something | - |
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| (noun) (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law | - |
| (noun) (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale | - |
| (noun) the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services | - |
| (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: product |
| (noun) a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television | - |
| (noun) a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated | - |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, yield |
| productive | (adjective) producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) | - |
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| (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: generative |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, rich |
| (adjective) yielding positive results | - |
| productively | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: fruitfully, profitably |
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| productiveness | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productivity |
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| productivity | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productiveness |
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| (noun) (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time | - |
| pudendum | (noun) human external genital organs collectively especially of a female | - |
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| reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
| (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
| (verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) make less complex | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
| (verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
| (verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
| (verb) undergo meiosis | - |
| (verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
| (verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
| (verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
| (verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
| (verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
| reduced | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: decreased |
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| (adjective) well below normal (especially in price) | Synonyms: rock-bottom |
| reducer | (noun) pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter | - |
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| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducing agent, reductant |
| reducible | (adjective) capable of being reduced | - |
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| reducing | (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reduction |
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| (noun) loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer | - |
| reductant | (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducer, reducing agent |
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| reductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance | - |
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| reductio | (noun) (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction | Synonyms: reductio ad absurdum |
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| reduction | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, diminution, step-down |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: simplification |
| (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reducing |
| reductionism | (noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components | - |
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| (noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents | - |
| reductionist | (adjective) of or relating to the theory of reductionism | - |
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| reductive | (adjective) characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | - |
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| reductivism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, minimalism |
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| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| redundant | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological |
| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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| (noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
| (noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
| (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
| reduviid | (noun) a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals | Synonyms: assassin bug |
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| redux | (adjective) brought back | - |
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| referendum | (noun) a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | - |
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| reintroduce | (verb) introduce anew | Synonyms: re-introduce |
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| reintroduction | (noun) an act of renewed introduction | - |
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| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| reproducer | (noun) an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound | - |
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| reproducibility | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: duplicability |
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| reproducible | (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: consistent |
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| reproducibly | (adverb) in a manner that is reproducible | - |
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| reproduction | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, procreation |
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| (noun) the act of making copies | Synonyms: replication |
| (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replica, replication |
| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall | Synonyms: reproductive memory |
| (noun) the process of generating offspring | - |
| reproductive | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, procreative |
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