| micromillimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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| micromillimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, millimicron, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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| mill | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery |
| (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant |
| (verb) grind with a mill | - |
| (verb) produce a ridge around the edge of | - |
| (verb) roll out (metal) with a rolling machine | - |
| (verb) move about in a confused manner | Synonyms: mill about, mill around |
| millboard | (noun) stout pasteboard used to bind books | - |
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| milldam | (noun) dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill | - |
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| milled | (adjective) (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed | Synonyms: polished |
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| millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
| millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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| millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| millennial | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennian |
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| millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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| millennium | (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millenary |
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| (noun) (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness | - |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millenary |
| millenniumism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenarism |
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| millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
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| miller | (noun) any of various moths that have powdery wings | Synonyms: moth miller |
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| (noun) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it | Synonyms: milling machine |
| (noun) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) | - |
| millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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| millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
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| (noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
| millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
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| milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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| milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
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| milliard | (noun) a billion | - |
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| millibar | (noun) a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar | - |
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| millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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| millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| millifarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad | - |
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| milligram | (noun) one thousandth (1/1,000) gram | Synonyms: mg |
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| millihenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry | - |
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| milliliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, millilitre, ml |
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| millilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, milliliter, ml |
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| millime | (noun) 1,000 millimes equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | - |
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| millimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimetre, mm |
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| millimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter | Synonyms: millimeter, mm |
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| millimicron | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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| milline | (noun) an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication | - |
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| milliner | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, modiste |
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| millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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| (noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
| milling | (noun) corrugated edge of a coin | - |
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| million | (adjective) (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units | - |
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| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000, meg, one thousand thousand |
| (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion |
| millionaire | (noun) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars | - |
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| millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
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| millionfold | (adverb) by a factor of a million | Synonyms: a million times |
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| millionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one million in counting order | - |
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| (noun) one part in a million equal parts | Synonyms: one-millionth |
| (noun) position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
| milliped | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, millipede |
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| millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
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| milliradian | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian | - |
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| millirem | (noun) a dosage of ionizing radiation equivalent to one thousandth (1/1000) of a rem | Synonyms: mrem |
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| milliroentgen | (noun) a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation, one thousandth of a roentgen. | - |
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| millisecond | (noun) one thousandth (10^-3) of a second | Synonyms: msec |
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| millivolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt | Synonyms: mV |
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| millivoltmeter | (noun) sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts | - |
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| milliwatt | (noun) a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt | - |
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| millpond | (noun) a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel | - |
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| millrace | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrun |
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| millrun | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrace |
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| millstone | (noun) one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain | - |
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| (noun) any load that is difficult to carry | - |
| (noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: albatross |
| millwheel | (noun) water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill | Synonyms: mill wheel |
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| millwork | (noun) woodwork that has been machined at a mill | - |
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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| modillion | (noun) (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice | - |
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| molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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| morbilli | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: measles, rubeola |
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| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| nafcillin | (noun) a penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci | Synonyms: Nafcil |
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| naranjilla | (noun) small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges | Synonyms: Solanum quitoense |
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| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonpareille | (noun) a 6-point printing type: a size smaller than minion. | - |
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| novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| ocotillo | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: coachwhip, Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, vine cactus |
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| octillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 27 zeros | - |
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| openbill | (noun) stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip | - |
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| oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: vibrate |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, vacillate, vibrate |
| oscillating | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillatory |
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| oscillation | (noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean | Synonyms: vibration |
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| (noun) a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon | Synonyms: cycle |
| (noun) the process of oscillating between states | - |
| oscillator | (noun) generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current | - |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| oscillogram | (noun) the recording produced by an oscillograph | - |
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| oscillograph | (noun) a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents | - |
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| oscilloscope | (noun) electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities | Synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, scope |
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| overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
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| overkill | (noun) any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | - |
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| (noun) the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required | - |
| overspill | (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, runoff |
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| (noun) the relocation of people from overcrowded cities; they are accommodated in new houses or apartments in smaller towns | - |
| oxacillin | (noun) a form of penicillin resistant to penicillinase and effective against penicillin-resistant staphylococci | - |
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| paillasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: palliasse |
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| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| papilla | (noun) a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | - |
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| (noun) a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | - |
| (noun) (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| papillate | (adjective) resembling or covered with papillae | - |
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| papilledema | (noun) swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure | - |
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| papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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| papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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| papillon | (noun) small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat | - |
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| papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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| pastille | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastil, troche |
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