| kinanesthesia | (noun) inability to sense movement | - |
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| kinase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme | - |
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| lamina | (noun) a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) | - |
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| laminal | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminar |
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| laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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| laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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| (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| lamination | (noun) bonding thin sheets together | - |
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| (noun) a layered structure | - |
| laminator | (noun) Any of a range of machines used for lamination. | Synonyms: laminating machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) | - |
| lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
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| latitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to latitudes north or south | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| libidinal | (adjective) belonging to the libido | - |
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| linac | (noun) ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path | Synonyms: linear accelerator |
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| linage | (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: lineage |
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| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: lineage |
| linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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| longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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| (adjective) running lengthwise | - |
| (adjective) over an extended time | - |
| longitudinally | (adverb) with respect to longitude | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise |
| (adverb) across time | - |
| luminaire | (noun) an electrical device used to create artificial light by use of an electric lamp; all light fixtures have a fixture body and a light socket to hold the lamp and allow for its replacement | Synonyms: light fitting, light fixture |
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| luminance | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminosity, luminousness |
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| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machination | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: intrigue |
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| machinator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, plotter |
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| mackinaw | (noun) a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design | - |
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| (noun) a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes | Synonyms: Mackinaw boat |
| (noun) a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States | Synonyms: Mackinaw blanket |
| (noun) a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material | Synonyms: Mackinaw coat |
| maintainable | (adjective) capable of being maintained | - |
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| marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
| (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
| (adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
| marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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| marginalisation | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalization |
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| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| marginally | (adverb) in a marginal manner | - |
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| marina | (noun) a fancy dock for small yachts and cabin cruisers | - |
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| marinade | (noun) mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking | - |
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| (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
| marinara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs | - |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| matutinal | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in the morning | - |
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| medicinal | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicative |
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| medicinally | (adverb) in a medicinal manner | - |
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| medina | (noun) the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa | - |
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| mina | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: minah, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| minah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| monoclinal | (adjective) of a geological structure in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| multinational | (adjective) involving or operating in several nations or nationalities | Synonyms: transnational |
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| myelinated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: medullated |
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| nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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| neritina | (noun) ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters | - |
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| nominal | (adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun | - |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name | - |
| (adjective) existing in name only | Synonyms: titular |
| (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: token, tokenish |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominative |
| (noun) a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb | Synonyms: nominal phrase, noun phrase |
| nominalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name | - |
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| nominalist | (noun) a philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism | - |
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| nominalistic | (adjective) of or relating to nominalism | - |
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| nominally | (adverb) in name only | - |
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| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| nominated | (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominative |
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| nomination | (noun) the act of officially naming a candidate | - |
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| (noun) an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election | Synonyms: nominating address, nominating speech |
| (noun) the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election | - |
| nominative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb | - |
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| (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominated |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominal |
| (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
| nominator | (noun) someone who proposes a candidate for appointment or election | - |
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| noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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| nondenominational | (adjective) not restricted to a particular religious denomination | - |
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| nonfinancial | (adjective) not involving financial matters | - |
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| nonmedicinal | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal |
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| nonruminant | (adjective) not ruminant | - |
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| obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
| (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
| obstinately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| obtainable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, gettable, procurable |
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| ocarina | (noun) egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes | Synonyms: sweet potato |
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| ordinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical order in a series | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a taxonomic order | - |
| (noun) the number designating place in an ordered sequence | Synonyms: no., ordinal number |
| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordinand | (noun) a person being ordained | - |
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| ordinarily | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: commonly, normally, unremarkably, usually |
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| ordinariness | (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| ordination | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordinance |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordering |
| (noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office | - |
| original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
| (adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
| (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
| originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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| originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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| (noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
| originally | (adverb) in an manner suggesting originality | - |
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| (adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, primitively |
| (adverb) before now | Synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with |
| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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| orinasal | (noun) a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) | Synonyms: orinasal phone |
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| ostinato | (noun) a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition | - |
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| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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| palatinate | (noun) a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine | - |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| patina | (noun) a fine coating of oxide (produced by oxidation over a long period of time) on the surface of a metal (particularly copper) | - |
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| (noun) a gloss or sheen on wooden furniture produced by age, polishing, or handling | - |
| (noun) an acquired change in the appearance of something (other than metal or wood) | - |
| patinate | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinise, patinize |
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| pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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| penicillinase | (noun) enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic | Synonyms: beta-lactamase |
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