| hypocellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally few cells | - |
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| inframaxillary | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: mandibular |
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| insular | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of the isolated life of an island | - |
| (adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: parochial |
| insularism | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularity, insulation |
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| insularity | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insulation |
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| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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| interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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| intermolecular | (adjective) existing or acting between molecules | - |
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| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intralobular | (adjective) inside lobes or lobules | - |
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| intramolecular | (adjective) within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule | - |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| irregular | (adjective) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces | - |
| (adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: atypical |
| (adjective) failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection | - |
| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: temporary |
| (adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: unpredictable |
| (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: maverick, unorthodox |
| (adjective) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical | - |
| (noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: second |
| (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent |
| irregularity | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| (noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: unregularity |
| (noun) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern | Synonyms: geometrical irregularity |
| (noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: constipation |
| irregularly | (adverb) in an inconstant manner, not according to fixed rate or schedule | Synonyms: on an irregular basis |
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| (adverb) at an uneven rate | - |
| (adverb) having an irregular form | - |
| jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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| (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocosely |
| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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| (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
| (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |
| larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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| (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: port |
| larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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| larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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| larcenous | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: thievishness |
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| larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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| (noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
| lard | (noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | - |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
| (verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
| larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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| (noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
| large | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: big |
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| (adjective) having broad power and range and scope | - |
| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, prominent |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, magnanimous |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child |
| (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid |
| (adjective) fairly large or important in effect; influential | - |
| (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
| (adverb) with the wind abaft the beam | - |
| (adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) | - |
| (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly |
| largely | (adverb) in large part; mainly or chiefly | Synonyms: for the most part, mostly |
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| (adverb) on a large scale | - |
| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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| (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
| larger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: bigger |
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| largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
| largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
| larghissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | - |
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| largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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| largo | (adjective) very slow in tempo and broad in manner | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
| (adverb) slowly and broadly | - |
| lari | (noun) the basic unit of money in Georgia | - |
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| lariat | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lasso, reata, riata |
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| larid | (noun) long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family | - |
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| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
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| larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
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| larva | (noun) the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | - |
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| larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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| larvacide | (noun) an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects | - |
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| larval | (adjective) relating to or typical of a larva | - |
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| (adjective) immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage | - |
| larvicide | (noun) a chemical used to kill larval pests | - |
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| laryngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or situated in the larynx | - |
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| laryngectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
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| laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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| laryngitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing | - |
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| laryngopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| laryngopharyngitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| laryngopharynx | (noun) the lower part of the pharynx | - |
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| laryngoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
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| laryngospasm | (noun) a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs | - |
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| laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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| laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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| larynx | (noun) a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech | Synonyms: voice box |
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| lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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| lobular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a lobule | - |
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| lobularity | (noun) the property of having lobules | - |
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| lunisolar | (adjective) relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations | - |
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| macromolecular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or characterized by macromolecules | - |
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| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| malar | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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| malaria | (noun) an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever | - |
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| malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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| mallard | (noun) wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed | Synonyms: Anas platyrhynchos |
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| mammillaria | (noun) any cactus of the genus Mammillaria | - |
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| mandibular | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: inframaxillary |
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| maxillaria | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers | - |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium | Synonyms: maxilla, upper jaw, upper jawbone |
| maxillomandibular | (adjective) relating to the upper and lower jaws | - |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| medlar | (noun) crabapple-like fruit used for preserves | - |
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| (noun) a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste | - |
| (noun) small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples | Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica |
| (noun) small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit | Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree |
| 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 | - |
| micropylar | (adjective) of or relating to a micropyle | - |
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| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| modular | (adjective) constructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use | - |
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| molar | (adjective) pertaining to large units of behavior | - |
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| (adjective) containing one mole of a substance | - |
| (adjective) designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution | - |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth | - |
| (noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: grinder |
| molarity | (noun) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution | Synonyms: M, molar concentration |
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| molecular | (adjective) relating to simple or elementary organization | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules | - |
| monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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| multicellular | (adjective) consisting of many cells | - |
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| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| narcodollar | (noun) money (especially in the form of US dollars) obtained from narcotrafficking. | Synonyms: narco-dollar |
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| navicular | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: scaphoid |
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| (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
| nebular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebulous |
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| (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: cloudlike |
| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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