| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
| adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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| (adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
| (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
| adamantly | (adverb) inflexibly; unshakably | - |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| demantoid | (noun) a green andradite used as a gemstone | - |
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| diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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| (noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
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| dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
| (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
| (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
| informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| lymantriid | (noun) dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees | Synonyms: tussock moth |
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| manta | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: devilfish, manta ray |
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| (noun) a blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl | - |
| mantel | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| mantelet | (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantilla |
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| (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantlet |
| mantelpiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| mantichora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: manticora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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| mantid | (noun) predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer | Synonyms: mantis |
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| mantiger | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, manticore |
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| mantilla | (noun) a woman's silk or lace scarf | - |
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| (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantelet |
| mantis | (noun) predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer | Synonyms: mantid |
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| mantispid | (noun) insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps | - |
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| mantissa | (noun) the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 | Synonyms: fixed-point part |
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| mantle | (noun) a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter | Synonyms: cape |
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| (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, pall |
| (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: pallium |
| (noun) the cloak as a symbol of authority | - |
| (noun) the layer of the earth between the crust and the core | - |
| (noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: blanket |
| (verb) cover like a mantle | - |
| (verb) spread over a surface, like a mantle | - |
| mantled | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped |
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| mantlepiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantle |
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| mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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| mantra | (noun) (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns | - |
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| (noun) a commonly repeated word or phrase | - |
| mantrap | (noun) a trap for catching trespassers | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| mantua | (noun) loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries | - |
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| necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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| (adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| overmantel | (noun) a shelf over a mantelpiece | - |
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| polysemant | (noun) a word having more than one meaning | Synonyms: polysemantic word, polysemous word |
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| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| romantically | (adverb) in a manner expressive of love or romance | - |
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| (adverb) in an idealistic and unrealistic manner | - |
| romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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| (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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| semantically | (adverb) with regard to meaning | - |
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| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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| (noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
| synsemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words | - |
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| unromantic | (adjective) neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance | - |
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| unromantically | (adverb) without romance; in an unromantic manner | - |
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