| antimeson | (noun) the antiparticle of a meson | - |
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| betimes | (adverb) in good time | Synonyms: early |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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| (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chromesthesia | (noun) a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations | Synonyms: chromaesthesia |
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| comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| demesne | (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: domain, land |
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| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, estate, land, landed estate |
| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| domestic | (adjective) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | - |
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| (adjective) of or involving the home or family | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the home | - |
| (adjective) produced in a particular country | - |
| (adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domesticated |
| (noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household | Synonyms: domestic help, house servant |
| domestically | (adverb) with respect to home or family | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to the internal affairs of a government | - |
| domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
| domesticated | (adjective) accustomed to home life | - |
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| (adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domestic |
| domestication | (noun) accommodation to domestic life | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: tameness |
| (noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings | - |
| domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
| domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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| emesis | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| enmesh | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: ensnarl, mesh |
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| enmeshed | (adjective) caught as if in a mesh | Synonyms: intermeshed |
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| fumes | (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust, exhaust fumes |
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| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| haematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: hematemesis |
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| hematemesis | (noun) vomiting blood | Synonyms: haematemesis |
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| homesick | (adjective) longing to return home | - |
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| homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
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| homespun | (adjective) made of cloth spun or woven in the home | - |
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| (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
| (adjective) characteristic of country life | Synonyms: cracker-barrel |
| (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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| intermeshed | (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: engaged, meshed |
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| (adjective) caught as if in a mesh | Synonyms: enmeshed |
| intumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: bubble up |
| intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
| intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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| mesa | (noun) flat tableland with steep edges | Synonyms: table |
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| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| mescal | (noun) a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) | - |
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| (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mezcal, peyote |
| mescaline | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: peyote |
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| mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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| mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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| mesenteric | (adjective) of or relating to or located in a mesentery | - |
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| mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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| mesh | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, meshing |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: meshing, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component | Synonyms: mesh topology |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, meshing |
| (noun) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles | - |
| (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| meshed | (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: engaged, intermeshed |
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| (adjective) resembling a network | - |
| meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
| meshuga | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| meshugaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: mishegaas, mishegoss |
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| meshugga | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugge, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| meshugge | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| meshuggeneh | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggener |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
| meshuggener | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
| meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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| mesial | (adjective) being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
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| mesic | (adjective) having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesonic |
| mesmeric | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmerizing, spellbinding |
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| mesmerise | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind |
| mesmerised | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| mesmerism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, suggestion |
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| mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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| mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind |
| mesmerized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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| mesmerizing | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding |
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| mesoblast | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoderm |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| mesocarp | (noun) the middle layer of a pericarp | - |
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| mesocolon | (noun) mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall | - |
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| mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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| mesodermal | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesoblastic |
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| mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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| mesolithic | (adjective) of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic) | - |
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| mesomorph | (noun) a person with a well-developed muscular body | - |
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| mesomorphic | (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: muscular |
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| mesomorphy | (noun) muscular and big-boned | Synonyms: athletic type |
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| meson | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: mesotron |
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| mesonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesic |
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| mesophyron | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: glabella |
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| mesophyte | (noun) land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte | Synonyms: mesophytic plant |
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| mesophytic | (adjective) being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment | - |
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| mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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| mesothelioma | (noun) a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust | - |
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| mesothelium | (noun) epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity | - |
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| mesotron | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: meson |
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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| mess | (noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax | Synonyms: mess hall |
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| (noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel | - |
| (noun) soft semiliquid food | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle |
| (verb) make a mess of or create disorder in | Synonyms: mess up |
| (verb) eat in a mess hall | - |
| message | (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, subject matter, substance |
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| (noun) a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled | - |
| (verb) send a message | - |
| (verb) send as a message | - |
| (verb) send a message to | - |
| messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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| messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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| messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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| messiahship | (noun) the position of messiah | - |
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| messianic | (adjective) of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance | - |
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| messily | (adverb) in a messy, untidy manner | Synonyms: untidily |
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| messiness | (noun) the trait of being untidy and messy | Synonyms: untidiness |
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| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, muss, mussiness |
| messmate | (noun) (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | - |
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| messuage | (noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household | - |
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