magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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manumit | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: emancipate |
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manumitter | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: emancipator |
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marmite | (noun) a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup | - |
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(noun) soup cooked in a large pot | - |
mite | (noun) any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods | - |
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(noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
miter | (noun) a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions | Synonyms: mitre |
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(noun) the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made | Synonyms: mitre |
(noun) joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner | Synonyms: miter joint, mitre, mitre joint |
(verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
(verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
(verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
miterwort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, mitrewort |
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mithan | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, gayal |
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mithraic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraistic |
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mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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mithramycin | (noun) an antineoplastic drug (trade name Mithracin) used to treat cancer of the testes | Synonyms: Mithracin |
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mitigable | (adjective) capable of being alleviated | - |
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mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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(verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
mitigated | (adjective) made less severe or intense | - |
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mitigation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, palliation |
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(noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: moderation |
(noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: extenuation |
mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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mitochondrion | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: chondriosome |
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mitogen | (noun) an agent that triggers mitosis | - |
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mitomycin | (noun) a complex of antibiotic substances obtained from a streptomyces bacterium; one form (trade name Mutamycin) shows promise as an anticancer drug | Synonyms: Mutamycin |
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mitosis | (noun) cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes | - |
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mitotic | (adjective) of or relating to or undergoing mitosis | - |
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mitral | (adjective) of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve | - |
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(adjective) relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics | - |
mitre | (noun) a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions | Synonyms: miter |
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(noun) the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made | Synonyms: miter |
(noun) joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner | Synonyms: miter, miter joint, mitre joint |
mitrewort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, miterwort |
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mitsvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitzvah |
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(noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitzvah |
mitt | (noun) the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, glove |
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(noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: hand, manus, paw |
mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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mitten | (noun) glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together | - |
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mitzvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitsvah |
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(noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitsvah |
neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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noncommittal | (adjective) refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like | - |
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nonconformity | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
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(noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
(noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
(noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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nonremittal | (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
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(noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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omit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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(verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, take out |
ophthalmitis | (noun) severe conjunctivitis | Synonyms: ophthalmia |
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palmitin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and palmitic acid | - |
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permit | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: license, permission |
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(noun) large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies | Synonyms: Trachinotus falcatus |
(noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, license |
(verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
(verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
(verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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(verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
primitive | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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(adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
(adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
(adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
(noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
(noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
(noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
primitively | (adverb) in a primitive style or manner | - |
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(adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, originally |
primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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(noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
proximity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: propinquity |
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(noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of proximity |
(noun) the region close around a person or thing | - |
pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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(verb) admit again or anew | - |
recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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(verb) commit again | - |
(verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
remit | (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remission, remitment |
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(noun) the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with | - |
(verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: slacken |
(verb) diminish or abate | - |
(verb) release from (claims, debts, or taxes) | - |
(verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remand, send back |
(verb) forgive | - |
(verb) send (money) in payment | - |
(verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table |
remitment | (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remission, remit |
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(noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remittal, remittance |
remittal | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: absolution, remission, remission of sin |
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(noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, subsidence |
(noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittance |
remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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remittent | (adjective) (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | - |
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resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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semitone | (noun) the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument | Synonyms: half step |
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semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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semitropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropical, subtropic, subtropical |
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semitropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, subtropic, subtropical |
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semitropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: subtropics |
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silversmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silverworker |
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smite | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: afflict |
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(verb) inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon | - |
(verb) affect suddenly with deep feeling | - |
smith | (noun) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) | Synonyms: metalworker |
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(noun) someone who works at something specified | - |
smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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smithsonite | (noun) a mineral ore of zinc. | Synonyms: zinc spar |
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smithy | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: forge |
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smitten | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: stricken, struck |
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(adjective) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness | Synonyms: enamored, in love, infatuated, potty, soft on, taken with |
sodomite | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: bugger, sod, sodomist |
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somite | (noun) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally | Synonyms: metamere |
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stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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subcommittee | (noun) a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose | - |
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sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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submit | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, resign |
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(verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: take |
(verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, state |
(verb) refer for judgment or consideration | - |
(verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in |
(verb) yield to the control of another | - |
(verb) make an application as for a job or funding | Synonyms: put in |
(verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: present |
(verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: render |
(verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, relegate |
submitter | (noun) someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others | - |
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(noun) someone who yields to the will of another person or force | - |
summit | (noun) a meeting of heads of governments | Synonyms: summit meeting |
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(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, tip, top |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, superlative, tiptop, top |
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: breast |
synonymity | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymousness, synonymy |
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termite | (noun) whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood | Synonyms: white ant |
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tinsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tinware | Synonyms: tinner |
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transmit | (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, send |
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(verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transport |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart |
(verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, convey |
transmittable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible |
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transmittal | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmitting |
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transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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transmitted | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible |
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transmitter | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: sender |
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(noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: vector |
(noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: sender |
transmitting | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmittal |
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tridymite | (noun) a mineral form of silica | - |
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tripalmitin | (noun) a triglyceride of palmitic acid | Synonyms: glycerol tripalmitate |
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unanimity | (noun) everyone being of one mind | - |
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uncommitted | (adjective) not bound or pledged | - |
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(adjective) not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: unattached |
(adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: available |
uniformity | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformness |
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(noun) a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | - |
unlimited | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: limitless |
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(adjective) that cannot be entirely consumed or used up | Synonyms: inexhaustible |
(adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: outright, straight-out |
unmitigable | (adjective) incapable of being mitigated | - |
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