| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| monoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoecious |
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| monoideism | (noun) a state of prolonged absorption in a single idea (as in mental depression, trance, hypnosis). | - |
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| monolatry | (noun) the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god | - |
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| monolingual | (adjective) using or knowing only one language | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
| monolingually | (adverb) in a monolingual manner | - |
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| monolith | (noun) a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) | - |
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| monolithic | (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monumental |
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| (adjective) characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity | - |
| monologist | (noun) an entertainer who performs alone | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| monologuise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monologuize | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| monomaniacal | (adjective) obsessed with a single subject or idea | - |
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| monomer | (noun) a simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers | - |
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| monometallic | (adjective) containing one atom of metal in the molecule | - |
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| monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
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| monomorphemic | (adjective) consisting of only one morpheme | - |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| mononuclear | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononucleate |
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| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| mononucleosis | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono |
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| monophonic | (adjective) consisting of a single melodic line | - |
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| (adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: mono, single-channel |
| monophony | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monody, monophonic music |
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| monoplane | (noun) an airplane with a single wing | - |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| monoploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, haploidic |
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| monopolisation | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolization |
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| monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
| monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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| monopolist | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolizer |
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| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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| monopolization | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolisation |
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| monopolize | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolise |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolise |
| monopolizer | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolist |
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| monopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | - |
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| (noun) exclusive control or possession of something | - |
| monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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| monopteral | (adjective) having circular columniation | - |
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| monorail | (noun) a railway having a single track | - |
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| monorchidism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchism |
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| monorchism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchidism |
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| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
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| monosemy | (noun) having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases | - |
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| monosomy | (noun) chromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number | - |
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| monosyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable | - |
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| monosyllabically | (adverb) in a monosyllabic manner | - |
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| monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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| monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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| monotheist | (noun) a believer in one god | - |
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| monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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| monotone | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotonic |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous |
| (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
| (noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
| monotonic | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotone |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonous |
| monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
| monotonously | (adverb) in a monotonous manner | - |
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| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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| monotype | (noun) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters | - |
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| (noun) the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate | - |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) | - |
| monotypic | (adjective) consisting of only one type | - |
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| monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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| monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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| (adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
| monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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| monoxide | (noun) an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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| monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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| mons | (noun) a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women | Synonyms: mons pubis, mons veneris |
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| monsoon | (noun) a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | - |
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| (noun) any wind that changes direction with the seasons | - |
| (noun) rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | - |
| monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
| (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
| monstera | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: ceriman |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | - |
| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| monstrosity | (noun) something hideous or frightful | - |
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| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monster |
| monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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| (adjective) abnormally large | - |
| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
| monstrously | (adverb) in a grotesque manner | Synonyms: grotesquely |
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| (adverb) in a terribly evil manner | Synonyms: heinously |
| (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: hideously, horridly |
| montage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: collage |
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| montane | (adjective) of or inhabiting mountainous regions | - |
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| monte | (noun) a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time | Synonyms: three-card monte |
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| month | (noun) a time unit of approximately 30 days | - |
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| (noun) one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year | Synonyms: calendar month |
| monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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| monthly | (adjective) of or occurring or payable every month | - |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) occurring once a month | - |
| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
| (noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
| monumental | (adjective) relating or belonging to or serving as a monument | - |
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| (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monolithic |
| (adjective) of outstanding significance | - |
| monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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| monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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| neurohormone | (noun) a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin) | - |
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| newsmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| nonharmonic | (adjective) not harmonic | - |
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| nonmonotonic | (adjective) not monotonic | - |
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| palimony | (noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends | - |
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| pandemonium | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: bedlam, chaos, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
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| parathormone | (noun) hormone synthesized and released into the blood stream by the parathyroid glands; regulates phosphorus and calcium in the body and functions in neuromuscular excitation and blood clotting | Synonyms: parathyroid hormone |
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| parsimonious | (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: penurious |
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| parsimoniousness | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| parsimony | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness |
| patrimonial | (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, transmissible |
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| patrimony | (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: birthright |
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| (noun) a church endowment | - |