| hypotonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonus |
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| (noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other | - |
| iatrogenic | (adjective) induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment) | - |
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| iconic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an icon | - |
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| icterogenic | (adjective) producing jaundice | - |
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| immunogenic | (adjective) possessing the ability to elicit an immune response | - |
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| immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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| incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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| incommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: uncommunicative |
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| infrasonic | (adjective) having frequencies below those of audible sound | - |
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| inharmonic | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant |
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| inorganic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class of compounds not having a carbon basis | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms | - |
| inorganically | (adverb) not involving carbon compounds | - |
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| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| intercommunication | (noun) mutual communication; communication with each other | - |
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| ionic | (adjective) containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions | - |
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| irenic | (adjective) conducive to peace | - |
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| ironic | (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironical, wry |
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| (adjective) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is | Synonyms: ironical |
| ironical | (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironic, wry |
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| (adjective) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is | Synonyms: ironic |
| ironically | (adverb) in an ironic manner | - |
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| (adverb) contrary to plan or expectation | - |
| isoclinic | (adjective) having equal magnetic inclinations | Synonyms: isoclinal |
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| isogonic | (adjective) having or making equal angles | - |
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| isotonic | (adjective) (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure | Synonyms: isosmotic |
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| (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale | - |
| (adjective) of two or more muscles; having equal tension | - |
| japonica | (noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince |
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| (noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: Camellia japonica |
| kernicterus | (noun) an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage | - |
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| knickerbockers | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers |
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| knickers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, pants |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers |
| knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |
| knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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| laconic | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, terse |
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| laconically | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: drily, dryly |
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| laconicism | (noun) terseness of expression | Synonyms: laconism |
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| lactogenic | (adjective) inducing lactation | - |
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| leptorrhinic | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian |
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| lysogenic | (adjective) capable of producing or undergoing lysis | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to lysogeny | - |
| lysogenicity | (noun) the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | Synonyms: lysogeny |
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| macaronic | (adjective) of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together | - |
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| manic | (adjective) affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason | Synonyms: frenzied |
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| maniclike | (adjective) resembling the mania of manic-depressive illness | - |
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| manicotti | (noun) large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce | - |
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| manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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| (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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| masonic | (adjective) of or relating to stonemasons or masonry | - |
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| mechanic | (adjective) resembling the action of a machine | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | Synonyms: machinist, shop mechanic |
| (noun) someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles | Synonyms: auto-mechanic, automobile mechanic, car-mechanic, grease monkey |
| mechanical | (adjective) using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools | Synonyms: mechanically skillful, technical |
| mechanically | (adverb) in a machinelike manner; without feeling | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: automatically |
| mechanics | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something | Synonyms: mechanism |
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| (noun) the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference | - |
| megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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| mesonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesic |
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| messianic | (adjective) of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance | - |
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| microelectronic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of miniature electronic components | - |
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| microelectronics | (noun) the branch of electronics that deals with miniature components | - |
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| minicab | (noun) a minicar used as a taxicab | - |
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| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| minicar | (noun) a car that is even smaller than a subcompact car | - |
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| minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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| misogynic | (adjective) (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women | - |
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| mnemonic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical |
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| (noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |
| mnemonics | (noun) a method or system for improving the memory | - |
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| mnemotechnic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnical |
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| mnemotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnic |
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| monoclinic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection | - |
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| monogenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes | - |
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| monogynic | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynous |
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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 |
| 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 |
| moronic | (adjective) having a mental age of between eight and twelve years | - |
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| multiethnic | (adjective) involving several ethnic groups | Synonyms: multi-ethnic |
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| municipal | (adjective) relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the government of a municipality | - |
| municipality | (noun) people living in a town or city having local self-government | - |
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| (noun) an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government | - |
| municipally | (adverb) by municipality | - |
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| mutagenic | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution) | - |
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| myelinic | (adjective) of or relating to the substance that forms a sheath around the axon of some nerve fibers | - |
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| myotonic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by myotonia | - |
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| neotenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenous |
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| neurasthenic | (adjective) of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering a nervous breakdown | - |
| neurogenic | (adjective) arising in or stimulated by nerve tissues | - |
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| neuronic | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronal |
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| nicad | (noun) a rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use | Synonyms: nickel-cadmium accumulator |
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| nice | (adjective) pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, gracious |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: decent |
| (adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: skillful |
| nicely | (adverb) in a nice way | - |
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| niceness | (noun) the quality of nice | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: subtlety |
| (noun) a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | Synonyms: politeness |
| nicety | (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, rightness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nuance, refinement, shade, subtlety |
| niche | (noun) an enclosure that is set back or indented | Synonyms: recess |
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| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, recess, recession |
| (noun) a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it | - |
| (noun) (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) | Synonyms: ecological niche |
| nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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| (noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
| (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nickel | (noun) a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar | - |
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| (noun) five dollars worth of a drug | Synonyms: nickel note |
| (noun) a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite | Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni |
| (verb) plate with nickel | - |
| nickelodeon | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: jukebox |
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| nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
| nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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| nickname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| (noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing | - |
| (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
| nicotine | (noun) an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide | - |
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| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| nictitation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, wink, winking |
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| noncommunicable | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncontagious, nontransmissible |
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| nonharmonic | (adjective) not harmonic | - |
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| nonionic | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionised, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| (adjective) not ionic | Synonyms: nonpolar |
| nonmechanical | (adjective) not mechanical | - |
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| (adjective) (of a person) lacking mechanical skills | Synonyms: unmechanical |
| nonmonotonic | (adjective) not monotonic | - |
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| nontechnical | (adjective) not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences | Synonyms: untechnical |
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