hypotenuse | (noun) the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle | - |
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hypotonus | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonicity |
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ingenue | (noun) the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play | - |
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(noun) an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage) | - |
(noun) an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl | - |
ingenuity | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness |
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(noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, inventiveness |
ingenuous | (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: artless |
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(adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: innocent |
ingenuously | (adverb) in an ingenuous manner | Synonyms: artlessly |
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ingenuousness | (noun) openly straightforward or frank | - |
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(noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, innocence, naturalness |
innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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innumerable | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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innumerate | (adjective) lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods | - |
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innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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insinuate | (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, intimate |
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(verb) introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner | - |
insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
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insinuatingly | (adverb) in an insinuating manner | - |
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insinuation | (noun) the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments | Synonyms: ingratiation |
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(noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: innuendo |
internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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interregnum | (noun) the time between two reigns, governments, etc. | - |
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inula | (noun) any plant of the genus Inula | - |
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inulin | (noun) used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function | - |
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inunct | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, oil |
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inunction | (noun) anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | Synonyms: unction |
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inundate | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, submerge |
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(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, swamp |
inundated | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, overflowing |
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inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
inure | (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, indurate |
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inured | (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: enured, hardened |
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inutile | (adjective) not worth using | - |
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inutility | (noun) the quality of having no practical use | Synonyms: unusefulness, uselessness |
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jejunum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum | - |
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keratoconus | (noun) abnormal cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea of the eye; can be treated by epikeratophakia | - |
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ketonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: acetonuria, ketoaciduria |
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knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
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(verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
(verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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knuckler | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckleball |
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knuckles | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knucks |
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knucks | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knuckles |
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labdanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: ladanum |
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(noun) a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses | Synonyms: gum labdanum |
ladanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: labdanum |
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lanthanum | (noun) a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth | Synonyms: atomic number 57, La |
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lanugo | (noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation | - |
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laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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lignum | (noun) woody tissue | - |
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linuron | (noun) a herbicide that kills weeds without harming vegetables | - |
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locknut | (noun) supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening | Synonyms: safety nut |
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lunula | (noun) a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age | - |
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(noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunule |
lunule | (noun) the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail | Synonyms: half-moon, lunula |
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lymphogranuloma | (noun) swelling of a lymph node | - |
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magnum | (noun) a large wine bottle for liquor or wine | - |
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malnutrition | (noun) a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods | - |
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manual | (adjective) requiring human effort | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the hands | - |
(adjective) doing or requiring physical work | - |
(noun) (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle | Synonyms: manual of arms |
(noun) a small handbook | - |
manually | (adverb) by hand | - |
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manubrium | (noun) the upper part of the breastbone | - |
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manufactory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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(noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
(verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
(verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
(verb) produce naturally | - |
manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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(noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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manul | (noun) small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia | Synonyms: Felis manul, Pallas's cat |
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manumission | (noun) the formal act of freeing from slavery | - |
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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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manure | (noun) any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material | - |
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(verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: muck |
manus | (noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: hand, mitt, paw |
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manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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(noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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menu | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: fare |
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(noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant | Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte, carte du jour |
(noun) (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user | Synonyms: computer menu |
(noun) the dishes making up a meal | - |
micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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minuend | (noun) the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted | - |
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minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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(noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
minus | (adjective) on the negative side or lower end of a scale | - |
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(adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: negative |
(noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: subtraction |
minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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minuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscular |
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(adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: little, small |
(adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: miniscule |
(noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
(noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
minute | (adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: narrow |
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(adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: infinitesimal |
(noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
(noun) a short note | - |
(noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: arcminute, minute of arc |
(noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: min |
(noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second |
(noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, moment, second |
minutely | (adverb) in minute detail | Synonyms: circumstantially |
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minuteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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(noun) great precision; painstaking attention to details | - |
minutes | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: proceedings, transactions |
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minutia | (noun) (biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared. | - |
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(noun) a small or minor detail | - |
mispronunciation | (noun) incorrect pronunciation | - |
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mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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molybdenum | (noun) a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel | Synonyms: atomic number 42, Mo |
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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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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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multinucleate | (adjective) having two or more nuclei | - |
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musnud | (noun) a seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes | - |
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myoclonus | (noun) a clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group | - |
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myoglobinuria | (noun) the presence of myoglobin in the urine | - |
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nanus | (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: dwarf, midget |
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noncontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: discontinuous |
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nongranular | (adjective) not having granules | - |
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nonuniform | (adjective) not homogeneous | Synonyms: inhomogeneous |
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nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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nonunion | (adjective) not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union | - |
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