| euphonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonic |
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| euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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| (adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
| euphonium | (noun) a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family | - |
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| euphonous | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonious |
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| euphony | (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: music |
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| euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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| euphoria | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphory |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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| flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| geomorphologic | (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural |
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| geomorphological | (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, morphologic, morphological, structural |
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| geomorphology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: morphology |
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| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| gramophone | (noun) an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically | Synonyms: acoustic gramophone |
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| graphologist | (noun) a specialist in inferring character from handwriting | Synonyms: handwriting expert |
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| graphology | (noun) the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition) | - |
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| graphospasm | (noun) muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil | Synonyms: writer's cramp |
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| gryphon | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, griffon |
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| gynandromorphous | (adjective) having both male and female morphological characteristics | Synonyms: gynandromorphic |
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| gynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of women | - |
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| gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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| headphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, phone |
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| heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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| hemimetamorphosis | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetaboly |
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| hemimetamorphous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| homophobe | (noun) a person who hates or fears homosexual people | - |
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| homophobia | (noun) prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality | - |
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| homophobic | (adjective) prejudiced against homosexual people | - |
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| homophone | (noun) two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) | - |
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| homophonic | (adjective) having a single melodic line with accompaniment | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound | - |
| homophonous | (adjective) characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way | - |
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| homophony | (noun) part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style) | - |
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| (noun) the same pronunciation for words of different origins | - |
| hydromorphone | (noun) a narcotic analgesic (trade name Dilaudid) used to treat moderate to severe pain | Synonyms: Dilaudid, hydromorphone hydrochloride |
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| hydrophobia | (noun) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | Synonyms: lyssa, madness, rabies |
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| (noun) a morbid fear of water | - |
| (noun) a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids | - |
| hydrophobic | (adjective) lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water | - |
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| (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: aquaphobic |
| hydrophobicity | (noun) the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water | - |
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| hypnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of falling asleep | - |
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| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| interphone | (noun) a telephonic intercommunication system linking different rooms in a building or ship etc | - |
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| ionophoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, electrophoresis |
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| iontophoresis | (noun) therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues | Synonyms: electromotive drug administration, EMDA, ionic medication, iontotherapy |
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| isomorphous | (adjective) having similar appearance but genetically different | Synonyms: isomorphic |
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| isophone | (noun) linguistics, an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found. | - |
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| kniphofia | (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, flameflower, tritoma |
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| kyphosis | (noun) The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine. | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| kyphotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked |
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| lagerphone | (noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | - |
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| lamphouse | (noun) housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) | Synonyms: lamp house, lamp housing |
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| lepidophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of snakes | - |
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| loophole | (noun) a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons | - |
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| (noun) an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation | - |
| lymphoblast | (noun) an immature lymphocyte | - |
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| lymphocyte | (noun) an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection | Synonyms: lymph cell |
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| lymphocytic | (adjective) of or relating to lymphocytes | - |
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| lymphocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphopenia |
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| lymphocytosis | (noun) an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | - |
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| lymphogranuloma | (noun) swelling of a lymph node | - |
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| lymphography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of lymph nodes and lymph vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces a lymphangiogram | Synonyms: lymphangiography |
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| lymphoid | (adjective) resembling lymph or lymphatic tissues | - |
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| lymphokine | (noun) a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages) | - |
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| lymphoma | (noun) a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer | - |
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| lymphopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphocytopenia |
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| lymphopoiesis | (noun) the formation of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and thymus and spleen | - |
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| mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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| mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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| megaphone | (noun) a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice | - |
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| membranophone | (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: drum, tympan |
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| mephobarbital | (noun) a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Mebaral |
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| metamorphopsia | (noun) a defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina | - |
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| metamorphose | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify |
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| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
| metamorphosis | (noun) a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft | - |
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| (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: transfiguration |
| (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals | Synonyms: metabolism |
| metamorphous | (adjective) of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks) | Synonyms: metamorphic |
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| (adjective) produced by metamorphosis | - |
| metaphor | (noun) a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | - |
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| metaphoric | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphorical |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphorically | (adverb) in a metaphorical manner | - |
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| microphone | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, mike |
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| microphoning | (noun) the transduction of sound waves into electrical waves (by a microphone) | - |
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| microphotometer | (noun) special kind of densitometer that measures density variations over a very small area | - |
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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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| morphogenesis | (noun) differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism) | - |
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| morphologic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphological, structural |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language | Synonyms: morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphological, structural |
| morphological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, structural |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language | Synonyms: morphologic |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, structural |
| morphologically | (adverb) in a morphological manner; with regard to morphology | - |
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| morphology | (noun) the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants | - |
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| (noun) studies of the rules for forming admissible words | - |
| (noun) the admissible arrangement of sounds in words | Synonyms: sound structure, syllable structure, word structure |
| (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: geomorphology |
| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| morphophonemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphophonemics | - |
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| morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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| morphophysiology | (noun) the study of anatomy in its relation to function | Synonyms: functional anatomy, physiological anatomy |
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| musophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of mice | - |
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| mysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dirt or contamination | - |
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| mysophobic | (adjective) suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination | - |
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| neophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of novelty | - |
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| nephology | (noun) the branch of meteorology that studies clouds and cloud formation | - |
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| nephoscope | (noun) a measuring instrument that uses a grid for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds | - |
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| nonphotosynthetic | (adjective) not photosynthetic | - |
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