| maculation | (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: spotting, staining |
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| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot |
| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| mandibula | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| mandibular | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: inframaxillary |
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| mandibulate | (adjective) having mandibles | - |
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| manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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| manipulable | (adjective) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | Synonyms: tractable |
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| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| manipulation | (noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: use |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: handling |
| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| manipulatively | (adverb) in an artfully manipulative manner | - |
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| manipulativeness | (noun) The quality of using manipulation purposefully, of tending to manipulate others. | - |
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| manipulator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: operator |
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| (noun) a person who handles things manually | - |
| matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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| (verb) enroll as a student | - |
| matriculation | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matric |
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| maxillomandibular | (adjective) relating to the upper and lower jaws | - |
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| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscalculation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: misestimation, misreckoning |
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| modular | (adjective) constructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use | - |
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| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| modulated | (adjective) changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume | - |
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| (adjective) altered in volume as well as tone or pitch | - |
| modulation | (noun) the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) | - |
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| (noun) (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: intonation, pitch contour |
| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: inflection |
| molecular | (adjective) relating to simple or elementary organization | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules | - |
| monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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| morula | (noun) a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula | - |
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| mulatto | (noun) an offspring of a black and a white parent | - |
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| multicellular | (adjective) consisting of many cells | - |
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| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| navicular | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: scaphoid |
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| (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
| nebula | (noun) (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea | - |
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| (noun) an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | - |
| (noun) cloudiness of the urine | - |
| (noun) a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer | - |
| nebular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebulous |
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| (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: cloudlike |
| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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| noctambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| nodular | (adjective) relating to or characterized by or having nodules | - |
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| (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodulated, noduled |
| nodulated | (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodular, noduled |
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| noncellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: acellular |
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| nongranular | (adjective) not having granules | - |
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| nonparticulate | (adjective) not composed of distinct particles | - |
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| nonreticulate | (adjective) not resembling or forming a network | - |
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| octangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like an octagon | Synonyms: octagonal |
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| ocular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ophthalmic, optic, optical |
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| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: optic, optical, visual |
| (adjective) visible | Synonyms: visual |
| (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: eyepiece |
| operculate | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculated |
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| operculated | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculate |
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| oracular | (adjective) of or relating to an oracle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: enigmatic |
| (adjective) obscurely prophetic | Synonyms: Delphic |
| orbicular | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbiculate |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, spheric, spherical |
| orbiculate | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbicular |
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| orthomolecular | (adjective) designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals | - |
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| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |
| osculation | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, kiss |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | - |
| osculator | (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: kisser |
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| ossicular | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossiculate |
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| ossiculate | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicular |
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| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| overpopulation | (noun) too much population | - |
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| ovular | (adjective) of or relating to an ovum | - |
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| (adjective) being or of the nature of an ovule | - |
| ovulate | (verb) produce and discharge eggs | - |
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| ovulation | (noun) the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| pandiculation | (noun) yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) | - |
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| paniculate | (adjective) having a panicle | - |
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| particular | (adjective) providing specific details or circumstances | - |
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| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, picky |
| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: special |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: peculiar, special |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, special |
| (adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same group or category | - |
| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: specific |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class | Synonyms: particular proposition |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| particularisation | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularization |
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| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularised | (adjective) directed toward a specific object | Synonyms: particularized |
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| particularism | (noun) a focus on something particular | - |
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| particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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| particularity | (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: specialness |
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| particularization | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularisation |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularized | (adjective) directed toward a specific object | Synonyms: particularised |
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| particularly | (adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: especially, peculiarly, specially |
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| (adverb) uniquely or characteristically | Synonyms: peculiarly |
| (adverb) specifically or especially distinguished from others | Synonyms: in particular |
| particulate | (adjective) composed of distinct particles | - |
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| (noun) a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) | Synonyms: particulate matter |
| peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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| peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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| peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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| pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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| peninsula | (noun) a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
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| peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula | - |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| perambulation | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries | - |
| perambulator | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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| perpendicular | (adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles | - |
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| (adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: vertical |
| (adjective) so steep as to be nearly vertical | - |
| (noun) an extremely steep face | - |
| (noun) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point | Synonyms: plumb line |
| (noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting | Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular style |
| (noun) a straight line at right angles to another line | - |
| perpendicularity | (noun) the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of opposition between things at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, orthogonality |
| perpendicularly | (adverb) in a perpendicular manner | - |
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| (adverb) straight up or down without a break | Synonyms: sheer |
| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| petulantly | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, testily |
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| photocoagulation | (noun) surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina | - |
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| photocoagulator | (noun) surgical instrument containing a laser for use in photocoagulation | - |
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| pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
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| (adjective) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large | - |
| (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: pop |
| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: democratic |
| popularisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularization |
| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |