| longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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| (adjective) running lengthwise | - |
| (adjective) over an extended time | - |
| loyal | (adjective) steadfast in allegiance or duty | - |
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| (adjective) inspired by love for your country | Synonyms: patriotic |
| (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: fast, firm, truehearted |
| lucifugal | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugous |
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| lumbosacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips | - |
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| luteal | (adjective) of or relating to the corpus luteum | - |
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| lyrical | (adjective) expressing deep emotion | Synonyms: lyric |
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| (adjective) suitable for or suggestive of singing | - |
| macroscopical | (adjective) large enough to be visible with the naked eye | Synonyms: macroscopic |
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| (adjective) visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye | Synonyms: macroscopic |
| madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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| (verb) sing madrigals | - |
| magical | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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| mammal | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammalian |
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| managerial | (adjective) of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management | - |
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| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| maniacal | (adjective) wildly disordered | Synonyms: maniac |
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| manorial | (adjective) of or relating to or based on the manor | - |
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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 | - |
| marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
| (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
| (adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
| marital | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: married, matrimonial |
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| marmoreal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmorean |
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| marshal | (noun) a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law | Synonyms: marshall |
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| (noun) (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank | Synonyms: marshall |
| (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize, summon |
| (verb) arrange in logical order | - |
| (verb) place in proper rank | - |
| (verb) lead ceremoniously, as in a procession | - |
| marsupial | (adjective) of or relating to the marsupials | - |
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| (noun) mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried | Synonyms: pouched mammal |
| martial | (adjective) of or relating to the armed forces | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: warlike |
| (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: soldierlike, soldierly, warriorlike |
| mastoidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a nipple | Synonyms: mastoid |
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| (noun) process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull | Synonyms: mastoid, mastoid bone, mastoid process |
| material | (adjective) derived from or composed of matter | - |
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| (adjective) directly relevant to a matter especially a law case | - |
| (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: real, substantial |
| (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: corporeal |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being | - |
| (adjective) concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests | - |
| (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile |
| (noun) things needed for doing or making something | - |
| (noun) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form | - |
| (noun) a person judged suitable for admission or employment | - |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: stuff |
| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| mathematical | (adjective) relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers | Synonyms: numerical |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of mathematics | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics | - |
| (adjective) statistically possible though highly improbable | - |
| (adjective) beyond question | - |
| matriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a matriarchy | - |
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| matrilineal | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilinear |
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| matrimonial | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, married |
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| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| matutinal | (adjective) pertaining to or occurring in the morning | - |
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| maxillodental | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and its associated teeth | - |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| maximal | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximum |
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| mayoral | (adjective) of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor | - |
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| meal | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: repast |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | - |
| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times | - |
| 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 |
| medal | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medallion, palm, ribbon |
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| mediaeval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: medieval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, medieval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, medieval |
| medial | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: median |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: median |
| mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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| medical | (adjective) requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the study or practice of medicine | - |
| (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: aesculapian |
| (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: checkup, health check, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
| medicinal | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicative |
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| medicolegal | (adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) | - |
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| medieval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: mediaeval |
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| (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, mediaeval |
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, mediaeval |
| megalomaniacal | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomanic |
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| memorial | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: monument |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, remembrance |
| (noun) a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority | - |
| menial | (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, lowly |
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| (noun) a domestic servant | - |
| meningeal | (adjective) relating to the meninges | - |
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| menopausal | (adjective) of or relating to the menopause | - |
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| mensal | (adjective) pertaining to or used at the dining table | - |
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| menstrual | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: catamenial |
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| mensural | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensurable |
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| (adjective) of or relating to measure | - |
| mental | (adjective) involving the mind or an intellectual process | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mind | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: genial |
| (adjective) affected by a disorder of the mind | - |
| 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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| mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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| (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |
| meridional | (adjective) of or relating to a meridian | - |
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| (adjective) located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places | - |
| mescal | (noun) a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) | - |
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| (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mezcal, peyote |
| mesial | (adjective) being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
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| mesodermal | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesoblastic |
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| metacarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the metacarpus | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers | Synonyms: metacarpal bone |
| metal | (adjective) containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: metallic |
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| (noun) any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. | Synonyms: metallic element |
| (noun) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten | Synonyms: alloy |
| (verb) cover with metal | - |
| metallurgical | (adjective) of or relating to metallurgy | Synonyms: metallurgic |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphysical | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics | - |
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| (adjective) transcending physical matter or the laws of nature | - |
| (adjective) highly abstract and overly theoretical | - |
| metatarsal | (adjective) of or relating to the metatarsus | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the foot between the ankle and the toes | - |
| meteoritical | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritic |
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| meteorological | (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteoric, meteorologic |
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| methanal | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: formaldehyde |
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| metharbital | (noun) anticonvulsant drug (trade name Gemonil) used in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Gemonil |
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| methodical | (adjective) characterized by method and orderliness | - |
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| methodological | (adjective) relating to the methodology of some discipline | - |
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| metical | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mozambique; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| metonymical | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymic |
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| metrical | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metric |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metric |
| metrological | (adjective) of or relating to metrology | - |
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| metrosexual | (adjective) a heterosexual man that is particularly interested in his appearance, being well-groomed and fashion | - |
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| mezcal | (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, peyote |
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| miasmal | (adjective) filled with vapor | Synonyms: miasmic, vaporous, vapourous |
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| microbial | (adjective) of or involving or caused by or being microbes | Synonyms: microbic |
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| microcrystal | (noun) any crystal of microscopic size. | - |
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| microscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or used in microscopy | Synonyms: microscopic |
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| (adjective) so small as to be invisible without a microscope | Synonyms: microscopic |
| (adjective) visible under a microscope; using a microscope | Synonyms: microscopic |
| microsomal | (adjective) of or relating to microsomes | - |
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| migrational | (adjective) of or related to migration | - |
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| millennial | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennian |
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| mineral | (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
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| (adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
| (noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
| minimal | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimum |
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| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| misanthropical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropic |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropic |
| misconstrual | (noun) a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | Synonyms: misconstruction |
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| misdeal | (noun) an incorrect deal | - |
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| (verb) deal cards wrongly | - |
| missal | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year | - |
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| missional | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missionary |
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| mistral | (noun) a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter | - |
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| mistrial | (noun) a trial that is invalid or inconclusive | - |
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| mitral | (adjective) of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics | - |
| mnemotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnic |
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| modal | (adjective) relating to or expressing the mood of a verb | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode | - |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality | Synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb |
| molal | (adjective) designating a solution containing one mole of solute per kilogram of solvent | - |
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