| ameba | (noun) naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion | Synonyms: amoeba |
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| ameban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amebiasis | (noun) infection by a disease-causing ameba | Synonyms: amebiosis, amoebiasis, amoebiosis |
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| amebic | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amebiosis | (noun) infection by a disease-causing ameba | Synonyms: amebiasis, amoebiasis, amoebiosis |
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| ameboid | (adjective) like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape) | Synonyms: amoeboid |
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| amebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| ameer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: amir, emeer, emir |
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| amelia | (noun) congenital absence of an arm or leg | - |
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| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amelioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: betterment, melioration |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| ameloblast | (noun) a cell from which tooth enamel develops | - |
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| amelogenesis | (noun) the developmental process of forming tooth enamel | - |
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| amenability | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenableness, cooperativeness |
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| amenable | (adjective) disposed or willing to conform | Synonyms: conformable |
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| (adjective) liable to answer to a higher authority | - |
| (adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences | Synonyms: tractable |
| (adjective) open to being acted upon in a certain way | - |
| amenableness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, cooperativeness |
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| amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
| (verb) make amendments to | - |
| amendable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: correctable |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amended | (adjective) of legislation | - |
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| (adjective) modified for the better | - |
| amendment | (noun) the act of amending or correcting | - |
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| (noun) a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) | - |
| amends | (noun) something done or paid in expiation of a wrong | Synonyms: reparation |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
| amenia | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenorrhea, amenorrhoea |
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| amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| amenity | (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| amenorrhea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhoea |
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| amenorrheal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrheic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrhoea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhea |
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| amenorrhoeal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeic |
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| amenorrhoeic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal |
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| ament | (noun) a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence | Synonyms: catkin |
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| amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
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| amentia | (noun) extreme mental retardation | Synonyms: idiocy |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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| (verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
| amercement | (noun) money extracted as a penalty | Synonyms: fine, mulct |
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| amerciable | (adjective) of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge | - |
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| americium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms | Synonyms: Am, atomic number 95 |
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| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| amethopterin | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: methotrexate, methotrexate sodium |
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| amethyst | (adjective) of a moderate purple color | - |
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| (noun) a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone | - |
| amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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| ametria | (noun) congenital absence of the uterus | - |
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| ametropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia | - |
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| ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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