| mercuric | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercurous |
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| mercurous | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercuric |
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| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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| (noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) something for which to be thankful | - |
| mere | (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, simple |
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| (adjective) being nothing more than specified | - |
| (noun) a small pond of standing water | - |
| merely | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: but, just, only, simply |
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| merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| meretriciously | (adverb) in a meretricious manner | Synonyms: flashily |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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| merge | (verb) become one | Synonyms: unify, unite |
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| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, mix |
| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: unify, unite |
| merged | (adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, unified |
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| merger | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, unification |
| merging | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: confluent |
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| (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: confluence, conflux |
| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
| merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| meridian | (adjective) of or happening at noon | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: prime |
| (noun) an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator | Synonyms: line of longitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| meridional | (adjective) of or relating to a meridian | - |
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| (adjective) located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places | - |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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| meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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| merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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| (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
| (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
| meritable | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritorious |
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| merited | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: deserved |
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| meritless | (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry |
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| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| meritoriously | (adverb) in a meritorious manner | - |
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| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| merl | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merle, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| merle | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| merlin | (noun) small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco columbarius, pigeon hawk |
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| merlon | (noun) a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement | - |
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| mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| merobenthos | (noun) benthos consisting of organisms in pre-adult stages that later become adult in the plankton. | - |
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| meromelia | (noun) congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | - |
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| meronym | (noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole | Synonyms: part name |
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| meronymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole | Synonyms: part to whole relation |
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| merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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| merrily | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, jubilantly, mirthfully |
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| merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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| (noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| merriness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity |
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| merry | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, gay |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, mirthful |
| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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| mesa | (noun) flat tableland with steep edges | Synonyms: table |
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| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| 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 |
| mescaline | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: peyote |
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| mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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| mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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| mesenteric | (adjective) of or relating to or located in a mesentery | - |
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| mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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| mesh | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, meshing |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: meshing, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component | Synonyms: mesh topology |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, meshing |
| (noun) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles | - |
| (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| meshed | (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: engaged, intermeshed |
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| (adjective) resembling a network | - |
| meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
| meshuga | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| meshugaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: mishegaas, mishegoss |
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| meshugga | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugge, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| meshugge | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| meshuggeneh | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggener |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggener |
| meshuggener | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
| meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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| mesial | (adjective) being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
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| mesic | (adjective) having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesonic |
| mesmeric | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmerizing, spellbinding |
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| mesmerise | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind |
| mesmerised | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| mesmerism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, suggestion |
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| mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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| mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind |
| mesmerized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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| mesmerizing | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding |
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| mesoblast | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoderm |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| mesocarp | (noun) the middle layer of a pericarp | - |
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| mesocolon | (noun) mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall | - |
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| mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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| mesodermal | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesoblastic |
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| mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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| mesolithic | (adjective) of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic) | - |
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| mesomorph | (noun) a person with a well-developed muscular body | - |
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| mesomorphic | (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: muscular |
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| mesomorphy | (noun) muscular and big-boned | Synonyms: athletic type |
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| meson | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: mesotron |
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| mesonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesic |
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| mesophyron | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: glabella |
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| mesophyte | (noun) land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte | Synonyms: mesophytic plant |
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| mesophytic | (adjective) being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment | - |
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| mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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| mesothelioma | (noun) a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust | - |
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| mesothelium | (noun) epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity | - |
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| mesotron | (noun) an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | Synonyms: meson |
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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| mess | (noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax | Synonyms: mess hall |
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| (noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel | - |
| (noun) soft semiliquid food | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness |
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle |
| (verb) make a mess of or create disorder in | Synonyms: mess up |
| (verb) eat in a mess hall | - |