meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
(adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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(noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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(adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
(adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
(noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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(noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
(verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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(noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
(noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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merchantable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
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merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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merciful | (adjective) showing or giving mercy | - |
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(adjective) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious | - |
mercifully | (adverb) in a compassionate manner | - |
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mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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(noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
(noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
merciless | (adjective) having or showing no mercy | Synonyms: unmerciful |
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mercilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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(noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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(adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |
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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