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  • multisectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
  • multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • museologically — In a museological manner.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • musical comedy — musical (def 5).
  • muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
  • muster station — the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency
  • mutual insurer — A mutual insurer is an insurance company which is owned by its members or policyholders rather than by shareholders.
  • mutual society — co-operative organization
  • myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
  • narcoterrorism — terrorist tactics employed by dealers in illicit drugs, as against competitors or government agents.
  • necessarianism — (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • neil armstrong — (Daniel) Louis ("Satchmo") 1900–71, U.S. jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
  • nematodiriasis — the condition, esp in sheep, of having parasitic nematode worms of the genus Nematodirus in the small intestine
  • neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • neo-malthusian — a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
  • neo-melanesian — a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia.
  • neo-surrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
  • neocolonialism — the policy of a strong nation in seeking political and economic hegemony over an independent nation or extended geographical area without necessarily reducing the subordinate nation or area to the legal status of a colony.
  • neoromanticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of painting developed in the 20th century, chiefly characterized by forms or images that project a sense of nostalgia and fantasy.
  • neuroanatomist — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
  • neutral monism — the theory that mind and matter consist of different relations between entities that are themselves neither mental nor physical.
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
  • non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
  • non-assumptive — taken for granted.
  • non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • nondimensional — Not dimensional.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonmechanistic — Not mechanistic.
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
  • nuclear isomer — isomer (def 2).
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
  • omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • oral eroticism — libidinal pleasure derived from the lips and mouth, for example by kissing
  • ornamentations — Plural form of ornamentation.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
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