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  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
  • madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
  • mispronounced — Said wrongly.
  • misredemption — illegal or fraudulent traffic in consumer product coupons, including mail theft and counterfeiting.
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • monoterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C10 skeleton.
  • monte perdido — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
  • multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • nephridiopore — The external opening of a nephridium.
  • neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
  • nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
  • nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nondispersive — not dispersive
  • nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • nonprejudiced — Not prejudiced.
  • nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
  • nonproduction — Absence of production.
  • nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
  • onus probandi — the burden of proof.
  • open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overimpressed — very impressed
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
  • parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • patriot's day — the third Monday in April, a legal holiday in Me. and Mass. commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
  • patriots' day — the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord (1775), celebrated the third Monday in April: a legal holiday in Massachusetts and Maine.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
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