ALUMINIUM | • aluminium n. A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13. • aluminium n. (Countable) A single atom of this element. • aluminium n. (Slang) Aircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium. |
ALUMINUMS | • aluminums n. Plural of aluminum. • ALUMINUM n. a light silvery malleable and ductile metallic element, also ALUMINIUM, ALUMIUM. |
COLUMBIUM | • columbium n. (Obsolete) A former name of niobium. • COLUMBIUM n. a rare element of the vanadium group, now more commonly called niobium. |
IMPLUVIUM | • impluvium n. (Architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from… • IMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a rain water receptacle in Roman houses. |
KUMIKUMIS | • KUMIKUMI n. (Maori) a kind of marrow found in New Zealand, also KAMOKAMO. |
MANUBRIUM | • manubrium n. (Anatomy) The broad, upper part of the sternum. • manubrium n. (Zoology) The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth. • manubrium n. A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ. |
MARSUPIUM | • marsupium n. The external pouch in which female marsupials rear and feed the young. • marsupium n. A brood pouch in some fishes, crustaceans and insects in the family Monophlebidae. • MARSUPIUM n. (Latin) the pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young. |
MASURIUMS | • MASURIUM n. a name proposed for element number 43, now called technetium. |
MIMULUSES | • mimuluses n. Plural of mimulus. • MIMULUS n. any of various plants of the genus Mimulus, cultivated for their yellow or red flowers. |
MUMPSIMUS | • mumpsimus n. A person who obstinately adheres to old ways in spite of clear evidence that they are wrong; an ignorant… • mumpsimus n. An obvious error that is obstinately repeated despite correction. • MUMPSIMUS n. an erroneous word or spelling that, through long usage, has become absorbed into the language; an incorrect manuscript reading blindly adhered to by some scholar. |
MURMURING | • murmuring v. Present participle of murmur. • murmuring n. A sound that murmurs. • murmuring n. A complaint against something. |
MUTUALISM | • mutualism n. (Ecology) Any interaction between two species that benefits both; typically involves the exchange of… • mutualism n. An economic theory and anarchist school of thought that advocates a society where each person might… • MUTUALISM n. a belief in the mutual dependence of society and the individual. |
NELUMBIUM | • nelumbium n. (Botany) Any member of the former plant genus Nelumbium. • NELUMBIUM n. (Tamil) a plant of the Nelumbium genus of waterlilies that includes the sacred lotus, also NELUMBO. |
NUMMULINE | • nummuline adj. Relating to nummulites. • nummuline n. A nummulite. • NUMMULINE n. any of large fossil protozoans. |
NUMMULITE | • nummulite n. A protozoan from the Tertiary period, known only as fossils. • NUMMULITE n. a fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera. |
SIMULIUMS | • SIMULIUM n. a small black bloodsucking fly. |
SUMPSIMUS | • sumpsimus n. Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term in rejection of a more common (but technically… • sumpsimus n. A person obstinate or zealous about such correctness; a pedant. • SUMPSIMUS n. (Latin) a correct expression that replaces a popular but wrong one. |
ULTIMATUM | • ultimatum n. A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses… • ULTIMATUM n. (Latin) a last offer, or demand. |
UNGUMMING | • ungumming v. Present participle of ungum. • UNGUM v. to free from gum. |