(historical) A device that reduces the mechanical vibration of telegraph wires to prevent their making a humming sound.
athumia
azimuth
azimuth
noun
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.
The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
bakhmut
balmuth
fathmur
hamatum
hamatum
noun
(anatomy) The hamate bone.
harmout
humates
humates
noun
plural of humate
khartum
machaut
machute
mahouts
mahouts
noun
plural of mahout
malthus
malthus
Proper noun
derived from the word for malthouse.
Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed the view that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.
manhunt
manhunt
noun
An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
matchup
matchup
noun
A pairing of two things, people or teams, especially for a competition
mathieu
mathura
matthus
mauther
mauther
noun
(archaic, UK, dialect) A girl, especially, a large awkward girl.
(archaic, UK, dialect) A mother.
mukhtar
mukhtar
noun
(India, historical) A person acting as an agent, particularly a lawyer.
(politics) A minor official—usually overseeing a village or town—in many Arab countries and (historical) in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and formerly Albania.
(specifically) Alternative spelling of muhtar: an elected official overseeing a village or neighborhood in modern Turkey.
murtagh
mustagh
sathrum
shawmut
thammuz
thaumas
theasum
thiuram
thiuram
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent radical of general formula R₂N-CS- most often encountered as a disulfide
