The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
eumelanin
eumelanin
noun
A dark brown pigment related to melanin
fulminate
fulminate
noun
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
verb
(intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
(intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
(transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
(transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
gluneamie
glutamine
glutamine
noun
(biochemistry) A nonessential amino acid C₅H₁₀N₂O₃ found in most animal and plant proteins.
humanlike
humanlike
adj
Having characteristics of a human.
laumonite
laumonite
noun
Alternative spelling of laumontite
lemurinae
luminaire
luminaire
noun
An electrical device that contains an electric lamp that provides illumination.
luminance
luminance
noun
The amount of light that passes through, is emitted, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
The luminous flux emitted in a given direction divided by the product of the projected area of the source element perpendicular to the direction and the solid angle containing that direction (i.e. luminous intensity divided by unit area), measured in stilbs or apostilbs.
The quality of being luminous.
machinule
machinule
noun
(obsolete) An instrument used by surveyors to find right angles.
malurinae
masculine
masculine
adj
(grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a back vowel.
(of a noun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
(of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
noun
(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
(grammar) The masculine gender.
(rare, possibly obsolete) A man.
That which is masculine.
maudeline
melanuria
melanuria
noun
(medicine) The excretion of urine of an abnormally dark colour, caused by the presence of melanin or other pigments or by the action of phenol, creosote, resorcin, and other coal-tar derivatives.
melanuric
melanuric
adj
Relating to melanuria.
moulinage
moulinage
noun
The operation of reeling off, twisting, and doubling raw silk.
mufinella
mullerian
mullerian
adj
Alternative form of Müllerian
multilane
multilane
adj
(of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
multivane
multivane
adj
Of or pertaining to multiple vanes.
nelumbian
neurilema
neurilema
noun
Dated form of neurilemma.
numerical
numerical
adj
(obsolete) The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical.