(botany, mycology) Not covered in scales or scale-like objects; having a smooth skin or outer covering.
formalesque
formalesque
adj
(art) modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960
humoresques
humoresques
noun
plural of humoresque
jacqueminot
jacqueminot
noun
A variety of deep crimson rose.
maquiladora
maquiladora
noun
An assembly plant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components, and which then exports its products to the company's country of origin; also (by extension) similar factories in other countries.
marlowesque
marquisotte
marquisotte
verb
(obsolete, rare) To shave off the beard but leave the moustache.
menaquinone
menaquinone
noun
(biochemistry, pharmacology) A pale yellow crystalline naphthoquinone C₄₁H₅₆O₂ that is obtained especially from putrefied fish meal and produced by bacteria in the large intestine and essential for the blood-clotting process. It is much more unsaturated than vitamin K₁ and slightly less active biologically, and is an isoprenoid derivative of menadione.
meriquinoid
meriquinone
metasequoia
metasequoia
noun
Metasequoia, the dawn redwood, a fast-growing deciduous conifer native to China.
microquakes
microquakes
noun
plural of microquake
milquetoast
milquetoast
adj
(originally US, informal, derogatory) Meek, timid; lacking character or effectiveness.
noun
(originally US, informal, derogatory) A person of meek or timid disposition; a person who lacks character or effectiveness.
monchiquite
monchiquite
noun
(mineralogy) A black, basaltic igneous rock consisting of a ground mass of automorphic augite and magnetite with many embedded phenocrysts, usually of olivine.
montesquieu
moquelumnan
mosquitoish
mosquitoish
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a mosquito.
mosquittoey
normanesque
omniloquent
plasmoquine
plasmoquine
noun
(medicine) Synonym of chloroquine
quantometer
quantometer
noun
A device for performing spectrographic analysis.
quarrelsome
quarrelsome
adj
Argumentative; fond of or prone to quarreling.
querimonies
querimonies
noun
plural of querimony
questmonger
questmonger
noun
(archaic, derogatory) One who encourages petty lawsuits.
quinolinium
quinolinium
noun
(organic chemistry) The cation formed by protonation of a quinoline
quinonimine
quinonimine
noun
(chemistry) Any of a class of imines formally derived from a quinone by replacing one or both oxygens with =NR.
quondamship
quondamship
noun
(obsolete, rare) The property of being former, no longer current.