mansas
plural of mansa

marres
third-person singular simple present indicative of marre

masked bee
Any colletid bee of the genus Hylaeus, which live solitary lifestyles and display hivebuilding behaviors similar to plasterer bees, to whom they are closely related.

masked bees
plural of masked bee

mason bee
Any of the bees of the genus Osmia, which have the habit of making compartments of mud in their nests.

mason bees
plural of mason bee

megaspilids
plural of megaspilid

megilla
Alternative form of megillah.

megillas
plural of megilla

melittids
plural of melittid

menisci
plural of meniscus

meniscus
A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.
A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section.
The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid.
Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.

meniscuses
plural of meniscus

merismus
A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.

mesa
A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

mesas
plural of mesa

meteorites
plural of meteorite

metopon
An opiate analogue, a methylated derivative of hydromorphone used as an analgesic.

micrometeorites
plural of micrometeorite

minicamera
A miniature camera.

minicameras
plural of minicamera

mining bee
Any of very many species of bee, of the genus Andrena, that nest in burrows.

mining bees
plural of mining bee

momma
Mother.
A voluptuous woman.
One's wife or girlfriend.

monochromasia
monochromacy

motes
plural of mote

mud dauber
A wasp, from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae, that builds its nest from mud.

mud daubers
plural of mud dauber

mud wasp
Synonym of mud dauber (“type of wasp”).

multilatina
A Latin American company that has become a multinational by expanding into other Latin American countries or beyond.

multilatinas
plural of multilatina

mumma
Alternative form of mama: mother.

mummas
plural of mumma

murciana
A form of fandango originating in Murcia.

murcianas
plural of murciana

myelinoclasis
Destruction of myelin.

myopias
plural of myopia

nanocamera
A nanoscale camera.

nanocameras
plural of nanocamera

neuropodia
plural of neuropodium

neuropodium
The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium

new
Recently made, or created.
Recently made, or created.
Additional; recently discovered.
Current or later, as opposed to former.
Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
Newborn.
Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
Recently arrived or appeared.
Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
Next; about to begin or recently begun.

news
New information of interest.
Information about current events disseminated by the media.
Messages posted on newsgroups.

newscrawl
Alternative form of news crawl.

newscrawls
plural of newscrawl

newshole
Alternative form of news hole.

newsholes
plural of newshole

newsmagazine
Alternative spelling of news magazine.

newsmagazines
plural of newsmagazine

newsmedia
Alternative spelling of news media.

newssheet
Alternative form of news sheet.

newssheets
plural of newssheet

newsticker
Alternative form of news ticker.

newstickers
plural of newsticker

nomia
Any of various ground-nesting halictid bees of the genus Nomia, native to Asia, many species of which have opalescent bands on the metasoma.

nomias
plural of nomia

nooz
Pronunciation spelling of news.

nuze
Eye dialect spelling of news.

oak apple
A spherical type of oak gall, produced by an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini).

omicra
plural of omicron; Alternative form of omicrons.

omicron
The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.

omicrons
plural of omicron

omikra
plural of omikron

omikron
Alternative form of omicron.

omikrons
plural of omikron

omnicron
Misspelling of omicron.
Misspelling of omicron.

omricon
Misspelling of omicron.

onychia
A whitlow (infection near a finger or toe nail)

onychias
plural of onychia

onychitides
plural of onychitis

onychitis
Synonym of onychia.

onyxitis
Alternative form of onychitis.

otoy
new cocoyam

oxyosmia
Abnormal acuity or strength of the sense of smell

pachyonychia
Abnormal thickening of the nails.

panagiaria
plural of panagiarion

panama
Alternative form of Panama (“type of hat”).

panamas
plural of panama

paper wasp
Any wasp in the vespid subfamily Polistinae, known for making paper-like nests out of fibers from dead wood and plant stems.

paper wasps
plural of paper wasp

pappous
pappose

paraleipses
plural of paraleipsis

paraleipsis
Alternative form of paralipsis.

paralepses
plural of paralepsis

paralepsis
Alternative spelling of paraleipsis.

paralipses
plural of paralipsis

paralipsis
A figure of speech in which one pretends to ignore or omit something by actually mentioning it.

paranomasia
Misspelling of paronomasia.

parasiopesis
Synonym of paralipsis.

parasitioid
Misspelling of parasitoid.

parasitoid
Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.

parasitoid wasp
A large subportion of taxonomically closely-related wasp taxa who engage in parasitoidism; usually defined as the spider wasps (Pompilidae), ichneumonoids (Ichneumonoidea), orussoids (Orussoidea), and chalcidoids (Chalcidoidea).

parasitoids
plural of parasitoid

paronomasia
A pun or play on words.
The use of puns.

paronomasies
plural of paronomasy

paronomasy
Archaic form of paronomasia.

parosmia
A distorted sense of smell, often resulting in the apparent detection of non-existent smells which are mostly unpleasant.

parosmias
plural of parosmia

parosmis
Synonym of parosmia

pavement ant
An ant of a species that often nests under pavement or rocks:
An ant of a species that often nests under pavement or rocks:
An ant of a species that often nests under pavement or rocks:

pedunculi
plural of pedunculus

pedunculus
A peduncle.

pelecinids
plural of pelecinid

pepsis
plural of pepsi

perdita
A woman who has fallen into prostitution.

perditas
plural of perdita

pergula
Alternative form of pergola.

pergulae
plural of pergula

pergulas
plural of pergula

pericytherion
Periapsis around Venus.

perilampids
plural of perilampid

permacrisis
A permanent crisis, one that continually drags on.

petalodes
plural of petalode

pharaoh ant
A small yellow-brown ant, Monomorium pharaonis, introduced to virtually every area of the world, considered to be a major indoor pest.

phi
Φ, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".
The golden ratio.
A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion.

phis
plural of phi

phrasemen
plural of phraseman

phylacter
Synonym of phylactery.

phylacters
plural of phylacter

pigeon tremex
A type of horntail, Tremex columba

pion
Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.

pions
plural of pion

plasterer bee
Any bee of the subfamily Colletinae, solitary bees that secrete a substance from their mouthparts to give a cellophane-like lining to their nests.

plasterer bees
plural of plasterer bee

platygasterid
Alternative form of platygastrid.

platygasterids
plural of platygasterid

platygastrid
Any wasp in the family Platygastridae.

platygastrids
plural of platygastrid

pleasemen
plural of pleaseman