| AMELIORATED | • ameliorated v. Simple past tense and past participle of ameliorate. • ameliorated adj. Having had problem(s) improved upon; having been the subject of amelioration. • AMELIORATE v. to make better, also MELIORATE. |
| AMONTILLADO | • amontillado n. A pale, dry sherry from Montilla. • AMONTILLADO n. a kind of sherry. |
| CONDYLOMATA | • condylomata n. Plural of condyloma. • CONDYLOMA n. a wartlike growth in private parts. |
| DACTYLOGRAM | • dactylogram n. A fingerprint. • DACTYLOGRAM n. a fingerprint. |
| DECLAMATION | • declamation n. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public. • declamation n. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. • declamation n. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense. |
| DECLAMATORY | • declamatory adj. Having the quality of a declamation. • declamatory adj. Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic. • DECLAMATORY adj. in the manner of a declamation. |
| IDIOMATICAL | • idiomatical adj. Idiomatic. • IDIOMATICAL adj. peculiar to or of the nature of an idiom, also IDIOMATIC. |
| LAUNDROMATS | • laundromats n. Plural of laundromat. |
| LOADMASTERS | • loadmasters n. Plural of loadmaster. • LOADMASTER n. a member of an aircrew who is in charge of the cargo. |
| MACRODACTYL | • macrodactyl n. One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes. • MACRODACTYL n. one of a group of wading birds. |
| MALADROITLY | • maladroitly adv. In a maladroit manner. • MALADROIT adv. (French) clumsy, unskilful. |
| MANDATORILY | • mandatorily adv. In a mandatory manner; not optionally; required. • MANDATORY adv. by mandate, also MANDATARY. |
| MARTELLANDO | • MARTELLANDO n. (Italian) the act of playing the violin with a hammering touch, or with short quick detached movements of the bow. |
| MEDIATIONAL | • mediational adj. Of or pertaining to mediation. • MEDIATIONAL adj. relating to mediation. |
| MEDIATORIAL | • mediatorial adj. Relating to or befitting a mediator (one who mediates). • MEDIATORIAL adj. of or like a mediator. |
| METALLOIDAL | • metalloidal adj. Metalloid. • METALLOIDAL adj. intermediate in its properties between a typical metal and a typical nonmetal. |
| MORTADELLAS | • mortadellas n. Plural of mortadella. • MORTADELLA n. (Italian) Italian pork sausage. |
| NEMATOCIDAL | • nematocidal adj. Acting as a nematocide; fatal to nematodes. • NEMATOCIDAL adj. relating to a nematocide, a substance used to kill nematodes. |