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1,807 words match “DON”

LONDONER n.
A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
LONDONISM n.
A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
LONDONIZE v. 2 definitions
To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
LYCOPERDON n.
A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.
MACEDONIAN a. 3 definitions
Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia. -- n.
MACEDONIANISM n.
The doctrines of Macedonius.
MACRODONT a. 2 definitions
A macrodont animal.
MADONNA n. 3 definitions
[pl. Madonnas (naz).]
MANICHORD; MANICHORDON n.
The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.
MASTODON n.
An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Q…
MASTODONSAURUS n.
A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks.
MASTODONTIC a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. Everett.
MESODONT a.
Having teeth of moderate size.
MICRODONT a.
Having small teeth.
MONOCOTYLEDON n.
A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.
MONOCOTYLEDONOUS a.
Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.
MONOPHYODONT a.
Having but one set of teeth; -- opposed to diphyodont.
MYLODON n.
An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.
MYRMIDON n. 2 definitions
s, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.
MYRMIDONIAN a.
Consisting of, or like, myrmidons. Pope.
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