Word Meanings - HYOMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

Related words: (words related to HYOMENTAL)

• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• FRONTIER
  An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
• FRONTLESS
  Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
• FRONTON
  See 2
• FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
  A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• FRONT
  1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A
• FRONTISPIECE
  The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
• FRONTINIAC
  See FRONTIGNAC
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FRONTO-
  A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
• FRONTINGLY
  In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.