Rule by merit, and talent. / A type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through competition.

(phonology) A phonemic merger in some varieties of English (especially American and Canadian English) in which the vowels in words such as hot and doll (/ɒ/) and in words such as law and talk (/ɔː/) are pronounced identically, making the words cot and caught homophones.

(phonology) The cot-caught merger.

(phonology) The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.

Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.

After noon, in the afternoon.

A small falcon, Falco columbarius, that breeds in northern North America, Europe, and Asia.

(biochemistry) A cytoskeletal protein active in the suppression of tumors.

(rare) Midday, noon. / (time/clock operation) Either a.m. or p.m.

A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.