| fibril | (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: filament, strand |
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| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| fibrin | (noun) a white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets | - |
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| fibrinase | (noun) in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot | Synonyms: factor XIII |
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| fibrinogen | (noun) a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots | Synonyms: factor I |
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| fibrinolysin | (noun) an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots | Synonyms: plasmin |
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| fibrinolysis | (noun) a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots | - |
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| fibrinopeptide | (noun) peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood | - |
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| fimbria | (noun) thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube) | - |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| flybridge | (noun) the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house | Synonyms: fly bridge, flying bridge, monkey bridge |
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| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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| (noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
| (noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
| (noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| hubris | (noun) overbearing pride or presumption | - |
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| hybrid | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed |
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| (noun) a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motor | Synonyms: hybrid car |
| (noun) a composite of mixed origin | - |
| (noun) a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) | Synonyms: loan-blend, loanblend |
| hybridisation | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hybridization | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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| hybridoma | (noun) a hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a lymphocyte and a tumor cell; used to culture a specific monoclonal antibody | - |
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| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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| inebriation | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness |
| inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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| lugubriousness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, sadness |
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| manubrium | (noun) the upper part of the breastbone | - |
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| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| myofibril | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibrilla, sarcostyle |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| neurofibril | (noun) Any of the long, thin, microscopic fibrils that run through the body of a neuron and extend into the axon and dendrites, giving the neuron support and shape. | - |
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| nombril | (noun) the center point on a shield | - |
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| opprobrium | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: infamy |
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| (noun) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse | Synonyms: obloquy |
| prefabrication | (noun) the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site | - |
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| refabrication | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: reassembly |
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| rubric | (noun) category name | - |
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| (noun) a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type | - |
| (noun) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text | Synonyms: gloss |
| (noun) an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure | - |
| (noun) directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book) | - |
| (noun) a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with | Synonyms: statute title, title |
| salubriousness | (noun) the quality of being salubrious and invigorating | Synonyms: salubrity |
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| salubrity | (noun) the quality of being salubrious and invigorating | Synonyms: salubriousness |
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| sobriety | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: temperance |
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| (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: dryness |
| (noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: soberness |
| sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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| soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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| sweetbriar | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbrier |
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| sweetbrier | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar |
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| tenebrionid | (noun) sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain | Synonyms: darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle |
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| tumbril | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbrel |
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| unabridged | (noun) a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary | Synonyms: unabridged dictionary |
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| upbringing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing |
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| (noun) properties acquired during a person's formative years | - |
| vibrio | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrion |
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| vibrion | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrio |
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| vibrissa | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, whisker |
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| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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