acardia | (noun) congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters) | - |
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acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
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acedia | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: laziness, sloth |
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actinomyxidian | (noun) of or relating to parasites of worms | - |
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adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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adiaphoron | (noun) (Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit. | - |
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(noun) a religious ceremonial or ritual observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden nor enjoined by the scriptures. | - |
antidiabetic | (noun) a drug used to treat diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: antidiabetic drug |
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antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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archidiaconate | (noun) office or position of an archdeacon | - |
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ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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(noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
bradycardia | (noun) abnormally slow heartbeat | - |
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brodiaea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium | - |
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candidiasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: monilia disease, moniliasis |
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cardia | (noun) the opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus | - |
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chlamydia | (noun) coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract | - |
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(noun) a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia | - |
chlordiazepoxide | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade names Librium and Libritabs) used in the treatment of alcoholism | Synonyms: Libritabs, Librium |
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clostridia | (noun) spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore | Synonyms: clostridium |
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comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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(noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
cordial | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: liqueur |
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cordiality | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: amity |
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custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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dextrocardia | (noun) abnormal condition where the heart is located toward the right side of the chest | - |
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diabetes | (noun) a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst | - |
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diabetic | (noun) someone who has diabetes | - |
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diablotin | (noun) a thin round slice of bread usually served with soup, especially consomme. | - |
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diabolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: demonolatry, devil-worship |
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diabolism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: demonism, Satanism |
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diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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diacetylmorphine | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: heroin |
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diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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diacritic | (noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
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diadem | (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: crown |
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diaeresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: dieresis |
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diaglyph | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: intaglio |
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diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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diagnosis | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosing |
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diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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diagonal | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
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(noun) an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry | - |
(noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: bias |
(noun) (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent | - |
diagonalisation | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalization |
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diagonalization | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalisation |
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diagram | (noun) a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts | - |
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diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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dial | (noun) the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours | - |
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(noun) a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called | Synonyms: telephone dial |
(noun) the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments | - |
(noun) the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning | - |
dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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dialectic | (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
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(noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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dialog | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialogue |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialogue, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialogue |
dialogism | (noun) the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation. | - |
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dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
dialysis | (noun) separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | - |
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dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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diam | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diameter |
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diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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(noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
diameter | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diam |
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(noun) a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) | - |
diamine | (noun) any organic compound containing two amino groups | - |
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diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
(noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
(noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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diapason | (noun) either of the two main stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: diapason stop |
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diapedesis | (noun) passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue | - |
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diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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diaper | (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: napkin, nappy |
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(noun) a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures | - |
diaphanoscope | (noun) An instrument for illuminating the interior of a cavity to determine the translucency of its walls. | - |
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diapheromera | (noun) a variety of stick insect | Synonyms: Diapheromera femorata |
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diaphone | (noun) a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones | - |
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diaphoresis | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating |
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diaphoretic | (noun) used to produce perspiration | - |
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diaphragm | (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: stop |
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(noun) electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | - |
(noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, pessary |
(noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: midriff |
diaphysis | (noun) the main (mid) section of a long bone | Synonyms: shaft |
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diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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diapsid | (noun) reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye | Synonyms: diapsid reptile |
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diarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: dyarchy |
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diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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diarrhea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhoea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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diarrhoea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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diarthrosis | (noun) a joint so articulated as to move freely | Synonyms: articulatio synovialis, synovial joint |
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diary | (noun) a personal journal (as a physical object) | - |
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(noun) a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations | Synonyms: journal |
diaspora | (noun) the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | - |
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(noun) the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel | - |
diastasis | (noun) separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone | - |
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diastema | (noun) a gap or vacant space between two teeth | - |
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diastole | (noun) the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood | - |
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diastrophism | (noun) the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust | - |
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diathermy | (noun) a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents | - |
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diathesis | (noun) constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality | - |
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diatom | (noun) microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica | - |
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diatomite | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr |
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diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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diazepam | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles; acts by enhancing the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA; can also be used as an anticonvulsant drug in cases of nerve agent poisoning | Synonyms: Valium |
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diazonium | (noun) the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes | - |
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