| arcsecond | (noun) a 60th part of a minute of arc | Synonyms: second |
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| attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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| decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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| deconstruction | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstructionism |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| decontamination | (noun) the removal of contaminants | - |
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| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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| economics | (noun) the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management | Synonyms: economic science, political economy |
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| economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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| economist | (noun) an expert in the science of economics | Synonyms: economic expert |
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| economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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| economy | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: saving |
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| (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: thriftiness |
| (noun) the efficient use of resources | - |
| (noun) the system of production and distribution and consumption | Synonyms: economic system |
| femtosecond | (noun) one quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond | - |
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| macroeconomics | (noun) the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy | - |
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| macroeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in macroeconomics | Synonyms: macroeconomic expert |
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| meconium | (noun) thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child | - |
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| microeconomics | (noun) the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms | - |
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| microeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in microeconomics | Synonyms: microeconomic expert |
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| microsecond | (noun) one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond | - |
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| millisecond | (noun) one thousandth (10^-3) of a second | Synonyms: msec |
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| nanosecond | (noun) one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond | - |
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| picosecond | (noun) one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond | - |
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| pinecone | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a pine tree | - |
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| preconception | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, prepossession |
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| (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, prejudice |
| precondition | (noun) a condition that is a prerequisite | - |
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| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, presumption |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: condition, stipulation |
| reconciler | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker |
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| reconciliation | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: balancing |
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| (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: rapprochement |
| reconditeness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity |
| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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| reconnoitring | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, scouting |
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| reconsideration | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, rethink, second thought |
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| (noun) a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision | - |
| reconstruction | (noun) the activity of constructing something again | - |
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| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall | Synonyms: reconstructive memory |
| (noun) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence | - |
| second | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield | Synonyms: second base |
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| (noun) the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: second gear |
| (noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: irregular |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement, secondment |
| (noun) the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match | - |
| (noun) a 60th part of a minute of arc | Synonyms: arcsecond |
| (noun) following the first in an ordering or series | - |
| (noun) 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: s, sec |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, mo, moment |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, minute, moment |
| secondary | (noun) coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil | Synonyms: secondary coil, secondary winding |
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| (noun) the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
| seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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| secondment | (noun) the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement, second |
| secondo | (noun) the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | - |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| teleconferencing | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconference |
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