| abhenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry | - |
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| acetaminophen | (noun) an analgesic for mild pain but not for inflammation; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) | Synonyms: Anacin III, Datril, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, Tylenol |
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| acetophenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetphenetidin, phenacetin |
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| acetphenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetophenetidin, phenacetin |
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| achene | (noun) small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall | - |
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| apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
| apprehension | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: discernment, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: misgiving |
| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread |
| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| archenteron | (noun) central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity | - |
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| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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| asthenia | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: astheny |
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| asthenopia | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: eyestrain |
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| asthenosphere | (noun) the lower layer of the crust | - |
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| astheny | (noun) an abnormal loss of strength | Synonyms: asthenia |
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| athenaeum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: atheneum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: atheneum |
| atheneum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: athenaeum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: athenaeum |
| authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
| chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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| chenille | (noun) a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads | - |
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| (noun) a soft tufted cord used in embroidery | Synonyms: chenille cord |
| chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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| chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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| clomiphene | (noun) a fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births | Synonyms: Clomid, clomiphene citrate |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehension | (noun) an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: inclusion |
| comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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| diphenhydramine | (noun) antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Benadryl |
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| diphenylhydantoin | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative | Synonyms: Dilantin, phenytoin |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| ethene | (noun) a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: ethylene |
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| euthenics | (noun) the study of methods of improving human well-being and efficient functioning by improving environmental conditions | - |
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| fluphenazine | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic disorders | - |
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| freshener | (noun) anything that freshens | - |
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| gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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| grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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| greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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| groschen | (noun) 100 groschen equal 1 schilling in Austria | - |
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| heathen | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| hen | (noun) adult female chicken | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) adult female bird | - |
| (noun) female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster | - |
| (noun) flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing | - |
| henbane | (noun) poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine | Synonyms: black henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, stinking nightshade |
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| henbit | (noun) Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers | Synonyms: Lamium amplexicaule |
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| henchman | (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, confederate, partner in crime |
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| hencoop | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, henhouse |
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| hendiadys | (noun) use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier | - |
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| henhouse | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, hencoop |
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| henna | (noun) a reddish brown dye used especially on hair | - |
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| henroost | (noun) a roost for hens at night | - |
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| henry | (noun) a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second | Synonyms: H |
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| hexachlorophene | (noun) antibacterial substance that is a water-soluble powder used in antiseptic soaps and toothpaste | - |
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| hyphen | (noun) a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | Synonyms: dash |
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| hyphenation | (noun) connecting syllables and words by hyphens | - |
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| (noun) division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page | Synonyms: word division |
| incomprehensibility | (noun) the quality of being incomprehensible | - |
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| incomprehension | (noun) an inability to understand | - |
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| isophene | (noun) a line indicating biological events occurring with coincidence such as plants flowering. | - |
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| kitchen | (noun) a room equipped for preparing meals | - |
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| kitchenette | (noun) small kitchen | - |
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| kitchenware | (noun) hardware utensils for use in a kitchen | - |
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| lengthening | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: perpetuation, prolongation, protraction |
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| lichen | (noun) any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc. | - |
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| (noun) any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks | - |
| litheness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: lissomeness, suppleness |
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| mephenytoin | (noun) a toxic anticonvulsant drug (trade name Mesantoin) used in the treatment of epilepsy when less toxic anticonvulsants have been ineffective | Synonyms: Mesantoin |
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| methenamine | (noun) antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections | Synonyms: Mandelamine, Urex |
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| methylphenidate | (noun) central nervous system stimulant (trade name Ritalin) used in the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and attention deficit disorder in children | Synonyms: Ritalin |
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| millihenry | (noun) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry | - |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| moorhen | (noun) black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes | Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus |
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| (noun) female red grouse | - |
| myasthenia | (noun) a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions | Synonyms: myasthenia gravis |
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| (noun) any muscular weakness | - |
| neurasthenia | (noun) nervous breakdown (not in technical use) | - |
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| neurasthenic | (noun) a person suffering a nervous breakdown | - |
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| orphenadrine | (noun) a skeletal muscle relaxant (trade name Norflex) used to treat severe muscle strain and Parkinsonism | Synonyms: Norflex |
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| oxyphenbutazone | (noun) an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis | Synonyms: Tandearil |
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| oxyphencyclimine | (noun) an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers | Synonyms: Daricon |
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| pantothen | (noun) a vitamin of the vitamin B complex that performs an important role in the oxidation of fats and carbohydrates and certain amino acids; occurs in many foods | Synonyms: pantothenic acid |
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| parthenocarpy | (noun) (botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds | - |
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| parthenogenesis | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogeny |
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| (noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogeny, virgin birth |
| parthenogeny | (noun) process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods | Synonyms: parthenogenesis |
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| (noun) human conception without fertilization by a man | Synonyms: parthenogenesis, virgin birth |
| parthenote | (noun) a cell resulting from parthenogenesis | - |
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| peahen | (noun) female peafowl | - |
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| perphenazine | (noun) tranquilizer and antidepressant (trade name Triavil) sometimes used as an antiemetic for adults | Synonyms: Triavil |
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| pfannkuchen | (noun) puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce | Synonyms: german pancake |
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| phenacetin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetophenetidin, acetphenetidin |
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| phenacomys | (noun) any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States | - |
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| phenazopyridine | (noun) analgesic (trade name Pyridium) used to treat urinary tract infections | Synonyms: Pyridium |
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| phencyclidine | (noun) a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: angel dust, PCP, phencyclidine hydrochloride |
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| phenelzine | (noun) monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Nardil |
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| pheniramine | (noun) an antihistamine used in preparations to treat allergies and respiratory infections; used to treat rhinitis and skin rashes and pruritus | - |
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| phenobarbital | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbitone, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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| phenobarbitone | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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| phenol | (noun) any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups | - |
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| (noun) a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally | Synonyms: carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid |