| amitriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications | Synonyms: amitriptyline hydrochloride, Elavil |
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| ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
| circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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| conniption | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: fit, scene, tantrum |
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| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| dipteran | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| dipterocarp | (noun) tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | - |
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| dipteron | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteran, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| diptych | (noun) a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book) | - |
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| ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
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| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| hemipteran | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: bug, hemipteron, hemipterous insect |
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| hemipteron | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: bug, hemipteran, hemipterous insect |
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| inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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| (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
| manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
| nondescript | (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
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| nortriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Pamelor) used along with psychotherapy to treat dysthymic depression; may interact dangerously if taken with other drugs | Synonyms: Pamelor |
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| playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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| postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prescription | (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
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| (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
| (noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
| (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| proscription | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: banishment |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, prohibition |
| protriptyline | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression | - |
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| receipt | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: reception |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made | - |
| receipts | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, revenue |
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| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| riptide | (noun) a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore | Synonyms: rip current |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, rip, tide rip |
| script | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, playscript |
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| (noun) a particular orthography or writing system | - |
| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, handwriting |
| scriptorium | (noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts | - |
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| scripture | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | Synonyms: sacred scripture |
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| scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| subscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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| subscription | (noun) a pledged contribution | - |
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| (noun) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document) | - |
| (noun) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
| (noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | - |
| superscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| superscription | (noun) the activity of superscribing | - |
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| (noun) an inscription written above something else | - |
| tiptoe | (noun) the tip of a toe | - |
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| tiptop | (noun) the extreme top or summit | - |
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| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top |
| transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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| (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
| transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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| transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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| (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
| (noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
| (noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
| (noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
| tripton | (noun) The inorganic particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas. | - |
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| triptych | (noun) art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together) | - |
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| typescript | (noun) typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript | - |
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| whiptail | (noun) any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards | Synonyms: whiptail lizard |
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