bambino | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: toddler, tot, yearling |
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bombination | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, buzz |
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bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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(noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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columbine | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, aquilegia |
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combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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(noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
(noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
(noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
(noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
(noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
(noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
combine | (noun) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field | - |
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(noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combining |
(noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust |
combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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(noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
hypothrombinemia | (noun) a low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency | - |
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mombin | (noun) purplish tropical fruit | - |
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(noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit | Synonyms: jocote, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea |
plumbing | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: bathymetry |
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(noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbery |
(noun) utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage | Synonyms: plumbing system |
prothrombin | (noun) a protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin | Synonyms: factor II |
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prothrombinase | (noun) coagulation factor that is converted to an enzyme that converts prothrombin to thrombin in a reaction that depends on calcium ions and other coagulation factors | Synonyms: factor X |
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recombinant | (noun) a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred | - |
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recombination | (noun) (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents | - |
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(noun) (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles | - |
thrombin | (noun) an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to clot | - |
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