abohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm | - |
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adenohypophysis | (noun) the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland |
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alcohol | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant |
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(noun) any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation | - |
alcoholic | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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alcoholism | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: dipsomania, potomania |
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(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, drunkenness, inebriation |
aldohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
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aloha | (noun) an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) | Synonyms: ciao |
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angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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(noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |
bohemia | (noun) a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style | - |
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bohemian | (noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
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bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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bohrium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 107 | Synonyms: atomic number 107, Bh, element 107 |
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carbohydrate | (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: saccharide, sugar |
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cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
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cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
cohesion | (noun) (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid | - |
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(noun) (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) | - |
(noun) (linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. | - |
(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesiveness |
cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
coho | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho salmon, cohoe, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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(noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon |
cohoe | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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(noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho, coho salmon, silver salmon |
cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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(noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
(noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
cohosh | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: baneberry, herb Christopher |
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cohune | (noun) tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune |
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cyanohydrin | (noun) any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom | - |
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cyclohexanol | (noun) a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor | - |
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cyproheptadine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Periactin) used to treat some allergic reactions | Synonyms: Periactin |
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demijohn | (noun) large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork | - |
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doh | (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: do, ut |
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doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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eohippus | (noun) earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal | Synonyms: dawn horse |
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fohn | (noun) a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | Synonyms: foehn |
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gasohol | (noun) a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn | - |
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haematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, hematohiston |
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hematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, haematohiston |
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hydroisohypse | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of equal level on the piezometric surface. | - |
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immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
isohel | (noun) an isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine | - |
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john | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: trick, whoremaster, whoremonger |
johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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keratohyalin | (noun) hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum | - |
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ketoheptose | (noun) A seven-carbon sugar possessing a ketone group. | - |
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ketohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group | - |
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kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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kohl | (noun) a cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids | - |
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kohleria | (noun) shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers | - |
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kohlrabi | (noun) fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant | Synonyms: turnip cabbage |
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(noun) plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea gongylodes |
lohan | (noun) a Buddhist who has attained nirvana | Synonyms: Arhant, Arhat |
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magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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megalohepatia | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: hepatomegaly |
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megohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms | - |
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mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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mohair | (noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat | - |
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mohawk | (noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp | Synonyms: mohawk haircut |
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monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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neurohormone | (noun) a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin) | - |
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neurohypophysis | (noun) the posterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: pars nervosa, posterior pituitary, posterior pituitary gland |
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ohm | (noun) a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere | - |
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ohmage | (noun) the ohmic resistance of a conductor | - |
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ohmmeter | (noun) a meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms | - |
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photoheliograph | (noun) a telescope, with a camera attached, used to photograph the Sun. | - |
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phytohormone | (noun) (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone | Synonyms: growth regulator, plant hormone |
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prohibition | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition |
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(noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, proscription |
(noun) refusal to approve or assent to | - |
(noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
(noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | Synonyms: prohibition era |
prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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protoheme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, heme |
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protohemin | (noun) a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood | Synonyms: hemin |
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protohippus | (noun) Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size | - |
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protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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pseudohermaphrodite | (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
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pseudohermaphroditism | (noun) congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex | - |
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rhombohedron | (noun) a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms) | - |
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soh | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: so, sol |
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thermohydrometer | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermogravimeter |
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trapezohedron | (noun) a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums | - |
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