| allotrope | (noun) a structurally different form of an element | - |
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| alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| angioscope | (noun) a modified microscope used to study capillary vessels | - |
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| antelope | (noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks | - |
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| antipope | (noun) someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected | - |
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| apocope | (noun) abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds | - |
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| aposiopesis | (noun) breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations) | - |
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| arthroscope | (noun) a type of endoscope that is inserted into a joint for visual examination | - |
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| auriscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auroscope, otoscope |
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| auroscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auriscope, otoscope |
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| bioscope | (noun) a kind of early movie projector | - |
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| (noun) a South African movie theater | - |
| blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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| bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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| calliope | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard | Synonyms: steam organ |
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| cefoperazone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections | Synonyms: Cefobid |
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| chronoscope | (noun) an instrument for accurate measurements of small intervals of time | - |
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| colonoscope | (noun) an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum | - |
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| colposcope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: vaginoscope |
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| cooper | (noun) a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs | Synonyms: barrel maker |
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| cooperation | (noun) joint operation or action | - |
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| (noun) the practice of cooperating | - |
| cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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| cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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| cope | (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: coping, header |
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| (noun) a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions | - |
| copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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| copepod | (noun) minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | Synonyms: copepod crustacean |
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| copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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| (noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
| cryoscope | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring freezing and melting points | - |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cytopenia | (noun) a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood | - |
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| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| diaphanoscope | (noun) An instrument for illuminating the interior of a cavity to determine the translucency of its walls. | - |
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| dope | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) slang terms for inside information | Synonyms: low-down, poop, the skinny |
| (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: cola |
| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| electroscope | (noun) measuring instrument that detects electric charge; two gold leaves diverge owing to repulsion of charges with like sign | - |
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| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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| encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| endoscope | (noun) a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery | - |
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| enteroscope | (noun) an instrument for inspecting the inside of the intestine. | - |
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| envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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| (noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
| (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
| (noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
| (noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
| (noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
| eosinopenia | (noun) a decrease in the number of eosinophils in the blood | - |
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| epidiascope | (noun) an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects | - |
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| epitope | (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, determinant |
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| esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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| fetoscope | (noun) a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat | Synonyms: foetoscope |
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| fiberscope | (noun) a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs | - |
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| fibrinopeptide | (noun) peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood | - |
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| fluoroscope | (noun) an X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct observation | Synonyms: roentgenoscope |
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| foetoscope | (noun) a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat | Synonyms: fetoscope |
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| gastroscope | (noun) a type of endoscope for visually examining the stomach | - |
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| granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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| grope | (noun) the act of groping; and instance of groping | - |
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| gyroscope | (noun) rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction | Synonyms: gyro |
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| haematocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood | Synonyms: hematocytopenia |
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| haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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| heliotrope | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: bloodstone |
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| hematocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood | Synonyms: haematocytopenia |
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| hodoscope | (noun) (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle | - |
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| hope | (noun) one of the three Christian virtues | - |
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| (noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: promise |
| (noun) the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled | - |
| (noun) a specific instance of feeling hopeful | - |
| (noun) someone (or something) on which expectations are centered | - |
| hopeful | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, wannabe, wannabee |
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| hopefulness | (noun) the feeling you have when you have hope | - |
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| (noun) full of hope | - |
| hopelessness | (noun) the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success | - |
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| hoper | (noun) a person who hopes | - |
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| horoscope | (noun) a diagram of the positions of the planets and signs of the zodiac at a particular time and place | - |
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| (noun) a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets | - |
| hygroscope | (noun) hygrometer that shows variations in the relative humidity of the atmosphere | - |
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| hyperope | (noun) a person with hyperopia; a farsighted person | - |
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| hypnopedia | (noun) teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) | Synonyms: sleep-learning |
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| iconoscope | (noun) the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin | - |
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| improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| interloper | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: intruder, trespasser |
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| interoperability | (noun) (computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks) | - |
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| isotope | (noun) one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons | - |
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| kaleidoscope | (noun) an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors | - |
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| (noun) a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes | - |
| keratoscope | (noun) medical instrument to examine the cornea in order to detect irregularities in its anterior surface | - |
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| kinescope | (noun) a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen | Synonyms: picture tube, television tube |
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| kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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| kopek | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopeck |
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| laparoscope | (noun) a slender endoscope inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall in order to examine the abdominal organs or to perform minor surgery | - |
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| laryngoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
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| leucopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leukopenia |
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| leukopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leucopenia |
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| looper | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: inchworm, measuring worm |
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| lope | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: canter |
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| (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| lycanthrope | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, werewolf, wolfman |
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| lycopene | (noun) carotenoid that makes tomatoes red; may lower the risk of prostate cancer | - |
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| lymphocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphopenia |
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| lymphopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphocytopenia |
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| malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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| mastopexy | (noun) plastic surgery to lift or reshape the breasts | - |
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| micropenis | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: microphallus |
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| microscope | (noun) magnifier of the image of small objects | - |
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| misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthropist |
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| misopedia | (noun) hatred of children | - |
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| mope | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger |
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| moped | (noun) a motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine | - |
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| mopes | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: dumps |
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