| adiposeness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposity, fattiness |
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| aldohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
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| aldose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal | - |
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| aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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| aldotriose | (noun) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde. | - |
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| aposelene | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: apolune |
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| arccosecant | (noun) the angle that has a cosecant equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cosecant, inverse cosecant |
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| attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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| autosexing | (noun) (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| bluenose | (noun) a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia | Synonyms: Nova Scotian |
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| boothose | (noun) protective stockings worn with or in place of boots | - |
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| bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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| (noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
| bullnose | (noun) a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front | Synonyms: bullnosed plane |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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| (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
| callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
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| cellulose | (noun) a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers | - |
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| chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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| chosen | (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) one who is the object of choice; who is given preference | - |
| close | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: closing curtain, finale, finis |
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| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: closing, conclusion, end, ending |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: conclusion, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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| closeness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: nearness |
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| (noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: secretiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: stuffiness |
| (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy |
| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: intimacy |
| closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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| closer | (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: finisher |
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| (noun) a person who closes something | - |
| closet | (noun) a small private room for study or prayer | - |
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| (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: loo, W.C., water closet |
| (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: press, wardrobe |
| (noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: cupboard |
| closeup | (noun) a photograph taken at close range | - |
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| comatoseness | (noun) a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury | Synonyms: coma |
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| composedness | (noun) The state or quality of showing composure. | - |
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| composer | (noun) someone who composes music, usually as a profession | - |
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| conenose | (noun) large bloodsucking bug | Synonyms: big bedbug, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, kissing bug |
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| cosec | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosecant |
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| cosecant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosec |
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| cycloserine | (noun) an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus | - |
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| damosel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| deoxyribose | (noun) a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | - |
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| deposer | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, testifier |
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| dextroglucose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextrose, grape sugar |
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| dextrose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextroglucose, grape sugar |
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| dose | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dosage |
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| (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
| (noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dosage |
| (noun) a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact | Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse |
| dosemeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosimeter |
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| expose | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: unmasking |
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| femtosecond | (noun) one quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond | - |
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| filoselle | (noun) a soft silk embroidery thread. | - |
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| fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
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| furosemide | (noun) commonly used diuretic (trade name Lasix) used to treat hypertension and edema | Synonyms: Lasix |
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| galactose | (noun) a simple sugar found in lactose | Synonyms: brain sugar |
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| galactosemia | (noun) a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent; typically develops shortly after birth | - |
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| glucose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy | - |
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| goose | (noun) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany |
| gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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| (noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
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| gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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| heptose | (noun) a monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms. | - |
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| heterosexism | (noun) discrimination in favor of heterosexual and against homosexual people | - |
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| heterosexual | (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight, straight person |
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| heterosexualism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexuality, straightness |
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| heterosexuality | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, straightness |
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| hexose | (noun) a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule | - |
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| homosexual | (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homophile |
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| homosexualism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexuality, queerness |
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| homosexuality | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, queerness |
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| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| hose | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hosiery |
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| (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hosepipe |
| (noun) man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet | - |
| hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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| isoseismal | (noun) a line on a map connecting points at which earthquake shocks are of equal intensity. | - |
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| jocoseness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocosity, merriness |
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| kerosene | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil |
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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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| ketose | (noun) any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal | - |
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| ketotetrose | (noun) A monosaccharide that has both a ketone and four carbons. | - |
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| ketotriose | (noun) Any ketose having three carbon atoms; in reality, only dihydroxyacetone. | - |
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| lactose | (noun) a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk | Synonyms: milk sugar |
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| laevulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose |
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| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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| levulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose |
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| looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
| (noun) freedom from restraint | - |
| (noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
| (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| loser | (noun) a gambler who loses a bet | - |
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| (noun) a contestant who loses the contest | Synonyms: also-ran |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
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| marmoset | (noun) small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails | - |
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| megadose | (noun) an exceptionally large dose, as of a drug or vitamin. | - |
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| microsecond | (noun) one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond | - |
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| microseism | (noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, tremor |
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| microsensor | (noun) A submicrometer- to millimeter-size device that converts a nonelectrical physical or chemical quantity, such as pressure, acceleration, temperature, or gas concentration, into an electrical signal; it is generally able to offer better sensitivity, accuracy, dynamic range, and reliability, as well as lower power consumption, compared to larger counterparts. | - |
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| mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| monosemy | (noun) having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases | - |
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| moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
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| moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
| moroseness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: sourness, sulkiness, sullenness |
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| (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, sullenness |
| nanosecond | (noun) one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond | - |
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| nitrocellulose | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton |
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