| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| biometrics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometry, biostatistics |
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| catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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| cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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| cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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| eccentric | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball |
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| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, type |
| eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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| (noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
| (noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| egocentric | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
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| electric | (noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
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| electrician | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: lineman, linesman |
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| electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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| (noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
| entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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| extrication | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, unsnarling, untangling |
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| fratricide | (noun) the murder of your sibling | - |
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| (noun) fire that injures or kills an ally | Synonyms: friendly fire |
| (noun) a person who murders their brother or sister | - |
| geometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometer |
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| geriatrician | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: gerontologist |
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| geriatrics | (noun) the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people | Synonyms: gerontology |
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| hydroelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by water power | - |
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| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| isometric | (noun) a line connecting isometric points | Synonyms: isometric line |
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| isometrics | (noun) muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change) | Synonyms: isometric exercise |
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| matric | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matriculation |
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| matricide | (noun) the murder of your mother | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders their mother | - |
| matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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| matriculation | (noun) admission to a group (especially a college or university) | Synonyms: matric |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| metric | (noun) a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic | Synonyms: system of measurement |
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| (noun) a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds) | Synonyms: metric unit |
| (noun) a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them | Synonyms: metric function |
| metrication | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrification |
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| metrics | (noun) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | Synonyms: prosody |
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| monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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| nontricyclic | (noun) a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO | Synonyms: nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug |
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| obstetrician | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: accoucheur |
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| obstetrics | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother | Synonyms: midwifery, OB, tocology |
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| ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | Synonyms: Struthio camelus |
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| (noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) | - |
| paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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| paediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: pediatric medicine, pediatrics, pedology |
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| patrician | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocrat, blue blood |
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| (noun) a person of refined upbringing and manners | - |
| patriciate | (noun) members of the patrician class. | - |
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| patricide | (noun) the murder of your father | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders their father | - |
| pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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| pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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| photoelectricity | (noun) electricity generated by light or affected by light | - |
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| photometrician | (noun) someone who practices photometry | Synonyms: photometrist |
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| physiatrics | (noun) therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities | Synonyms: physical therapy, physiotherapy |
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| piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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| pneumogastric | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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| psychometrics | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrika, psychometry |
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| pyroelectricity | (noun) generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature | - |
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| restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
| restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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| (noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
| sporotrichosis | (noun) a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes | - |
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| strickle | (noun) a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand | - |
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| (noun) a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure | - |
| (noun) an implement for sharpening scythes | - |
| strictness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: sternness |
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| (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: stringency |
| stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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| (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
| symmetricalness | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetry |
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| theatrical | (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
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| theatricality | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: staginess |
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| thermoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple) | - |
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| tortricid | (noun) any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls | Synonyms: tortricid moth |
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| trice | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink |
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| triceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) | - |
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| triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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| trichina | (noun) parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles | Synonyms: Trichinella spiralis |
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| trichiniasis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichinosis |
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| trichinosis | (noun) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted | Synonyms: myositis trichinosa, trichiniasis |
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| trichion | (noun) point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead | Synonyms: crinion |
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| trichloride | (noun) any compound containing three chlorine atoms in each molecule | - |
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| trichlormethiazide | (noun) diuretic drug (trade name Naqua) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Naqua |
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| trichloroethane | (noun) a heavy colorless highly toxic liquid used as a solvent to clean electronic components and for dry cleaning and as a fumigant; causes cancer and liver and lung damage | Synonyms: TCE, trichloroethylene |
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| trichloroethylene | (noun) a heavy colorless highly toxic liquid used as a solvent to clean electronic components and for dry cleaning and as a fumigant; causes cancer and liver and lung damage | Synonyms: TCE, trichloroethane |
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| trichloromethane | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: chloroform |
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| trichobezoar | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, hairball |
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| trichodesmium | (noun) large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation | - |
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| trichomonad | (noun) cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds | - |
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| trichomoniasis | (noun) infection of the vagina | - |
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| trichopteran | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteron, trichopterous insect |
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| trichopteron | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteran, trichopterous insect |
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| trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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| trichotomy | (noun) being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses | - |
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| trichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions | - |
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| trichromacy | (noun) the normal ability to see colors | Synonyms: chromatic vision, color vision |
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| trichuriasis | (noun) infestation by a roundworm; common in tropical areas with poor sanitation | - |
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| trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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| (noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
| (noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
| (noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
| (noun) a period of work or duty | - |
| tricker | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, trickster |
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| trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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| (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
| trickiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness |
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| (noun) the quality of requiring skill or caution | - |
| trickle | (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
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| trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
| (noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
| triclinium | (noun) a dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides) | - |
| tricolor | (noun) a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) | Synonyms: tricolour |
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| tricolour | (noun) a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag) | Synonyms: tricolor |
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