abiotrophy | (noun) a loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury | - |
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adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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albatross | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: mollymawk |
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(noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: millstone |
aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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allotrope | (noun) a structurally different form of an element | - |
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allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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allotropy | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropism |
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alstroemeria | (noun) any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers | - |
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ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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ametropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia | - |
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amyotrophia | (noun) progressive wasting of muscle tissues | Synonyms: amyotrophy |
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amyotrophy | (noun) progressive wasting of muscle tissues | Synonyms: amyotrophia |
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anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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antineutron | (noun) the antiparticle of a neutron | - |
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antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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(noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
astrobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: exobiology, space biology |
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astrocyte | (noun) comparatively large neuroglial cell | - |
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astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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astrodynamics | (noun) the branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space | - |
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astrogator | (noun) the navigator of a spacecraft | - |
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astroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: macroglia |
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astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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astrologist | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologer |
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astrology | (noun) a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | Synonyms: star divination |
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astrometry | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies | - |
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astronaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: cosmonaut, spaceman |
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astronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: aeronautics |
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astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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astrophysics | (noun) the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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atrociousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
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atrocity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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(noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
atrophedema | (noun) recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs | Synonyms: angioedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema |
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atrophy | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: withering |
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(noun) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse | Synonyms: wasting, wasting away |
atropine | (noun) a poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides | - |
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autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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backstroke | (noun) a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | - |
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backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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beetroot | (noun) round red root vegetable | Synonyms: beet |
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(noun) beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris rubra |
betatron | (noun) accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux | Synonyms: induction accelerator |
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betrothal | (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: espousal |
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(noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: engagement, troth |
betrothed | (noun) the person to whom you are engaged | - |
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bevatron | (noun) a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts | - |
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bistro | (noun) a small informal restaurant; serves wine | - |
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boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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breaststroke | (noun) a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
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breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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(noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
(noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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catastrophe | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy |
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(noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Synonyms: cataclysm |
(noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: disaster |
centroid | (noun) the center of mass of an object of uniform density | - |
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centromere | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: kinetochore |
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centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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chatroom | (noun) a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) | Synonyms: chat room |
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chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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chondrodystrophy | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, achondroplasty, osteosclerosis congenita |
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cilantro | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander |
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(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
cistron | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: factor, gene |
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citron | (noun) large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved | - |
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(noun) thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind | Synonyms: citron tree, Citrus medica |
citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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coatroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: cloakroom |
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comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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control | (noun) the activity of managing or exerting control over something | - |
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(noun) (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | - |
(noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: controller |
(noun) power to direct or determine | - |
(noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: restraint |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, mastery |
(noun) a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | Synonyms: control condition |
(noun) the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | - |
(noun) a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | - |
(noun) a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | - |
(noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance |
controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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(noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
(noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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cosmotron | (noun) a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons | - |
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courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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cyclotron | (noun) an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles | - |
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destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
dextrocardia | (noun) abnormal condition where the heart is located toward the right side of the chest | - |
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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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dextrorotation | (noun) rotation to the right | Synonyms: clockwise rotation |
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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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diastrophism | (noun) the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust | - |
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dielectrolysis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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dimetrodon | (noun) carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail | - |
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dogtrot | (noun) a steady trot like that of a dog | - |
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downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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dystrophy | (noun) any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition | - |
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(noun) any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles | Synonyms: muscular dystrophy |
ectrodactyly | (noun) congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes | - |
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