achillea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads | - |
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acorea | (noun) absence of the pupil in an eye | - |
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aculea | (noun) small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects | - |
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albuginea | (noun) whitish tunic | - |
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althaea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althea, hollyhock |
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althea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, hollyhock |
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amenorrhea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhoea |
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amenorrhoea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhea |
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aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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apnea | (noun) transient cessation of respiration | - |
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area | (noun) a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function | - |
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(noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: expanse, surface area |
(noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: region |
(noun) a subject of study | - |
(noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: country |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
azalea | (noun) any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors | - |
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bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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brodiaea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium | - |
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chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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(noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
(noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
chorea | (noun) any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs | - |
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(noun) chorea in dogs | Synonyms: canine chorea |
cochlea | (noun) the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti | - |
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columnea | (noun) tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage | - |
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cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
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cosmea | (noun) any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals | Synonyms: cosmos |
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counterplea | (noun) a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea | - |
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cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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(noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
(noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
diarrhea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhoea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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diarrhoea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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dulcinea | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: ladylove |
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dysmenorrhea | (noun) painful menstruation | - |
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dyspnea | (noun) difficult or labored respiration | Synonyms: dyspnoea |
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dyspnoea | (noun) difficult or labored respiration | Synonyms: dyspnea |
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eupnea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnoea |
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eupnoea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnea |
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flea | (noun) any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap | - |
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fovea | (noun) area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute | Synonyms: fovea centralis |
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galea | (noun) an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum | - |
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genlisea | (noun) rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs | - |
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gonorrhea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhoea |
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gonorrhoea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhea |
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grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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guinea | (noun) a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world | Synonyms: guinea fowl, Numida meleagris |
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(noun) a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings | - |
hovea | (noun) any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets | Synonyms: purple pea |
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hydrangea | (noun) any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea | - |
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hypermenorrhea | (noun) abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged | Synonyms: menorrhagia |
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hyperpnea | (noun) energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders | - |
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hypopnea | (noun) slow or shallow breathing | - |
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idea | (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: thought |
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(noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: mind |
(noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, estimation |
(noun) a personal view | - |
(noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: melodic theme, musical theme, theme |
kahikatea | (noun) New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood | Synonyms: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides |
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kea | (noun) large brownish-green New Zealand parrot | Synonyms: Nestor notabilis |
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lea | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pasture, pasture land, pastureland |
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(noun) a unit of length of thread or yarn | - |
leucorrhea | (noun) discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection | Synonyms: leukorrhea |
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leukorrhea | (noun) discharge of white mucous material from the vagina; often an indication of infection | Synonyms: leucorrhea |
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logorrhea | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logomania |
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malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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menorrhea | (noun) flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years | Synonyms: menstrual blood, menstrual flow |
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miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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morphea | (noun) localized scleroderma | - |
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nausea | (noun) disgust so strong it makes you feel sick | - |
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(noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: sickness |
oligomenorrhea | (noun) abnormally light or infrequent menstruation | - |
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orthochorea | (noun) a form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect | - |
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orthopnea | (noun) form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect; associated with asthma and emphysema and angina pectoris | - |
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otorrhea | (noun) discharge from the external ear | - |
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pahautea | (noun) evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka | Synonyms: Libocedrus bidwillii, mountain pine |
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panacea | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, nostrum |
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parafovea | (noun) area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea | - |
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pea | (noun) seed of a pea plant used for food | - |
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(noun) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds | Synonyms: pea plant |
(noun) the fruit or seed of a pea plant | - |
plea | (noun) an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed | - |
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(noun) a humble request for help from someone in authority | Synonyms: supplication |
(noun) (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) | - |
protea | (noun) any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones | - |
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pyorrhea | (noun) discharge of pus | Synonyms: pyorrhoea |
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(noun) chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets | Synonyms: pyorrhea alveolaris, pyorrhoea, Riggs' disease |
pyorrhoea | (noun) discharge of pus | Synonyms: pyorrhea |
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(noun) chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets | Synonyms: pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, Riggs' disease |
rhea | (noun) larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia | Synonyms: Rhea americana |
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(noun) smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan | Synonyms: nandu, Pterocnemia pennata |
rhinorrhea | (noun) persistent watery mucus discharge from the nose (as in the common cold) | - |
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rosacea | (noun) a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance | Synonyms: acne rosacea |
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sea | (noun) a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land | - |
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(noun) turbulent water with swells of considerable size | - |
(noun) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | Synonyms: ocean |
seborrhea | (noun) a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily | - |
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spiraea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spirea |
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(noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spirea |
spirea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spiraea |
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(noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spiraea |
stanhopea | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Stanhopea having a single large leaf and loose racemes of large fragrant flowers of various colors; Mexico to Brazil | - |
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steatorrhea | (noun) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome | - |
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sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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sweetpea | (noun) climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers | Synonyms: Lathyrus odoratus, sweet pea |
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tea | (noun) a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water | - |
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(noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, teatime |
(noun) dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea | Synonyms: tea leaf |
(noun) a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves | Synonyms: Camellia sinensis |
tinea | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, roundworm |
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toea | (noun) 100 toea equal 1 kina in Papua New Guinea | - |
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trachea | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: windpipe |
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(noun) one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids | - |
urea | (noun) the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics | Synonyms: carbamide |
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uvea | (noun) the part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid | - |
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yea | (noun) yes | - |
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