abducens | (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens nerve, abducent, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
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avens | (noun) any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers | - |
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dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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gens | (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: name |
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greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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lens | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens system, lense |
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(noun) electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons | Synonyms: electron lens |
(noun) biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina | Synonyms: crystalline lens, lens of the eye |
(noun) (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood | - |
sens | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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sevens | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, parliament |
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siemens | (noun) a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm | Synonyms: mho, reciprocal ohm, S |
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smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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teens | (noun) all the numbers that end in -teen | - |
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(noun) the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20 | - |