| acebutolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Sectral) used in treating hypertension | Synonyms: Sectral |
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| acetaldol | (noun) unsaturated aldol | - |
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| acylglycerol | (noun) an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils | Synonyms: glyceride |
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| aerosol | (noun) a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas) | Synonyms: aerosol bomb, aerosol can, aerosol container, spray can |
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| (noun) a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas | - |
| albuterol | (noun) a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness | Synonyms: Proventil, Ventolin |
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| alcohol | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant |
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| (noun) any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation | - |
| aldol | (noun) an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO) | Synonyms: aldehyde-alcohol |
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| allopurinol | (noun) a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid | Synonyms: Zyloprim |
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| atenolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) | Synonyms: Tenormin |
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| axerophthol | (noun) any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes | Synonyms: A, antiophthalmic factor, vitamin A |
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| benzol | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzine |
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| butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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| calciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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| carol | (noun) a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) | - |
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| (noun) joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ | Synonyms: Christmas carol |
| carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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| cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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| chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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| cholecalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, D, ergocalciferol, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| cholesterol | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterin |
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| col | (noun) a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks | Synonyms: gap |
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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 |
| cool | (noun) the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature | - |
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| (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise, sang-froid |
| cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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| coyol | (noun) tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber | Synonyms: Acrocomia vinifera, coyol palm |
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| creosol | (noun) a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote | - |
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| cresol | (noun) any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant | Synonyms: methyl phenol |
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| cyclohexanol | (noun) a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor | - |
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| cytol | (noun) the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism | Synonyms: cytoplasm |
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| cytosol | (noun) the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended | - |
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| dehydroretinol | (noun) a viscous alcohol that is less active in mammals than is vitamin A1 | Synonyms: vitamin A2 |
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| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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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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| diol | (noun) any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule | Synonyms: dihydric alcohol, glycol |
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| dol | (noun) a unit of pain intensity | - |
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| dronabinol | (noun) psychoactive substance present in marijuana; used therapeutically to control nausea associated with cancer therapy | - |
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| drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| enol | (noun) an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom | - |
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| entresol | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: mezzanine, mezzanine floor |
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| ergocalciferol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, viosterol, vitamin D |
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| ergosterol | (noun) a plant sterol that is converted into vitamin D by ultraviolet radiation | - |
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| esmolol | (noun) intravenous beta blocker (trade name Brevibloc) that acts for only a short time; used primarily for cardiac arrhythmias | Synonyms: Brevibloc |
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| estradiol | (noun) the most powerful female hormone that occurs naturally; synthesized and used to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer | Synonyms: oestradiol |
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| estriol | (noun) a naturally occurring estrogenic hormone; a synthetic form is used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: oestriol |
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| ethanediol | (noun) a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent | Synonyms: ethylene glycol, glycol |
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| ethanol | (noun) the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline | Synonyms: ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol |
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| ethchlorvynol | (noun) a mild sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Placidyl) | Synonyms: Placidyl |
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| falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| fool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: jester, motley fool |
| footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
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| formol | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formalin |
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| frijol | (noun) the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) | Synonyms: frijole, kidney bean |
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| gambol | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, play, romp |
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| gaol | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| gasohol | (noun) a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn | - |
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| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| girasol | (noun) tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers | Synonyms: Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower |
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| (noun) an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors | Synonyms: fire opal |
| glycerol | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerine |
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| glycol | (noun) any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule | Synonyms: dihydric alcohol, diol |
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| (noun) a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent | Synonyms: ethanediol, ethylene glycol |
| googol | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) | - |
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| haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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| hexestrol | (noun) estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy | - |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hydrosol | (noun) a sol (colloid) in which the continuous phase is water. | - |
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| idol | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: god, graven image |
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| (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, paragon, perfection |
| (noun) someone who is adored blindly and excessively | Synonyms: matinee idol |
| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| isopropanol | (noun) alcohol used as antifreeze or a solvent | Synonyms: isopropyl alcohol |
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| isoproterenol | (noun) drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart | Synonyms: Isuprel |
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| labetalol | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade names Trandate and Normodyne) that blocks alpha and beta-adrenergic receptors of the sympathetic nervous system (leading to a decrease in blood pressure) | Synonyms: labetalol hydrochloride, Normodyne, Trandate |
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| linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| mannitol | (noun) a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine | Synonyms: Osmitrol |
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| megestrol | (noun) a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma | Synonyms: megestrol acetate |
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| menthol | (noun) a lotion containing menthol which gives it the smell of mint | - |
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| (noun) a crystalline compound that has the cool and minty taste and odor that occurs naturally in peppermint oil; used as a flavoring and in medicine to relieve itching, pain, and nasal congestion | - |
| mestranol | (noun) a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives | - |
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| metaproterenol | (noun) a bronchodilator (trade name Alupent) used to treat asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects include tachycardia and shakiness | Synonyms: Alupent |
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| methanol | (noun) a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol | Synonyms: methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit |
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| methocarbamol | (noun) muscle relaxant for skeletal muscles (trade name Robaxin) used to treat spasms | Synonyms: Robaxin |
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| metoprolol | (noun) beta blocker (trade name Lopressor) used in treating hypertension and angina and arrhythmia and acute myocardial infarction; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) | Synonyms: Lopressor |
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| mirasol | (noun) annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America | Synonyms: common sunflower, Helianthus annuus |
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| mol | (noun) the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: gram molecule, mole |
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| mycosterol | (noun) a kind of sterol found in fungi. | - |
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| nadolol | (noun) a beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina | Synonyms: Corgard |
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| naphthol | (noun) either of two phenols derived from naphthalene | - |
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| oestradiol | (noun) the most powerful female hormone that occurs naturally; synthesized and used to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer | Synonyms: estradiol |
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| oestriol | (noun) a naturally occurring estrogenic hormone; a synthetic form is used to treat estrogen deficiency | Synonyms: estriol |
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| parasol | (noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: sunshade |
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| patrol | (noun) the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes | - |
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| (noun) a detachment used for security or reconnaissance | - |
| (noun) a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security | - |
| pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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| pentamethylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentylenetetrazol |
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| pentylenetetrazol | (noun) a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark | Synonyms: Metrazol, pentamethylenetetrazol |
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| petrol | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasolene, gasoline |
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| phenol | (noun) any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups | - |
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| (noun) a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally | Synonyms: carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid |
| pindolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Visken) used in treating hypertension | Synonyms: Visken |
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| pistol | (noun) a firearm that is held and fired with one hand | Synonyms: handgun, shooting iron, side arm |
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