| alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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| ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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| ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
| calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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| (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| calendric | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendrical |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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| (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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| galena | (noun) soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead | - |
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| haleness | (noun) a state of robust good health | Synonyms: wholeness |
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| magdalen | (noun) a reformed prostitute | - |
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| maleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: masculinity |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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| (adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
| multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multivalent | (adjective) used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis | - |
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| (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: polyvalent |
| (adjective) having many values, meanings, or appeals | Synonyms: multi-valued |
| naphthalene | (noun) a white crystalline strong-smelling hydrocarbon made from coal tar or petroleum and used in organic synthesis and as a fumigant in mothballs | - |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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| paleness | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: pallidity |
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| (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: blondness, fairness |
| (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
| pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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| polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |
| polyvalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalence |
| polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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| (adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
| prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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| (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
| (noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
| prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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| scalene | (adjective) of or relating to any of the scalene muscles | - |
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| (adjective) of a triangle having three sides of different lengths | - |
| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| staleness | (noun) having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging | - |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed | Synonyms: triteness |
| talent | (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, gift, natural endowment |
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| (noun) a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity | - |
| talented | (adjective) endowed with talent or talents | Synonyms: gifted |
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| talentless | (adjective) devoid of talent; not gifted | Synonyms: untalented |
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| talentlessness | (noun) a lack of talent | - |
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| tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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| (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
| untalented | (adjective) devoid of talent; not gifted | Synonyms: talentless |
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| valence | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valency |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valency |
| valency | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valence |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valence |
| (noun) the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds | - |
| valent | (adjective) (chemistry) having valence; usually used in combination | - |
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| valentine | (noun) a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day | - |
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