academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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(adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
(adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
(noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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(noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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(noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
alchemic | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemical |
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alchemical | (adjective) related to or concerned with alchemy | Synonyms: alchemic |
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anaemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anemic |
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(adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anemic |
anemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anaemic |
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(adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anaemic |
anoxemic | (adjective) relating to or marked by abnormally little oxygen in arterial blood | - |
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azotemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: uraemic, uremic |
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bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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bimorphemic | (adjective) consisting of two morphemes | - |
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biochemical | (adjective) of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | - |
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biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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blastemic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastematic |
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chemic | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemical |
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chemical | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemic |
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(adjective) of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes | - |
(noun) material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules | Synonyms: chemical substance |
chemically | (adverb) with respect to chemistry | - |
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(adverb) with chemicals | - |
ecdemic | (adjective) of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs | - |
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electrochemical | (adjective) of or involving electrochemistry | - |
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endemic | (adjective) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality | Synonyms: endemical |
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(adjective) native to or confined to a certain region | - |
(adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous |
(noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
(noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
endemical | (adjective) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality | Synonyms: endemic |
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epidemic | (adjective) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously | - |
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(noun) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | - |
epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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haemic | (adjective) relating to or containing or affecting blood | Synonyms: haematic, hematic, hemic |
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hemic | (adjective) relating to or containing or affecting blood | Synonyms: haematic, haemic, hematic |
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hemicrania | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: megrim, migraine, sick headache |
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hemicycle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: semicircle |
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hyperemic | (adjective) relating to or caused by hyperemia | - |
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hypoglycaemic | (adjective) of or relating to hypoglycemia | Synonyms: hypoglycemic |
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hypoglycemic | (adjective) of or relating to hypoglycemia | Synonyms: hypoglycaemic |
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hypovolaemic | (adjective) of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolemic |
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hypovolemic | (adjective) of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolaemic |
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immunochemical | (adjective) of or relating to immunochemistry | - |
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ischaemic | (adjective) relating to or affected by ischemia | Synonyms: ischemic |
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ischemic | (adjective) relating to or affected by ischemia | Synonyms: ischaemic |
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monomorphemic | (adjective) consisting of only one morpheme | - |
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morphemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphemes | - |
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morphophonemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphophonemics | - |
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morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
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neurochemical | (noun) any organic substance that occurs in neural activity | - |
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pandemic | (adjective) epidemic over a wide geographical area | - |
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(adjective) existing everywhere | - |
(noun) an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world | - |
pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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petrochemical | (noun) any compound obtained from petroleum or natural gas | - |
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phonemic | (adjective) of or relating to phonemes of a particular language | - |
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(adverb) by phonemics | Synonyms: phonemically |
phonemically | (adverb) by phonemics | Synonyms: phonemic |
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phonemics | (noun) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | Synonyms: phonology |
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photochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the effects of light on chemical systems | - |
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physicochemical | (adjective) relating to physical chemistry | - |
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phytochemical | (noun) a chemical substance obtained from plants that is biologically active but not nutritive | - |
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polemic | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemical |
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(noun) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) | - |
(noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemicist, polemist |
polemical | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemic |
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polemically | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: controversially |
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polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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polemicist | (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | Synonyms: polemic, polemist |
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polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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polemics | (noun) the branch of Christian theology devoted to the refutation of errors | - |
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polymorphemic | (adjective) consisting of two or more morphemes | - |
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proxemics | (noun) the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations | - |
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pyaemic | (adjective) of or relating to pyemia | Synonyms: pyemic |
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pyemic | (adjective) of or relating to pyemia | Synonyms: pyaemic |
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pyrochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by chemical reactions at high temperatures | - |
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semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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(noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
semicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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(noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentenary |
semicircle | (noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle | Synonyms: hemicycle |
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semicircular | (adjective) curved into a half circle | - |
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semicoke | (noun) Semicoke is a solid residue obtained by carbonization of coal at a relatively low temperature (below 700° C). | - |
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semicolon | (noun) a punctuation mark (;) used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period | - |
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semicoma | (noun) a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli | - |
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semicomatose | (adjective) in a state of partial coma | - |
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semiconducting | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconductive |
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semiconductive | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconducting |
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semiconductor | (noun) a conductor made with semiconducting material | Synonyms: semiconductor device, semiconductor unit |
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(noun) a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities | Synonyms: semiconducting material |
semiconscious | (adjective) partially conscious; not completely aware of sensations | - |
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semiconsciousness | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, stupefaction, stupor |
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septicemic | (adjective) characteristic of septicemia | - |
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systemic | (adjective) affecting an entire system | - |
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totemic | (adjective) relating to totemism | - |
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uraemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: azotemic, uremic |
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uremic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: azotemic, uraemic |
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