| allopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of allopathy | - |
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| allopathy | (noun) the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself | - |
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| allopatric | (adjective) (of biological species or speciation) occurring in areas isolated geographically from one another | - |
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| allopatry | (noun) the occurrence of related organisms in separate geographical areas with no overlap | - |
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| allophone | (noun) (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme | - |
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| allophonic | (adjective) pertaining to allophones | - |
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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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| alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| alopecic | (adjective) pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers | - |
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| anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| anomalops | (noun) fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | Synonyms: flashlight fish |
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| anomalopteryx | (noun) the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large turkey | Synonyms: Anomalopteryx oweni |
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| antelope | (noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks | - |
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| aslope | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
| camelopard | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe |
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| cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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| cephalopod | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopodan |
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| (noun) marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles | Synonyms: cephalopod mollusk |
| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| clop | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clopping, clumping, clunking |
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| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clump, clunk, plunk |
| clopping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clumping, clunking |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| coelophysis | (noun) one of the oldest known dinosaurs; late Triassic; cannibalistic | - |
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| colophon | (noun) a publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page) | - |
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| colophony | (noun) translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments | - |
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| cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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| cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cyclopia | (noun) a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye | - |
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| cyclopropane | (noun) a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic | - |
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| cyclops | (noun) minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms | Synonyms: water flea |
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| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
| development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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| (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
| (noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
| (noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
| (noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
| developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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| developmentally | (adverb) with respect to development | - |
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| diplopia | (noun) visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects | Synonyms: double vision |
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| dollop | (noun) a small measure (usually of food) | - |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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| encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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| encyclopaedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopedic |
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| encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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| encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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| encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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| encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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| (noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
| (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
| (noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
| (noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
| (noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
| enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
| (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
| exaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: EFLOPS |
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| fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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| flop | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: collapse |
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| (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, fizzle |
| (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, washout |
| (noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers | Synonyms: floating-point operation |
| (adverb) with a flopping sound | - |
| (adverb) completely | Synonyms: right |
| (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall loosely | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder |
| flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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| floppy | (adjective) hanging limply | - |
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| (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: diskette, floppy disk |
| gallop | (noun) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously | - |
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| (verb) ride at a galloping pace | - |
| (verb) go at galloping speed | - |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: extend |
| galop | (noun) music suitable for a galop dance | - |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| glop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: mush, slop, treacle |
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| (noun) any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant | - |
| haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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| halophil | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophile |
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| halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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| halophyte | (noun) plant growing naturally in very salty soil | - |
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| hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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| holophyte | (noun) an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis | - |
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| holophytic | (adjective) obtaining nourishment as green plants do | - |
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| hyaloplasm | (noun) the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | Synonyms: ground substance |
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| hyaloplasmic | (adjective) of or relating to hyaloplasm | - |
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| interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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| interloper | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: intruder, trespasser |
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| jalopy | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, heap |
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| lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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| lop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, sever |
| lope | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: canter |
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| (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| (verb) run easily | - |
| lopper | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: pruner, pruning hook |
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| lopsided | (adjective) having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, skew-whiff, wonky |
| lopsidedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: crookedly |
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| lopsidedness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: skewness |
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| malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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| megaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second | Synonyms: MFLOP, million floating point operations per second |
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| megalopolis | (noun) a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | - |
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| nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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| nyctalopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder | Synonyms: moon blindness, night blindness |
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| orlop | (noun) the fourth or lowest deck | Synonyms: fourth deck, orlop deck |
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| parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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| petaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: PFLOPS |
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| phalloplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery on the penis to repair congenital abnormality or injury | - |
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| plop | (noun) the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash | - |
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| (adverb) with a short hollow thud | Synonyms: plunk |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| (verb) drop with the sound of something falling into water | - |
| (verb) drop something with a plopping sound | - |
| psilophyte | (noun) any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant | - |
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| psilophyton | (noun) any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton | - |
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