hydrochlorofluorocarbon | (noun) a fluorocarbon that is replacing chlorofluorocarbon as a refrigerant and propellant in aerosol cans; considered to be somewhat less destructive to the atmosphere | Synonyms: HCFC |
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hydrofluorocarbon | (noun) a fluorocarbon emitted as a by-product of industrial manufacturing | Synonyms: HFC |
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hypocalcaemia | (noun) abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency | Synonyms: hypocalcemia |
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hypocalcemia | (noun) abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency | Synonyms: hypocalcaemia |
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hypocapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: acapnia |
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hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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invocation | (noun) the act of appealing for help | - |
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(noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, conjury |
(noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: supplication |
(noun) an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil | - |
irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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irrevocably | (adverb) in an irrevocable manner | - |
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isocarboxazid | (noun) a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Marplan) that is used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Marplan |
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kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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lasiocampid | (noun) medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae | Synonyms: lasiocampid moth |
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local | (adjective) relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area | - |
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(adjective) affecting only a restricted part or area of the body | - |
(adjective) of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood | - |
(noun) public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops | - |
(noun) anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body | Synonyms: local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic |
locale | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locus, venue |
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localisation | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localization, locating, location |
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(noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation of function, localisation principle, localization, localization of function, localization principle |
localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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(verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
(verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
localised | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localized |
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(adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localized |
localism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: provincialism, sectionalism |
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(noun) a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality | - |
locality | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity |
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localization | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, locating, location |
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(noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle |
localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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(verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
(verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
localized | (adjective) made local or oriented locally | Synonyms: localised |
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(adjective) confined or restricted to a particular location | Synonyms: localised |
locally | (adverb) by a particular locality | - |
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(adverb) to a restricted area of the body | Synonyms: topically |
localness | (noun) The state or condition of being from a nearby location. | - |
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locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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(verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
(verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
(verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
located | (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: placed, set, situated |
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locater | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locator |
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locating | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
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(noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, location |
location | (noun) a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space | - |
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(noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, locating |
(noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, placement, position, positioning |
(noun) a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made | - |
locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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(noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
locator | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locater |
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mandioca | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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marocain | (noun) a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe | Synonyms: crepe marocain |
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megalocardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megacardia |
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mesocarp | (noun) the middle layer of a pericarp | - |
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methocarbamol | (noun) muscle relaxant for skeletal muscles (trade name Robaxin) used to treat spasms | Synonyms: Robaxin |
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misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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mocassin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: moccasin |
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monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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monocarp | (noun) a plant that bears fruit once and dies | Synonyms: monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant |
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monocarpic | (adjective) dying after bearing fruit only once | - |
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myocardial | (adjective) of or relating to the myocardium | - |
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myocardiopathy | (noun) a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) | Synonyms: cardiomyopathy |
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myocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart) | Synonyms: myocardial inflammation |
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myocardium | (noun) the middle muscular layer of the heart wall | - |
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nephrocalcinosis | (noun) renal lithiasis in which calcium deposits form in the renal parenchyma and result in reduced kidney function and blood in the urine | - |
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nitrocalcite | (noun) the mineral form of calcium nitrate | - |
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nonreciprocal | (adjective) not reciprocal | - |
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nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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oca | (noun) South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers | Synonyms: oka, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa |
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ocarina | (noun) egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes | Synonyms: sweet potato |
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parthenocarpy | (noun) (botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds | - |
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perfluorocarbon | (noun) a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum | Synonyms: PFC |
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photocathode | (noun) a cathode that emits electrons when illuminated | - |
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pilocarpine | (noun) cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma | - |
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piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
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pleurocarp | (noun) a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk | Synonyms: pleurocarpous moss |
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pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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procaine | (noun) a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine | Synonyms: Ethocaine |
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procarbazine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease | - |
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procaryote | (noun) a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | Synonyms: prokaryote |
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procaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: prokaryotic |
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provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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provocation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, irritation |
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(noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: incitement |
(noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, incitement |
provocative | (adjective) serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy | - |
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(adjective) intentionally arousing sexual desire | - |
provocatively | (adverb) in a provocative manner | Synonyms: provokingly |
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pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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radiocarbon | (noun) a radioactive isotope of carbon | Synonyms: carbon 14 |
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radiolocate | (verb) locate by means of radar | - |
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radiolocation | (noun) measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects | Synonyms: microwave radar, radar, radio detection and ranging |
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reallocate | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reapportion |
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reallocation | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallotment, reapportionment |
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(noun) a share that has been allocated again | - |
reciprocal | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: mutual |
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(adjective) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function | - |
(noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
(noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
(noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
reciprocality | (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocity |
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reciprocally | (adverb) in an inverse or contrary manner | Synonyms: inversely |
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(adverb) in a mutual or shared manner | Synonyms: mutually |
(adverb) (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation | Synonyms: in return |
reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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(verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
reciprocation | (noun) the act of making or doing something in return | - |
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(noun) alternating back-and-forth movement | - |
(noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange |
reciprocative | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
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(adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
reciprocatory | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocative |
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(adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocative |
relocate | (verb) become established in a new location | - |
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(verb) move or establish in a new location | - |
relocated | (adjective) settled in a new location | Synonyms: resettled |
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relocation | (noun) the act of changing your residence or place of business | Synonyms: move |
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(noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: resettlement |
revocable | (adjective) capable of being revoked or annulled | Synonyms: revokable |
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revocation | (noun) the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done | - |
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(noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: annulment |
robocall | (noun) An phone call made by an automated service | - |
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rocambole | (noun) European leek cultivated and used like leeks | Synonyms: Allium scorodoprasum, giant garlic, sand leek, Spanish garlic |
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schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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socage | (noun) land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service | - |
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sporocarp | (noun) specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | Synonyms: spore case |
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streptocarpus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses | - |
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subvocalise | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalize |
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subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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subvocalize | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalise |
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subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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(verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
(verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
(verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
suffocating | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocative |
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