| abohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm | - |
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| adenohypophysis | (noun) the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland |
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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 | - |
| alcoholic | (adjective) characteristic of or containing alcohol | - |
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| (adjective) addicted to alcohol | Synonyms: alcohol-dependent |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
| alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
| alcoholism | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: dipsomania, potomania |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, drunkenness, inebriation |
| alcoholize | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholise |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholise |
| (verb) subject to the influence of alcohol | - |
| aldohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
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| aloha | (noun) an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) | Synonyms: ciao |
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| angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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| billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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| biohazard | (noun) any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological agent |
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| (noun) hazard to humans or the environment resulting from biological agents or conditions | - |
| bohemia | (noun) a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style | - |
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| bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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| (noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
| bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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| bohrium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 107 | Synonyms: atomic number 107, Bh, element 107 |
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| carbohydrate | (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: saccharide, sugar |
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| cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
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| cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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| (verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| cohere | (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, stick |
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| (verb) have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results | - |
| (verb) cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole | - |
| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| coherently | (adverb) in a coherent manner | - |
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| cohesion | (noun) (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid | - |
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| (noun) (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. | - |
| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesiveness |
| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
| cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
| coho | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho salmon, cohoe, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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| (noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon |
| cohoe | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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| (noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho, coho salmon, silver salmon |
| cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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| (noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
| (noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
| cohosh | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: baneberry, herb Christopher |
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| cohune | (noun) tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune |
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| cyanohydrin | (noun) any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom | - |
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| cyclohexanol | (noun) a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor | - |
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| cyproheptadine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Periactin) used to treat some allergic reactions | Synonyms: Periactin |
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| demijohn | (noun) large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork | - |
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| doh | (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: do, ut |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| eohippus | (noun) earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal | Synonyms: dawn horse |
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| fohn | (noun) a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | Synonyms: foehn |
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| gasohol | (noun) a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn | - |
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| haematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, hematohiston |
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| hematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, haematohiston |
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| hydroisohypse | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of equal level on the piezometric surface. | - |
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| immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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| incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
| incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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| (noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
| incoherent | (adjective) without logical or meaningful connection | - |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation | - |
| (adjective) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently | Synonyms: tongue-tied |
| incoherently | (adverb) in an incoherent manner | - |
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| isohel | (noun) an isogram connecting points receiving equal amounts of sunshine | - |
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| john | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: trick, whoremaster, whoremonger |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| keratohyalin | (noun) hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum | - |
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| ketoheptose | (noun) A seven-carbon sugar possessing a ketone group. | - |
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| ketohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group | - |
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| kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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| kohl | (noun) a cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids | - |
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| kohleria | (noun) shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers | - |
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| kohlrabi | (noun) fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant | Synonyms: turnip cabbage |
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| (noun) plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea gongylodes |
| lohan | (noun) a Buddhist who has attained nirvana | Synonyms: Arhant, Arhat |
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| magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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| matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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| megalohepatia | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: hepatomegaly |
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| megohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms | - |
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| mesohippus | (noun) North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | - |
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| mohair | (noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat | - |
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| mohawk | (noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp | Synonyms: mohawk haircut |
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| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| neurohormone | (noun) a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin) | - |
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| neurohypophysis | (noun) the posterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: pars nervosa, posterior pituitary, posterior pituitary gland |
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| nohow | (adverb) in no manner; in no way | - |
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| nonalcoholic | (adjective) characterized by the absence of alcohol | - |
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| nosohusial | (adjective) taking place related or acquired under home healthcare | - |
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| ohm | (noun) a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere | - |
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| ohmage | (noun) the ohmic resistance of a conductor | - |
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| ohmic | (adjective) of or relating to or measured in ohms | - |
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| ohmmeter | (noun) a meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms | - |
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| ooh | (verb) express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah' | Synonyms: aah |
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| photoheliograph | (noun) a telescope, with a camera attached, used to photograph the Sun. | - |
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| phytohormone | (noun) (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone | Synonyms: growth regulator, plant hormone |
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| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| prohibited | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: banned |
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| (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
| prohibition | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, proscription |
| (noun) refusal to approve or assent to | - |
| (noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | Synonyms: prohibition era |
| prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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| prohibitive | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitory |
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| prohibitively | (adverb) to a prohibitive degree | - |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| protoheme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, heme |
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| protohemin | (noun) a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood | Synonyms: hemin |
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| protohippus | (noun) Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size | - |
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| protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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| pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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| pseudohermaphrodite | (adjective) having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex | Synonyms: pseudohermaphroditic |
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| (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
| pseudohermaphroditic | (adjective) having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex | Synonyms: pseudohermaphrodite |
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| pseudohermaphroditism | (noun) congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex | - |
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| rhombohedral | (adjective) having threefold symmetry | Synonyms: trigonal |
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| rhombohedron | (noun) a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms) | - |
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| scapulohumeral | (adjective) relating to the shoulder blade and upper arm bone | - |
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