| acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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| aerosol | (noun) a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas) | Synonyms: aerosol bomb, aerosol can, aerosol container, spray can |
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| (noun) a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas | - |
| aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
| aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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| aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
| aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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| anthroposophy | (noun) a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education | - |
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| arioso | (noun) (music) a short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria | - |
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| autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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| autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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| bosom | (noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: embrace |
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| (noun) cloth that covers the chest or breasts | - |
| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) a person's breast or chest | - |
| (noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept | - |
| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| boson | (noun) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons | - |
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| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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| calosoma | (noun) any beetle of the genus Calosoma | - |
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| centrosome | (noun) small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules | Synonyms: central body |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| chemosorption | (noun) adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorption |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chondriosome | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: mitochondrion |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| chromosome | (noun) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order | - |
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| creosol | (noun) a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote | - |
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| creosote | (noun) a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic | - |
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| (noun) a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood | Synonyms: coal-tar creosote |
| (verb) treat with creosote | - |
| cytosol | (noun) the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended | - |
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| deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| drosophila | (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | Synonyms: Drosophila melanogaster |
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| gymnosophical | (adjective) of or relating to gymnosophy | - |
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| gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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| gymnosophy | (noun) the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation | - |
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| hydrosol | (noun) a sol (colloid) in which the continuous phase is water. | - |
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| isosorbide | (noun) drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Isordil |
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| liposome | (noun) an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector | - |
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| lysosome | (noun) an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells) | - |
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| mafioso | (noun) a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States | - |
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| (noun) a member of the Sicilian Mafia | - |
| microsomal | (adjective) of or relating to microsomes | - |
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| microsome | (noun) a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA | - |
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| monosomy | (noun) chromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number | - |
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| morosoph | (noun) a learned fool | - |
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| nitrosobacteria | (noun) soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites | Synonyms: nitrous bacteria |
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| nosocomial | (adjective) taking place or originating in a hospital | - |
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| nosohusial | (adjective) taking place related or acquired under home healthcare | - |
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| nosology | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: diagnostics |
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| philosopher | (noun) a specialist in philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity | - |
| philosophic | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophical |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophical |
| philosophical | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophic |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophic |
| philosophically | (adverb) in a philosophic manner | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to philosophy | - |
| philosophicalness | (noun) The state or quality of having the attitude of a philosopher; specifically, of being calm or unflinching in the face of trouble, defeat, or loss. | - |
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| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| philosophiser | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophizer |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| philosophizer | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophiser |
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| philosophizing | (noun) the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy | - |
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| philosophy | (noun) the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics | - |
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| (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought |
| (noun) any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation | - |
| posology | (noun) the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines | - |
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| prosociality | (noun) The quality of being beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores. | - |
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| prosodic | (adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing | - |
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| prosodion | (noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: processional |
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| prosody | (noun) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | Synonyms: metrics |
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| (noun) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language | Synonyms: inflection |
| (noun) (prosody) a system of versification | Synonyms: poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern |
| prosopopoeia | (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: personification |
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| proteosome | (noun) a form of vaccine that can be administered by an inhaler | Synonyms: proteosome vaccine |
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| psychosomatic | (adjective) used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis | - |
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| regosol | (noun) a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand | - |
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| ribosome | (noun) an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell | - |
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| sarcosomal | (adjective) of or relating to sarcosomes | - |
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| sarcosome | (noun) a large mitochondrion in a striated muscle fiber | - |
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| schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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| schistosomiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis |
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| theosophical | (adjective) of or relating to theosophy | - |
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| theosophism | (noun) belief in theosophy | - |
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| theosophist | (noun) a believer in theosophy | - |
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| theosophy | (noun) a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul | - |
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| transposon | (noun) a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole) | Synonyms: jumping gene |
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| twosome | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duet, duo |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, yoke |
| unbosom | (verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: relieve |
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| virtuoso | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, masterly |
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| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (noun) a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry | - |