| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| abscissa | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis | - |
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| abscission | (noun) the act of cutting something off | Synonyms: cutting off |
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| (noun) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | - |
| adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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| (adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
| ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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| ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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| ascitic | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| bioscience | (noun) any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms | Synonyms: life science |
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| coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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| cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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| conscience | (noun) conformity to one's own sense of right conduct | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of shame when you do something immoral | - |
| (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong |
| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| conscientiously | (adverb) with extreme conscientiousness | Synonyms: religiously, scrupulously |
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| conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
| conscionable | (adjective) acceptable to your conscience | - |
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| conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something | - |
| (adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: witting |
| consciously | (adverb) with awareness | - |
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| consciousness | (noun) an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation | - |
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| (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness |
| disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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| discina | (noun) any fungus of the genus Discina | - |
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| disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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| discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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| disciplinal | (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinary |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discipline | (noun) training to improve strength or self-control | - |
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| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: correction |
| (noun) the trait of being well behaved | - |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice | - |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| disciplined | (adjective) obeying the rules | - |
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| (adjective) trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise | - |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| episcia | (noun) any plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers | - |
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| fascia | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: dashboard |
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| (noun) a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc | Synonyms: facia |
| fascicle | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicule |
| fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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| fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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| fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| fascinated | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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| fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
| fascinatingly | (adverb) in a fascinating manner | - |
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| fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
| (noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
| fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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| fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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| fasciolosis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fascioliasis |
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| fascism | (noun) a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | - |
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| fascist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascistic |
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| (noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
| fascista | (noun) an Italian fascist under Mussolini | - |
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| fascistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascist |
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| hippoboscid | (noun) bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals | Synonyms: louse fly |
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| hyoscine | (noun) an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures | Synonyms: scopolamine |
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| immiscible | (adjective) (chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing | Synonyms: non-miscible, unmixable |
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| imputrescible | (adjective) not subject to decay | - |
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| incognoscible | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognizable |
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| indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| irascibility | (noun) a feeling of resentful anger | Synonyms: quick temper, short temper, spleen |
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| irascible | (adjective) characterized by anger | Synonyms: choleric |
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| (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, hotheaded, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
| lascivious | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lewd, libidinous, lustful |
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| lasciviously | (adverb) in a lascivious manner | Synonyms: salaciously |
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| lasciviousness | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| luscious | (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| lusciously | (adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: deliciously, scrumptiously |
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| lusciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, deliciousness, toothsomeness |
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| miscible | (adjective) (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed | Synonyms: mixable |
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| mucoviscidosis | (noun) the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known | Synonyms: CF, cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis |
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| nescience | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness |
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| nescient | (adjective) holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible | Synonyms: unbelieving |
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| (adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, unlearned, unlettered |
| neuroscience | (noun) the scientific study of the nervous system | - |
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| neuroscientist | (noun) a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain | - |
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| nonconscious | (adjective) relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things | - |
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| (adjective) concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness | - |
| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonviscid | (adjective) not resembling glue in texture | Synonyms: nonglutinous |
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| omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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| omniscient | (adjective) infinitely wise | Synonyms: all-knowing |
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| oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: vibrate |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, vacillate, vibrate |
| oscillating | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillatory |
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| oscillation | (noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean | Synonyms: vibration |
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| (noun) a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon | Synonyms: cycle |
| (noun) the process of oscillating between states | - |
| oscillator | (noun) generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current | - |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| oscillogram | (noun) the recording produced by an oscillograph | - |
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| oscillograph | (noun) a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents | - |
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| oscilloscope | (noun) electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities | Synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, scope |
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| oscine | (adjective) of or relating to the songbirds | - |
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| (noun) passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus | Synonyms: oscine bird |
| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
| oscitant | (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: drowsy, yawning |
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| piscine | (adjective) of or relating to fish | - |
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| piscivorous | (adjective) feeding on fishes | - |
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| plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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| presciently | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: cannily |
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| proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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| proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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| proboscis | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: trunk |
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| (noun) the human nose (especially when it is large) | - |
| prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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| pseudoscience | (noun) an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions | - |
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| pseudoscientific | (adjective) based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrescine | (noun) a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter | - |
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| rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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