actinozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: anthozoan |
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alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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amazon | (noun) mainly green tropical American parrots | - |
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(noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: virago |
antherozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: spermatozoid |
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anthozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: actinozoan |
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antiprotozoal | (noun) a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa | Synonyms: antiprotozoal drug |
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archaeozoic | (adjective) of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era | Synonyms: archeozoic |
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archeozoic | (adjective) of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era | Synonyms: archaeozoic |
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azo | (adjective) relating to or containing the azo radical | - |
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azoic | (adjective) before the appearance of life | - |
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azoimide | (noun) a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling | Synonyms: HN, hydrazoic acid, hydrogen azide |
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azonal | (adjective) not divided into zones | - |
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azonic | (adjective) not restricted to any particular zone or region | - |
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azotaemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotemia, uraemia, uremia |
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azote | (noun) an obsolete name for nitrogen | - |
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azotemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotaemia, uraemia, uremia |
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azotemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: uraemic, uremic |
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azotic | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitric, nitrous |
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azoturia | (noun) excess of urea in the urine | - |
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bazooka | (noun) a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon | - |
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benzoate | (noun) any salt or ester of benzoic acid | - |
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benzocaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: ethyl aminobenzoate |
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benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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benzofuran | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: coumarone, cumarone |
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benzoic | (adjective) containing or derived from benzoic acid or benzoin | - |
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benzoin | (noun) gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation | Synonyms: asa dulcis, benjamin, gum benjamin, gum benzoin |
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benzol | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly flammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds | Synonyms: benzene, benzine |
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benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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blazon | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazonry, coat of arms |
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(verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: emblazon |
blazonry | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazon, coat of arms |
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borzoi | (noun) tall fast-moving dog breed | Synonyms: Russian wolfhound |
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bozo | (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: cat, guy, hombre, sod |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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carrizo | (noun) tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts | Synonyms: common reed, ditch reed, Phragmites communis |
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cefoperazone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections | Synonyms: Cefobid |
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chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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corozo | (noun) any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts | Synonyms: corozo palm |
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diazo | (adjective) relating to or containing diazonium | - |
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diazonium | (noun) the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes | - |
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diazotize | (verb) convert (an amine) into a diazo compound | - |
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diazoxide | (noun) vasodilator (trade name Hyperstat) used to treat severe hypertension | Synonyms: Hyperstat |
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doxazosin | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Cardura) that works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood passes through them more easily; it is also used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia | Synonyms: Cardura |
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ectozoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: epizoan |
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(noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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(verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
endozoan | (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: entozoan |
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(noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
endozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: entozoan, entozoic |
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entozoan | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoic |
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(adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: endozoan |
(noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
entozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoan |
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entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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enzootic | (adjective) of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases | - |
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epizoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: ectozoan |
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(noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoon |
epizoic | (adjective) living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite | - |
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epizoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan |
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epizootic | (adjective) (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region | - |
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estazolam | (noun) a frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom) | Synonyms: ProSom |
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friendzone | (verb) To treat as a friend although the other party has romantic feelings | - |
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garbanzo | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: chickpea |
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(noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: chickpea |
ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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gonzo | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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holozoic | (adjective) obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter | - |
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horizon | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: purview, view |
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(noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
(noun) a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land | - |
(noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth | Synonyms: celestial horizon |
horizontal | (adjective) parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line | - |
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(noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
horizontality | (noun) the quality of being parallel to the horizon | - |
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horizontally | (adverb) in a horizontal direction | - |
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hydrazoite | (noun) a salt of hydrazoic acid | - |
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hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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(noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
(noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
itraconazole | (noun) an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease | Synonyms: Sporanox |
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kazoo | (noun) a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | - |
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lansoprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prevacid) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prevacid |
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leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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leucocytozoon | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoan |
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matzo | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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mazopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mastopathy |
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mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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metazoan | (noun) any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges | - |
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metronidazole | (noun) antiprotozoal medication (trade name Flagyl) used to treat trichomoniasis and giardiasis | Synonyms: Flagyl |
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mezzo | (noun) the female singing voice between contralto and soprano | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
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(noun) a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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miconazole | (noun) an antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat) | Synonyms: Monistat |
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midazolam | (noun) an injectable form of benzodiazepine (trade name Versed) useful for sedation and for reducing pain during uncomfortable medical procedures | Synonyms: Versed |
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naphazoline | (noun) vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation | Synonyms: Privine, Sudafed |
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nefazodone | (noun) an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) | Synonyms: Serzone |
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omeprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prilosec |
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orzo | (noun) pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine | - |
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ouzo | (noun) a Greek liquor flavored with anise | - |
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oxyphenbutazone | (noun) an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis | Synonyms: Tandearil |
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ozocerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozokerite |
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ozokerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite |
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ozone | (noun) a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation) | - |
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ozonide | (noun) any of a class of unstable chemical compounds resulting from the addition of ozone to a double bond in an unsaturated compound | - |
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