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- SUBARACHNOIDLocated or occurring below the arachnoid mater, often specifically between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater.
- SWALESplural of swale
- SYRINXA set of panpipes.
- TAXONOMICOf or relating to taxonomy.
- TENEBRISMA style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, with darkness a dominating feature of the image.
- THERIACA universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate
- THERMIONICInvolving the emission of electrons from a heated electrode.
- TITRATETo ascertain the amount of a constituent in a solution (or other mixture) by measuring the volume of a known concentration (the "standard solution") needed to complete a reaction.
- TOROIDA surface generated by a closed curve (especially a circle) rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
- TOXOPLASMICPertaining to toxoplasmas
- TRITIATEDDescribing a compound which has had some of its normal hydrogen (protium) replaced with the heavy isotope tritium.
- ULTRAMAFICDescribing igneous rocks that contain magnesium and iron and only a very small amount of silica, such as are found in the Earth’s mantle.
- URTICA
- UXORIOUSVery devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife; showing excessive uxorial devotion.
- VARISCITEA relatively rare hydrated aluminum phosphate mineral (AlPO4·2H2O), sometimes confused with turquoise.
- VASODILATETo cause or to undergo vasodilation.
- VESICANTCausing blistering to the skin.
- VESTIBULAROf or pertaining to a vestibule in a building (or railway coach).
- VIRIDESCENTGreen or greenish.
- VIRIDIANA bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide.
- VITRAILA stained glass window.
- VORTICESplural of vortex
- XIPHOIDShaped like a sword, ensiform.
- XYLENEAny of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.
- YTTERBIUMA metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 70.
- YTTRIUMA silvery metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare earth minerals.