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- AXESplural of ax
- BAILOROne who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping.
- BATIKA wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
- BAWDYObscene; filthy; unchaste.
- BESPOKEMade or done in a way adjusted to the needs of a specific person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.
- BINAURALOf, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.
- BISULFIDE(chemistry) The anion HS.
- BITSYFragmented.
- BLOKEA fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
- BLOVIATETo speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
- BROMICOf or relating to bromine or its compounds, especially those in which it has a valency of five.
- BURPEEA physical exercise performed by bending over, performing a squat thrust, returning to a standing position, and jumping once.
- CABBYAlternative form of cabbie (“taxi driver”).
- CEPHALADTowards the head (or anterior extremity), a direction that in humans corresponds to superior.
- CHAPSplural of chap
- CLASTa fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit.
- CORKYOf wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
- COSHhyperbolic cosine, a hyperbolic function.
- DENSplural of den
- DICOTA plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.
- DIGOXINA poisonous compound present in the foxglove (Digitalis lanata) and other plants. It is a steroid glycoside and is used in small doses as a cardiac stimulant.
- DIMWITA person who is deficient in intelligence.
- DINKA soft drop shot.
- DIPOLEAny object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles).
- DODGYEvasive and shifty.
- DOMICRelating to or shaped like a dome; domical or domeshaped.
- DONERDoner kebab.
- DOTERSynonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”).
- DURAEllipsis of dura mater.
- DURALRelating to the dura mater.
- DURALSRelating to the dura mater.
- EASERA person or thing that eases or relieves
- ECTOPLASMA visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.
- EDEMATOUSAfflicted with edema.
- EMBOLICOf or relating to an embolus or an embolism.
- EMOTETo display or express (emotions, mental states, etc.) openly, particularly while acting, and especially in an excessive manner. To deliver (a speech), say (lines of a play, words),
- EMOTEROne who emotes.
- ENTROPICOf, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy.
- EXFOLIANTAn agent or substance used for the process of exfoliation
- FEIGNEROne who feigns.
- FIBULAROf or pertaining to the fibula
- FLAKERA tool or appliance used to break flakes off a piece of material or something into it.
- FLUTEDHaving flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
- FOISTEROne who foists; a falsifier.
- FOSSAlternative spelling of fosse.
- FRAPEA crowd, a mob.
- FUROSEMIDEA diuretic (trademark Lasix) used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and edema.
- GAPYgaping
- GOFERA worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
- HARKENAlternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
- HEMEThe component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecul
- HOMIESomeone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
- HYPERTONICHaving a greater osmotic pressure than another.
- INEXORABLYIn an inexorable manner; without the possibility of stopping or prevention.
- IONICof, relating to, or containing ions
- IONICSThe study of ionic conductors.
- JIBEROne who jeers or taunts.
- JILTEROne who jilts another.
- JINGOISTOne who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims.
- JINKERA high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
- JOULEIn the International System of Units, the derived unit of energy, work and heat; the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre. Equivalent to one wat
- JUVEA child actor.
- KETOSEA saccharide containing a ketone functional group.
- LANKYTall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
- LAPISEllipsis of lapis lazuli.
- LIGERAn animal born to a male lion and a tigress.
- LOBEDHaving lobes.
- LUGERSomeone who competes in the luge.
- MAGNETOA small magnetic dynamo, especially one that provides power to the spark plugs of a small internal combustion engine (now mostly used in aircraft).
- MALIGNERSomeone who maligns
- MASETo act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.
- MAVERICKUnbranded.
- MEGAFLOPSa measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second.
- MICROLITEA basic fluoride of sodium, calcium, tantalum and niobium that is isomorphous with pyrochlore
- MODENAA crimson colour.
- MOXIENerve, spunk, strength of character.
- MOYAFlowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash
- NOBBYWealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
- NYMPHOA nymphomaniac.
- ODONTICdental
- OGLEROne who ogles.
- OUTSHINETo shine brighter than something else
- OXIDATETo oxidize.
- OXIDATIVEOf, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
- PARSECSyllabic abbreviation of parallax second.
- PENCEplural of penny (the subunit of the pound sterling or Irish pound).
- PENTOSEA sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.
- PHLEGMONICSynonym of phlegmonous.
- PHOTA photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).
- PHOTONICof, or relating to photons or to photonics
- PLASMIDA loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from — and replicates independently of — the chromosomes; such loops are most commonly found in bacteria, but they are also sometimes
- PNEUMATICSThe branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases
- POLYURICRelating to polyuria
- POREDsimple past and past participle of pore
- POSEYPretentious; posturing.
- POSTURALRelating to posture.
- PUSTULAROf, pertaining to, or containing pustules.
- PYODERMAAn infection of the skin by pyogenic bacteria.
- PYREXA kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.
- PYURIAThe presence of pus in the urine.