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- ALEXINA protective substance that exists in the serum or other bodily fluid and is capable of killing microorganisms; complement.
- APOTHEGMA short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
- ARCTOPHILEOne who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them.
- AUXETICHaving the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched.
- AXONA nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
- CHTHONICDwelling within the underworld.
- DIPTYCHA writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
- EPARCHYA district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
- EXARCHYThe jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.
- FUCOIDResembling or relating to seaweeds of the genus Fucus.
- GYNOECIUMThe pistils/carpels of a flower considered as a group
- HEDONICOf or relating to pleasure
- HEDONICSThe ethical study of pleasure
- OROGENYThe process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
- OTOLITHA small particle, composed mainly of calcium carbonate, found in the inner ear of vertebrates, being part of the balance sense.
- PHATICPertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
- QUINCEThe pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
- STHENICCharacterized by nervous energy; robust, strong.
- XENIALHospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
- XERICVery dry, lacking humidity and water.