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- MAXICOATSplural of maxicoat
- MICAWBERAlternative letter-case form of Micawber; a person of modest income or background who remains optimistic that their situation will improve.
- OPACIFIEDsimple past and past participle of opacify
- PINEALECTOMIESplural of pinealectomy
- SEMIPORCELAINAny of several glazed ceramic wares resembling porcelain but having little or no translucency.
- TOOTHFISHESplural of toothfish
- UROPYGIUMThe posterior part of a bird's body from which the tailfeathers grow.
- VIRAEMICPertaining to viraemia; having a virus or viruses present in the bloodstream
- AMBROIDAlternative form of amberoid.
- AUDIOGENICProduced by sound.
- BRONCHIUMA bronchial tube; a subdivision of the bronchus.
- CEPHEIDOf or pertaining to the family Cepheidae
- CHAMFRAINAlternative form of chamfron.
- COGWAYSplural of cogway
- COMPUTERNIKSplural of computernik
- COPIHUEAn evergreen climbing plant, Lapageria rosea.
- EPIZOOTYAn epizootic disease or outbreak.
- FANDANGOA form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- FEUDATORIESplural of feudatory
- GONIFFAlternative form of ganef.
- ISOGAMETICPertaining to, or exhibiting isogamy
- LOGAOEDICOf any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.
- MORBIFICThat causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
- ORTANIQUESplural of ortanique
- RHABDOCOELEAlternative form of rhabdocoel.
- TRIACIDCapable of combining with three molecules of a monobasic acid
- WELLADAYvariant form of wellaway; alas.
- WINEMAKERSplural of winemaker
- APOMIXESplural of apomixis
- AUTOGENIESspontaneous generation
- CAVALIERISMThe practice or principles of cavaliers; cavalier behaviour
- CHAPATTIAlternative form of chapati.
- CHIPBOARDA building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.
- COIFFEUSESplural of coiffeuse
- CORYMBEDHaving corymbs.
- EPHEBOIplural of ephebos
- EXOSPORIUMThe outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exine.
- FLORILEGIUMA collection of flowers.
- GREYWACKEA hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
- HEXAPODYA verse or measure of six metrical feet.
- IDEOGRAMICAlternative form of ideogrammic.
- OMNIARCHA ruler of the world or everything.
- PECKERWOODA woodpecker.
- PROTEOGLYCANSplural of proteoglycan
- TOTIPOTENCYThe ability of a cell to produce differentiated cells upon division
- TUCKAHOEThe edible root of a plant of species Peltandra virginica, used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
- VAGOTONIAirritability of the vagus nerve that adversely affects the function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles
- WICKYUPAlternative spelling of wickiup.
- AFTERIMAGEAn image which persists or remains in negative after the original stimulation has ended.
- AUDIOMETERAn instrument which is used to determine the acuity of hearing.
- AUDIOMETRIESplural of audiometry
- BACHELORDOMThe state of a male who is a bachelor, i.e. unwed.
- BIOTELEMETRIESThe use of telemetry to monitor, measure and record physiological data of an organism
- CHAWBACONAn uncultured rustic person.
- CUDBEARA violet-red dye powder, prepared from certain lichens, especially Ochrolechia tartarea.
- FAVONIANPertaining to the west wind.
- GEEGAWAlternative form of gewgaw.
- GWEDUCKAlternative form of geoduck.
- MYCOFLORAEplural of mycoflora
- PICOWAVED
- STREPTOMYCETEAny bacterium of the family Streptomycetaceae
- ABEIGH
- ABOITEAUSplural of aboiteau
- ADENOMATOUSOf or pertaining to adenoma
- AMYLOPECTINSplural of amylopectin
- BEECHWOODThe wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.).
- BIOMORPHICHaving the appearance of a biomorph; representing a living organism rather than an artistic or pragmatic ideal.
- CHERUBLIKEResembling or characteristic of a cherub.
- COMPENSABILITYThe characteristic of being compensable; the ability to be compensated.
- DECIDUALof or relating to the decidua
- EPICEDIAplural of epicede
- LAPAROTOMIESplural of laparotomy
- LEXICOLOGYThe part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
- MICROQUAKESplural of microquake
- PICOWAVE
- SCHOTTISCHEA partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of German origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
- UROPYGIAplural of uropygium
- AILUROPHILEA person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover.
- AMPHIOXIplural of amphioxus
- BIOETHICSThe branch of ethics that studies the implications of biological and biomedical advances.
- EUPHORICALLYIn a euphoric manner.
- FRIARBIRDAny of several species of large Australian honeyeaters in the genus Philemon.
- MEGAPODEAny of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiati
- MOUCHOIRA handkerchief.
- MYTHOPEICAlternative form of mythopoeic.
- PHYLLOMICRelating to a phyllome.
- PYCNIDIUMIn certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
- SEXTODECIMOA size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into sixteenths (3.25"–5" x 5"–6.25").
- VIATICAplural of viaticum
- VIATICUMSplural of viaticum
- YEOMANRIESplural of yeomanry
- CHRONAXIEThe minimum time over which an electric current must be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell.
- EPIZOOTICAn occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.
- EUNUCHISMThe condition of being a eunuch.
- FASTIGIUMAn apex or summit; culmination.
- HEMIPTEROUSOf or pertaining to the Hemiptera order; hemipteran
- MEROBLASTICthat undergoes only partial cleavage
- OMNIFARIOUSOf many or all forms, varieties, or kinds.
- OUGUIYAThe currency of Mauritania, divided into five khoums.
- PATRIMONIESplural of patrimony