| ABHORRENCY | • abhorrency n. (Obsolete) Aberrancy. • abhorrency n. (Obsolete) Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence. • abhorrency n. (Obsolete) something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing. |
| ABIOTROPHY | • abiotrophy n. (Medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function… • ABIOTROPHY n. bodily or mental loss of function or degeneration for reasons unknown. |
| BATHOMETRY | • BATHOMETRY n. measurement of the depth of water. |
| BODYSHAPER | • BODYSHAPER n. an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc. |
| BRACHYDOME | • brachydome n. (Crystallography) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. • BRACHYDOME n. a dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. |
| BRACHYLOGY | • brachylogy n. Concise speech; laconism. • brachylogy n. (Rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of… • BRACHYLOGY n. brevity of diction, abbreviated or condensed expression. |
| HABILATORY | • habilatory adj. Of or pertaining to clothing. • HABILATORY adj. of or relating to clothes or dressing. |
| HONOURABLY | • honourably adv. In an honourable manner. • HONOURABLE adv. worthy of honour, also HONORABLE. |
| HYBRIDOMAS | • hybridomas n. Plural of hybridoma. • HYBRIDOMA n. a hybrid cell produced by the fusion of an antibody-producing lymphocyte with a tumor cell. |
| HYPERBATON | • hyperbaton n. (Grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect. • hyperbaton n. (Rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing… • HYPERBATON n. the use, esp. for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in 'Bird thou never wert'. |
| HYPERBOLAE | • hyperbolae n. Plural of hyperbola. • hyperbolæ n. Plural of hyperbola. • HYPERBOLA n. a type of mathematical curve. |
| HYPERBOLAS | • hyperbolas n. Plural of hyperbola. • HYPERBOLA n. a type of mathematical curve. |
| MOUCHARABY | • moucharaby n. A mashrabiyya. • MOUCHARABY n. (Arabic) in North Africa, an external balcony enclosed with latticework. |
| PYROPHOBIA | • pyrophobia n. An fear or hatred of fire or flames. • PYROPHOBIA n. fear of fire. |
| RUBYTHROAT | • rubythroat n. Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat. • RUBYTHROAT n. any of numerous species of humming birds, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections. |
| YARBOROUGH | • yarborough n. (Card games) A hand, in bridge or whist, that has no card with a value greater than nine (and no aces)… • Yarborough prop.n. A surname. • Yarborough n. (Bridge) A hand that contains no honors. |
| ZYGOBRANCH | • zygobranch n. A zygobranchiate mollusc. • ZYGOBRANCH n. a type of gastropod having paired, symmetrically placed gills, also ZYGOBRANCHIATE. |