| ALONGSHOREMAN | • alongshoreman n. (Archaic) Alternative form of longshoreman. • ALONGSHOREMAN n. a stevedore; a person who makes a living along the shore by fishing, etc., also LONGSHOREMAN. |
| ARACHNOLOGIES | • ARACHNOLOGY n. the study of spiders. |
| ARACHNOPHOBES | • arachnophobes n. Plural of arachnophobe. • ARACHNOPHOBE n. one with a morbid fear of spiders. |
| ARCHAEOBOTANY | • archaeobotany n. (Archaeology) Paleoethnobotany. • archæobotany n. Alternative form of archaeobotany. • ARCHAEOBOTANY n. the analysis and interpretation of plant remains found at archaeological sites, also ARCHEOBOTANY. |
| CANCEROPHOBIA | • cancerophobia n. Alternative form of cancerphobia. • CANCEROPHOBIA n. fear of cancer, also CANCERPHOBIA. |
| CEPHALOPODANS | • CEPHALOPODAN n. any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, that includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus, also CEPHALOPOD. |
| ENCHONDROMATA | • enchondromata n. Plural of enchondroma. • ENCHONDROMA n. an abnormal cartilaginous growth. |
| HAEMATOGENOUS | • haematogenous adj. Producing blood. • haematogenous adj. Spread by blood. • HAEMATOGENOUS adj. relating to haematogenesis, the production of blood, also HEMATOGENOUS. |
| HAEMATOXYLONS | • HAEMATOXYLON n. any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp. the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa, the heartwood of which yields the dye haematoxylin. |
| HALOGENATIONS | • halogenations n. Plural of halogenation. • HALOGENATION n. the act of halogenating. |
| LYMPHOADENOMA | • LYMPHOADENOMA n. a tumour of the lymph glands, aka Hodgkin's disease. |
| NONBEHAVIORAL | • nonbehavioral adj. Not behavioral. • NONBEHAVIORAL adj. not behavioral, also NONBEHAVIOURAL. |
| OCEANOGRAPHER | • oceanographer n. A person who studies oceanography, the science of oceans. • OCEANOGRAPHER n. one who maps the oceans. |
| OCEANOGRAPHIC | • oceanographic adj. Relating to oceanography, the science of oceans. • OCEANOGRAPHIC adj. relating to oceanography, also OCEANOGRAPHICAL. |
| ORGANOTHERAPY | • organotherapy n. (Medicine) The therapeutic use of the endocrine organs (or glandular extracts) of animals. • ORGANOTHERAPY n. treatment of disease by administration of animal organs or extracts of them, esp. of ductless gland extracts. |
| OROPHARYNGEAL | • oropharyngeal adj. (Anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to both the mouth and the pharynx. • oropharyngeal adj. (Anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the oropharynx. • oropharyngeal n. (Informal, medicine) Ellipsis of oropharyngeal airway.: an adjunct device used to open and secure a… |
| PARATHORMONES | • parathormones n. Plural of parathormone. • PARATHORMONE n. a parathyroid hormone. |
| PHANEROGAMOUS | • phanerogamous adj. Phanerogamic. • PHANEROGAMOUS adj. like a phanerogam, a seed-plant or spermatophyte, also PHANEROGAMIC. |
| THANATOLOGIES | • thanatologies n. Plural of thanatology. • THANATOLOGY n. the description or study of the phenomena of death and of psychological mechanisms for coping with them. |
| ZOOXANTHELLAE | • zooxanthellae n. Plural of zooxanthella. • ZOOXANTHELLA n. a symbiotic dinoflagellate of the genus Symbiodinium that lives in the tissues of a number of marine invertebrates and protists. |