| AMPHIBOLY | • amphiboly n. (Grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction. • AMPHIBOLY n. a grammatically ambiguous phrase or sentence, also AMPHIBOLOGY. |
| AUTOPHOBY | • autophoby n. Archaic form of autophobia. • AUTOPHOBY n. a shrinking from making any reference to oneself. |
| BIOGRAPHY | • biography n. A person’s life story, especially one published. • biography n. The art of writing this kind of story. • biography v. (Transitive) To write a biography of. |
| BIPHENYLS | • biphenyls n. Plural of biphenyl. • BIPHENYL n. a hydrocarbon consisting of two phenyl groups, used as a fungicide and in dye-manufacture, also DIPHENYL. |
| BLASPHEMY | • blasphemy n. An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act… • blasphemy n. (By extension) An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention. • BLASPHEMY n. impious speech. |
| BRYOPHYTE | • bryophyte n. (Botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts… • BRYOPHYTE n. a member of the Bryophyta, one of the main groups of the vegetable kingdom, mosses and liverworts. |
| GYNOPHOBE | • gynophobe n. One who fears or hates women. • GYNOPHOBE n. a person who hates or fears women. |
| HYPERBOLA | • hyperbola n. (Geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base… • HYPERBOLA n. a type of mathematical curve. |
| HYPERBOLE | • hyperbole n. (Uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. • hyperbole n. (Countable) An instance or example of such overstatement. • hyperbole n. (Countable, obsolete) A hyperbola. |
| HYPERCUBE | • hypercube n. (Geometry) A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions… • hypercube n. (Geometry) Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract. • hypercube n. (Computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions. |
| HYPOBARIC | • hypobaric adj. Of, relating to, or utilizing less than normal air pressure. • HYPOBARIC adj. below normal pressure. |
| HYPOBLAST | • hypoblast n. (Embryology) A type of tissue that forms from the inner cell mass and later is incorporated into the endoderm. • HYPOBLAST n. the inner or lower layer of the blastoderm. |
| HYPOBOLES | • hypoboles n. Plural of hypobole. • HYPOBOLE n. the anticipation and refutal of objections to an argument. |
| LYOPHOBIC | • lyophobic adj. (Chemistry, of a colloid) Having no affinity for the dispersion medium and thus easily precipitated. • LYOPHOBIC adj. of a colloid, not readily dispersed, also LYOPHOBE. |
| PLOUGHBOY | • ploughboy n. (Historical) A boy who directed the animals that pulled a plough. • PLOUGHBOY n. a boy who drives or guides horses in ploughing, also PLOWBOY. |
| SUBPHYLAR | • SUBPHYLAR adj. relating to a subphylum. |
| SUBPHYLUM | • subphylum n. (Taxonomy) A taxonomic category below phylum and above class. • SUBPHYLUM n. (Latin) the taxonomic division below a phylum. |
| XENOPHOBY | • xenophoby n. Dated form of xenophobia. • XENOPHOBY n. fear of foreigners, also XENOPHOBIA. |