| CEPHALOMETER | • cephalometer n. An instrument for measuring the head. • cephalometer n. A device for positioning the head, and holding it steady, for an X-ray or surgery; a cephalostat. • CEPHALOMETER n. an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry. |
| CEPHALOMETRY | • cephalometry n. The measurement of the head, especially in order to study growth, development, and disease. • CEPHALOMETRY n. the science of measuring the head in living individuals. |
| DEPHLEGMATOR | • dephlegmator n. (Chemistry, archaic) An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation;… • DEPHLEGMATOR n. an agent that dephlegmates. |
| EXTREMOPHILE | • extremophile n. (Ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially… • EXTREMOPHILE n. an organism that lives under extreme environmental conditions. |
| HELMSPERSONS | • helmspersons n. Plural of helmsperson. |
| HEMERALOPIAS | • hemeralopias n. Plural of hemeralopia. • HEMERALOPIA n. the condition of seeing well at night or in partial darkness, while the day sight is poor. |
| HYPERCOMPLEX | • hypercomplex adj. (Mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics… • hypercomplex n. (Mathematics) A hypercomplex number. • HYPERCOMPLEX adj. excessively complex. |
| MELANOPHORES | • melanophores n. Plural of melanophore. • MELANOPHORE n. a chromatophore containing melanin. |
| MYRMECOPHILE | • myrmecophile n. An organism, especially an insect, that lives in close association with or shares a nest with a species of ant. • MYRMECOPHILE n. an organism that shares an ant colony. |
| NEPHELOMETER | • nephelometer n. (Analytical chemistry) An instrument for measuring various aspects of the suspended particles in a fluid;… • NEPHELOMETER n. an instrument for measuring cloudiness. |
| NEPHELOMETRY | • nephelometry n. (Analytical chemistry) The measurement of the concentration of a solution, suspension or dispersion… • nephelometry n. (Immunology) A technique used to determine the levels of antibodies or antigens in a suspension, based… • NEPHELOMETRY n. the measurement of the cloudiness of liquids. |
| PHELLODERMAL | • phellodermal adj. Of or pertaining to phelloderm. • PHELLODERMAL adj. relating to the phelloderm. |
| PLEOMORPHIES | • PLEOMORPHY n. the state of being pleomorphic, occurring in several different forms. |
| SPERMOPHILES | • spermophiles n. Plural of spermophile. • SPERMOPHILE n. a member of family of seed-loving rodents. |
| STEPMOTHERLY | • stepmotherly adj. Like or befitting a stepmother. • STEPMOTHERLY adj. like a stepmother. |
| THERMOCOUPLE | • thermocouple n. (Physics) A transducer consisting of two different metals welded together at each end; a voltage is… • THERMOCOUPLE n. a pair of different metals in contact giving a thermoelectric current. |
| THERMOPHILES | • thermophiles n. Plural of thermophile. • THERMOPHILE n. a bacteria, plant etc. requiring or thriving in high temperatures, also THERMOPHIL, THERMOPHILIC, THERMOPHILOUS. |