| ALDOLASES | • aldolases n. Plural of aldolase. • ALDOLASE n. an enzyme. |
| ATTOLASER | • ATTOLASER n. a high-powered laser capable of producing pulses measured in quintillionths of a second. |
| CATALASES | • catalases n. Plural of catalase. • CATALASE n. an enzyme that reduces hydrogen peroxide. |
| CELLULASE | • cellulase n. (Biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyze the cellulolysis (or hydrolysis) of cellulose. • CELLULASE n. an enzyme that can split cellulose into glucose, present in organisms in the guts of animals and in the leaf stalks of higher plants. |
| COAGULASE | • coagulase n. (Biochemistry) Any enzyme that induces coagulation. • coagulase n. (Biochemistry) Specifically, the enzyme produced by various Staphylococcus species that converts fibrinogen to fibrin. • COAGULASE n. any of several enzymes that cause coagulation, as of the blood. |
| HYDROLASE | • hydrolase n. (Biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a substrate. • HYDROLASE n. a hydrolytic enzyme. |
| LASERDISC | • laserdisc n. A home videodisc in the Laserdisc format. • Laserdisc prop.n. A home videodisc format of the 1980s, now obsolete. • Laserdisc n. (Countable) A disc in this format. |
| LASERDISK | • LASERDISK n. a disc similar to a long-playing record on which data is stored by the use of a laser, also LASERDISC. |
| LASERWORT | • laserwort n. An umbelliferous plant (Laserpitium latifolium) from which the resin laser was obtained. • LASERWORT n. any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, the root of which yields a resinous substance of a bitter taste. |
| METHYLASE | • methylase n. (Biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze methylation, especially of nucleic acids. • METHYLASE n. an enzyme that catalyzes methylation. |
| PERICLASE | • periclase n. (Mineralogy) A cubic crystalline form of magnesium oxide (MgO). • PERICLASE n. a naturally occurring magnesium oxide. |
| VERGLASES | • VERGLAS n. (French) a film of ice on rock. |