| ATROPHY | • atrophy n. (Pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. • atrophy v. (Intransitive) To wither or waste away. • atrophy v. (Transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken. |
| BIOPHOR | • biophor n. (Obsolete, genetics) A supposed supramolecular unit of heredity. • BIOPHOR n. a hypothetical unit of living matter, also BIOPHORE. |
| GONOPHS | • gonophs n. Plural of gonoph. • GONOPH n. (Yiddish) a thief, also GANEF, GANEV, GANOF, GONEF, GONIF, GONIFF, GONOF. |
| GOPHERS | • gophers n. Plural of gopher. • GOPHER v. to burrow, mine. |
| HOPHEAD | • hophead n. (US, slang) A drug addict. • hophead n. (Britain, slang) A beer enthusiast or homebrewer. • HOPHEAD n. a drug addict. |
| LYOPHIL | • lyophil n. Archaic form of lyophile. • LYOPHIL adj. of a colloid, readily dispersed in a suitable medium, also LYOPHILE, LYOPHILIC. |
| MOPHEAD | • mophead n. Alternative spelling of mop head. • mop␣head n. The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. • mop␣head n. (US) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. |
| OOPHYTE | • oophyte n. (Obsolete, biology) gametophyte. • oöphyte n. Alternative spelling of oophyte. • OOPHYTE n. a stage of development in certain plants. |
| OPHITES | • ophites n. Plural of ophite. • Ophites n. Plural of Ophite. • OPHITE n. a name given to various green-mottled rocks such as diabase and serpentine. |
| OPHITIC | • ophitic adj. (Geology) Describing any rock having crystals of feldspar interspersed with plates of augite. • OPHITIC adj. of or like an ophite, a name given to various green-mottled rocks such as diabase and serpentine. |
| OPHIURA | • Ophiura prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Ophiuridae – typical brittle stars.. • OPHIURA n. a member of the Ophiura genus of brittle-stars or sand-stars, also OPHIURAN, OPHIURID, OPHIUROID. |
| PROPHET | • prophet n. Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. • prophet n. Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer. • Prophet prop.n. (Christianity, Judaism) Any of the prophets mentioned in the Bible, especially an author of one of the Prophets. |
| SHOPHAR | • shophar n. Alternative spelling of shofar. • SHOPHAR n. (Hebrew) a ram's horn trumpet used in Jewish religious ceremonies, also SHOFAR. |
| SOPHIES | • sophies n. Plural of sophy. • Sophies n. Plural of Sophie. • SOPHY n. (Arabic) a ruler of Persia. |
| SOPHISM | • sophism n. (Uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching… • sophism n. (Countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive. • sophism n. (Countable) An intentional fallacy. |
| SOPHIST | • sophist n. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece. • sophist n. (Figuratively) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning. • sophist n. (Figuratively, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument. |
| STROPHE | • strophe n. (Prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. • strophe n. (Prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage. • strophe n. (Prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based. |
| TROPHIC | • trophic adj. Of or pertaining to nutrition. • trophic adj. (Ecology) Describing the relationships between the feeding habits of organisms in a food chain. • trophic adj. (Physiology) Of or pertaining to growth. |