| ASYNAPSIS | • asynapsis n. (Biochemistry) The failure of synapsis during meiosis. • ASYNAPSIS n. a failure of the pairing of homologous chromosomes in meiosis. |
| AUTOPSIST | • autopsist n. One who performs an autopsy. • AUTOPSIST n. one who carries out an autopsy. |
| CARYOPSIS | • caryopsis n. (Botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal. • CARYOPSIS n. (Greek) a dry indehiscent fruit characteristic of grasses. |
| COREOPSIS | • coreopsis n. Any of several composite herbs, of genus Coreopsis, typically with bright yellow flowers. • Coreopsis prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – some tickseeds. • COREOPSIS n. a genus of herbaceous composite plants, mostly American. |
| HELIOPSIS | • Heliopsis prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – certain flowering plants. • HELIOPSIS n. a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family. |
| PERIAPSIS | • periapsis n. (Astronomy, astrophysics) The point of a body’s (elliptical) orbit in a 2-body gravitational system… • periapsis n. The minimum distance between the two bodies in such a system. • PERIAPSIS n. the closest point to a central body reached by a body in orbit. |
| PROLEPSIS | • prolepsis n. (Rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. • prolepsis n. (Logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument. • prolepsis n. (Grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that… |
| SCEPSISES | • SCEPSIS n. (Greek) philosophic doubt, also SKEPSIS. |
| SKEPSISES | • SKEPSIS n. (Greek) philosophical doubt, also SCEPSIS. |
| SOLIPSISM | • solipsism n. (Philosophy) The idea that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist. • solipsism n. Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views or needs of others; self-centeredness; egoism. • SOLIPSISM n. a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing. |
| SOLIPSIST | • solipsist adj. Of, or pertaining to, solipsism. • solipsist n. One who adheres to self-absorption and an ignorance of the views or needs of others. • SOLIPSIST n. one who practises solipsism, the belief that the self is all that exists. |
| STYPSISES | • STYPSIS n. (Greek) the use, action etc. of a styptic. |
| SYLLEPSIS | • syllepsis n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such… • syllepsis n. (Botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of… • SYLLEPSIS n. (Greek) a construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in 'He lost his coat and his temper'. |
| SYNOPSISE | • synopsise v. Alternative form of synopsize. • SYNOPSISE v. to make a synopsis of, also SYNOPSIZE. |