| ABASIA | • abasia n. (Medicine) An inability to walk due to a defect in muscular coordination. • ABASIA n. the inability to walk due to lack of muscular coordination. |
| AMUSIA | • amusia n. The inability to comprehend or respond to music. • AMUSIA n. the inability to recognize musical sounds. |
| ASIAGO | • asiago n. A hard Italian cheese similar to parmesan. • Asiago prop.n. A township near Vicenza in the Veneto, Italy. • ASIAGO n. (Italian) a type of Italian cheese. |
| CASSIA | • cassia n. (Uncountable) The spice made from the bark of members of the genus Cinnamomum other than true cinnamon… • cassia n. (Countable) Such trees themselves, particularly the Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia. • cassia n. (Countable) Any of several tropical leguminous plants, of the genus Cassia. |
| CLUSIA | • clusia n. (Botany) Any member of the genus Clusia of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae. • CLUSIA n. any member of the genus Clusia of evergreen climbing plants. |
| FATSIA | • fatsia n. (Botany) Any of the genus Fatsia of Asian evergreen shrubs. • Fatsia prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Araliaceae – the fatsias, evergreen shrubs from Japan and Taiwan. • FATSIA n. (Japanese) an evergreen spreading shrub of the ivy family. |
| MESIAD | • mesiad adv. (Anatomy) Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane. • MESIAD adj. in biology, pertaining to the middle. |
| MESIAL | • mesial adj. (Anatomy) Pertaining to the midline of the body. • mesial adj. (Dentistry) Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw. • MESIAL adj. situated in the middle, also MESAL, MESIAN. |
| MESIAN | • mesian adj. Alternative form of mesial. • MESIAN adj. situated in the middle, also MESAL, MESIAL. |
| NASIAL | • nasial adj. Archaic form of nasal. • NASIAL adj. relating to the nasion, the middle point of the nasofrontal suture. |
| OSSIAS | • ossias n. Plural of ossia. • OSSIA n. (Italian) in music, an alternative passage. |
| RUSSIA | • Russia prop.n. A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia, bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic… • Russia prop.n. (Historical, loosely) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally… • Russia prop.n. (Historical) The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917. |
| SIALIC | • sialic adj. Of or pertaining to saliva. • sialic adj. Of or pertaining to sialic acid or its derivatives. • SIALIC adj. of or relating to saliva. |
| SIALID | • sialid n. (Entomology) Any member of the family Sialidae of alderflies. • SIALID n. an alderfly, also SIALIDAN. |
| SIALON | • sialon n. Any of a class of strong refractory ceramics, based on the elements silicon, aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen… • SIALON n. a type of ceramic material. |
| TARSIA | • tarsia n. Intarsia. • TARSIA n. (Italian) a form of decorative wood inlay work, developed in Italy, also INTARSIA. |
| ZOYSIA | • zoysia n. Any of a genus (Zoysia) of creeping perennial grasses of southern Asia and New Zealand having fine wiry… • ZOYSIA n. a kind of perennial grass. |