| 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. |
| ATROPIA | • atropia n. Dated form of atropine. • ATROPIA n. a medicine derived from the deadly nightshade, also ATROPIN, ATROPINE. |
| ATROPIN | • atropin n. Alternative spelling of atropine. • ATROPIN n. a medicine derived from the deadly nightshade, also ATROPIA, ATROPINE. |
| CALTROP | • caltrop n. (Weaponry) A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always… • caltrop n. (Heraldry) The same object represented as a heraldic charge. • caltrop n. (Colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns. |
| ENTROPY | • entropy n. A measure of the disorder present in a system. • entropy n. (Thermodynamics, countable) A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. • entropy n. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature. |
| EUTROPY | • EUTROPY n. variation of crystalline forms by atomic number. |
| EXTROPY | • extropy n. Negentropy. • EXTROPY n. the prediction that human intelligence will enable life to expand throughout the universe. |
| OUTROPE | • outrope v. (Transitive) To exceed in roping; to rope better than. • outrope n. Alternative form of outroop. • OUTROPE n. an auction sale, also OUTROOP. |
| 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. |
| STROPPY | • stroppy adj. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with. • STROPPY adj. (colloquial) touchy, belligerent. |
| 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. |
| TROPICS | • tropics n. Plural of tropic. • tropics n. (Geography) The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and… • Tropics n. Plural of Tropic. |
| TROPINE | • tropine n. (Organic chemistry) A poisonous alkaloid (3-endo)-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-ol obtained by… • TROPINE n. a poisonous alkaloid, also TROPIN. |
| TROPING | • troping v. Present participle of trope. • TROPE v. to provide with a metaphor. |
| TROPINS | • tropins n. Plural of tropin. • TROPIN n. a poisonous alkaloid, also TROPINE. |
| TROPISM | • tropism n. (Biology) The turning of an organism in response to a stimulus, either towards or away from the stimulus. • tropism n. (Virology) That type of organ, tissue or cell which supports a certain virus. • tropism n. (Figurative) An instinctive tendency or predilection. |
| TROPIST | • tropist n. One who uses or deals in tropes. • tropist n. One who avoids the literal meaning of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech. • TROPIST n. a user of tropes. |