| ANTIPYRESES | • ANTIPYRESIS n. medication with antipyretics to treat a fever. |
| ANTIPYRESIS | • antipyresis n. (Medicine) The reduction of fever. • ANTIPYRESIS n. medication with antipyretics to treat a fever. |
| ANTIPYRETIC | • antipyretic adj. (Pharmacology) That reduces fever. • antipyretic n. (Pharmacology) A medicine that reduces fever; a febrifuge. • ANTIPYRETIC n. an agent which prevents or reduces fever. |
| BENZOPYRENE | • benzopyrene n. (Organic chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (having five fused benzene rings) that is both… |
| BENZPYRENES | • benzpyrenes n. Plural of benzpyrene. • BENZPYRENE n. a cancer-inducing hydrocarbon, also BENZOAPYRENE. |
| COPYREADERS | • copyreaders n. Plural of copyreader. • COPYREADER n. a subeditor. |
| COPYREADING | • copyreading v. Present participle of copyread. • COPYREADING n. the act of copyreading. |
| EMPYREUMATA | • empyreumata n. Plural of empyreuma. • EMPYREUMA n. the peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels. |
| GRANOPHYRES | • granophyres n. Plural of granophyre. • GRANOPHYRE n. a kind of quartz-porphyry. |
| KERATOPHYRE | • keratophyre n. (Petrography) A compact porphyritic rock composed of alkali-feldspars and diopside, and possibly including quartz. • KERATOPHYRE n. a fine-grained soda trachyte. |
| LAMPROPHYRE | • lamprophyre n. (Geology) An uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rock primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths… • LAMPROPHYRE n. a compact intrusive rock with phenocrysts of black mica, hornblende, etc. |
| ORTHOPHYRES | • ORTHOPHYRE n. a fine-grained syenitic rock with orthoclase crystals. |
| PLAYREADERS | • playreaders n. Plural of playreader. • PLAYREADER n. one who reads over the script of a play. |
| POLYSTYRENE | • polystyrene n. (Organic chemistry) A vinylic polymer of styrene, CH2CHphenyl. • polystyrene n. (Organic chemistry) An alkane chain of benzene molecules, RCH2CHphenylR. • POLYSTYRENE n. a polymer of styrene. |
| PYRENOCARPS | • PYRENOCARP n. a perithecium, a small fruiting body containing ascospores. |
| PYRETHROIDS | • pyrethroids n. Plural of pyrethroid. • PYRETHROID n. any of various synthetic compounds related to the pyrethrins, and sharing their insecticidal properties. |