| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| cyon | cyon | Asiatic wild dog |
| Plzen | Plzen | a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated |
| sane | sane | marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" |
| Saone | Saone | a river in eastern France; rises in Lorraine and flows south to become the chief tributary of the Rhone |
| sawn | saw | a power tool for cutting wood |
| scene | scene | graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept; "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment" |
| seen | see | the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located |
| seine | seine | a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom |
| sen | sen | a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel |
| sene | sene | 100 sene equal 1 tala in Western Samoa |
| sewn | sew | fastened with stitches |
| Sian | Sian | a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC |
| sign | sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards" |
| sin | sin | an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will |
| Sine | Sine | ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle |
| soigne | soigne | polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance |
| son | son | the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) |
| sone | sone | a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold |
| soon | soon | in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long" |
| sown | sow | sprinkled with seed; "a seeded lawn" |
| sun | sun | the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around the Sun" |
| swain | swain | a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" |
| swan | swan | stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult |
| swine | swine | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals |
| swoon | swoon | a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain |
| tsine | tsine | wild ox of the Malay Archipelago |
| Zen | Zen | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
| zone | zone | (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure |
| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Alcyone | Alcyone | (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher |
| arcsine | arcsine | the inverse function of the sine; the angle that has a sine equal to a given number |
| arsine | arsine | a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare |
| arson | arson | malicious burning to destroy property; "the British term for arson is fire-raising" |
| asin | asin | the seventh month of the Hindu calendar |
| assign | assign | select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" |
| Aswan | Aswan | an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby |
| auxin | auxin | a plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth |
| axon | axon | long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron |
| axone | axone | long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron |
| basin | basin | a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin" |
| bassine | bassine | coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms |
| bassoon | bassoon | a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family |
| Belsen | Belsen | a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II |
| benzene | benzene | a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds |
| benzine | benzine | a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds |
| benzoin | benzoin | used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera |
| Bergson | Bergson | French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941) |
| bison | bison | any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns |
| blazon | blazon | the official symbols of a family, state, etc. |
| b-meson | b-meson | exceedingly short-lived meson |
| boatswain | boatswain | a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen |
| boson | boson | any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons |
| bosun | bosun | a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen |
| brazen | brazen | face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out" |
| brucine | brucine | a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica |
| bryozoan | bryozoan | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding |
| Bunsen | Bunsen | a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air |
| caisson | caisson | large watertight chamber used for construction under water |
| calcine | calcine | heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces |
| Carson | Carson | United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868) |
| casein | casein | a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk |
| chasten | chasten | correct by punishment or discipline |
| chosen | choose | an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government" |
| Chosen | Chosen | an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government" |
| Christen | Christen | administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" |
| claxon | claxon | a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles |
| cloisonne | cloisonne | enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips |
| coarsen | coarsen | make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals" |
| consign | consign | give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" |
| cosign | cosign | sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan |
| cosine | cosine | ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle |
| cousin | cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle |
| coxswain | coxswain | the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew |
| cozen | cozen | cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man" |
| cresson | cresson | of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green |
| crimson | crimson | a deep and vivid red color |
| cuisine | cuisine | the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared |
| cyan | cyan | a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color |
| damson | damson | dark purple plum of the damson tree |
| dapsone | dapsone | antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases |
| Dawson | Dawson | a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike |
| design | design | the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument" |
| disown | disown | cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" |
| dizen | dizen | dress up garishly and tastelessly |
| dobson | dobson | large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait |
| Dodgson | Dodgson | English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| dozen | dozen | the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one |
| ensign | ensign | colors flown by a ship to show its nationality |
| Essen | Essen | a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr |
| Essene | Essene | a member of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus |
| exon | exon | sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns" |
| fasten | fasten | make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire" |
| flaxen | flaxen | of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen locks" |
| flexion | flexion | act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased |
| fluxion | fluxion | a flow or discharge |
| foreseen | foresee | realize beforehand |
| frisson | frisson | an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" |
| frozen | freeze | incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" |
| fusain | fusain | a stick of black carbon material used for drawing |
| Gibson | Gibson | United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003) |
| glisten | glisten | the quality of shining with a bright reflected light |
| glycine | glycine | genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean |
| godson | godson | a male godchild |
| grandson | grandson | a male grandchild |
| Grecian | Grecian | a native or resident of Greece |
| greisen | greisen | a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica |
| grison | grison | carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts |
| halcyon | halcyon | a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves |
| Hamsun | Hamsun | Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952) |
| handsewn | handsewn | sewn by hand rather than machine |
| hands-on | hands-on | involving active participation; "he's a hands-on manager"; "hands-on operations" |
| hasten | hasten | act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!" |
| hausen | hausen | valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas |
| hazan | hazan | the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos |
| helxine | helxine | one species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb |
| Henson | Henson | United States puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990) |
| hexane | hexane | a colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent |
| hircine | hircine | of or pertaining to or suggestive of a goat (especially in strong odor) |
| hoactzin | hoactzin | crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings |
| hoatzin | hoatzin | crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings |
| Hudson | Hudson | a New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century |
| Husain | Husain | king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999) |
| Hussein | Hussein | king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999) |
| hyoscine | hyoscine | an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying" |
| hyson | hyson | a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves |
| Ibsen | Ibsen | realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906) |
| insane | insane | afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter" |
| Jackson | Jackson | a town in south central Michigan |
| Jansen | Jansen | a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638) |
| Jason | Jason | (Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece |
| Jensen | Jensen | modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) |
| jigsawn | jigsaw | fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines |
| Johnson | Johnson | 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875) |
| Jolson | Jolson | United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950) |
| Jonson | Jonson | English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637) |
| Kansan | Kansan | a native or resident of Kansas |
| Kazan | Kazan | an industrial city in the European part of Russia |
| keelson | keelson | a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it |
| khamsin | khamsin | an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring |
| Khoisan | Khoisan | a family of languages spoken in southern Africa |
| Klaxon | Klaxon | a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles |
| Kusan | Kusan | a Penutian language spoken by the Kusan |
| langsyne | langsyne | past times remembered with nostalgia |
| lasagne | lasagne | very wide flat strips of pasta |
| Lausanne | Lausanne | a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center |
| lessen | lessen | decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| lesson | lesson | a task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for today" |
| leucine | leucine | a white crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins that is essential for nutrition; obtained by the hydrolysis of most dietary proteins |
| listen | listen | hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello" |
| loosen | loosen | become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" |
| Lutzen | Lutzen | a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed |
| Luzon | Luzon | the main island of the Philippines |
| Lycian | Lycian | an Anatolian language |
| lyings-in | lying-in | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" |
| lysin | lysin | any substance (such as an antibody) or agent that can cause lysis |
| lysine | lysine | an essential amino acid found in proteins; occurs especially in gelatin and casein |
| Manson | Manson | Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922) |
| mason | mason | a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love |
| Massine | Massine | French choreographer and ballet dancer (born in Russia) (1895-1979) |
| meson | meson | an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 |
| mizen | mizen | fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast |
| mizzen | mizzen | fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast |
| moisten | moisten | make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" |
| Mommsen | Mommsen | German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903) |
| monsoon | monsoon | a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter |
| mosan | mosan | a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia |
| mucin | mucin | a nitrogenous substance found in mucous secretions; a lubricant that protects body surfaces |
| muezzin | muezzin | the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day |
| myosin | myosin | the commonest protein in muscle; a globulin that combines with actin to form actomyosin |
| Myrsine | Myrsine | evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand) |
| myxine | myxine | type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes) |
| Nansen | Nansen | Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) |
| nelson | nelson | any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck |
| Nicene | Nicene | of or relating to the ancient city of Nicaea in Asia Minor |
| Nielsen | Nielsen | Danish composer (1865-1931) |
| Nilsson | Nilsson | Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918) |
| nin-sin | nin-sin | Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers |
| Nisan | Nisan | the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April) |
| Nissan | Nissan | the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April) |
| Nixon | Nixon | vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994) |
| obscene | obscene | suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" |
| ocean | ocean | a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere |
| odds-on | odds-on | having a better than even chance of success; "the odds-on favorite" |
| opsin | opsin | retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin |
| oscine | oscine | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus |
| oxen | ox | domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" |
| ozone | ozone | a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation) |
| parson | parson | a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches" |
| pepsin | pepsin | an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones |
| person | person | a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| phocine | phocine | of or relating to seals |
| Pilsen | Pilsen | a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated |
| piscine | piscine | of or relating to fish |
| poison | poison | anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism" |
| porcine | porcine | resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food" |
| poussin | poussin | French painter in the classical style (1594-1665) |
| prison | prison | a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment |
| Procyon | Procyon | the type genus of the family Procyonidae: raccoons |
| Pusan | Pusan | a city in southeastern South Korea on the Korean Strait; the chief port and second largest city |
| Racine | Racine | a city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee |
| raisin | raisin | dried grape |
| reason | reason | the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" |
| reassign | reassign | transfer somebody to a different position or location of work |
| resewn | resew | sew again; "The cuff of the coat had been resewn" |
| resign | resign | accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" |
| resin | resin | any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules |
| ricin | ricin | a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon; "one milligram of ricin can kill an adult" |
| risen | rise | (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon; "the risen sun" |
| rosin | rosin | any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules |
| Sachsen | Sachsen | an area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons |
| Samson | Samson | a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got" |
| sawan | sawan | the fifth month of the Hindu calendar |
| Saxon | Saxon | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest |
| Schlesien | Schlesien | a region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore; annexed by Prussia in 1742 but now largely in Poland |
| scion | scion | a descendent or heir; "a scion of royal stock" |
| season | season | one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons" |
| self-sown | self-sown | growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds |
| selsyn | selsyn | a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized |
| sightseen | sightsee | visit famous or interesting sights |
| Simpson | Simpson | Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870) |
| sison | sison | genus including stone parsley |
| Siwan | Siwan | the ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June) |
| stepson | stepson | the son your spouse by a former marriage |
| stetson | stetson | a hat made of felt with a creased crown |
| Swanson | Swanson | United States actress in many silent films (1899-1983) |
| tarzan | tarzan | a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| taxon | taxon | animal or plant group having natural relations |
| Tessin | Tessin | an Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland |
| Texan | Texan | a native or resident of Texas |
| Thompson | Thompson | English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814) |
| Thomson | Thomson | English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940) |
| Thracian | Thracian | a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages |
| Tientsin | Tientsin | a major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China |
| tisane | tisane | infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves |
| tocsin | tocsin | a bell used to sound an alarm |
| toxin | toxin | a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species |
| treason | treason | an act of deliberate betrayal |
| trypsin | trypsin | an enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units |
| Tucson | Tucson | a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century |
| tutsan | tutsan | deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain |
| Tyson | Tyson | United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (born in 1966) |
| unseen | unseen | a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit |
| unsown | unsown | (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it; "farmland still unsown" |
| ursine | ursine | of or relating to or similar to bears |
| vaccine | vaccine | immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies |
| vepsian | vepsian | a Finnic language spoken by the Veps |
| Vinson | Vinson | United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953) |
| vixen | vixen | a female fox |
| Watson | Watson | United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) |
| waxen | wax | having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" |
| waxen | waxen | having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" |
| whipsawn | whipsaw | a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people |
| Whitsun | Whitsun | Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days) |
| Wilson | Wilson | a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high) |
| wizen | wizen | lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" |
| worsen | worsen | grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| Yeatsian | Yeatsian | in the manner of William Butler Yeats |
| zayin | zayin | the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet |
| Zion | Zion | an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal |
| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Acheson | Acheson | United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971) |
| advowson | advowson | the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice |
| aflaxen | aflaxen | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation |
| Alhazen | Alhazen | an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040) |
| amazon | amazon | mainly green tropical American parrots |
| Amundsen | Amundsen | Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928) |
| Andersen | Andersen | a Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875) |
| Anderson | Anderson | United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991) |
| anthozoan | anthozoan | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
| arccosine | arccosine | the inverse function of the cosine; the angle that has a cosine equal to a given number |
| arisen | arise | get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" |
| Arkansan | Arkansan | a native or resident of Arkansas |
| artisan | artisan | a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft |
| Assassin | Assassin | a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors" |
| Assuan | Assuan | an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby |
| atrazine | atrazine | a synthetic compound derived from triazine that is widely used as an agricultural herbicide; "atrazine is thought to cause cancer and is banned in some European countries" |
| balzacian | balzacian | of or relating to Honore de Balzac or his writings |
| beautician | beautician | someone who works in a beauty parlor |
| bedizen | bedizen | dress up garishly and tastelessly |
| benison | benison | a spoken blessing |
| b-horizon | b-horizon | immediately below the A-horizon; contains deposits of organic matter leached from surface soils |
| Bisayan | Bisayan | a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines |
| bombazine | bombazine | a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted; "black bombazine is frequently used for mourning garments" |
| caducean | caducean | of or relating to a caduceus |
| calycine | calycine | of or relating to or resembling a calyx |
| capsaicin | capsaicin | colorless pungent crystalline compound derived from capsicum; source of the hotness of hot peppers of the genus Capsicum such as chili and cayenne and jalapeno |
| ceresin | ceresin | a white wax extracted from ozokerite |
| cetacean | cetacean | large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals |
| chairperson | chairperson | the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" |
| chalazion | chalazion | a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked |
| characin | characin | any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae |
| c-horizon | c-horizon | beneath the B-horizon and above the bedrock; consisting of weathered rock |
| chymosin | chymosin | an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate |
| Circassian | Circassian | a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian |
| Cistercian | Cistercian | member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence |
| citizen | citizen | a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community |
| clinician | clinician | a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments |
| colchicine | colchicine | an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout |
| Colossian | Colossian | a native or inhabitant of the city of Colossae in ancient Phrygia |
| complexion | complexion | (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament |
| Confucian | Confucian | a believer in the teachings of Confucius |
| connexion | connexion | the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet" |
| cortisone | cortisone | a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone |
| countersign | countersign | a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed |
| courtesan | courtesan | a woman who cohabits with an important man |
| crustacean | crustacean | any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
| Culbertson | Culbertson | United States authority on contract bridge whose books helped to popularize the game (1891-1955) |
| cytosine | cytosine | a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine |
| damascene | damascene | a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel |
| deflexion | deflexion | a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" |
| denizen | denizen | a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep" |
| Dickensian | Dickensian | of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions) |
| Dickinson | Dickinson | United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886) |
| dietician | dietician | a specialist in the study of nutrition |
| digoxin | digoxin | digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia; helps the heart beat more forcefully |
| Dinesen | Dinesen | Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962) |
| dioxin | dioxin | any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides |
| draftsperson | draftsperson | a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines |
| Dusicyon | Dusicyon | crab-eating dog |
| ectozoan | ectozoan | any external parasitic organism (as fleas) |
| ectozoon | ectozoon | any external parasitic organism (as fleas) |
| Edison | Edison | United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931) |
| Eleusine | Eleusine | annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands |
| Ellison | Ellison | United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994) |
| emblazon | emblazon | decorate with heraldic arms |
| Emerson | Emerson | United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882) |
| encrimson | encrimson | make crimson |
| endozoan | endozoan | any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) |
| entozoan | entozoan | any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) |
| entozoon | entozoon | any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) |
| Eocene | Eocene | from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals |
| eosin | eosin | a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures |
| epicene | epicene | one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made |
| epizoan | epizoan | any external parasitic organism (as fleas) |
| epizoon | epizoon | any external parasitic organism (as fleas) |
| ethician | ethician | a philosopher who specializes in ethics |
| Euphrosyne | Euphrosyne | (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces |
| fettuccine | fettuccine | pasta in flat strips wider than linguine |
| flash-frozen | flash-frozen | (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" |
| fluorescein | fluorescein | a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) |
| fluoresceine | fluoresceine | a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) |
| folacin | folacin | a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction |
| foreperson | foreperson | the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf |
| Formosan | Formosan | the Austronesian languages spoken on Formosa |
| fradicin | fradicin | an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery |
| freemason | freemason | a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love |
| fuji-san | fuji-san | an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages |
| Galician | Galician | a language spoken in Galicia in northwestern Spain; it is between Portuguese and Spanish but closer to Portuguese; sometimes considered a Portuguese or Spanish dialect |
| Gantrisin | Gantrisin | a sulfonamide (trade name Gantrisin) used to treat infections of the urinary tract |
| garrison | garrison | a fortified military post where troops are stationed |
| guanosine | guanosine | a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose |
| half-dozen | half-dozen | denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units |
| handbasin | handbasin | a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) |
| Harrison | Harrison | 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841) |
| Hertzian | Hertzian | of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work; "Hertzian discoveries" |
| Higginson | Higginson | United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911) |
| Holocene | Holocene | approximately the last 10,000 years |
| Hopkinson | Hopkinson | American Revolutionary leader and patriot; a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1791) |
| horizon | horizon | the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" |
| Hutchinson | Hutchinson | American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643) |
| hydrazine | hydrazine | a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels |
| hydrozoan | hydrozoan | colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant |
| ill-chosen | ill-chosen | not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" |
| imprison | imprison | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" |
| indocin | indocin | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Indocin) |
| inflexion | inflexion | a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function |
| inosine | inosine | a nucleoside that is formed by the deamination of adenosine; used in kidney transplantation to provide a temporary source of sugar |
| in-person | in-person | an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence; "he carried out the negotiations in person"; "a personal appearance is an appearance by a person in the flesh" |
| iresine | iresine | genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs |
| Jakobson | Jakobson | United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982) |
| Jamesian | Jamesian | of or relating to or characteristic of Henry James or his writing |
| Jamison | Jamison | United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1944) |
| Jefferson | Jefferson | 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826) |
| Jespersen | Jespersen | Danish linguist (1860-1943) |
| jettison | jettison | throw as from an airplane |
| kerosene | kerosene | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
| kerosine | kerosine | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
| Keynesian | Keynesian | a follower of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes |
| kinsperson | kinsperson | a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
| larvacean | larvacean | any member of the class Larvacea |
| layperson | layperson | someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person |
| limacine | limacine | of or resembling a slug |
| Limousin | Limousin | a region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains |
| limousine | limousine | large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur |
| Lipizzan | Lipizzan | a compact and sturdy saddle horse that is bred and trained in Vienna; smart and docile and excellent for dressage; "a Lippizan is black or brown when born but turns white by the time it is five years old" |
| Lippizan | Lippizan | a compact and sturdy saddle horse that is bred and trained in Vienna; smart and docile and excellent for dressage; "a Lippizan is black or brown when born but turns white by the time it is five years old" |
| logician | logician | a person skilled at symbolic logic |
| lookers-on | looker-on | someone who looks on |
| Madison | Madison | capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin |
| magazine | magazine | a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun |
| magician | magician | someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience |
| Malthusian | Malthusian | a believer in Malthusian theory |
| meclizine | meclizine | an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness |
| medicine | medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| medusan | medusan | one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles |
| mefoxin | mefoxin | one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity |
| Mendelsohn | Mendelsohn | German architect who migrated to Palestine in 1937 (1887-1953) |
| Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn | German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847) |
| metazoan | metazoan | any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges |
| Michelson | Michelson | United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931) |
| minocin | minocin | tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections |
| Miocene | Miocene | from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals |
| mithracin | mithracin | an antineoplastic drug (trade name Mithracin) used to treat cancer of the testes |
| Mnemosyne | Mnemosyne | (Greek mythology) the Titaness who was goddess of memory; mother of the Muses |
| mocassin | mocassin | soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans |
| moccasin | moccasin | soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans |
| Morrison | Morrison | United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931) |
| mortician | mortician | one whose business is the management of funerals |
| muazzin | muazzin | the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day |
| mu-meson | mu-meson | an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino |
| Munchausen | Munchausen | German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797) |
| Munchhausen | Munchhausen | German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797) |
| musician | musician | artist who composes or conducts music as a profession |
| naloxone | naloxone | a potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine |
| naltrexone | naltrexone | an oral antagonist against the action of opiates |
| naprosyn | naprosyn | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Naprosyn) used in the treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation and moderate pain |
| naproxen | naproxen | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Naprosyn) used in the treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation and moderate pain |
| newsperson | newsperson | a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories |
| nganasan | nganasan | the Uralic language spoken by the Nganasan |
| niacin | niacin | a B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract |
| Nicolson | Nicolson | English diplomat and author (1886-1968) |
| nonperson | nonperson | a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons); "the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration"; "George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons" |
| off-season | off-season | the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest |
| on-the-scene | on-the-scene | at the scene of action; "an on-the-spot reporter"; "on-the-spot inspections"; "an on-the scene newscast" |
| optician | optician | a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision |
| orison | orison | reverent petition to a deity |
| overseen | oversee | watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?" |
| parazoan | parazoan | primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies |
| Parkinson | Parkinson | British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993) |
| Parmesan | Parmesan | hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese; often grated |
| partisan | partisan | a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries |
| partizan | partizan | a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries |
| Paterson | Paterson | a city of northeastern New Jersey |
| patrician | patrician | a member of the aristocracy |
| phenelzine | phenelzine | monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression |
| Phoenician | Phoenician | the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world |
| physician | physician | a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" |
| pi-meson | pi-meson | a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision |
| Pitocin | Pitocin | hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk |
| plasticine | plasticine | a synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft; used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling (especially in schools) |
| Pleistocene | Pleistocene | from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution |
| Pliocene | Pliocene | from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals |
| polyzoan | polyzoan | sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding |
| practician | practician | someone who practices a learned profession |
| prazosin | prazosin | antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress) |
| prednisone | prednisone | a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant |
| preseason | preseason | a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation |
| Preussen | Preussen | a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland; "in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states" |
| protozoan | protozoan | any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic |
| protozoon | protozoon | any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic |
| psilocin | psilocin | a hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom |
| ptychozoon | ptychozoon | flying geckos |
| pulasan | pulasan | fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter |
| pulassan | pulassan | fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter |
| putrescine | putrescine | a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter |
| pyroxene | pyroxene | any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks |
| quick-frozen | quick-frozen | (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" |
| Rasmussen | Rasmussen | Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933) |
| redesign | redesign | design anew, make a new design for |
| reflexion | reflexion | the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material); "he studied his reflection in the mirror" |
| relaxin | relaxin | hormone secreted by the corpus luteum during the last days of pregnancy; relaxes the pelvic ligaments and prepares the uterus for labor |
| rhodopsin | rhodopsin | a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light |
| Richardson | Richardson | British stage and screen actor noted for playing classic roles (1902-1983) |
| robaxin | robaxin | muscle relaxant for skeletal muscles (trade name Robaxin) used to treat spasms |
| Robertson | Robertson | United States basketball guard (born in 1938) |
| Robeson | Robeson | United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976) |
| Robinson | Robinson | United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973) |
| rousseauan | rousseauan | of or pertaining to or characteristic of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Sadducean | Sadducean | of or relating to the Sadducees |
| samisen | samisen | a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum |
| Saracen | Saracen | (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades |
| Sarazen | Sarazen | United States golfer who was first to win all four major golf tournaments (1902-1999) |
| sarcosine | sarcosine | a sweetish crystalline amino acid |
| scyphozoan | scyphozoan | any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle |
| shamisen | shamisen | a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum |
| siloxane | siloxane | any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms |
| simazine | simazine | a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops) |
| Siouan | Siouan | a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux |
| Sorensen | Sorensen | Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939) |
| sporozoan | sporozoan | parasitic spore-forming protozoan |
| Stephenson | Stephenson | English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848) |
| Stevenson | Stevenson | United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968) |
| subocean | subocean | formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed; "suboceanic oil resources" |
| suspicion | suspicion | being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage" |
| tactician | tactician | a person who is skilled at planning tactics |
| technician | technician | someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process |
| tennessean | tennessean | a native or resident of Tennessee |
| Tennyson | Tennyson | Englishman and Victorian poet (1809-1892) |
| testacean | testacean | any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell |
| thiazine | thiazine | a compound made up of a ring of four carbon atoms and one sulfur atom and one nitrogen atom |
| thorazine | thorazine | a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer |
| thylacine | thylacine | rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct |
| thymosin | thymosin | hormone secreted by the thymus; stimulates immunological activity of lymphoid tissue |
| thyroxin | thyroxin | hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is 65% iodine" |
| thyroxine | thyroxine | hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is 65% iodine" |
| tibicen | tibicen | harvest flies |
| transposon | transposon | a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole) |
| triazine | triazine | any of three isomeric compounds having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring |
| Tsaritsyn | Tsaritsyn | a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43 |
| tyrosine | tyrosine | an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones |
| undersign | undersign | sign at the bottom of (a document) |
| unfasten | unfasten | become undone or untied; "The shoelaces unfastened" |
| unforeseen | unforeseen | not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" |
| unfrozen | unfreeze | not frozen; "unfrozen ground" |
| unfrozen | unfrozen | not frozen; "unfrozen ground" |
| unison | unison | (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves; "singing in unison" |
| unloosen | unloosen | loosen the ties of; "unloose your sneakers" |
| unperson | unperson | a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons); "the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration"; "George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons" |
| unreason | unreason | the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding |
| uprisen | uprise | get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" |
| urocyon | urocyon | grey foxes |
| vancocin | vancocin | an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections |
| venison | venison | meat from a deer used as food |
| Viocin | Viocin | a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis |
| Visayan | Visayan | a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines |
| washbasin | washbasin | a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) |
| well-chosen | well-chosen | well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words" |
| whoreson | whoreson | insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous |
| Wilkinson | Wilkinson | English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921) |
| Wisconsin | Wisconsin | a midwestern state in north central United States |
| woadwaxen | woadwaxen | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental |
| woodwaxen | woodwaxen | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental |
| zootoxin | zootoxin | a toxin resembling bacterial toxins in its antigenic properties that is found in the fluids of certain animals |
| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Abkhazian | Abkhazian | a Circassian language spoken by the Abkhaz |
| Achromycin | Achromycin | an antibiotic (trade name Achromycin) derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections |
| acoustician | acoustician | a physicist who specializes in acoustics |
| actinozoan | actinozoan | sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
| actomyosin | actomyosin | a protein complex in muscle fibers; composed of myosin and actin; shortens when stimulated and causes muscle contractions |
| adenosine | adenosine | (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a constituent of DNA and RNA and ADP and ATP and AMP |
| aesthetician | aesthetician | a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty |
| aflatoxin | aflatoxin | a potent carcinogen from the fungus Aspergillus; can be produced and stored for use as a bioweapon |
| a-horizon | a-horizon | the top layer of a soil profile; usually contains humus |
| Albigensian | Albigensian | of or relating to Albigenses or Albigensianism |
| anatoxin | anatoxin | a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin; "diphtheria toxoid" |
| anchorperson | anchorperson | a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute |
| Anglo-Saxon | Anglo-Saxon | English prior to about 1100 |
| antimeson | antimeson | the antiparticle of a meson |
| antimycin | antimycin | a crystalline antibiotic active against various fungi |
| antitoxin | antitoxin | an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin |
| assouan | assouan | an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby |
| Asuncion | Asuncion | the capital and chief port of Paraguay |
| bacitracin | bacitracin | a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally |
| bipartisan | bipartisan | supported by both sides; "a two-way treaty" |
| bipartizan | bipartizan | supported by both sides; "a two-way treaty" |
| bromeosin | bromeosin | a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures |
| caparison | caparison | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
| Cappadocian | Cappadocian | of or pertaining to Cappadocia or its people or culture |
| carbomycin | carbomycin | a colorless basic antibiotic that inhibits the growth of Gram-positive organisms |
| ceftriaxone | ceftriaxone | a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Rocephin) used for severe infection of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract |
| cephalexin | cephalexin | an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract |
| ceratopsian | ceratopsian | any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia |
| chlorobenzene | chlorobenzene | a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and DDT and other organic compounds |
| chlorpromazine | chlorpromazine | a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer |
| comparison | comparison | the act of examining resemblances; "they made a comparison of noise levels"; "the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator" |
| Concepcion | Concepcion | an industrial city in Chile to the south of Santiago |
| contrabassoon | contrabassoon | the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family |
| cosmetician | cosmetician | someone who works in a beauty parlor |
| counterperson | counterperson | someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) |
| counterpoison | counterpoison | a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison |
| crucifixion | crucifixion | the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering |
| Cynoscion | Cynoscion | sea trout |
| cytolysin | cytolysin | a substance that partly or completely destroys animal cells |
| cytotoxin | cytotoxin | any substance that has a toxic effect on cells |
| Declomycin | Declomycin | tetracycline antibacterial (trade name Declomycin) effective in the treatment of some bacterial and rickettsial and other infections |
| diapason | diapason | either of the two main stops on a pipe organ |
| digitoxin | digitoxin | digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia |
| diocesan | diocesan | a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese |
| dioecian | dioecian | having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals |
| Dionysian | Dionysian | of or relating to or worshipping Dionysus |
| dorsiflexion | dorsiflexion | the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) |
| dryopithecine | dryopithecine | considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans |
| electrician | electrician | a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines |
| endotoxin | endotoxin | a toxin that is confined inside the microorganisms and is released only when the microorganisms are broken down or die |
| erethizon | erethizon | a genus of Erethizontidae |
| esthetician | esthetician | a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty |
| exotoxin | exotoxin | a toxin that is secreted by microorganisms into the surrounding medium |
| fluphenazine | fluphenazine | tranquilizer used to treat psychotic disorders |
| gallinacean | gallinacean | heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds |
| gentamicin | gentamicin | an antibiotic (trade name Garamycin) that is derived from an actinomycete; used in treating infections of the urinary tract |
| genuflexion | genuflexion | the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence |
| haemolysin | haemolysin | any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin |
| heliozoan | heliozoan | protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods |
| hemolysin | hemolysin | any substance that can cause lysis (destruction) of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of their hemoglobin |
| hexenbesen | hexenbesen | an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance |
| hydralazine | hydralazine | an antihypertensive drug (trade name Apresoline) that dilates blood vessels; used (often with a diuretic) to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure |
| hydroxyzine | hydroxyzine | a drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness |
| hypertensin | hypertensin | any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels |
| internecine | internecine | characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war" |
| iodopsin | iodopsin | a violet photopigment in the retinal cones of the eyes of most vertebrates; plays a role in daylight vision |
| isoleucine | isoleucine | an essential amino acid found in proteins; isomeric with leucine |
| kanamycin | kanamycin | antibiotic (trade name Kantrex) used to treat severe infections |
| kappa-meson | kappa-meson | an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision |
| lederhosen | lederhosen | leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria |
| Leibnitzian | Leibnitzian | of or relating to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or to his mathematics or philosophy |
| Leibnizian | Leibnizian | of or relating to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or to his mathematics or philosophy |
| liaison | liaison | a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" |
| lincomycin | lincomycin | antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections |
| logistician | logistician | a person skilled at symbolic logic |
| mariposan | mariposan | a Penutian language spoken by the Yokuts in the San Joaquin Valley |
| methylbenzene | methylbenzene | a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels |
| mithramycin | mithramycin | an antineoplastic drug (trade name Mithracin) used to treat cancer of the testes |
| mitomycin | mitomycin | a complex of antibiotic substances obtained from a streptomyces bacterium; one form (trade name Mutamycin) shows promise as an anticancer drug |
| mycomycin | mycomycin | a highly unsaturated antibiotic acid obtained from an actinomycete |
| mycotoxin | mycotoxin | a toxin produced by a fungus |
| neomycin | neomycin | an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery |
| neurotoxin | neurotoxin | any toxin that affects neural tissues |
| nitrobenzene | nitrobenzene | a poisonous oily water-soluble liquid used as a solvent and in the manufacture of aniline |
| noncitizen | noncitizen | a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country |
| nonpartisan | nonpartisan | a person who is nonpartisan |
| nonpartizan | nonpartizan | a person who is nonpartisan |
| obstetrician | obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| Oligocene | Oligocene | from 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats |
| one-person | one-person | designed for or restricted to a single person; "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent"; "Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show" |
| oradexon | oradexon | a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation |
| Ordovician | Ordovician | from 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
| oxaprozin | oxaprozin | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Daypro) |
| oxybenzene | oxybenzene | a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally |
| oxytocin | oxytocin | hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk |
| paleocene | paleocene | from 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammals |
| pentazocine | pentazocine | analgesic drug (trade name Talwin) that is less addictive than morphine |
| perphenazine | perphenazine | tranquilizer and antidepressant (trade name Triavil) sometimes used as an antiemetic for adults |
| petromyzon | petromyzon | typical lampreys |
| phonetician | phonetician | a specialist in phonetics |
| phytotoxin | phytotoxin | any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin |
| piperazine | piperazine | vermifuge used to treat infestations by roundworms or pinworms |
| politician | politician | a person active in party politics |
| polymyxin | polymyxin | any of several toxic antibiotics obtained from a particular soil bacterium |
| procarbazine | procarbazine | an antineoplastic drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease |
| promethazine | promethazine | antihistamine (trade name Phenergan) used to treat allergies; also an antiemetic used to treat motion sickness |
| pyridoxine | pyridoxine | a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch |
| retroflexion | retroflexion | the act of bending backward |
| rhetorician | rhetorician | a person who delivers a speech or oration |
| Rosicrucian | Rosicrucian | a member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore |
| salesperson | salesperson | a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) |
| sannyasin | sannyasin | a Hindu religious mendicant |
| saxitoxin | saxitoxin | a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans |
| Solzhenitsyn | Solzhenitsyn | Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918) |
| spermatozoan | spermatozoan | the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" |
| spermatozoon | spermatozoon | the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" |
| spiegeleisen | spiegeleisen | pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel |
| spokesperson | spokesperson | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" |
| statistician | statistician | someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) |
| stonemason | stonemason | a craftsman who works with stone or brick |
| streptolysin | streptolysin | any of several hemolysins derived from strains of streptococcus |
| streptomycin | streptomycin | an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis |
| streptothricin | streptothricin | a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete |
| syntactician | syntactician | a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax |
| Terramycin | Terramycin | a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections |
| tobramycin | tobramycin | an antibiotic (trade name Nebcin) that is especially effective against Gram-negative bacteria |
| tyrothricin | tyrothricin | a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria |
| vancomycin | vancomycin | an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections |
| vasopressin | vasopressin | hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules |
| vibramycin | vibramycin | an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections; "Vibramycin is the trade name of doxycycline" |
| vinylbenzene | vinylbenzene | a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene |
| viomycin | viomycin | a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis |
| Word | Base word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| academician | academician | an educator who works at a college or university |
| actinomycin | actinomycin | any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria |
| aeromedicine | aeromedicine | the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) |
| aminobenzine | aminobenzine | oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines |
| amphotericin | amphotericin | an antibiotic and antifungal agent |
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