All nouns

Includes nouns denoting acts or actions, nouns denoting animals, nouns denoting attributes of people and objects, nouns denoting body parts, nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents, nouns denoting communicative processes and contents, nouns denoting feelings and emotions, nouns denoting foods and drinks, nouns denoting goals, nouns denoting groupings of people or objects, nouns denoting man-made objects, nouns denoting natural events, nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made), nouns denoting natural phenomena, nouns denoting natural proesses, nouns denoting people, nouns denoting plants, nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession, nouns denoting quantities and units of measure, nouns denoting spatial position, nouns denoting stable states of affairs, nouns denoting substances, nouns denoting time and temporal relations, nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

eminence grise
(French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position
 
radius
the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
 
gravedigger
a person who earns a living by digging graves
 
bus company
a public utility providing local transportation
 
queen dowager
the widow of a king
 
excursus
a message that departs from the main subject
 
magnoliid dicot genus
genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
 
Purkinje's system
a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract
 
power unit
a measure of electric power
 
focus
a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
 
Earl of Warwick
English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)
 
Spizella passerina
small North American finch common in urban areas
 
genus Cotula
cosmopolitan herbs especially southern hemisphere; many used as ground covers
 
Ixodes spinipalpis
usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
 
earl
a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
 
rebozo
a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women
 
Celastrus orbiculatus
ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America
 
Galois theory
group theory applied to the solution of algebraic equations
 
HIV
the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells
 
Mexican valium
street names for flunitrazepan
 
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