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

Themistocles
Athenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC)
 
overproduction
too much production or more than expected
 
genus Lopholatilus
large brightly colored food fish of deep Atlantic waters
 
Yang Chen Ning
United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922)
 
genus Cercopithecus
type genus of the Cercopithecidae: guenons
 
scratch awl
a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
 
field trip
a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination
 
ducking
the act of wetting something by submerging it
 
Hero
(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
 
battle of Lutzen
a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed
 
microcyte
an abnormally small red blood cell (less than 5 microns in diameter)
 
winter urn
a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
 
second
the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
 
poignancy
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
 
order Testacea
testacean rhizopods
 
self-sacrifice
acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
 
air plant
plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
 
Gemini the Twins
the third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20
 
crown princess
the wife of a crown prince
 
chauffeur
a man paid to drive a privately owned car
 
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