Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- dogmatism
- the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
- instrumentalism
- a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success
- preformation
- a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
- modal logic
- the logical study of necessity and possibility
- radioactive iodine test
- test of thyroid function in which the patient is given an oral dose of radioactive iodine-131
- vertebrate paleontology
- the paleontology of vertebrates
- occasions
- something you have to do
- Naegele's rule
- rule for calculating an expected delivery date; subtract three months from the first day of the last menstrual period and add seven days to that date
- acculturation
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- M-theory
- (particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong
- sound effect
- an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play
- pattern
- a model considered worthy of imitation
- reinterpretation
- a new or different meaning
- cytogenetics
- the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes)
- onomancy
- divination by the letters of a name
- abatable nuisance
- a nuisance that can remedied (suppressed or extinguished or rendered harmless)
- sound law
- a law describing sound changes in the history of a language
- panoramic view
- a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distance
- conventionality
- unoriginality as a result of being too conventional
- knowing
- a clear and certain mental apprehension
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