Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- 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
- inquisitiveness
- a state of active curiosity
- disbelief
- doubt about the truth of something
- wheeze
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
- soft option
- an easier alternative
- pressure point
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- lemon
- a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
- probabilism
- (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
- stagecraft
- skill in writing or staging plays
- conceptualism
- the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
- language barrier
- barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages
- QCD
- a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together
- Wicca
- the polytheistic nature religion of modern witchcraft whose central deity is a mother goddess; claims origins in pre-Christian pagan religions of western Europe
- endocrinology
- the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions
- scheme
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- decisive factor
- a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively
- soothsaying
- the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
- identity
- the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
- Bernoulli distribution
- a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
- invariant
- a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it
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