Specific
Words that have just one definition in WordNet and aren't considered a part of something else.
- kick about
- be around; be alive or active
- ventral fin
- either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
- sursum corda
- (Roman Catholic Church) a Latin versicle meaning `lift up your hearts'
- stayman
- apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley
- decentralisation
- the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
- contester
- someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.)
- bimorphemic
- consisting of two morphemes
- comburant
- supporting combustion
- glebe house
- a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice)
- orthicon
- a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons
- patent application
- an application for sole rights to an invention
- misogamy
- hatred of marriage
- gemmule
- the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity
- death seat
- the car seat beside the driver of an automobile; believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident
- josef michel montgolfier
- French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)
- undiluted
- not diluted
- fred zinnemann
- United States filmmaker (born in Austria) (1907-1997)
- turkish towel
- a bath towel with rough loose pile
- outrigged
- rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes; to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc
- solomon
- (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)