Specific
Words that have just one definition in WordNet and aren't considered a part of something else.
- footman
- a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
- pterygoid muscle
- muscle descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw
- cainogenesis
- introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution)
- wildfire
- a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
- tentorium
- (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum
- closely-held
- owned by a relatively few shareholders
- hyaline cartilage
- translucent cartilage that is common in joints and the respiratory passages; forms most of the fetal skeleton
- decentralising
- tending away from a central point
- emasculated
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- gene expression
- conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a protein
- law of averages
- a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance
- crash landing
- an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft)
- transient global amnesia
- memory disorder seen in middle aged and elderly persons; characterized by an episode of amnesia and bewilderment that lasts for several hours; person is otherwise alert and intellectually active
- pater
- an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously
- mandrillus leucophaeus
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- granola
- cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar
- neuromarketing
- marketing based on studies of consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses
- taoiseach
- the prime minister of the Irish Republic
- jew's harp
- a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity
- swale
- a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)