Specific
Words that have just one definition in WordNet and aren't considered a part of something else.
- open shop
- a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union
- jean-jacques rousseau
- French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
- turn a loss
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- wholesale price index
- an index of changes in wholesale prices
- greater rhomboid muscle
- rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal column
- oblique triangle
- a triangle that contains no right angle
- index register
- (computer science) a register used to determine the address of an operand
- atavistic
- characteristic of an atavist
- steel industry
- the industry that makes steel and steel products
- glycogen
- one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body
- flying carpet
- (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go
- deja vu
- the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
- dagger-like
- resembling a dagger
- limbless
- having no limbs
- defending
- attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring
- incurring
- acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable)
- newel post
- the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail
- trailing
- the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
- neotony
- the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species
- house arrest
- confinement to your own home