Specific
Words that have just one definition in WordNet and aren't considered a part of something else.
- double jeopardy
- the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution
- alistair cooke
- United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
- fly bridge
- the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house
- chicken salad
- salad composed primarily of chopped chicken meat
- abasia trepidans
- abasia due to trembling of the legs
- steak sauce
- pungent bottled sauce for steak
- blossom forth
- develop or come to a promising stage
- central vision
- vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field
- strangled
- held in check with difficulty
- archaize
- give an archaic appearance of character to
- diapedesis
- passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue
- bumpiness
- the texture of a surface that has many bumps
- school of nursing
- a school for training nurses
- purely
- restricted to something
- law of diminishing returns
- a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness
- continency
- the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters
- bagful
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- countervailing duty
- a duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments
- resolving power
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- richardson's geranium
- geranium of western North America having branched clusters of white or pale pink flowers