the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid


the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level


temperature measured by a mercury thermometer


the normal temperature of room in which people live


temperature just below the boiling point


body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything


temperature of the body; normally 98.6 F or 37 C in humans; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health


oewn-coldness-n oewn-cold-n oewn-low_temperature-n oewn-frigidity-n oewn-frigidness-n


the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature


the quality of having a moderate degree of heat


a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin


the hotness of something heated until it turns white


the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses


quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye


distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye


the quality of not being perceivable by the eye


oewn-luminosity-n oewn-brightness-n oewn-brightness_level-n oewn-luminance-n oewn-luminousness-n oewn-light-n

the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light

its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun


the luminous flux incident on a unit area


quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear


the quality of not being perceptible by the ear


the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses


(physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it


the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences


(electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency


the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed


the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit


the quality of a substance that is able to rebound


the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length


the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking


the elasticity of a body that has been pulled out of shape by a shearing force


the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking


the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets


the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped


the property of being easily bent without breaking


(golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club


the property of being pliant and flexible


the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity

he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls


the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend


the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending


the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field


the total mass of living matter in a given unit area


the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction


(physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body


(physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases


(physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies


(physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity


(chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units


(physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy


(chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule


oewn-equivalent-n oewn-equivalent_weight-n oewn-combining_weight-n oewn-eq-n

the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen


the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity


a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice)


the property of being comparatively great in weight


oewn-heft-n oewn-heftiness-n oewn-massiveness-n oewn-ponderousness-n oewn-ponderosity-n


exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight

the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale


the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo


the weight of the payload of a missile (not including the weight of the rocket)


the property of being comparatively small in weight


the property of something weightless and insubstantial


the product of a body's mass and its velocity

the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities


the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation

any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass


the property of being physically or mentally strong


the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart


oewn-brawn-n oewn-brawniness-n oewn-muscle-n oewn-muscularity-n oewn-sinew-n oewn-heftiness-n


oewn-vigor-n oewn-vigour-n oewn-dynamism-n oewn-heartiness-n


the property of being strong and healthy in constitution


the property of having relatively little strength or vigor


the property of being strong and resolute


the property of something that is strongly built


the property being difficult or impossible to defeat


strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage


oewn-backbone-n oewn-grit-n oewn-guts-n oewn-moxie-n oewn-sand-n oewn-gumption-n


the power to withstand hardship or stress


patient endurance especially of pain or distress


the property of being lean and tough and sinewy


patient endurance of pain or unhappiness


the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions


the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally)


the quality of being unaffected by something


authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property


capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects


(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)


valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share


(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate


he hit with all the force he could muster


the car's momentum carried it off the road


oewn-energy-n oewn-vigor-n oewn-vigour-n oewn-zip-n


his music is characterized by a happy athleticism


high level or degree; the property of being intense


used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather


they were wearied with the foulness of the weather


the quality of arousing fear or distress

he learned the seriousness of his illness


oewn-ferocity-n oewn-fierceness-n oewn-furiousness-n oewn-fury-n oewn-vehemence-n oewn-violence-n oewn-wildness-n


the property of being untamed and ferocious

the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters


the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume


the concentration of a solution as determined by titration


the number of moles of hydrogen ions per cubic decimeter


(from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic)


concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent


concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution


the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain

his weakness increased as he became older


lack of strength or vigor (especially from illness)


the quality of lacking intensity or substance


the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction


the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density


an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue


susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength


oewn-inanition-n oewn-lassitude-n oewn-lethargy-n oewn-slackness-n

weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy


a seemingly small but actual mortal weakness


a vital part that is vulnerable to attack


the quality of being weak or unprotected


the property of being helpless in the face of attack


oewn-fragility-n oewn-breakability-n oewn-frangibleness-n oewn-frangibility-n

quality of being easily damaged or destroyed


vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain


exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance)


oewn-sequence-n oewn-chronological_sequence-n oewn-succession-n oewn-successiveness-n oewn-chronological_succession-n

a following of one thing after another in time


anything happening rapidly or in quick successive


a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)

crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil


a continuous chronological succession without an interruption

they won the championship three years in a row


the temporal property of becoming nearer in time


quality of coming early or earlier in time


the forwardness of the harvest this year


oewn-priority-n oewn-antecedence-n oewn-antecedency-n oewn-anteriority-n oewn-precedence-n oewn-precedency-n


the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time


the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time


happening or existing or done at the same time


oewn-concurrence-n oewn-coincidence-n oewn-conjunction-n oewn-co-occurrence-n

the temporal property of two things happening at the same time

the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable


occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another


the property of partial coincidence in time


the quality of belonging to the same period of time


the quality of being in or of the future


a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past


the property of belonging to the present time


oewn-modernity-n oewn-modernness-n oewn-modernism-n oewn-contemporaneity-n oewn-contemporaneousness-n

the quality of being current or of the present

a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village


the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine


oewn-lengthiness-n oewn-prolongation-n oewn-continuation-n oewn-protraction-n

the consequence of being lengthened in duration


(music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest


the property of being (or seeming to be) without end


oewn-continuousness-n oewn-ceaselessness-n oewn-incessancy-n oewn-incessantness-n

the quality of something that continues without end or interruption


the property of being of short temporal extent


the attribute of being brief or fleeting


the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration


the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)


oewn-lastingness-n oewn-durability-n oewn-enduringness-n oewn-strength-n

permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force

they advertised the durability of their products


the property of a continuous and connected period of time


the property of being resistant to decay

he advertised the imperishability of the product


the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations


the property of lasting only a short time


an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying


the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)


the property of lasting for a very short time


the tendency of a gas to expand or escape


(of living things) capable of normal growth and development


an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared


the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum; electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range

they could sense radiation in the infrared


the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station


a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens

the project advanced with gratifying speed


the relative speed of progress or change


oewn-celerity-n oewn-quickness-n oewn-rapidity-n oewn-rapidness-n oewn-speediness-n


oewn-immediacy-n oewn-immediateness-n oewn-instantaneousness-n oewn-instancy-n


oewn-dispatch-n oewn-despatch-n oewn-expedition-n oewn-expeditiousness-n

the property of being prompt and efficient


the characteristic of doing things without delay


oewn-haste-n oewn-hastiness-n oewn-hurry-n oewn-hurriedness-n oewn-precipitation-n

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)


oewn-abruptness-n oewn-precipitateness-n oewn-precipitousness-n oewn-precipitance-n oewn-precipitancy-n oewn-suddenness-n

the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning


modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change


the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration


he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise


(computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS


the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages


oewn-slowness-n oewn-deliberation-n oewn-deliberateness-n oewn-unhurriedness-n

a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry


slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it


the pace of things that move relatively slowly


any property relating to or occupying space


the spatial property of having dimensions


the property of being directional or maintaining a direction

the directionality of written English is from left to right


oewn-shape-n oewn-form-n oewn-configuration-n oewn-contour-n oewn-conformation-n

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)


the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features


oewn-symmetry-n oewn-symmetricalness-n oewn-correspondence-n oewn-balance-n

(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane


a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles


the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane


the starfish illustrates radial symmetry


an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern


the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle


the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another

the antenna received signals with no directivity


the property of using one hand more than the other


the property of being equally skillful with each hand


the property of favoring one foot over the other (as in kicking a ball)


the property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim)


(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed


oewn-tilt-n oewn-list-n oewn-inclination-n oewn-lean-n oewn-leaning-n

the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical


the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal


the gradient of a slope or road or other surface


the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises


the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends


degree of deviation from a horizontal plane


(golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air


the property possessed by a slope that is very steep


the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual


the property possessed by a concave shape


the property possessed by a convex shape


the property possessed by a rounded convexity


the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles


the property possessed by a shape that has angles


(biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta


the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)


the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip


the property of having only a dull tip (if any)


the property of being shaped like a rectangle


the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles


the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon)


the property of being shaped like a square


the property of being shaped like a triangle


the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface


the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular


oewn-sphericity-n oewn-sphericalness-n oewn-globosity-n oewn-globularness-n oewn-rotundity-n oewn-rotundness-n


the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder


the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another)


a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path


freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles


having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles


the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated


the spatial property of the way in which something is placed


(architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure


the spatial property of the position from which something is observed


the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole

harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art


the arrangement of windows in a building


harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance


the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines


proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment


the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned


the quality of occupying the same position or area in space

he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs


the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque


the property of being marginal or on the fringes


the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head


the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end


the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior


the quality or state of being inward or internal


the quality of being parallel to the horizon


oewn-verticality-n oewn-verticalness-n oewn-erectness-n oewn-uprightness-n


the arrangement of the body and its limbs


classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet


a position lying on your back with knees bent and thighs apart; assumed for vaginal or rectal examination


a sitting position with the legs crossed; used in yoga


a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples


a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes


(obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal

Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations


abnormal position of a part or organ (especially at the time of birth)


position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose


(Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)


a posture of defence in boxing or fencing


an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about


the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball


a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review


the property of being upright in posture


the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them


an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another


(sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest


the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct


the property created by the space between two objects or points


the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary


distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry


the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance

the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action


the attribute of being so near as to be touching


the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave


the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear


(ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump


the distance or interval between two points


the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle


the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume


(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts


the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)


the property of being diffused or dispersed


the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region


a haphazard distribution in all directions


the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume


oewn-concentration-n oewn-density-n oewn-denseness-n oewn-tightness-n oewn-compactness-n

the spatial property of being crowded together


a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium


(physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area


oewn-optical_density-n oewn-transmission_density-n oewn-photographic_density-n oewn-absorbance-n

(physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation


the ratio of the density of something to the density of a standard


fragile items require separation and cushioning


the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them


degree of figurative distance or separation


the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)

they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion


(astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth


a degree in a continuum of size or quantity


(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

the signal contained thousands of bits of information


a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5


the probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred


(physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles; measured in barns


(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time

the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling


the probability of two events occurring together


the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent


the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred


the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)


a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality


the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground


the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)


degree of psychological or intellectual profundity


intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"


lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling


the glibness of a high-pressure salesman


the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)


the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves


an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large)


a garment size for short or slender women


the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves


a garment size for persons of average height and weight


a garment size for a large or heavy person


responsible for the highness of the rates


summer temperatures reached an all-time high


a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.)

he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates


the furthest or highest degree of something


the amplitude level of the desired signal


the amplitude level of the undesired background noise


the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)


he blanched when he saw the size of the bill


the property of something that is great in magnitude


greatness of quantity or measure or extent


the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)


the intensity level that is just barely perceptible


the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field


oewn-magnetic_field_strength-n oewn-magnetic_intensity-n oewn-magnetic_induction-n oewn-magnetic_flux_density-n

the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow


(acoustics) the pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a sound wave


the size of something as given by the distance around it


the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)

she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread


the length of the closed curve of a circle


the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference


the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere


the apparent radius of a celestial body when viewed as a disc from the earth


the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve


the radius of the circle of curvature; the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature of a curve at a given point


the circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature


the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width


oewn-bore-n oewn-gauge-n oewn-caliber-n oewn-calibre-n


the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun


relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width


the property of having a relatively great size


the property of impressive largeness in size

he admired the ampleness of its proportions


oewn-enormousness-n oewn-grandness-n oewn-greatness-n oewn-immenseness-n oewn-immensity-n oewn-sizeableness-n oewn-vastness-n oewn-wideness-n

unusual largeness in size or extent or number


in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size


oewn-capaciousness-n oewn-roominess-n oewn-spaciousness-n oewn-commodiousness-n

spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)

the capaciousness of Santa's bag astounded the child


the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air


the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc.


large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness

the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness


the property of having a relatively small size


oewn-diminutiveness-n oewn-minuteness-n oewn-petiteness-n oewn-tininess-n oewn-weeness-n

the property of being very small in size

hence the minuteness of detail in the painting


there was a grain of truth in what he said


the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion

an adequate amount of food for four people


the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture

the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass


they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare


the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input


something added to complete or embellish or make perfect

a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner


increase in the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance


oewn-raise-n oewn-rise-n oewn-wage_hike-n oewn-hike-n oewn-wage_increase-n oewn-salary_increase-n


oewn-rise-n oewn-boost-n oewn-hike-n oewn-cost_increase-n


the property of being a relatively small amount

he was attracted by the smallness of the taxes


a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)


(telecommunication) the gain of a feedback amplifier or system as a function of how much output is fed back to the input

if the loop gain is too great the system may go into oscillation


a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases

market runups are invariably followed by a correction


a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing


oewn-drop-n oewn-dip-n oewn-fall-n oewn-free_fall-n

a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index


the store's dollar volume continues to rise


the quality of being close and poorly ventilated


the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence


the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency

the ampleness of her servings more than satisfied his hunger


oewn-meagerness-n oewn-meagreness-n oewn-leanness-n oewn-poorness-n oewn-scantiness-n oewn-scantness-n oewn-exiguity-n

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes


meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)

the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions


the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit


temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise


oewn-sparseness-n oewn-spareness-n oewn-sparsity-n oewn-thinness-n

the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness


the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply


oewn-plenty-n oewn-plentifulness-n oewn-plenteousness-n oewn-plenitude-n oewn-plentitude-n


oewn-profusion-n oewn-profuseness-n oewn-richness-n oewn-cornucopia-n

the property of being extremely abundant


the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses


a profusion of growth on or over something else


the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation


the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups


the quality of being slight or inadequate


quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes


without greater reasonableness by both parties we will never settle this matter!


the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation


immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits


the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun


the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

we were surprised by the extravagance of his description


something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity


oewn-overabundance-n oewn-overmuch-n oewn-overmuchness-n oewn-superabundance-n

a quantity that is more than what is appropriate

four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy


oewn-excess-n oewn-surplus-n oewn-surplusage-n oewn-nimiety-n


the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall


oewn-overplus-n oewn-plethora-n oewn-superfluity-n oewn-embarrassment-n


the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded

the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers


someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded


the margin required in order to insure safety

in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress


the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory


the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals


a preponderance of evidence against the defendant


a very large number (especially of people)


the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part


being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts

when the vote was taken they were in the minority


he gave us the results in round numbers, but their roundness didn't affect the point he was making


the distance or area or volume over which something extends


the extent to which something is covered

the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent


the extent of land abutting on a street or water


the greatest possible degree of something

what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior


he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity


the quality of being complete or utter or extreme

the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections


a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating


oewn-utmost-n oewn-uttermost-n oewn-maximum-n oewn-level_best-n


the limit beyond which something happens or changes


oewn-scope-n oewn-range-n oewn-reach-n oewn-orbit-n oewn-compass-n oewn-ambit-n

an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

a piano has a greater range than the human voice


his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark


he stayed within the confines of the city


the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)


he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology


(music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments


the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head


a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register


the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing


scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction


the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge


a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities


the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art


the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary


an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming)


the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches


the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place


a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy


the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train


distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves)

the light time from Jupiter to the sun is approximately 43 minutes


the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere


linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil


distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended


distance measured in the aggregate number of yards

what is the yardage of this golf course?


distance measured by the time taken to cover it


distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)


elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface


the height of the ground on which something stands


the level of the surface of a body of water


level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth


(meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds


maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)


the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight


altitude above which a plane cannot climb faster than a given rate


the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end

the editor limited the length of my article to 500 words


the property of being of long spatial extent

one gene causes shortness and the other causes longness


amount or degree or range to which something extends


the property of being of short spatial extent


the temporal property of being cut short


the temporal property of being very short


the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense


the extent downward or backward or inward


the profundity of the mine was almost a mile


the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)


the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)


a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line


the property of being very deep; without limit


take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive


shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something

he ignored the wound because of its superficiality


the extent of something from side to side


the property of being wide; having great width


the property of being narrow; having little width


the property of being very narrow or thin

he marvelled at the fineness of her hair


the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top


the quality of being low; lacking height

he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling


the property of being truncated or short


the dimension whereby a solid object differs from a two-dimensional drawing of it


the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful


the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world


the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel


value sufficient to repay time or effort spent


having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness


worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual


the quality of lacking substance or value

the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized


having none of the properties that endow something with value


the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better


oewn-damn-n oewn-darn-n oewn-hoot-n oewn-red_cent-n oewn-shit-n oewn-shucks-n oewn-tinker-ap-s_damn-n oewn-tinker-ap-s_dam-n


the quality of being valueless or futile


oewn-invaluableness-n oewn-preciousness-n oewn-pricelessness-n oewn-valuableness-n

the positive quality of being precious and beyond value


something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.


the quality possessed by something that should be avoided


that which is pleasing or valuable or useful


something that aids or promotes well-being


benefit resulting from some event or action


for someone's benefit (usually expressed as `in behalf' rather than `on behalf' and usually with a possessive)


something superior in quality or condition or effect


most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances


that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency


something inferior in quality or condition or effect


(New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse


the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver


total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units


the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output


the quality possessed by something with a great price or value


oewn-lavishness-n oewn-luxury-n oewn-sumptuosity-n oewn-sumptuousness-n

the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive


the property of being moderate in price or expenditures

the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices


oewn-bargain_rate-n oewn-cheapness-n oewn-cut_rate-n oewn-cut_price-n


the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth


oewn-richness-n oewn-rankness-n oewn-prolificacy-n oewn-fertility-n

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth


the quality of being productive or having the power to produce


the quality of yielding nothing of value


the relative poorness of New England farmland


the quality of lacking the power to produce


detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power


oewn-function-n oewn-purpose-n oewn-role-n oewn-use-n

the function of an auger is to bore holes


the purpose that justifies a thing's existence


the property of providing useful assistance


oewn-serviceability-n oewn-serviceableness-n oewn-usableness-n oewn-useableness-n oewn-usability-n

the quality of being able to provide good service


the quality of being instrumental for some purpose


uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result


the quality of being without practical use


concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities


capable of being done in a practical and useful way


the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment


the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth


concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use


impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are


impractical romantic ideals and attitudes


quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior


the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually


(linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance)


the quality of having great facility and competence


lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications


a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

the local library is a valuable resource


a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do


something or someone turned to for assistance or security


the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation


a resource provided by the mind or one's personal capabilities

to have an inner resource against loneliness


the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

the experience gave him the advantage over me


an advantage to the benefit of someone or something


strategic advantage; power to act effectively

relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage


leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations


advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning


the advantage of playing on your home court in front of fans who are rooting for you


an advantage held by a competitor in a race


the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)

with an hour's start he will be hard to catch


the advantageous quality of being beneficial


she turned her writing skills to good account


oewn-profitableness-n oewn-profitability-n oewn-gainfulness-n oewn-lucrativeness-n

the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit


grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)


a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all


the quality of being suited to the end in view


the quality of being at a competitive advantage


the boss's son had the inside track for that job


oewn-forte-n oewn-strong_suit-n oewn-long_suit-n oewn-metier-n oewn-specialty-n oewn-speciality-n oewn-strong_point-n oewn-strength-n


an attribute that is inadequate or deficient


the quality of being prudent and sensible


no one can be a poet without a certain unsoundness of mind


they questioned the advisability of our policy


the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges


oewn-favorableness-n oewn-favourableness-n oewn-advantageousness-n oewn-positivity-n oewn-positiveness-n oewn-profitableness-n

the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome


the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result


the quality of being something that holds you back


the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position


the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success


the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result


the quality of being limited or restricted

it is a good plan but it has serious limitations


that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information


the quality of an embarrassing situation

he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal


the disadvantage that results from losing something

his loss of credibility led to his resignation


(games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game


a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course


(ice hockey) a penalty that suspends a player for the remainder of a game (but allows the team to send in a substitute for the suspended player)


value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something


the quality of having high intrinsic value

the richness of the mines and pastureland


the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster


he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan


a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident


the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition

neglected his health and paid the penalty


the quality of being a competitive disadvantage


the quality of being unsuited to the end in view


the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit


the quality of serving to build or improve


destructiveness that causes harm or injury


subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease)


extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)


a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness


the agreeable quality of one who assents


aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions


oewn-bumptiousness-n oewn-cockiness-n oewn-pushiness-n oewn-forwardness-n


characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands


the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations


the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations

orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas


the quality of being important and worthy of note


anything of great importance or consequence


they were friends and it was no matter who won the games


the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence


do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power


the quality of having great value or significance


the quality of having a definite purpose


decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself


when the pig ran away there was hell to pay


the quality of being essential to maintain life


the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without


pressing importance requiring speedy action


the attribute of urgency in tone of voice


he pressed his demand with considerable instancy


the relative importance granted to something


the quality of not being important or worthy of note


the quality possessed by something that you can get along without


oewn-pettiness-n oewn-triviality-n oewn-slightness-n oewn-puniness-n

the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous


I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke


the quality of having little or no significance


the quality of having no value or significance

he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him


oewn-inanity-n oewn-senselessness-n oewn-mindlessness-n oewn-vacuity-n oewn-pointlessness-n


the quality of lacking any definite purpose


having no important effects or influence


an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature

they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights


the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)


the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice


the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders


oewn-entree-n oewn-access-n oewn-accession-n oewn-admission-n oewn-admittance-n


the parliamentary right to address an assembly


a right or privilege that has been granted


oewn-authority-n oewn-authorization-n oewn-authorisation-n oewn-sanction-n

authority for the program was renewed several times


(law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)


the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court


the right of married persons to the enjoyment of association and sympathy and confidence and domestic happiness and the comfort of living together and eating meals at the same table and profiting from joint property right and the intimacies of domestic relations


the legal right in a prison for the inmate and spouse to have sexual intercourse


the right to purchase something in advance of others


the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)


oewn-prerogative-n oewn-privilege-n oewn-perquisite-n oewn-exclusive_right-n

a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males


any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets)


(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)


the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session


(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship


the right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge confidential information from his client


the right of the government to refuse to reveal the identity of an informer


the right of a journalist to refuse to divulge sources of confidential information


neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married


the right of a physician to refuse to divulge confidential information from a patient without the consent of the patient


the right of a clergyman to refuse to divulge confidential information received from a person during confession or similar exchanges


anything providing a means of access (or escape)

we closed the door to Haitian immigrants


he maintained an open door for all employees


right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)

entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget


right to be free of unsanctioned intrusion


the right to equal protection of the laws


right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality


fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference


the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment


a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community to manifest religion in teaching, practice, belief and observance


a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the right to communicate one's opinions and ideas to anyone who is willing to receive them


a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution


the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution


a right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution


a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution


a right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution; reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment


the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself


a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution


a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution, requiring that the government provide a quick and public trial for the accused and produce an impartial jury to try him with


a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution, requiring that the government appoint a lawyer for the defendant and/or pay the defendant's legal fees in case he cannot afford a lawyer


a right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution


a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution


a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution


a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment


a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment


suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country


immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States


the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin


the right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United States requires that just compensation be made


a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)


the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body


the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them


the right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another


the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution


the right to vote; especially the right of a common shareholder to vote in person or by proxy on the affairs of a company


the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention


in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute


the legal right to take possession of real estate in a peaceable manner


the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with)


(banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default


a legal right (not explicitly provided in the United States Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity


the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else


the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body


(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property


a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way


the right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis


the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty

the strength of his argument settled the matter


the power of argument or evidence to cause belief


the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist


the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)


the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins

the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial


the attribute of being of interest at the present time

the library had to discard books that had lost their topicality


the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses


complete power over a person or situation

corporations have a stranglehold on the media


a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

used her parents' influence to get the job


the oppressive influence of past events or decisions


the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them


something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold

caught in the tentacles of organized crime


the public brought pressure to bear on the government


New York is the commercial heartbeat of America


forces that provide energy and direction


she knew many repellents to his advances


the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water


oewn-authority-n oewn-authorization-n oewn-authorisation-n oewn-potency-n oewn-dominance-n oewn-say-so-n

the power or right to give orders or make decisions


control of a state or organization by large interest groups

individualism is in danger of being swamped by a kind of corporatism


power by which something or someone is affected or dominated


authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way)

the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign


the authority of a state to govern another state


(law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law

courts having jurisdiction in this district


the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies


the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)


determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion


oewn-effectiveness-n oewn-effectivity-n oewn-effectualness-n oewn-effectuality-n

power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect


keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect


capacity or power to produce a desired effect

concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine


the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment


(computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks)


(folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf


an ability to make and manage large amounts of money


the ability to make way into or through something

the greater penetration of the new projectiles will result in greater injuries


the ability to perform some physical act; contrasting with mental ability


the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter


the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids


the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

he worked to the limits of his capability


they built their castles with an eye to their defensibility


this recommendation has executability problems


among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism


oewn-military_capability-n oewn-military_strength-n oewn-strength-n oewn-military_posture-n oewn-posture-n

capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war


(military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target


the capability of a technological system to perform as intended


the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required


the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)


the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble


powerlessness revealed by an inability to act

in spite of their weakness the group remains active


inability to capture or hold one's interest


having no voice in the management or control of affairs

the voicelessness of those who live in situations of hopelessness


the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees


oewn-boringness-n oewn-dreariness-n oewn-insipidness-n oewn-insipidity-n

extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest


oewn-jejunity-n oewn-jejuneness-n oewn-tameness-n oewn-vapidity-n oewn-vapidness-n

the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated


an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency

a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness


the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual

he reminded Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth


the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally


lack of physical or natural qualifications


an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)


a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality


the property of being a composite number


the quality of being domestic or domesticated

a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity


oewn-infiniteness-n oewn-infinitude-n oewn-unboundedness-n oewn-boundlessness-n oewn-limitlessness-n

the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit


the quality of being capable of being rated or estimated


the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid


the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid


unspecified qualities required to do or be something


the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)


a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

the film captured all the pathos of their situation


the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author

the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw


a general disposition to expect the best in all things


a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things


the disposition and habits of an epicure


the disposition and habits of a gourmand


the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else


the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals


the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events


the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events

she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident


sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse


the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)


the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties


enjoyment derived from use or possession


the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension


the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part

animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development


their conversation was limited to ulteriorities


the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve


the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve


continuous change results in lack of memorability


the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax


a computer architecture based on the Intel 8086 chip


the 64-bit version of the x86 architecture


the weight per unit volume of a material.

Unlike density, specific weight is not absolute; it depends upon the gravitational acceleration, the temperature of the material and even pressure.


an effort or action having very little overall influence, especially as compared to a huge problem.

A $100 donation from an individual is generous, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the $500,000 fundraising goal.


the height up to which liquid rises in a capillary tube.

The narrower the tube, the greater the height of capillary rise.


They are also extremely functional females which excel in fertility and milking ability.


The property of being fit to eat under Jewish dietary laws.

He pulled a bezant of Alexius I from his pouch, and let me inspect it for kosherness.


The status of being unconstitutional; of not being in accord with the provisions of the appropriate constitution.

On April 2013 the Court released two decisions about the unconstitutionality of certain provisions of the Acts of Madrid and Navarre.


(arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.

The primality of the number rests on the indivisibility of a certain quantity by that number.


The state or condition of being opposed to religion.

It is true, too, that any neat division between religious and secular comedy would seem threatened by the apparent antireligiousness of writers like Erasmus and Rabelais.


The way of life of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.

Pastoral nomadism is a livelihood form that is ecologically adjusted at a particular level to the utilization of marginal resources.


The genetics of eye color, like hair color, are still being worked out, and it's clear that several genes can modify the eventual outcome.


The productiveness of a hen or other egg-laying animal.

Breeders of layers focus on increasing egg yield, weight of eggs, and increasing internal quality such as decreasing the cholesterol content of their production to enhance economic performance.


The position of the human body, standing erect, with the face directed anteriorly, the upper limbs at the sides and the palms turned anteriorly (supinated), and the feet pointed anteriorly; used as the position of reference in description of site or direction of various structures or parts as established in official anatomical nomenclature.

For the purpose of universal comparison, there is a standard position - the anatomical position - that the patient or cadaver theoretically has assumed.


when a car turns (steers) by more than (over) the amount commanded by the driver.


when a car steers less than (under) the amount commanded by the driver.


A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality.

the newly discovered oil deposits have led to a rejuvenescence of the nation's economy


The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.

The added bonus for the Galapagos cormorant was that there were no predators on the islands to counter the effect of flightlessness.


The state of possessing a similar aural resonance to metal.


The condition of previous political experience enhances the exclusiveness of the intra-party competition and limits the right to candidacy to a group of politically active members; thus, the competition is closed off to other interested parties, for example, party newcomers or sympathisers.


Behavior or actions characterized by careful consideration in dealing with others, to avoid giving offense.

In its opinion, the court's 6-3 majority took pains to note that they were not ruling on the wisdom or tactfulness of the governor's decision.


Embrace the reddishness of Marsala and pair it with greens and golds for holiday wrapping, cards, or other gifts.


The property of not being connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises.

Despite its proud non-commercialism, the campus-based small press may have a rampant best seller in its most recent publication.


The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point.

This, my learned namesake suggests, demonstrates the circuitousness of football arguments.


The state or quality of one who begs or implores.

The extreme and plaintive beseechingness of Irving's address to the Ghost is the distinctive novelty of his reading.


The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting.

Court studies, on the other hand, has only recently emerged as a reputable field, divested of the anecdotalism and lack of analytical rigour that had long characterized the subject.


The property of being full of difficulties, complexities, or controversial points.

And, given the thorniness of the issues on the table, a work stoppage at all West Coast ports is not to be ruled out.


Before they can make a second attempt, however, Allen is again struck by lightning, which causes him to regain his super-speed.


Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable.

I was overwhelmed by the enigmaticness and overall feeling of falling into an abyss of comforting silhouette dreamscapes.


The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character.

She conveys Jesus's magnetism and charm, as well as how his enigmaticness must have stymied those closest to him.


the condition of a bicycle wheel being improperly adjusted.

Spoke misalignment causes the wheel to wobble side to side often touching the brake pads.


The state or condition of being lacking in musical ability.

It's not just that he's musically tone-deaf, but he seems to be quite deliberately plugging his metaphorical ears, as if fashioning his unmusicality to some dark design.


Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman.

The trauma and loss of young male lives during World War I destabilized the ideals of imperial gentlemanliness and the nation.


The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.


The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine.


The property of being of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.

The party's regionality prevented it from winning a national election.


The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports.


cadastral value of a property is the value of the land and the buildings there; serves as a basis for the estimation of incurring taxes.


a partial dimension that constitutes the entire dimension of a given object.


The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence.

The sporadicalness of the collections meant that one master could not rely on an overlap to coordinate a takeover.


The quality of being scorching; extreme heat.

Today was our first over 100 degree day for the season of scorchingness.


The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example.

Not so, according to Plutarch: the exemplariness of the Lycurgan constitution was widely acknowledged amongst ancient philosophers.


Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing.

She cared only for brightness of colour, ease of fit, and a brevity and skimpiness of skirt absolutely astounding in these days of crinolines and trains.


The property of being of exceptionally good quality.

York City and Chicago don't have many mountains or (usable) beaches either, and the first-rateness of their pro sports is currently debatable.


Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful.


(US, slang) The property of being original, offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.

We carry a variety of clothing lines for both an active and casual lifestyle, with a pinch of funkiness thrown in!


The state or condition of pertaining to fantasy; of being fanciful or whimsical.

In spite of the fantasticalness of the story, I think that the events that occur would be very realistic considering how our world is today.


The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare.

The horror and nightmarishness of the scenario is undercut by how mundane it is.


The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil.

The devilishness of his smile then faded to one more of shyness as he spoke further.


The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established.

Whatever his settledness into place, Stern knows from his own history, from the Pennsylvania seasons, that there can be no settledness without the emergence into the scene of radical diversity.


The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky.

Sarabi was the smallest of the litter but made up for her lack of size by her feistiness!


During periods of excess moisture, grazing needs to be restricted in many places because of the clayiness of the surface soil.


The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency.

And it uses clay (well, something Play Doh-like in its clayishness).


The condition of being so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.

When discussing watertightness of concrete, we must consider the two P's: porosity and permeability.


The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out.

The turbine steam joints are carefully made up and factory tested under pressure, to ensure steam tightness.


The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others.

Without factoring in the contagiousness of a disease, we will probably underestimate the effect that curing someone with a given disease may have.


The state or property of being very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.


The property of not giving trouble or anxiety.


The quality of not posing a problem; not being difficult to overcome or solve.


The state of not being best, most favourable or desirable.

The level of nonoptimality is defined as the ratio of the filtering performances for the simplified and optimal estimators.


The state or condition of being from a nearby location.

What the poet manifests in these poems is his localness, rootedness, his knowing of a particular place, his self-conscious relation to the place.


The state or quality of agreeing with, or being established by, custom or common usage.

The customariness of Jesus' attendance at synagogue on Sabbath days shows him to be a pious Jew.


The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying.

A nearly perfect cast more than compensates for the overfamiliarity of the umpteenth coming-of-age drama to roll out of Indiewood.


The state or quality of causing or tending to wear away or erode.

The erosiveness of rainfall is proportional to the energy of the falling drops and is influenced by the total amount of rain, the size of the drops, and their velocity of fall.


a measurement of a temperature difference by which an object or material resists a heat flow.


The quality of being related to an empire, emperor, or empress.


The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly.

There is something about walking as a ritual, elegant in its routineness that we must grasp.


The state or quality of showing composure.

I might further add as a mantissa to this present argument, the tranquillity and composedness of a good man's spirit in reference to all external molestations.


The condition of not being able to be compared.

The aim is to produce a complete result which is satisfactory to the decision maker, through the reduction of the cases of incomparability between alternatives.


The quality of being so much better than another as to be beyond comparison.

Due to the incomparability of SmartMouse technology in the CAD industry, it has been a hit among users and CAD experts alike by providing a whole new UI experience.


This chapter explores the concept of Soviet spaces and Sovietness, using film as a guide.


the property possessed by a line or surface that is rectilinear, straight.


The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.

He consequently interprets his own behaviour in sociobiological terms so that, having slept with his ex-wif Charlotte in her current marital bed, he is unnerved not by the adulterousness of the act, which is routine for him, but by the infringement of male territorial boundaries.


The quality of being first, earliest or original.


The property of not being restricted to a particular time or date.

The following column explores the timelessness of nursing theory by highlighting Florence Nightingale's and Rosemarie Parse's theoretical underpinnings related to understanding the person's perspective on health and quality of life.


The quality of being beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores.

Evidence suggests that prosociality is central to the well-being of social groups across a range of scales.


The characteristic of being intoxicating or stupefying.

Wine novices intimidated by the headiness of Napa and Sonoma will feel comfortable at nearly every Oregon winery.


The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical.

The ultimate sources of these English-Celtic legends are of two kinds: (1) the old Greek-Roman mythology; (2) the Jewish-Christian Bible legends, of various degrees of apocryphalness.


A shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green compared to blue.

Her suit ties in bows of self-fabric on the shoulder, and a circular skirt buttons on with straw flowers of cornflower blue.


The state or condition of being imaginary or illusory.

In Real, science fiction and ghost stories intermingle in a tale whose first half has the precise visionariness of David Lynch, and whose second half develops into a specifically Japanese melancholy, as it speaks of childhood, the sea and the past.


The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful.

His hardheadedness in refusing to accept on faith the deliverances even of psychologists such as Munsterberg on the nature of testimony has become classic.


The quality of being free from pain, without pain or trouble.

Dr. Fry, who is present this evening, will bear witness to the painlessness of this operation.


Half the songs advocate the painlessness of casual romance.


The state or condition of being very loud, suggestive of thunder; booming loudness.

The thunderousness of the teacher's voice left the class in no doubt that they were in trouble.


The state or quality of being zigzagged or alternating directions sharply.

An aerial photograph revealed the zigzaggedness of the mountain road.


The quality or state of being Portuguese.


Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.

This original book not only initiates such an engagement, it avoids the academicism of much political theory by demonstrating how concepts of justice actually shape public policy.


The quality of not being able to be precisely defined or put into words.

It discusses the indefinability of death in terms of a not entirely clear gloss that death is neither definable through equality nor through inequality.


The quality of being related to the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

If the lack of uniformity in relations is no objection to the perceptuality of visual, auditory and olfactory experiences, no objection should be raised if the relation in negative cognition is different from accepted kinds.


The quality of being introducing; of giving a preview or idea of.

Instead this sequel redoubled the already marked introductoriness of its predecessor, introducing it in turn by subjecting it to preliminary interrogation.


the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal.

The imitativeness of the young child is so great that he will repeat in almost every detail all the actions of his nurse as she carries out the daily routine.


The quality of not being pleasing; of being disagreeable.

Notwithstanding the uncongeniality of his surroundings, he had found opportunities for study, and never had his treasured volumes seemed more precious to him than during those long winter months, when despair haunted him like a shadow from which there seemed no means of escape.


The sandiness of the soil face extending into the night above and in front of us was due to the gradual pulverization of the rock by rain.


The state of not being flattering, attractive or appropriate.

Too stunned to resist, I allowed her to dress my hair, tying back the sidelocks with primrose ribbon, clucking over the unfeminine unbecomingness of my shoulder-length bob.


The characteristic of being resistant of control, stubborn.

Also none of the studies reviewed gave information on the prevalence of aggression and restiveness of the youths in Anambra State.


The immeasurability of what the brain is capable of amazes us.


the weight of a product (especially food) without the weight of its packaging.


the total weight of a product and its packaging.

Now that the bottles are filled, we need to weigh them one more time to establish their gross weight.


The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.

We will discount our fees considering the minimality of MEP work involved in the building.


The state or quality of being Icelandic.


The quality or characteristic of being German


The quality of being eased or loosened, or of having an easy-going mood or temperament.

Those who did not know the captain might have been taken aback at the peculiar mixture of his accurate briefing and his relaxedness, but those who had been serving him for some time knew that it was the latter quality that he had trouble projecting.


The characteristic or quality of being very beautiful.

Years later, Kazuko's mother gave her the real story: enraptured by her gorgeousness, the young man had asked Kazuko's mother to leave her father.


The state of being slender and long of limb, lanky.

Billy was tall, but his ranginess indicated a weight which could be easily handled.


The state of resembling wool, in texture or shape.

The hair is either straight or curly, but never approaching to the woolliness of the negro.


The state of being made of or bearing wool.

Some oats are given to the rams during the season of copulation; and the French think that a great deal of the size and woollinessof the offspring depends on the vigour of the ram, rather than the ewe.


The property of being the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.

The inspector checked the levelness of the floor before approving the work.


(chemistry) the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen; the atomic weight divided by the valence.


What is Swedishness? Well, it's a very broad concept, with social codes that take years to master.


The state or condition of being without distinguishing features.

I cannot recall in the preceding works of George Eliot anything like the featurelessness of the characters she has drawn here.


The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something.

But it is known that preventiveness of the morning after pills is reduced if taken after the first 24 hours in daily practice.


The state or condition of having a flavour or essence of mint.

Paul had come up behind me, and he leaned over to fiddle with the lens, and I could feel him then, his warmth, and I could smell the mintiness of his breath.


The linking thread between the groups is the rejection of the EU, Nato and other western influences which could endanger 'Serbianness'.


The state or condition of being wireless; lack of wires or cables.

This map is a telling reminder of the fact that despite the seeming wirelessness of global communications, there are material wires somewhere.


The quality of having lost some of a former colour or intensity.

In my youth, I was obsessed with the fadedness of my jeans, which took some doing because I only ever wore original shrink-to-fit Levi's 501s.


The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.

They reveal the ostensibility of this systematic order, or point out that it is in fact only temporary and exists on the basis of a more fundamental instability.


The property of having a frowning or scowling appearance.

Virgil has alluded to the gloominess of his countenance in a passage which has given great disgust to the critics.


Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind.

The nebulous impalpability of ideas and trends was preferred at all times to the brute empiricism of humanity.


a state or quality of being cosmopolitan

This working definition of cosmopolitanity is confirmed by the academic discussion of the term which has emerged from a background of long debates


The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious.

And the result would be that he would kill the wittiness of the lines by burlesque.


The state or quality of being suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.

The wintriness of the day got us into the mood for a snow fight.


The state or quality of being unilateral; one-sidedness.

I considered the unilaterality of the master/slave relationship.


The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age.

Most obvious, perhaps, is the contemporariness of her language, for example, when wishing to instil organisational members with "a feel for the modern 1990s arm of brewing."


The condition of being incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another.

The 1965 Constitution consecrated the republican form of the state, its sovereignty and independence, the indivisibility and inalienability of the territory.


The fact of being unattainable, of not being able to be reached or acquired.

A rack of Balmain brings a mind-bending new unattainability to your wardrobe with tumescent shoulder pads (a motorcycle jacket, $8,915) and motocross-style jeans weighing in at an unforgivable $2,915.


A basic stance used in martial arts, where the rear leg is strongly bent at the knee and the front leg is straight or slightly bent.

There are twenty-one moves in Heian Shodan, beginning with the left downward block in the front stance and ending with the left knife-hand block in the back stance.


The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit.

The structure of the high-pressure phase differs completely, depending on the hydrostaticity of applied pressure.


The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules.

"We, the intellectually curious, may soon find ourselves trapped in a pen, fenced in by rule-bound sticklerism and overzealous concern for our personal safety, unless we exercise our civil liberties and our curiosity," he declaims.


(biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared.

The major minutia features of fingerprint ridges are ridge ending, bifurcation, and short ridge (or dot.


The state or quality of being full of suggestions, of stimulating thought.

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.


The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe.

Here, humility and prayer are connected directly to Evagrius' apophatic reflection and are subsumed in the indescribability of God's being.


The state or condition of not being standard.

At neither age did nonstandardness of dialect or accent cause a problem for teacher-pupil communication, so it is unlikely that it was in any direct manner a cause of the later associated lower attainment.


The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.

This fund is only for regular attendees of PCC and due to the limitedness of funds is only available for short term needs.


The property of lacking substance or strength.

Perhaps because he recognized the thinness of this critique, the language about lack of theory that appeared in the dissertation was replaced in the book by a more modest critique that PWD lacked adequate conceptual definitions.


(chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid.

The crystallinity of drug substances and additives is one of the fundamental physicochemical properties in formulation design because it affects the pharmaceutical properties such as dissolution behavior, hygroscopicity, chemical stability and bioavailability of oral solid dosage forms.


The state or quality of being of or resembling the mineral slate.

Ascending the hill on the west I find the slatiness of the formation not much apparent except in weathering.


Seen in this light, it is the spectrality of the figure, the fact that it's neither (completely) here nor there, that keeps the figure alive - or, more precisely, undead - never quite exhausted by a single, definitive instantiation but always at least potentially available for yet another serial iteration.


The quality of being curious and interested.

The penetration and the inquisitiveness of his glance troubled me; I felt embarrassed and guilty in his presence.


Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.

This situation might explain why Lilburne, in spite of his harsh language and challenges to the court's authority, not to mention his importunateness, was not cited for contempt.


The quality of relating to or furnishing a future prospect.

The well was intended to determine the prospectiveness of the eastern flank of the Kevin Dome and the information will be included in our revised geological model, which will determine our future geographic area of interest.


The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality.

It would have to show that the irrevocability of execution is a sufficient reason to prohibit the penalty even in the absence of acceptable penalties that achieve similar deterrent and retributive effects.


The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited.

If the latter, economists must come to terms with the inexhaustibility of knowledge, the fact that using knowledge does not deplete it.


The quality or state of not being canonical, of not conforming to a general rule or common procedure.

This holds minor literature hostage to the revolutionary political project of the critic and subordinates its non-canonicity in requiring an attack on the canon.


The property of being very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies.

Ten years since Joss Whedon's western-in-space cult classic Firefly went off the air, the rabidity of its fandom, better known as the Browncoats, hasn't waned at all.


The state or quality of not following rules of grammar.

Though the ungrammaticality of split verbs is an urban legend, it found its way into The Texas Law Review Manual on Style, which is the arbiter of usage for many law review journals.


A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority.

Only on college campuses do remnants of libertinism linger. That worries public-health officials, who are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases.


The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.

I was particularly impressed by the general appearance of beauty and refinement of our country-women in Madras, and by the fashionableness of their attire.


The state or condition of being beyond what is possible for a human being.

I cannot account for Shakspeare's low estimate of his own writings, except from the sublimity, the superhumanity, of his genius.


The state of not forming an essential or vital part.

A listening to Ginsberg's own steady rendition of this poem on The Beat Generation audio recordings points out the extraneousness of the theatrical trappings, which go so far as to drown out the words of the poem.


In this scene, the penetrated partner's head is stretched awkwardly out on the floor—placing further emphasis on his beardedness.


Difference, distinction; failure to be identical.

No scientific examiner would select only chance variations to establish nonidentity of two specimens when the fundamental points of identification stamp them as originating at a single source.


The quality of causing or tending to cause ruin.

The masses had not as yet formed such an idea of the ruinousness of the policy of the administration as to seriously threaten the power of the Republicans.


The property of resembling a farce; of being ludicrous, absurd.

Like all of my designs, it's a glorified warning, an ode to the farcicality of the fashion industry and the obsessives that surround it.


The state or quality of having the attitude of a philosopher; specifically, of being calm or unflinching in the face of trouble, defeat, or loss.


(of sound) The state or characteristic of being rough or raw, especially used to describe vocal quality.

The thing about Janis Joplin was that for all her raspiness, she had power and expressiveness.


The state of coming without regularity; of being occasional or incidental.

This casualness and irregularity of girls' labour was not the only result of the tacit permission accorded to them to work unapprenticed.


The state or quality of being Australian.

The point of departure is the notion that Australianness has been constructed as an identity caught between empires, between the old (British) empire and the new (American) empire.


The quality of being compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build.

Make no mistake, his stockiness belies a strenuous daily exercise routine and his vision without the plain glass lenses is excellent.


The state or condition of resembling flour, of being a fine soft powder.

From this the alumina is precipitated and then calcinated; it is during these later stages that the sandiness or flouriness of the alumina is determined.


The condition or political position of a member of the working class.

Throughout the people's-front period, his proletarianism had gone out of fashion, and Gold hardly figured in the writers' congresses of 1937 and 1939.


An Italian state examiner, jolted by my edition of Cavalcanti, expressed admiration at the almost ultramodernity of Guido's language.


The state or quality of being outmoded or discredited by reason of age, of being out of style or fashion.

Where these customs still exist they are practically symbolic for the antiquatedness of religion.


The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils.

We were hoping the treacherousness of the road to the trailhead would discourage others but the trail was already packed with many groups of hikers coming and going.


The quality of having no allowance for weakness.

Juxtaposing a sailor's connection to the sea with the ethereal and brutal quality of Antarctica, Victoria undermines our idealized visions of pristine penguins and sunny frozen seascapes to show both the unforgivingness of nature in a land devoid of time and scale and the human effort required for such a quest.


(acoustics) A material, structure or object absorbing sound energy when sound waves collide with it, as opposed to reflecting the energy.

The acoustic absorption of the Alpha Cabin itself is very low and the design ensures a high level of sound insulation to keep the background noise level very low in the frequency range of interest.


The quality of giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; being threatening, portentous, inauspicious.

Hewitt introduces some notes of dissonance, emphasizing the ominousness of the movie's befuddled hero's situation, along with his sense of disconnection.


The state or condition of being toothless; lack of teeth.

Inconsequentially, he conjured a vision of the dentist responsible for his toothlessness.


The reduction of heat transfer between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.

There are a number of products available which are designed to improve the thermal insulation of homes, including thermal glass such as Planitherm.


Here he lays his skillessness, or his vaulting laziness, one or the other, right in front of you and dares you to not see what is there.


The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal.

The negative opinions that the tenor received in the roles that turned him into a legend might come as a surprise, in view of all the claims of his matchlessness.


A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers.

He hoped to prove the existence of a universal ether through detailed studies of the compressiblity and expandibility of gases.


The characteristic property of plants that grow during the winter, or at least remain healthy and dormant.

Either too much or too little water during the later part of the growing season can reduce the winter hardiness of nursery crops.


(phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/.

For the former, the fricativeness of the breath is audible from the throat, through the oral configuration; for the latter, the breath-friction is audible only from the lip.