Matching Words
31382 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Ontogenies
- noun - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
- developmental history of an organism in its own lifetime
Ontologies
- noun - (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
- the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
Ontologist
- - One who is versed in or treats of ontology.
Oophoritis
- noun - inflammation of one or both ovaries
Oort Cloud
- noun - (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet''s orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun
- (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun
Opacifying
- verb - become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind"
- make opaque; "The glass was opacified more greater privacy"
Opal Glass
- noun - a milky white translucent or opaque glass
Opalescent
- adjective - having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
Opalescing
- verb - exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal; "This nitrate opalesces under certain conditions"
- reflect light or colors like an opal; "Distant clouds opalesce like pale brocade"; "raindrops caught in a sunbeam seem to opalesce"