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Woolgatherers
- noun - someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
Word Deafness
- noun - an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss
Worthlessness
- noun - having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"
- the quality of being without practical use
X-Linked Gene
- noun - a gene located on an X chromosome
Xanthophyceae
- noun - yellow-green algae
Xanthoproteic
- - Pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein; showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the xanthoproteic reaction for albumin.
Xanthoprotein
- - A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.
Y-Linked Gene
- noun - a gene located on a Y chromosome
Yellowhammers
- noun - European bunting the male being bright yellow
- large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
Zeeman Effect
- - The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectral lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, first observed in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and regarded as an important confirmation of the electromagnetic theory of light.