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Odium
- noun - hate coupled with disgust
- state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior
Opium
- noun - an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy
Ovism
- - The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoon; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.
Priam
- noun - (Greek mythology) the last king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris and Cassandra
Prism
- noun - a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
Seism
- noun - shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
Zoism
- - Reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among savages.