| acronymania | Fervent or excessive enthusiasm for the use of acronyms or initialisms. | 1968 | Go To Quotation |
| Aharonov–Bohm | attrib. Designating an effect whereby charged particles travelling round a… | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| Ames test | A test for mutagenic activity in which the effect of a substance in vitro is observed… | 1976 | Go To Quotation |
| buckytube | A cylindrical molecule of carbon consisting of two or more concentric tubes each formed… | 1991 | Go To Quotation |
| CD | = compact disc at compact adj. 3d. Freq. attrib. | 1979 | Go To Quotation |
| chasmogamy | The opening of the perianth at the time of flowering, as distinguished from cleistogamy. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| coccidiostat | A substance administered to poultry to retard the growth and reproduction of pathogenic coccidia. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| cytochalasin | Any of a group of fungal metabolites (designated A, B, C, etc.) that inhibit… | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| data protection | The protection of data from corruption, destruction, or misuse; spec. the legal… | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| deblur | trans. To make (a blurred image) sharper; to cancel the effect of blurring on (an image). | 1971 | Go To Quotation |
| de-orbit | The act or process of moving out of orbit by a spacecraft. Also attrib., esp. as de-orbit burn. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| descrambler | = unscrambler n. | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| dongle | A software protection device which must be plugged into a computer to enable the protected software to be used on it. | 1981 | Go To Quotation |
| eco-political | Of or involving both politics and the environment; of or relating to ecopolitics (eco-politics n.). | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| electrogasdynamics | The branch of technology concerned with electrogasdynamic phenomena and devices. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| exaptation | A character or feature which evolved by a process other than selective adaptation for… | 1981 | Go To Quotation |
| fibrid | A synthetic polymer material, used principally for bonding synthetic fibres, esp. in Paper-making. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| gillion | A name sometimes used for 1000 million by writers wishing to avoid the ambiguity of ‘billion’. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| hadron | Any strongly interacting sub-atomic particle. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| hot-panted | Of a person: wearing hot pants. Cf. hot-pantsed adj. | 1971 | Go To Quotation |
| ibotenic | an isoxazole, C 5 H 6 N 2 O 4 H 2 O, found in certain mushrooms of the genus Amanita, and… | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| lase | intr. Of a substance, or an atom or molecule: to undergo the physical processes (of… | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| Laservision | A system for the reproduction of video signals recorded on a laser disc. | 1981 | Go To Quotation |
| leveed | Of a district: surrounded by or provided with levees. Of a channel, river, etc.: having natural levees. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| lipotropin | A polypeptide secreted by the pituitary gland which promotes the removal of fat from… | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| magnetotaxis | Movement of an organism in response to the direction of a magnetic field. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| mebutamate | A compound with sedative and anti-hypertensive properties, administered orally in the… | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| mechanochemically | In accordance with the laws of mechanochemistry; by a mechanochemical process. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| metabolomic | Of or relating to metabolomics or a metabolome. | 2001 | Go To Quotation |
| microencapsulation | The process of enclosing substances in microcapsules. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| mind-blower | Something that astonishes, shocks, or overwhelms; something (esp. a drug) that… | 1968 | Go To Quotation |
| mnemon | The minimum physical change in a brain, or other system, which constitutes the storage of… | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| multiregionalist | A supporter or adherent of the multiregional theory of human evolution. | 1990 | Go To Quotation |
| myoelectrically | By means of myoelectric currents. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| number cruncher | A computer or software capable of performing rapid calculations with large amounts of data. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| oleochemical | A compound obtained industrially from oils or fats of animal or vegetable origin (as opposed to a petrochemical). Usu. in pl. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| olfactronic | Of or relating to olfactronics. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| olfactronically | By olfactronic means. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| ommastrephid | Of or relating to the squids of the family Ommastrephidae, which are of medium to large size and have large terminal fins. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| oversupination | Excessive supination of the feet, esp. when running. Cf. overpronation n. | 1989 | Go To Quotation |
| parton | Each of the hypothetical pointlike constituents of the nucleon that were invoked by R.… | 1969 | Go To Quotation |
| Possum | Any of various electronic devices, operated in different ways, to enable disabled… | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| pyroceram | A strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it consists entirely of microscopic crystalline domains. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| Pythonesque | Relating to, characteristic of, or reminiscent of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a… | 1972 | Go To Quotation |
| Q-spoiling | = Q-switching n. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| read-mostly | Designating a memory whose contents can be changed, though not by program instructions… | 1971 | Go To Quotation |
| resilin | A highly elastic, rubber-like protein formed of coiled, cross-linked chains which is found… | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| retro | = retro-rocket n. 2. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| scramjet | A ramjet in which combustion takes place in a stream of gas moving at supersonic speed. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| sensor | A device giving a signal for the detection or measurement of a physical property to which it responds. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| spintronic | Of, employing, or relating to spintronics. | 1998 | Go To Quotation |
| spintronics | A branch of physics concerned with the storage and transfer of information by means… | 1998 | Go To Quotation |
| telediagnosis | The long-distance assessment of a patient's condition by a doctor using closed-circuit television. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| telepoint | A British public service which connects certain cordless telephones with… | 1987 | Go To Quotation |
| thymoleptic | (Of or pertaining to) a psychic energizer (see psychic adj. 1). | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| tizzy | Of a sound: high-pitched and buzzing or distorted. | 1987 | Go To Quotation |
| transearth | Of or pertaining to spaceflight or a trajectory towards the earth from the moon or another planet. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| triradius | In dermatoglyphics, a point from which the dermal ridges radiate in three directions at angles of approx. 120 degrees. | 1960 | Go To Quotation |
| turista | A name for a form of traveller's diarrhœa affecting visitors to Mexico. | 1970 | Go To Quotation |
| underkill | (The mobilization of) insufficient capacity, esp. of nuclear weapons, to kill… | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| vibrationally | By vibration; as regards vibrational motion. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| visiophone | = videophone n. at video- comb._form 1. | 1971 | Go To Quotation |
