(immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
(medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
noun
(construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
(military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
(sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
buttonhooked
buttonhooked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buttonhook
chaunoprockt
cornhuskings
cornhuskings
noun
plural of cornhusking
countercheck
countercheck
noun
A restriction or limit.
A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).
verb
To recheck.
To restrict or limit by counteracting.
countershock
countershock
noun
A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse
doublethinks
doublethinks
noun
plural of doublethink
doughnutlike
doughnutlike
adj
Resembling a doughnut.
doukhobortsy
doukhobortsy
Noun
The Doukhobors.
guidebookish
guidebookish
adj
Having the tone or style of a guidebook.
honeystucker
honeysuckled
honeysuckled
adj
Covered with honeysuckle.
honeysuckles
honeysuckles
noun
plural of honeysuckle
housebreaker
housebreaker
noun
A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
housekeepers
housekeepers
noun
plural of housekeeper
housekeeping
housekeeping
noun
Any general tasks that involve preparation.
Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
houseworkers
houseworkers
noun
plural of houseworker
housewrecker
keraphyllous
keraulophone
keraunograph
keraunograph
noun
(archaic) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.
A ceraunograph; an instrument for measuring and recording lightning.
keraunophone
keraunophone
noun
(historical) A radio-based device that generates sound corresponding to distant lightning flashes.
kotschubeite
kotschubeite
noun
(mineralogy) A chromium chlorite mineral.
kurchatovium
kurchatovium
noun
(physics) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
leukorrhoeal
leukorrhoeal
adj
Alternative form of leukorrheal
motherfucker
motherfucker
intj
(vulgar) A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
(vulgar) Expressing dismay or discontent.
(vulgar) Synonym of ouch.
(vulgar) Synonym of wow.
noun
(vulgar) A good very close friend or relative.
(vulgar) An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
(vulgar) Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
(vulgar, literally) One who engages in incest with their mother.
(vulgar, literally) One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.
(vulgar, offensive) An extremely contemptible or mean person.
(with as or like, forming a compound unit adverbial intensifier) To an extreme degree.
mushroomlike
mushroomlike
adj
Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom
neugkroschen
packinghouse
packinghouse
noun
A facility where harvested food is processed into a salable condition.
A slaughterhouse wherein animals are slaughtered, and the meat is then processed into smaller cuts.
poughkeepsie
poughkeepsie
Proper noun
a city in New York State, USA
rockhounding
rockhounding
noun
The activities of a rock hound; amateur geology.
roughnecking
roughnecking
verb
present participle of roughneck
scheltopusik
scheltopusik
noun
Alternative form of sheltopusik
schomburgkia
shuttlecocks
shuttlecocks
noun
plural of shuttlecock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shuttlecock
skeuomorphic
skeuomorphic
adj
(originally archaeology) Pertaining to skeuomorphs, obsolete design elements which are retained for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose.
thelyotokous
toughkenamon
turkophilism
turkophobist
unhoodwinked
unhoodwinked
adj
Not hoodwinked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unhoodwink
unlikelihood
unlikelihood
noun
Absence of likelihood; the state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability.