(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.
breakthroughes
breakthroughs
breakthroughs
noun
plural of breakthrough
buckinghamshire
buckinghamshire
Proper noun
An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
daughterkin
daughterkin
noun
(endearing) A daughter.
daughterlike
daughterlike
adj
Resembling a daughter.
doughmaker
earthquaking
earthquaking
verb
present participle of earthquake
gebrauchsmusik
grieshuckle
gumpoldskirchner
hackleburg
hogsucker
hogsucker
noun
Hypentelium nigricans, a species of fish found throughout the Mississippi river basin, growing up to two feet in length.
housebreaking
housebreaking
noun
The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.
verb
(animal training) present participle of housebreak
hucksterage
hucksterage
noun
The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling.
huckstering
huckstering
noun
The behaviour of a huckster.
verb
present participle of huckster
hunkering
hunkering
verb
present participle of hunker
isokeraunographic
keithsburg
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.
keraunographic
keraunographic
adj
Of or pertaining to keraunography.
keraunography
keraunography
noun
(archaic) The study of keraunographs (figures or pictures impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere).
kerchug
kerchug
intj
The sound of something dropping into water; a plop.
kieselguhr
kieselguhr
noun
Diatomaceous earth, a kind of soft rock containing the remains of diatoms; it absorbs nitroglycerine and is used to manufacture dynamite.
kieselguhrs
kieselguhrs
noun
plural of kieselguhr
kiesselguhr
kinghunter
kirkcudbrightshire
kirkcudbrightshire
Proper noun
A historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the informal Galloway area of south-western Scotland.
kremenchug
neighbourlike
neighbourlike
adj
(Britain, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly
neugkroschen
recklinghausen
roughneck
roughneck
noun
(colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig.
(colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.
(colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.
verb
To work as a laborer on an oil rig.
roughnecked
roughnecked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of roughneck