Aardvark, Abacus, Abolitionism - Political Ideas, Colonization, Religious Ideas, Economic Ideas, Tactics, Organizations, And Individuals In The Americas, Abrasives - How do abrasives work?, Abscess, Absolute Music - Beethoven And German Influence, Crosscurrents: Program Music And Modernism, Late Twentieth-and Early Twenty-first-century Perspectives, Absolute Zero, Abyssal Plain, Acceleration - History, Linear Acceleration, Circular Acceleration, Force And Acceleration, Accelerators - Linear Accelerators, Circular Accelerators, Cyclotron Modifications, Applications, Accretion Disk, Accuracy - Accuracy In Measurements, In Calculations, Rounding…
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - Causes And Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Alternative Treatment, Prognosis, Auks, Australia - Topography And Origin Of Australia, Splitting Of Australia From Antarctica, Seismic Activity And Faulting, Overall Geological Structure - South Australian mountains, Glaciers and ocean inundations, Geology of Tasmania, Climate, Authoritarianism - East Asia - Revised Modernization Theories, Legitimate(d) Authoritarianism, Bibliography, Authoritarianism - Latin America - Caudillos, Corporatism, Bureaucratic Authoritarianism, Bibliography, Authoritarianism - Overview - Dominant Characteristics Of Political Systems, Specific Forms Of Authoritarian Rule, Outlook, Bibliography…
Casuistry - Probabilism, Decline, Bibliography, Catabolism, Catalyst and Catalysis, Catastrophism, Catfish, Catheters, Cathode, Cathode Ray Tube - Envelope Or Container, Electron Gun, Focusing And Deflection Systems, Display Screen, Cation, Cats - Senses, Behavior, Evolution And History, Domestic Cats - Species of big cats, Cattails, Cattle Family (Bovidae), Causality - Aristotle, Aristotle's Legacy, Descartes, Descartes's Successors, Hume, Kant, Causation - Modern Theories Of Causation, The 1970s And Early 1980s: The Age Of Causal Analyses, Event Causation Versus Causal Generalizations…
Africa Democracy - Modalities Of Africa's Democratic Transition, Explanations Of Africa's Democratization, Visions Of African Democracy, Creationism - History Of Creationism, Toward The Present, Phillip Johnson And Naturalism, Irreducible Complexity, The Explanatory Filter, Creativity in the Arts and Sciences - Historical Conceptions, Core Controversies Concerning Creativity, Contemporary Research, Bibliography, Crestfish, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Crickets, Crisis - Modern Concepts Of Crisis, Contemporary Definition And Usage, Bibliography, Critical Habitat, Critical Race Theory - An Organization Forms, Spin-off Movements, Criticism, Methodology, Derrick Bell, Related Legal Movements…
Africa and African Diaspora Feminism - Continental Feminism, History, Postcolonial Feminism, Feminist Activism, Feminist Intellectuals, Feminism In The African Diaspora, Chicana Feminisms - The Importance Of History, The Importance Of Culture, Dolores Huerta, The Importance Of Intersectionality, China Examination Systems - Power, Politics, And Examinations, Literacy And Social Dimensions, Fields Of Learning, Delegitimation And Decanonization, Contemporary Genetics - Eugenics And The Ethical Issues Of Selective Breeding (1900–1945), Dna, Genomics, And The New Ethical Dilemmas, Determinism Free will and Predestination - Ancient Greek Philosophy, Jews, Christians, And Muslims, Scholastic Christian Thought, Reformation And Counter-reformation…
Economic History - The Emergence Of Economic History, Economic History In Asia, Latin America, And Africa, The Rise Of Cliometrics Or The New Economic History, Geometry - Antiquity And The Middle Ages, Modern Era, Twentieth Century, Bibliography, Geometry - Proof, Constructions, Points, Lines, And Planes, Angles, Parallel Lines And Planes, Geomicrobiology, Geophysics, Geotropism, Gerbils, Germ Cells and the Germ Cell Line, Germ Theory, Germination, Gerontology, Gesnerias, Gesture - The Study Of Gestures, Gestures In The Arts, Bibliography…
African Literature - Oral Tradition, Written Literature, Women's Writing, Children Of The Postcolony, Debates And Critical Engagements, Ancient and Philosophy of Medieval Language - Words And Things: Plato And Aristotle, Sentences And Facts: Aristotle And The Stoics, Abelard And The Early Middle Ages, Ancient China Legalism - Shang Yang, Shen Buhai, Han Feizi, Later Legalism, Bibliography, Dual Loyalties - Ancient World, The Christian Era, Enlightenment And Revolution, Modern Era, Bibliography, Integers, Integral - Definite Integrals, Indefinite Integrals - Applications…
Africa Multiculturalism - Multicultural Problems In Africa, Multiculturalism And Culture, Bibliography, Anthropology of Music - Musical Anthropology, Comparative Musicology And Ethnomusicology, The Anthropology Of Music, Bibliography, Chinese Mysticism - China's "mantic Way": Knowledge Through Insight And Technics, Self-cultivation As A Secular Pursuit: C. 400 B.c.e.–1600 C.e., Christian Mysticism - Basic Problems Of Christian Mysticism, History Of Christian Mysticism, Bibliography, Cultural Nationalism - Culture And Nationalism: Separate Ideas, From Europe To A Worldview, Bibliography…
African and Black Orientalism - Africa And European Colonial Scholarship, Orientalism, African Literature, And Criticism, Black America And Black Orientalism, African Philosophies - The Islamic Past, The Beginning Of A Discipline, Major Themes, The Controversy About The Meaning Of Philosophy, American Philosophies - Native American Philosophy, Puritan Thought, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, African-american Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy - Indifferentism, Appropriationism, Contextualism, Constitutivism, Conclusion, Bibliography, Idea of the Person - Durkheim's Critique, Mauss: The Person As "a Category Of The Human Mind"…
Africa Realism - Realism In African Philosophy, Reality In African Aesthetics And Literary Criticism, Bibliography, Idea of Progress - The First Prophet Of Progress, Inevitable Progress, The Idea Of Progress In The Anglo-american World, Islamic Reform - Bibliography, Mental Representation - History, Mental Content, The Nature Of Mental Representation, Representational Format, Bibliography, Plate Tectonics - Continental Drift Versus Plate Tectonics, An Overview Of Tectonic Theory, Proofs Of Tectonic Theory, Rates Of Plate Movement, Platonic Solids - Historical significance, Platonism - Bibliography, Platypus - Physical Characteristics, Feeding, Burrows And Breeding…
African Socialisms - North African, "arab" Socialisms, African Socialists, Afro-marxism, Conclusion, Bibliography, History of Science - General Works, Preclassical Antiquity, Middle Ages, Scientific Revolution, Biological Sciences, Feminist History Of Science, Ribonuclease, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) - The Discovery Of Rna, The Role Of Rna In Gene Expression, Ribosomes, Rice, Ricin - Chemical Structure And Pathological Pathway, Ricin Poisoning, Ricin Production And Use As A Biological Weapon, Rickettsia - Rickettsial Disease Transmission, The Spotted Fevers, Rickettsial Typhus Diseases, Prevention - Nonpathogenic rickettsia…
Human Wisdom - Oral Cultures, Written Cultures, Latin America World Systems Theory - The Age Of Decolonization And The Failings Of Modernization Theory, Precursors To World Systems Theory, Wallerstein And World Systems Theory, Middle East Tribalism - Tribes In Seventh-century Arabia, Tribal Identity And Political Metaphor, The Multiple Meanings Of Tribe, Stem Cells, Stereochemistry - Historical Development, Fundamentals Of Stereochemistry, Stereoisomers, Symmetry And Handedness, Chiral Molecules, Determination Of Stereochemical Properties, Sticklebacks, Stilts and Avocets - Species of stilts and avocets, Stimulus, Stoicism - The Stoic School In Antiquity, Main Doctrines, The Medieval And Modern Reception Of Stoicism, Bibliography…
aa, AAS, ab-, abdomen, Abelian group, aberration, abiogenesis, abiotic factor, abomasum, ABO system, abscisic acid, abscissa, abscission, absolute, absolute alcohol, absolute configuration, absolute expansivity, absolute humidity, absolute permittivity, absolute pitch (perfect pitch), absolute temperature, absolute value (modulus), absolute zero, absorbed dose, absorptance, absorption, absorption coefficient, absorption indicator, absorption spectrum, absorptivity, ABS plastic, abundance, abyssal zone, a.c, acceleration, acceleration of free fall, accelerator…
achene, Acheson process, achondrite, achromatic lens, acid, acid anhydrides (acyl anhydrides), acid–base balance, acid–base indicator, acid dissociation constant, acid dye, acid halides, acidic, acidic hydrogen (acid hydrogen), acidic stains, acidimetry, acidity constant, acid rain, acid rock, acid salt, acid value, acinus, acoustics, acoustoelectronic devices (electroacoustic devices), acquired characteristics, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Acrilan, acrolein, acromegaly, acrosome, acrylamide, acrylate, acrylic acid, acrylic resins, acrylonitrile, ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone; corticotrophin)…
adiabatic demagnetization, adiabatic process, adipic acid, adipose tissue, admittance, adolescence, ADP, adrenal cortex, adrenal glands, adrenaline (epinephrine), adrenal medulla, adrenergic, adrenoceptor (adrenoreceptor; adrenergic receptor), adrenocorticotrophic hormone, Edgar Douglas Adrian Baron Biography, (1889–1977), ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line), adsorbate, adsorbent, adsorption, adsorption indicator (absorption indicator), adsorption isotherm, advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR), adventitious, aerial (antenna), aerobe, aerobic respiration, aerodynamics, aerogel, aerogenerator, aerosol, aerospace…
aldohexose, aldol, aldol reaction, aldose, aldosterone, algae, algal bloom (bloom), algebra, algebraic sum, Algol, algorithm, alicyclic compound, alimentary canal (digestive tract; gut), aliphatic compounds, alizarin, alkali, alkali metals (group 1 elements), alkalimetry, alkaline, alkaline-earth metals (group 2 elements), alkaloid, alkanal, alkanes (paraffins), alkanol, alkenes (olefines; olefins), alkoxides, alkyd resin, alkylation, alkylbenzenes, alkyl group, alkyl halides, alkynes (acetylenes), allantois…
AM (amplitude modulation), americium, Ames test (Salmonella mutagenesis test), amethyst, amides, amination, amines, amine salts, amino acid, aminobenzene, amino group, aminopeptidase, amino sugar, ammeter, ammine, ammonia, ammoniacal, ammonia clock, ammonia–soda process, ammonite, ammonium alum, ammonium carbonate, ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac), ammonium ion, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, amniocentesis, amnion, amniote, Amoeba, amoebocyte, amoeboid movement, amorphous, amount concentration, amount of substance, AMP, ampere, André Marie Ampère Biography, (1775–1836)…
androecium, androgen, anechoic, anemometer, anemophily, aneroid barometer, angiosperms, angiotensin, angle modulation, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, angle of refraction, angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), anglesite, angstrom, Anders Jonas Ångström Biography, (1814–74), angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration, angular distance, angular frequency (pulsatance), angular magnification (magnifying power), angular momentum, anharmonic oscillator, anhydride, anhydrite, anhydrous, aniline, anilinium ion, animal, animal behaviour, animal charcoal, animal starch, anion…
antimonous compounds, antimony, antinode, antioxidants, antiparallel spins, antiparallel vectors, antiparticle, antipyretic, antisense DNA, antisense RNA, antiseptic, antiserum, antitail, antitoxin, antiviral, anus, anyon, aorta, apastron, apatite, aperture, aperture synthesis, aphelion, aphotic zone (bathypelagic zone), apical dominance, apical meristem, aplanatic lens, apocarpy, apochromatic lens, apocrine secretion, apocynthion, apoenzyme, apogee, apolune, apomixis (agamospermy), apoplast, apoptosis (programmed cell death), aposematic coloration, apparent expansivity, appeasement…
argentous compounds, arginine, argon, argument, aril, arithmetic average (arithmetic mean), arithmetic/logic unit, arithmetic series (arithmetic progression), armature, aromatic compound, aromaticity, arousal, ARPES, Arrhenius equation, Arrhenius theory, arsenate(III), arsenate(V), arsenic, arsenic acid, arsenic(III) acid, arsenic hydride, arsenic(III) oxide (arsenic trioxide; arsenious oxide; white arsenic), arsenic(V) oxide (arsenic oxide), arsenic trioxide, arsenious acid, arsenious oxide, arsenite…
astronomical unit (AU), astronomy, astrophysics, asymmetric atom, asymptote, asymptotic freedom, asymptotic series, atactic polymer, atlas, atm, atmolysis, atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, atoll, atom, atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), atomic bomb, atomic clock, atomic emission spectroscopy, atomic energy, atomic force microscope (AFM), atomicity, atomic mass unit (a.m.u.), atomic number (proton number), atomic orbital, atomic pile, atomic volume, atomic weight, ATP (adenosine triphosphate), ATPase, atrioventricular node (AVN)…
axial vector (pseudo-vector), axil, axillary bud, axion, axis, axon, azeotrope (azeotropic mixture; constant-boiling mixture), azeotropic distillation, azides, azimuth, azimuthal quantum number, azine, azo compounds, azo dye, azoimide, azurite, Charles Babbage Biography, (1792–1871), Babbit metal, Babo's law, BAC, Bacillariophyta, bacillus, backbiting, backbone, back cross, back donation, back e.m.f, background radiation, backing store, back titration, backup, bacteria, bacterial artificial chromosome…
barycentre, barye, baryon, baryta, barytes (barite), basal body, basal ganglia, basal metabolic rate (BMR), basalt, base, base dissociation constant, basement membrane, base metal, base pair, base pairing, base unit, basic, BASIC, basic dye, basicity constant, basic-oxygen process (BOP process), basic rock, basic salt, basic slag, basic stains, Basidiomycota, basophil, Nikolai Gennediyevitch Basov Biography, (1922–2001), bast, William Bateson Biography, (1861–1926), batholith, bats, battery…
benzene, benzenecarbaldehyde (benzaldehyde), benzenecarbonyl chloride (benzoyl chloride), benzenecarbonyl group (benzoyl group), benzenecarboxylate (benzoate), benzenecarboxylic acid (benzoic acid), benzene–1,4–diol (hydroquinone; quinol), benzene hexachloride (BHC), benzenesulphonic acid, benzil, benzilic acid rearrangement, benzoate, benzoic acid, benzoquinone, benzoylation, benzoyl chloride, benzoyl group, benzpyrene, benzyl alcohol, benzylamine (α–aminotoluene; phenylmethylamine), benzyne, Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius Biography, (1884–1949), Bergius process, beriberi, berkelium, Daniel Bernoulli Biography, (1700–82), Bernoulli theorem…
biogas, biogenesis, biogeochemical cycle (nutrient cycle), biogeography, bioinformatics, bioinorganic chemistry, biological clock, biological control, biological rhythm, biological warfare, biology, bioluminescence, biomass, biome, biomechanics, biomolecule, biophysics, biopoiesis, bioreactor (industrial fermenter), biorhythm (biological rhythm), biosensor, biosphere, biostratigraphy, biosynthesis, biosystematics, biotechnology, biotic factor, biotin, biotite, bipolar outflow, biprism, bipyramid, birds, birefringence, Birkeland–Eyde process, birth, birth control (contraception), birth rate (natality), bisexual…
blooming, blue-green bacteria, blue vitriol, B lymphocyte, B-meson, boat conformation, BOD, Johann Elert Bode Biography, (1747–1826), body cavity, body-centred cubic, body fluid, boehmite, Niels Henrik David Bohr Biography, (1885–1962), Bohr effect, bohrium, Bohr theory, boiling point (b.p.), boiling-point–composition diagram, boiling-point elevation, boiling-water reactor, Bok globule, bolometer, Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann Biography, (1844–1906), Boltzmann constant, Boltzmann equation, Boltzmann formula, bolus…
Tycho Brahe Biography, (1546–1601), brain, brain death, brainstem, branched chain, brass, Walter Brattain Biography, Karl Ferdinand Braun Biography, (1850–1918), breakdown, breaking stress, breathing, breed, breeder reactor, breeding, breeding season, Bremsstrahlung, brewing, Brewster's law, bridge, bridge rectifier, brighteners, Brinell hardness, Brin process, Britannia metal, British thermal unit (Btu), broadband, broken symmetry, bromate, bromic(I) acid (hypobromous acid), bromic(V) acid, bromide, bromination…
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Biography, (1899–1985), bus, buta–1,3–diene (butadiene), butanal (butyraldehyde), butane, butanedioic acid (succinic acid), butanoic acid (butyric acid), butanol, butanone (methyl ethyl ketone), butenedioic acid, butterflies, butterfly effect, buttress root, butyl group, butyl rubber, butyraldehyde, butyric acid, Buys Ballot's law, by-product, byte, B–Z reaction (Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction), C, cadmium, cadmium cell, cadmium sulphide, caecum, caesium, caesium clock, cage compound…
candela, candle power, cane sugar, canine tooth, Cannizzaro reaction, canonical form, capacitance, capacitation, capacitor, capacitor microphone, capillarity, capillary, capitulum, capric acid, caproic acid, caprolactam (6-hexanelactam), caprylic acid, capsid, capsule, capture, carapace, carat, carbamide, carbanion, carbene, carbenium ion, carbide, carbocation, carbocyclic, carbohydrate, carbolic acid, carbon, carbon assimilation, carbonate, carbonate minerals, carbonation, carbon bisulphide, carbon black, carbon cycle, carbon dating (radiocarbon dating)…
carrying capacity, Cartesian coordinates, cartilage (gristle), cartilage bone (replacing bone), cartilaginous fishes, cartography, caruncle, caryopsis, cascade liquefier, cascade process, case hardening, casein, Cassegrainian telescope, Giovanni Domenico Cassini Biography, (1625–1712), cassiterite, caste, cast iron, castor oil, catabolism, catalysis, catalyst, catalytic activity, catalytic converter, catalytic cracking, catalytic RNA, cataphoresis, catastrophe theory, catechol, catecholamine, category, catenary, catenation, cathetometer, cathode, cathode-ray oscilloscope (CRO), cathode rays…
cellulose nitrate, cell wall, Celsius scale, cement, cementation, cementite, Cenozoic (Cainozoic; Kainozoic), centi-, centigrade scale, centipedes, Central Dogma, central nervous system (CNS), central processing unit, centre, centre of curvature, centre of gravity, centre of mass, centrifugal force, centrifugal pump, centrifuge, centriole, centripetal force, centroid, centromere (kinomere; spindle attachment), centrosome (cell centre; centrosphere), centrum, cephalization, Cephalopoda, cephalothorax, Cepheid variable, ceramics, cerebellum, cerebral cortex (pallium)…
chemical dating, chemical engineering, chemical equation, chemical equilibrium, chemical equivalent, chemical fossil, chemical potential, chemical reaction, chemical shift, chemiluminescence, chemiosmotic theory, chemisorption, chemistry, chemoautotroph, chemoorganotroph, chemoreceptor, chemosynthesis, chemosystematics, chemotaxis, chemotaxonomy, chemotherapy, chemotropism, chernozem (black earth), chert, chiasma (pl. chiasmata), Chile saltpetre, Chilopoda, chimaera, china clay, Chinese white, chip, chirality, chirality element, Chiron, Chiroptera, chi-squared test, chitin, chloral, chloral hydrate…
chromatin, chromatogram, chromatography, chromatophore, chrome alum, chrome iron ore, chrome red, chrome yellow, chromic acid, chromic anhydride, chromic compounds, chromite, chromium, chromium(II) oxide, chromium(III) oxide, chromium(IV) oxide (chromium dioxide), chromium(VI) oxide (chromium trioxide; chromic anhydride), chromium potassium sulphate, chromium sesquioxide, chromium steel, chromophore, chromoplast, chromosome, chromosome map, chromosome mutation, chromosphere, chromous compounds, chromyl chloride (chromium oxychloride), chronology protection conjecture…
Clemmensen reduction, climate, climate change, climax community, cline, clinostat, clitoris, cloaca, clock reaction, clonal selection theory, clone, cloning vector, closed chain, close packing, closo-structure, clotting factors (coagulation factors), cloud, cloud chamber, clubmoss, Clusius column, cluster, cluster compound, cluster of differentiation, Cnidaria, cnidoblast, CNS, CoA, coacervate, coadaptation, coagulation, coal, coal gas, coal tar, coaxial cable, cobalamin (vitamin B12), cobalt, cobalt(II) oxide…
collecting duct, collective excitation, collector, collenchyma, colligative properties, collimator, collision density, collision quenching, collodion, colloids, cologarithm, colon, colony, colony-stimulating factor (CSF), colorimeter, colorimetric analysis, colostrum, colour, colour blindness, colour charge, colour photography, colour television, colour temperature, colour vision, columbium, column chromatography, coma, combinations, combined cycle, combustion, comet, commensalism, common-collector connection, common logarithm, common salt, communication, communication satellite, community, commutative law…
conceptacle, conception, conchoidal fracture, condensation, condensation polymerization, condensation pump, condensation reaction, condensed-matter physics, condenser, condenser microphone, conditional response (conditioned reflex), conditioning, conductance, conducting polymer, conductiometric titration, conduction, conduction band, conductivity, conductivity water, conductometric titration, conductor, condyle, Condy's fluid, cone, configuration, configuration space, confinement, conformation, congeners, congenital, conic, conidiospore, conidium (conidiospore), Coniferophyta, conjugate acid or base, conjugated, conjugate points, conjugation…
contig map, continent, continental drift, continuous culture, continuous function, continuous phase, continuous spectrum, continuous variation (quantitative variation), continuous wave, continuum, contour, contour feathers, contraception, contractile root, contractile vacuole, contraction, control, control grid, control mechanism, control rod, control unit (CU), convection, conventional current, convergent evolution, convergent series, converging lens or mirror, conversion electron, converter, converter reactor, convex, convoluted tubule, coolant, Leon Cooper Biography, cooperative phenomenon, Cooper pairs…
cortex, corticosteroid, corticotrophin, cortisol (hydrocortisone), cortisone, corundum, corymb, cos, cosecant, cosech, cosh, cosine, cosine rule, cosmic censorship, cosmic radiation, cosmic string, cosmid, cosmoid scale, cosmological constant, cosmological principle, cosmology, cotangent, coth, Cottrell precipitator, cotyledon (seed leaf), coudé system, coulomb, Charles Augustin de Coulomb Biography, (1736–1806), Coulomb explosion, Coulomb field, Coulomb force, Coulomb's law, counter, countercurrent heat exchange, counterflow, country rock (host rock)…
critical temperature, critical volume, CRO, Cromagnon man, Sir William Crookes Biography, (1832–1919), crop, crop rotation, cross, cross-fertilization, crossing over, cross linkage, crossover value (COV), cross-pollination, cross product, cross section, crown ethers, crucible, crude oil, Crustacea, cryobiology, cryogenic pump, cryogenics, cryohydrate, cryolite, cryometer, cryophyte, cryoscopic constant, cryoscopy, cryostat, cryotron, cryptands, cryptic coloration, crypts of Lieberkühn (intestinal glands), crystal, crystal counter, crystal defect…
cyanic acid, cyanide, cyanide process, cyanine dyes, Cyanobacteria, cyanocobalamin, cyanogen, cyano group, cyanohydrins, cyanuric acid, Cycadofilicales (Pteridospermales; seed ferns), Cycadophyta, cyclamates, cycle, cyclic, cyclic AMP, cyclic phosphorylation (cyclic photophosphorylation), cyclization, cyclo-, cycloalkanes, cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione (benzoquinone; quinone), cyclohexane, cycloid, cyclone, cyclonite (RDX), cyclopentadiene, cyclopentadienyl ion, cyclopropane, Cyclostomata, cyclotron, cylindrical polar coordinates, cyme, cymose inflorescence (cyme; definite inflorescence)…
death rate (mortality), Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie Biography, (1892–1987), de Broglie wavelength, debye, Debye–Hückel theory, Debye–Scherrer method, deca-, decahydrate, decalescence, decanoic acid (capric acid), decantation, Decapoda, decarboxylation, decay, deci-, decibel, deciduous, deciduous teeth (milk teeth), decimal system, declination, decoherence, decomposer, decomposition, deconfinement temperature, decrepitation, defecation, defect, deficiency disease, definite inflorescence, definite integral, definite proportions, deflagration, deforestation, degassing, degaussing, degeneracy pressure…
densitometer, density, density functional theory, dental caries, dental formula, denticle (placoid scale), dentine, dentition, deoxyribonuclease, deoxyribonucleic acid, deoxyribose (2-deoxyribose), depleted, depletion layer, depolarization, deposition, depression (low; disturbance), depression of freezing point, depth of field, derivative, derived unit, dermal bone, Dermaptera, dermis (corium; cutis), desalination, desert, desertification, desiccation, desiccator, desmids, desmotubule, desorption, destructive distillation, detailed balance, detector, detergent, determinant…
diamagnetism, diamond, diapause, diaphragm, diaphysis, diaspore, diastase, diastema, diastereoisomers, diastole, diatomic molecule, diatoms, diazine, diazo compounds, diazonium salts, diazotization, dibasic acid, dicarbide, dicarboxylic acid, dichasium, dichlorine oxide (chlorine monoxide), dichloroethanoic acid, dichloromethane (methylene chloride), dichogamy, dichotomous, dichroism, dichromate(VI), Dicotyledoneae, Dictyoptera, dielectric, dielectric constant, dielectric heating, Diels–Alder reaction, diene, dienophile, Diesel engine, diet, dietary fibre, diethyl ether, differential calculus…
diol (dihydric alcohol), dioptre, dioxan, dioxin (2,4,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin), dioxonitric(III) acid, dioxygenyl compounds, dip, dipeptide, diphenylmethanone (benzophenone), diphosphane (diphosphine), diphosphine, diphyodont, diploblastic, diploid, Diplopoda, diplotene, Dipnoi, dipole, dipole radiation, Diptera, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Biography, (1902–84), Dirac constant, Dirac equation, direct current (d.c.), direct-current motor, direct dye, direct motion, directrix, disaccharide…
DMF, DMG, DMSO, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), DNAase, DNA blotting, DNA chip, DNA cloning, DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, DNA fingerprinting (DNA profiling; genetic fingerprinting), DNA hybridization, DNA library (gene library; gene bank), DNA ligase, DNA methylation, DNA microarray (DNA chip), DNA polymerase, DNA probe, DNA profiling, DNA repair, DNA replication, DNase (DNAase; deoxyribonuclease), DNA sequencing (gene sequencing), Döbereiner's triads, dodecanoic acid (lauric acid), dodecene, dodecylbenzene…
duplet, duplex, duplication (in genetics), Duralumin, dura mater, duramen, dust core, Dutch metal, DVD, dwarf star, dye laser, dyes, dyke, dynamical meteorology, dynamic equilibrium, dynamics, dynamite, dynamo, dynamo action, dynamometer, dyne, dysprosium, dystectic mixture, dystrophic, e, ear, eardrum, early universe, ear ossicles, earth, earthquake, earth's atmosphere, earth sciences, earthshine, earthslide, earth's magnetic field, earwigs, ebonite, ebullioscopic constant, ebullioscopy…
Paul Ehrlich Biography, (1854–1915), eigenfunction, Albert Einstein Biography, (1879–1955), Einstein coefficients, Einstein equation, einsteinium, Einstein shift, ejaculation, ejecta, Elasmobranchii, elastance, elastic cartilage, elastic collision, elastic fibres, elasticity, elastic modulus, elastin, elastomer, electret, electrical energy, electric arc, electric-arc furnace, electric bell, electric charge, electric constant, electric current, electric displacement (electric flux density), electric field, electric flux, electric flux density, electricity, electric lighting, electric motor, electric organ…
anti-isomer, Australopithecus, d-block elements, d-isomer, dl-isomer, d-orbital, Drosophila, Dryopithecus, electron-transfer reaction, electron transport chain (electron transport system), electronvolt, electroorganic reaction, electrophile, electrophilic addition, electrophilic substitution, electrophoresis (cataphoresis), electrophorus, electroplating, electropositive, electroscope, electrostatic field, electrostatic generator, electrostatic precipitation, electrostatics, electrostatic units (e.s.u.), electrostriction, electrovalent bond, electroweak theory, electrum, element, elementary particles, elements of an orbit…
α−aminotoluene, empirical, empirical formula, emulsification, emulsion, enamel, enantiomers, enantiomorphism, enantiotropy, encephalin (enkephalin), endangered species, endemic, endergonic reaction, endocarp, endocrine gland (ductless gland), endocrinology, endocytosis, endoderm (entoderm), endodermis, endoergic, endogamy, endogenous, endolymph, endometrium, endonuclease, endoparasite, endopeptidase, endoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), end organ, endorphin, endoskeleton, endosperm, endospore, endosymbiont theory, endothelium, endotherm (homoiotherm), endothermic, endotoxin, end plate, end point…
enzyme–substrate complex, Eocene, eosin, ephemeral, ephemeris, ephemeris time (ET), epicalyx, epicarp, epicentre, epicotyl, epicycle, epidemiology, epidermis, epidiascope, epididymis, epigamic, epigeal, epiglottis, epilimnion, epimerism, epinephrine, epiphysis, epiphyte, episome, epistasis, epitaxy (epitaxial growth), epithelium, epithermal neutron, EPM, epoxides, epoxyethane (ethylene oxide), epoxy resins, epsomite, Epsom salt, Epstein–Barr virus, equation of motion (kinematic equation), equation of state, equation of time, equator, equilibrium…
esters, etaerio, ethanal (acetaldehyde), ethanamide (acetamide), ethane, ethanedioic acid, ethane-1,2-diol (ethylene glycol; glycol), ethanoate (acetate), ethanoic acid (acetic acid), ethanoic anhydride (acetic anhydride), ethanol (ethyl alcohol), ethanoylating agent (acetylating agent), ethanoyl chloride (acetyl chloride), ethanoyl group (acetyl group), ethene (ethylene), ethenone, ethenyl ethanoate (vinyl acetate), ether, ethers, ethology, ethoxyethane (diethyl ether; ether), ethyl 3-oxobutanoate (ethyl acetoacetonate)…
evolute, evolution, exa-, exbi-, excess electron, exchange force, excimer, exciplex, excitation, excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP), exciton, exclusion principle, excretion, exercise, exergonic reaction, exfoliation, exhalation, exitance, exocarp, exocrine gland, exocytosis, exodermis, exoergic, exogamy, exogenous, exon, exonuclease, exopeptidase, exoskeleton, exosphere, exothermic, exotic atom, exotoxin, expansion, expansion of the universe, expansivity (thermal expansion), experiment, expert system, expiration (exhalation), expiratory centre, explantation…
F1 (first filial generation), F2 (second filial generation), Fabry–Pérot interferometer, face-centred cubic (f.c.c.), facilitated diffusion, fac-isomer, factorial, Factor VIII (antihaemophilic factor), FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide), faeces, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Biography, (1686–1736), Fahrenheit scale, Fajans' rules, fallopian tube (oviduct), Gabriel Fallopius Biography, (1523–62), fall-out, false fruit, family, farad, Michael Faraday Biography, (1791–1867), Faraday cage, Faraday constant, Faraday disc, Faraday effect…
ferricyanide, ferrimagnetism, ferrite, ferroalloys, ferrocene, ferrocyanide, ferroelectric materials, ferromagnetism, ferrosoferric oxide, ferrous compounds, fertile material, fertility, fertilization (syngamy), fertilizer, FET, fetal membranes, fetus (foetus), Feulgen's test, Feynman diagram, Fibonacci number, fibre, fibre optics, fibrin, fibrinogen, fibrinolysis, fibroblast, fibrocartilage, fibrous protein, fibula, Fick's law, field, field capacity, field coil, field-effect transistor (FET), field-emission microscope (FEM), field-ionization microscope (field-ion microscope; FIM)…
flagellum (pl.flagella), flame, flame test, flare star, flash memory, flash photolysis, flash point, flatworms, flavin adenine dinucleotide, flavonoid, flavoprotein, flavour, fleas, Sir Alexander Fleming Biography, (1881–1955), Fleming's rules, flexor, flies, flight, flint (chert), flip-flop (bistable circuit), flocculation, flocculent, floppy disk (diskette), flora, Howard Walter Florey Baron Biography, (1898–1968), florigen, flower, flowering plants, fluctuations, fluidics, fluidization, fluid mechanics, flukes…
formate, formic acid, formula, formula weight, formylation, formyl group, Fortin barometer, forward genetics, fossil, fossil fuel, fossil hominid, Foucault pendulum, Fourier analysis, Fourier series, fourth dimension, fovea (fovea centralis), f.p.s. units, fractal, fraction, fractional crystallization, fractional distillation (fractionation), fractionating column, fractionation, fragmentation, frame dragging, frame of reference, francium, Ilya Frank Biography, Benjamin Franklin Biography, (1706–90), Rosalind Franklin Biography, Frasch process, fraternal twins (dizygotic twins)…
fruit, fruit fly, fruit sugar, frustration, frustum, FSH, FTP (file transfer protocol), fucoxanthin, fuel, fuel cell, fuel element, fugacity, fullerene, fullerite, fuller's earth, full-wave rectifier, fulminate, fulminic acid, fumaric acid, function, functional, functional group, fundamental, fundamental constants (universal constants), fundamental interactions, fundamental units, fungi, fungicide, Fungi Imperfecti, funicle, furan, furanose, furfural, fuse, fused ring, fusel oil, fusible alloys, fusion…
gas-cooled reactor, gaseous exchange, gas equation, gas laws, gasohol, gas oil, gasoline, gas thermometer, gastric, gastric juice, gastric mill (proventriculus), gastrin, Gastropoda, gastrula, gas turbine, gate, Gattermann reaction, gauche conformation, gauge boson, gauge theory, gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss Biography, (1777–1855), Gaussian distribution, Gaussian units, Gauss' law, gaussmeter, Gauss' theorem, Gay-Lussac's law, gaylussite, GCMS, gebi-, Gegenschein, Hans Wilhelm Geiger Biography, (1882–1945)…
geodesic (geodesic line), geodesy, geodynamics, geographical information system (GIS), geography, geological time scale, geology, geomagnetism, geometrical isomerism, geometrical optics, geometric average (geometric mean), geometric series, geometrized units, geomorphology, geophysics, geosphere, geostationary orbit, geosynchronous orbit, geothermal energy, geotropism (gravitropism), geraniol, germanium, German silver (nickel silver), germ cell, germinal epithelium, germination, germ layers (primary germ layers), germ plasm, gestation, getter, GeV, geyser, giant fibre, giant molecular cloud (GMC)…
gluon, glutamate, glutamic acid, glutamine, glutathione, gluten, glycan, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GALP), glycerate 3-phosphate, glyceride (acylglycerol), glycerine, glycerol (glycerine; propane-1,2,3,-triol), glycerophospholipid, glycine, glycobiology, glycogen (animal starch), glycogenesis, glycogenolysis, glycol, glycolipid, glycolysis (Embden–Meyerhof pathway), glycoprotein, glycosaminoglycan, glycoside, glycosidic bond (glycosidic link), glycosylation, glyphosate, Gnathostomata, gneiss, gnotobiotic, goblet cell, goethite, gold, Thomas Gold Biography…
grating, gravimetric analysis, gravitation, gravitational collapse, gravitational constant, gravitational field, gravitational interaction, gravitational lens, gravitational mass, gravitational shift, gravitational waves, graviton, gravitropism, gravity, gray, grazing, grazing incidence telescope, Great Attractor, great circle, green algae, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, greenockite, Green's function, green vitriol, Gregorian telescope, grey matter, grid, Grignard reagents, grooming, ground state, ground substance, ground tissues, groundwater, ground wave, group, group 0 elements…
haem (heme), haemagglutination, haematite, haematoxylin, haemocoel, haemocyanin (hemocyanin), haemoglobin, haemolysis, haemophilia, haemopoietic tissue, hafnium, Otto Hahn Biography, (1879–1968), hahnium, hair, hair follicle, half cell, half-life, half sandwich, half-thickness, half-wave plate, half-wave rectifier, half-width, halide, halite (rock salt), Hall effect, Edmund Halley Biography, (1656–1742), Halley's comet, Hall–Heroult cell, hallucinogen, hallux, halo, haloalkanes (alkyl halides)…
heat of dissociation, heat of formation, heat of neutralization, heat of reaction, heat of solution, heat pump, heat radiation (radiant heat), heat shield, heat-shock protein (HSP), heat transfer, Heaviside–Kennelly layer, Heaviside–Lorentz units, heavy-fermion system, heavy hydrogen, heavy metal, heavy spar, heavy water (deuterium oxide), hector−, Werner Karl Heisenberg Biography, (1901–76), Heisenberg uncertainty principle, helicate, heliocentric universe, heliotropism, helium, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Biography, (1821–94), Helmholtz coils…
Antony Hewish Biography, hexacyanoferrate(II) (ferrocyanide), hexacyanoferrate(III) (ferricyanide), hexadecane (cetane), hexadecanoate, hexadecanoic acid, hexagonal close packing, hexagonal crystal, hexahydrate, hexamine (hexamethylene tetramine), hexanedioate (adipate), hexanedioic acid (adipic acid), hexanoate (caproate), hexanoic acid (caproic acid), Hexapoda (Insecta), hexose, hexyl group or radical, HFC (hydrofluorocarbon), hibernation, hidden matter, hidden-variables theory, hierarchy, Higgs boson, Higgs field, high frequency (HF), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)…
homopolar generator, homopolymer, homozygous, Robert Hooke Biography, (1635–1703), Hooke's law, hormone, hornblende, horsepower (hp), horsetails, horst, host, host–guest chemistry, hot-wire instrument, Sir Fred Hoyle Biography, (1915–2001), HPLC, HTML (hypertext markup language), Edwin Powell Hubble Biography, (1889–1953), Hubble constant, Hubble space telescope, Hückel rule, hue, human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), Human Genome Project, human growth hormone (hGH), human immunodeficiency virus, humerus, humidity, humoral, humus…
hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid; prussic acid), hydrogen electrode, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen half cell (hydrogen electrode), hydrogenic, hydrogen iodide, hydrogen ion, hydrogen molecule ion, hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen spectrum, hydrogensulphate (bisulphate), hydrogen sulphide (sulphuretted hydrogen), hydrogensulphite (bisulphite), hydrography, hydroiodic acid, hydrolase, hydrological cycle (water cycle), hydrology, hydrolysis, hydromagnesite, hydrometer, hydronium ion, hydrophilic, hydrophily, hydrophobic, hydrophyte, hydroponics, hydroquinone, hydrosol, hydrosphere, hydrostatics, hydrostatic skeleton, hydrosulphate, hydrosulphide…
ideal solution, identical twins (monozygotic twins), identity, idiogram, idiosyncrasy, IE, IGF (insulin-like growth factor), igneous rocks, ignition temperature, ileum, ilium, illuminance (illumination), image, image converter, imaginary number, imago, imbibition, imides, imido group, imines, imino group, immersion objective, immune response, immunity, immunization, immunoassay, immunoglobulin, immunosuppression, impact printer, impedance, imperfect fungi, Imperial units, implant, implantation (nidation), implosion, imprinting, impulse, inbreeding…
indicator, indicator species, indigenous, indigo, indium, indole, indoleacetic acid (IAA), induced emission (stimulated emission), inducer, inductance, induction, induction coil, induction heating, induction motor, inductive effect, indusium, industrial melanism, inelastic collision, inequality, inert gases, inertia, inertial frame, inertial mass, inert-pair effect, infection, inferior, infinite series, infinitesimal, infinity, inflammation, inflation, inflationary universe, inflection, inflorescence, information technology, information theory, infradian rhythm, infrared astronomy…
insulin-like growth factor (IGF), integer, integral calculus, integrand, integrated circuit, integration, integument, intelligence, intensity, intensive variable, interaction, intercalation cell, intercalation compound, intercellular, intercostal muscles, interference, interferometer, interferon, interhalogen, interleukin, intermediate bond, intermediate coupling, intermediate frequency, intermediate neutron, intermediate vector boson, intermetallic compound, intermolecular forces, internal-combustion engine, internal conversion, internal energy, internal environment, internal resistance, international candle, international date line, International Practical Temperature Scale…
iodide, iodine, iodine(V) oxide (iodine pentoxide), iodine value, iodoethane (ethyl iodide), iodoform, iodoform test, iodomethane (methyl iodide), ion, ion channel, ion engine, ion exchange, ionic bond, ionic crystal, ionic product, ionic radius, ionic strength, ion implantation, ionization, ionization chamber, ionization energy (IE), ionization gauge, ionization potential (IP), ionizing radiation, ion-microprobe analysis, ionomer, ionosphere, ionospheric wave, ion pair, ion pump, IP, IP3…
isothermal process, isotone, isotonic, isotope, isotope separation, isotopic number (neutron excess), isotopic spin (isospin; isobaric spin), isotropic, isozyme (isoenzyme), IT (information technology), iteration, Jacob–Monod hypothesis, jade, jadeite, Jahn–Teller effect, jasper, jaw, Jeans instability, jejunum, jellyfish, Edward Jenner Biography, (1749–1823), jet, jet propulsion (reaction propulsion), jet stream, jeweller's rouge, j-j coupling, joint, Irène Joliot-Curie Biography, (1897–1956), joliotium, Joly's steam calorimeter…
keeper, Friedrich August von Stradonitz Kekulé Biography, (1829–96), Kekulé structure, kelp, kelvin, Baron Kelvin (William Thomson; 1824–1907) Biography, Kelvin effect, Johannes Kepler Biography, (1571–1630), Kepler's laws, keratin, keratinization (cornification), kerosine, Kerr effect, ketals, ketene, keto–enol tautomerism, keto form, ketohexose, ketone body, ketones, ketopentose, ketose, kibi-, kidney, kieselguhr, kieserite, killer cell, kilo-, kilobase, kilogram, kiloton weapon, kilowatt-hour, kimberlite, kinase…
K–T boundary, Kundt's tube, Kupfer nickel, kurchatovium, kwashiorkor, Kyoto Protocol, labelling, labia, labile, labium, labrum, labyrinth, lacrimal gland (lachrymal gland), lactams, lactase (galactosidase), lactate, lactation, lacteal, lactic acid (2-hydroxypropanoic acid), lactims, lactogenic hormone, lactones, lactose (milk sugar), lacuna, Ladenburg benzene, laevorotatory, laevulose, lag, lag phase, Lagrangian, Lagrangian point, LAH, lake, Jean-Baptiste de Monet Lamarck Chevalier de Biography, (1744–1829)…
latus rectum, Max Theodor Felix von Laue Biography, (1879–1960), laughing gas, launch vehicle, Laurasia, lauric acid, lava, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Biography, (1743–1794), law of chemical equilibrium, law of conservation of energy, law of conservation of mass, law of constant composition, law of definite proportions, law of mass action, law of multiple proportions, law of octaves (Newlands' law), law of reciprocal proportions, lawrencium, laws of chemical combination, Lawson criterion, laws, theories, and hypotheses, layer lattice…
Leslie's cube, lethal allele (lethal gene), lethal dose 50, leucine, leucocyte (white blood cell), leuco form, leucoplast, leukaemia, level, lever, Lewis acid and base, Leyden jar, LF, LH, libration, lice, lichens, Liebig condenser, life cycle, ligament, ligand, ligand-field theory, ligase, light, light bulb, light-dependent reaction, light-emitting diode (LED), light green, light-independent reaction, lightning, light year, lignin, lignite…
Linnaean system, Carolus Linnaeus Biography, (Carl Linné; 1707–78), linoleic acid, linolenic acid, linseed oil, Linz–Donawitz process, lipase, lipid, lipid bilayer, Fritz Lipmann Biography, lipoic acid, lipolysis, lipoprotein, liposome, lipotropin, liquation, liquefaction of gases, liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), liquid, liquid crystal, liquid-crystal display, liquid-crystal polymer, liquid-drop model, L-isomer, Lissajous figures, litharge, lithia, lithium, lithium aluminium hydride, lithium carbonate…
L–D process, log phase, lomentum, lone pair, long-day plant, longitude, longitudinal wave, long period, long-sightedness, loop of Henle, Lorentz–Fitzgerald contraction (Fitzgerald contraction), Lorentz–Lorenz equation, Lorentz transformations, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz Biography, (1903–89), Loschmidt's constant (Loschmidt number), Lotka–Volterra mechanism, loudness, loudspeaker, low, low-dimensional system, lowering of vapour pressure, low frequency (LF), Lowry–Brønsted theory, LSD, L-series, lubrication, lumbar vertebrae, lumen, luminance (photometric brightness)…
mafic, Magellanic clouds, magic numbers, magma, Magnadur, Magnalium, magnesia, magnesite, magnesium, magnesium bicarbonate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium chloride, magnesium hydrogencarbonate (magnesium bicarbonate), magnesium hydroxide, magnesium oxide (magnesia), magnesium peroxide, magnesium sulphate, magnet, magnetic bottle, magnetic bubble memory, magnetic circuit, magnetic compass, magnetic constant, magnetic declination, magnetic dip, magnetic disk, magnetic domain, magnetic elements, magnetic equator, magnetic field, magnetic field strength, magnetic flux, magnetic flux density, magnetic force…
Mandelbrot set, mandible, Mandibulata, manganate(VI), manganate(VII) (permanganate), manganese, manganese nodule, manganese(IV) oxide (manganese dioxide), manganic compounds, manganin, manganous compounds, mangrove swamp, mannitol, mannose, manometer, mantissa, mantle, many-body problem, map projections, marble, Guglielmo Marconi Biography, (1874–1937), marker gene, Markov chain, Markovnikoff's rule, Mars, marsh gas, Marsh's test, marsupials, martensite, mascagnite, mascon, maser, mass, mass action…
James Clerk Maxwell Biography, (1831–79), Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, Maxwell's equations, Barbara McClintock Biography, (1902–92), McLeod gauge, mean, mean free path, mean free time, mean life, mean solar day, meatus, mebi-, mechanical advantage, mechanical equivalent of heat, mechanics, mechanism, mechanoreceptor, Sir Peter Brian Medawar Biography, (1915–87), median, median eye (pineal eye), median lethal dose, mediastinum, medium frequency (MF), medulla, medulla oblongata, medullary ray (ray), medullated nerve fibre, medusa…
mercury cell, mercury(I) chloride, mercury(II) chloride, mercury(II) fulminate, mercury(II) oxide, mercury(II) sulphide, mercury-vapour lamp, mericarp, meridian, mer-isomer, meristem, merocrine secretion, meromictic lake, mesencephalon, mesentery, mesocarp, mesoderm, mesoglea, mesomerism, meson, meson-catalysed fusion, mesophyll, mesophyte, mesoscopic, mesothelium, mesotrophic, Mesozoic, messenger RNA, Messier Catalogue, meta-, metabolic pathway, metabolic rate, metabolic waste…
method of mixtures, methoxy group, methyl acetate, methyl alcohol, methylamine, methylated spirits, methylation, methylbenzene (toluene), methyl bromide, methyl chloride, methylene, methylene blue, methyl ethanoate (methyl acetate), methyl ethyl ketone, methyl group or radical, methyl methacrylate, methyl orange, methylphenols (cresols), methyl red, metre, metre bridge, metric system, metric ton (tonne), metrology, MHC, MHD, mho, mica, micelle, Michaelis–Menten curve, Michelson–Morley experiment, micro-, microarray, microbalance, microbiology…
mineral, mineral acid, mineral deficiency, mineralocorticoid, mineralogy, mineral salts, minicomputer, minisatellite DNA, minority carrier, minor planets, minute, mirabilite, mirage, Mira-type variable star (Mira Ceti variable), mirror, misch metal, missing mass, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), mitochondrial Eve, mitochondrion, mitosis, mitral valve, Mitscherlich's law (law of isomorphism), mixed function oxygenase (mono-oxygenase), mixture, m.k.s. units, m.m.f, mmHg, mobility…
monoamine oxidase (MAO), monobasic acid, monochasium, monochromatic radiation, monochromator, monoclinic, monoclonal antibody, Monocotyledoneae, monoculture, monocyte, monoecious, monohybrid cross, monohydrate, monokine, monomer, mononuclear phagocyte system (reticuloendothelial system), mono-oxygenase, monophyletic, monophyodont, monopodium, monosaccharide (simple sugar), monosodium glutamate (MSG), monotremes, monotropy, monovalent (univalent), monozygotic twins, Monte Carlo simulation, moon, moraine, mordant, morph, morphine, morphogenesis, morphology, mortality, mosaic evolution, mosaic gold, Moseley's law…
MSG, MSH, mtDNA, mucilage, mucopolysaccharide, mucous membrane (mucosa), mucus, multiaccess system, multicellular, multicentre bond, multidecker sandwich, multifactorial inheritance, multimedia, multimeter, multiple alleles, multiple bond, multiple proportions, multiplet, multiplication factor, multiplicity, multiplier, multivibrator, mu-mesic atom, Mumetal, Muntz metal, muon, muonic atom (mu-mesic atom), Musci, muscle, muscle spindle, muscovite (white mica; potash mica), mustard gas, mutagen, mutant, mutarotation, mutation, mutual inductance…
natural frequency, natural gas, natural group, natural history, natural logarithm, natural order, natural selection, natural units, nature and nurture, nautical mile, navigation, Neanderthal man, near point, nebula, nectar, Néel temperature, Ne'eman, Yuval, negative charge, negative feedback, nekton, nematic crystal, nematoblast, Nematoda, neo-Darwinism (modern synthesis), neodymium, neo-Lamarckism, Neolithic, neon, neon lamp, neoplasm (tumour), neoprene, neoteny, neper, nephrite, nephron, Neptune…
neuropeptide, neurosecretion, neurotransmitter, neurotrophin, neuter, neutral, neutralization, neutrino, neutron, neutron bomb, neutron diffraction, neutron drip, neutron excess, neutron number, neutron star, neutron temperature, neutrophil, New General Catalogue (NGC), Newlands' law, newton, Sir Isaac Newton Biography, (1642–1727), Newtonian fluid, Newtonian mechanics, Newtonian telescope, Newton's formula, Newton's law of cooling, Newton's law of gravitation, Newton's laws of motion, Newton's rings, niacin…
nitronium ion, nitrosyl ion, nitrous acid, nitrous oxide, nitryl ion (nitronium ion), NMR, nobelium, noble gases (inert gases; rare gases; group 18 elements), noble metal, no-cloning theorem, nodal points, node, node of Ranvier, nodule, no-hair theorem, noise, nomad, nomogram, nonahydrate, nonbenzenoid aromatics, noncompetitive inhibition, noncyclic phosphorylation (noncyclic photophosphorylation), non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, non-Euclidean geometry, nonferrous metal, nonlinear optics, nonmetal…
nucleolus, nucleon, nucleon emission, nucleonics, nucleon number (mass number), nucleophile, nucleophilic addition, nucleophilic substitution, nucleoplasm (karyoplasm), nucleoprotein, nucleoside, nucleosynthesis, nucleotide, nucleus, nucleus, nuclide, null method, numerical analysis, numerical taxonomy, nut, nutation, nutrient, nutrition, nyctinasty (sleep movements), nylon, nymph, OB association, objective, occipital condyle, occluded front, occlusion, occultation, oceanic zone, oceanography, ocean trench, ocellus, ochre, octadecanoate, octadecanoic acid, octadecenoic acid…
omega-minus particle, ommatidium, omnivore, oncogene, oncogenic, one gene–one polypeptide hypothesis, one-pot synthesis, onium ion, ontogeny, oocyte, oogamy, oogenesis, oogonium, Oort cloud, oosphere (ovum; egg cell), oospore, opacity, opal, open chain, open cluster (galactic cluster), open-hearth process, open reading frame, opera glasses, operator, operculum, operon, opiate, Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit, opposition, opsin, optical activity, optical axis (principal axis; optic axis), optical brightener…
origin of the elements, ornithine (Orn), ornithine cycle, orogenesis, orpiment, ortho-, orthoboric acid, orthoclase, orthogenesis, orthohydrogen, orthophosphoric acid, orthoplumbate, orthopositronium, Orthoptera, orthorhombic, orthosilicate, orthostannate, orthotropism, oscillating reaction (clock reaction), oscillator, oscilloscope, osmiridium, osmium, osmium(IV) oxide (osmium tetroxide), osmometer, osmoreceptor, osmoregulation, osmosis, osmotic pressure, ossification, Osteichthyes, osteoblast, osteoclast, osteocyte, Ostrogradsky's theorem, Ostwald's dilution law, otolith, Otto engine…
ozone layer (ozonosphere), ozonides, ozonolysis, pacemaker, pachytene, packing density, packing fraction, paedogenesis, pahoehoe, pairing (synapsis), pair production, palaeobotany, Palaeocene, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, Palaeolithic, palaeomagnetism, palaeontology, Palaeozoic, palaeozoology, palate, palisade mesophyll, palladium, pallium, palmitate (hexadecanoate), palmitic acid (hexadecanoic acid), palp, palynology (micropalaeontology), pancreas, pancreozymin, panicle, pantothenic acid, papain, paper chromatography, papilla, papovavirus, pappus, para-, parabola, parabolic reflector (paraboloidal reflector)…
P (parental generation), partition coefficient, partition function, parton, parturition, pascal, Blaise Pascal Biography, (1623–62), Pascal's law, Pascal's triangle, Paschen–Back effect, Paschen series, passive, passive device, passive immunity, passive transport, Louis Pasteur Biography, (1822–95), pasteurization, patella (kneecap), path integral formulation, pathogen, pathology, patristic, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Biography, (1900–58), Pauli exclusion principle, Linus Carl Pauling Biography, (1901–94), Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Biography, (1849–1936), PC, PCB, PCR…
perennation, perennial, perfect gas, perfect pitch, perfect solution, perianth, periastron, pericardial cavity, pericardium (pericardial membrane), pericarp (fruit wall), pericycle, pericynthion, periderm, perigee, perihelion, perilymph, period, period doubling, periodic acid, periodic law, periodic motion, periodic table, periodontal membrane, periosteum, peripheral device, peripheral nervous system, periscope, Perissodactyla, peristalsis, peristome, peritoneum, Sir William Henry Perkin Biography, (1838–1907), permafrost, Permalloys, permanent gas, permanent hardness, permanent magnet…
phase angle, phase-contrast microscope, phase diagram, phase I metabolism, phase II metabolism, phase modulation, phase rule, phases of the moon, phase space, phase speed (phase velocity), phase transition, phasor, phellem, phelloderm, phellogen, phenetic, phenol (carbolic acid), phenolphthalein, phenols, phenotype, phenylalanine, phenylamine (aniline; aminobenzene), phenylammonium ion, phenylethene (styrene), phenyl group, phenylhydrazine, phenylhydrazones, phenylketonuria, phenylmethanol (benzyl alcohol), phenylmethylamine, pheromone (ectohormone), Phillips process, phloem (bast)…
phosphonium ion, phosphor, phosphor bronze, phosphorescence, phosphoric(V) acid (orthophosphoric acid), phosphorous acid, phosphorus, phosphorus(III) bromide (phosphorus tribromide), phosphorus(V) bromide (phosphorus pentabromide), phosphorus(III) chloride (phosphorus trichloride), phosphorus(V) chloride (phosphorus pentachloride), phosphorus(III) chloride oxide (phosphorus oxychloride; phosphoryl chloride), phosphorus cycle, phosphorus(III) oxide (phosphorus trioxide), phosphorus(V) oxide (phosphorus pentoxide; phosphoric anhydride), phosphorus oxychloride, phosphorus pentabromide…
pi bond, pico-, picornavirus, picrate, picric acid (2,4,6-trinitrophenol), pie chart, pi electron, piezoelectric effect, pig iron, pigment, pileus, piliferous layer, pillow lava, Piltdown man, pi-meson, pinch effect, pineal eye, pineal gland, pinna (auricle), pinocytosis, pion (pi-meson), pi orbital, pipette, Pirani gauge, PIR detector, pirsonnite, Pisces, pistil, pitch, pitchblende, pitfall trap, pith, Pitot tube, pituitary gland (pituitary body; hypophysis)…
John Playfair Biography, pleiomorphism, Pleistocene, pleochroic, pleura (pleural membrane), plexus, Pliocene, plumbago, plumbane (lead(IV) hydride), plumbate, plumbic compounds, plumbite, plumbous compounds, plumule, pluripotent, Pluto, plutonium, pod, podzol (podsol), poikilothermy, point-contact transistor, point defect, point discharge, point group, point mutation (gene mutation), poise, Poiseuille's equation, poison, Poisson distribution, Poisson's ratio, polar body, polar compound, polar coordinates, polarimeter (polariscope)…
polymerization, polymethanal, polymethylmethacrylate, polymorphism, polynomial, polynucleotide, polyp, polypeptide, polyphyletic, polyphyodont, polyploid, polypropene (polypropylene), polypropylene, polyribosome (polysome), polysaccharide (glycan), polysome, polyspermy, polystyrene, polysulphides, polytetrafluoroethene (PTFE), polythene, polythionate, polythionic acids, polyurethane, polyvinylacetate (PVA), polyvinyl chloride, polyyne, pome, pons (pons Varolii), population, population dynamics, population genetics, population growth, population inversion, population type, Porifera, porphyrin, portal vein (portal circulation; portal system)…
potentiometer, potentiometric titration, potometer, pound, poundal, powder metallurgy, powder method, power, power factor, power reactor, poxvirus, Poynting vector, praseodymium, preamplifier, Precambrian, precaval vein, precessional motion, precession of the equinoxes, precipitate, precipitation, precipitin, precursor, predation, predator, pregnancy, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), premolar, premutation, preons, presbyopia, pressure, pressure gauge, pressurized-water reactor, presumptive, presynaptic membrane, Prévost's theory of exchanges, prey, Pribnow box…
probability, Proboscidea, proboscis, procambium, procaryote, producer, producer gas (air gas), product, productivity (production), profundal, progeny, progesterone, progestogen, program, programmed cell death, progressive wave, projectile, projector, prokaryote (procaryote), Aleksandr Prokhorov Biography, prolactin (lactogenic hormone; luteotrophic hormone; luteotrophin), proline, PROM, promethium, prominence, promoter, prompt neutrons, pronation, proof, propagation, propanal (propionaldehyde), propane, propanedioic acid (malonic acid), propanoic acid (propionic acid), propanol…
proteome, proteomics, Proterozoic, prothallus, prothrombin (Factor II), Protista, Protoctista, protogyny, proton, proton decay, protonic acid, proton number, proto-oncogene, protoplasm, protoplast (energid), protostar, Prototheria, protozoa, Prout's hypothesis, proventriculus, provirus, proximal, proximal convoluted tubule (first convoluted tubule), prussic acid, pseudoaromatic (antiaromatic), pseudocarp (false fruit), pseudogene, pseudohalogens, pseudo order, pseudoparenchyma, pseudopodium, pseudopregnancy, pseudo-scalar, pseudo-vector, psi particle (J particle)…
pyridine, pyridoxine, pyrimidine, pyrite (iron pyrites), pyro-, pyroboric acid, pyroelectricity, pyrogallol, pyrolusite, pyrolysis, pyrometric cones, pyrometry, pyrophoric, pyrophosphoric acid, pyrosilicate, pyrosulphuric acid, pyroxenes, pyrrole, pyruvic acid (2-oxopropanoic acid), Pythagoras of Samos Biography, (c. 580–c. 500 bc), Pythagoras' theorem, QCD, QED, QFD, QSG, QSO, QSS, quadrat, quadrate, quadratic equation, quadrature, quadrivalent, qualitative analysis, qualitative variation, quality of sound (timbre)…
race, racemate, raceme, racemic mixture (racemate), racemization, racemose inflorescence (indefinite inflorescence), rachis (rhachis), rad, radar (radio detection and ranging), radial symmetry, radial velocity, radian, radiance, radiant energy, radiant exitance, radiant flux, radiant intensity, radiation, radiation belts, radiation damage, radiationless decay, radiation pressure, radiation temperature, radiation units, radiative collision, radical, radicle, radio, radioactive age, radioactive series, radioactive tracing, radioactive waste (nuclear waste), radioactivity, radio astronomy…
rate constant (velocity constant), rate-determining step, rationalized Planck constant, rationalized units, rational number, Ratitae (Palaeognathae), ray, Baron Rayleigh Biography, (John William Strutt; 1842–1919), Rayleigh criterion, Rayleigh–Jeans formula, Rayleigh scattering, rayon, reactance, reactant, reaction, reaction propulsion, reaction time (latent period), reactive dye, reactor, reading frame, reagent, realgar, real gas, real image, real-is-positive convention (real-positive convention), rearrangement, Réaumur temperature scale, recalescence, Recent…
refining, reflectance, reflecting telescope (reflector), reflection, reflex, refluxing, reforestation, reforming, refracting telescope (refractor), refraction, refractive index (refractive constant), refractivity, refractometer, refractory, refractory period, refrigerant, refrigeration, regeneration, regma, Regnault's method, regolith, regulator gene, regulatory genes, Frederick Reines Biography, reinforcement, relative aperture, relative atomic mass (atomic weight; r.a.m.), relative density (r.d.), relative humidity, relative molecular mass (molecular weight), relative permeability…
resin, resistance, resistance thermometer (resistance pyrometer), resistivity, resistor, resolution, resolving power, resonance, resonant cavity (cavity resonator), resonant circuit, respiration, respiratory chain, respiratory movement, respiratory organ, respiratory pigment, respiratory quotient (RQ), respirometer, response, rest energy, resting potential, restitution coefficient, rest mass, restriction enzyme (restriction endonuclease), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), restriction mapping, resultant, retardation (deceleration), retardation plate, reticular formation, reticulum, retina, retinal, retinol, retort…
rigidity modulus, ring, Ringer's solution, R-isomer, ritualization, RME, RMS value, RNA (ribonucleic acid), RNAase, RNA polymerase, RNase (ribonuclease; RNAase), roasting, Rochelle salt, Roche lobe, Rochon prism, rock, rock crystal, rocket, rocking-chair cell, rock salt, rod, Rodentia, roentgen, William Konrad Roentgen Biography, (1845–1923), roentgenium, rolling friction, ROM, root, root cap (calyptra), root hair, root-mean-square value (RMS value)…
saddle point, safranin, sal ammoniac, salicylic acid (1-hydroxybenzoic acid), saline, salinometer, saliva, salivary glands, Salmonella, sal soda, salt, saltation, salt bridge, salt cake, salting in, salting out, saltpetre, samara, samarium, sampling, sand, Sandmeyer reaction, sandstone, sandwich compound, Sanger's reagent, sap, saponification, sapphire, saprotroph (saprobe; saprobiont), sapwood (alburnum), sarcoma, sarcomere, satellite, satellite DNA, saturated, saturation, Saturn, savanna…
Schrödinger's cat, Theodor Schwann Biography, (1810–82), Schwann cell, Schwarzschild radius, Schweizer's reagent, scientific notation, scintillation counter, scintillator, scion, sclera, sclerenchyma, sclerometer, scleroprotein, sclerotic (sclera), scorpions, scotopic vision, SCP, screen grid, screw, scrotum, scurvy, S-drop, seaborgium, seamount, search coil, Searle's bar, seaweeds, sebaceous gland, sebum, secant, sech, second, secondary alcohol, secondary amine, secondary cell, secondary colour, secondary consumer…
self-assembly, self-exciting generator, self-fertilization, self-inductance, selfish DNA, self-organization, self-pollination, self-sterility, Seliwanoff's test, semen, semicarbazones, semicircular canals, semiclassical approximation, semiconductor, semiconductor diode, semiconservative replication, semimetal, seminal receptacle, seminal vesicle, seminiferous tubules, semipermeable membrane, semipolar bond, Semtex, senescence, sense organ, senses, sensitivity (irritability), sensitization, sensory cell, sensory neuron, sepal, septivalent (heptavalent), septum, sequestration…
shadow, shale, shearing force, shear modulus, shell, shell model, sherardizing, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Biography, (1857–1952), shielding, shivering, SHM, William Shockley Biography, shock wave, shoot, short-day plant, short period, short-sightedness, shoulder girdle, shower, shunt, sial, siblings, sickle-cell disease, sideband, side chain, side reaction, sidereal day, sidereal period, siderite, siemens, sieve element, sievert, sieve tube, sigma bond, sigma electron, sigma particle…
Siphonaptera, Siphunculata (Anoplura), S-isomer, Sisyphus effect, Site of Special Scientific Interest, SI units, skeletal muscle, skeleton, skin, skip distance, skull, sky wave, slag, slaked lime, slate, sleep, sleep movements, slepton, slime moulds, slow neutron, sludge, slug, slurry, small intestine, smectic, smell, smelting, smoke, smoker, smooth muscle, smuts, SN1 reaction, SN2 reaction, snakes, Snell's law, SNG, SNP, snRNP, soap…
sodium hydrogensulphite (sodium bisulphite), sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), sodium iodide, sodium methanoate (sodium formate), sodium monoxide, sodium nitrate (Chile saltpetre), sodium nitrite, sodium orthophosphate, sodium peroxide, sodium pump, sodium sesquicarbonate, sodium sulphate, sodium sulphide, sodium sulphite, sodium–sulphur cell, sodium superoxide (sodium dioxide), sodium thiosulphate (hypo), sodium-vapour lamp, soft iron, soft matter, soft radiation, soft soap, software, soft water, softwood, soil, soil erosion, sol, solar cell…
spark chamber, spark counter, spathe, special creation, specialization, special theory of relativity, speciation, species, species diversity, specific, specific activity, specific charge, specific gravity, specific heat capacity, specific humidity, specific impulse, specific intensity, specific latent heat, specific resistance, specific surface, specific volume, speckle interferometer, spectral class (spectral type), spectrochemical series, spectrograph, spectroheliogram, spectrometer, spectrophotometer, spectroscope, spectroscopic binary, spectroscopy, spectrum (pl. spectra), speculum, speed, speed of light…
spreadsheet, spring balance, s-process, sputtering, Squamata, square-planar, square wave, squark, SSB, SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), stability of matter, stabilization energy, stabilizer, stable equilibrium, staggered conformation, staining, stainless steel, stalactites and stalagmites, stamen, staminode, standard cell, standard deviation, standard electrode, standard electrode potential, standard form (scientific notation), standard model, standard solution, standard state, standard temperature and pressure, standing biomass, standing crop, standing wave…
stilt root, stimulated emission, stimulus, stipe, stipule, Stirling engine, STM, stochastic process, stock, stoichiometric, stoichiometric coefficient, stoichiometric compound, stoichiometric mixture, stoichiometric sum, stoichiometry, stokes, Sir George Gabriel Stokes Biography, (1819–1903), Stokes' law, Stokes theorem, stolon, stoma (pl. stomata), stomach, stomium, stop, stop codon, stopping power, storage compound, storage ring, s.t.p, straight chain, strain, strain gauge, strain hardening (work hardening), strange attractor…
sublimation, sublittoral, subshell, subsoil, subsonic speed, subspecies, substantive dye, substantivity, substituent, substitution, substitution reaction (displacement reaction), substrate, subtractive process, succession, succinate, succulent, succus entericus, sucker (turion), sucrase, sucrose (cane sugar; beet sugar; saccharose), sugar (saccharide), sugar of lead, sulpha drugs, sulphamic acid, sulphanes, sulphanilic acid (4-aminobenzene sulphonic acid), sulphate, sulphides, sulphinate (dithionite; hyposulphite), sulphinic acid (dithionous acid; hyposulphurous acid)…
suppressed-carrier transmission, suppressor grid, supramolecular chemistry, suprarenal glands, surd, surface tension, surfactant (surface active agent), surveying, susceptance, susceptibility, suspension, suture, swallowing, swash, sweat, sweat gland, swim bladder (air bladder), syconus, sylvite (sylvine), symbiont, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathetic nervous system, sympatric, symphysis, symplast, sympodium, synapse, synapsis, syncarpy, synchrocyclotron, synchronous motor, synchronous orbit (geosynchronous orbit), synchronous rotation, synchrotron, synchrotron radiation (magnetobremsstrahlung), syncline…
tarsal (tarsal bone), tar sand, tarsus, tartaric acid, tartrate, tartrazine, taste, taste bud, TATA box (Hogness box), Edward Tatum Biography, tau particle, tautomerism, taxis (taxic response; tactic movement), taxon (pl. taxa), taxonomy, Taylor series, TCA cycle, T cell (T lymphocyte), tebi-, technetium, technicolour theory, teeth, Teflon, tektite, telecommunications, Teleostei, telescope, television, television tube, tellurides, tellurium, telomere, telophase, temperament, temperature, temperature coefficient…
tetragonal, tetrahedral angle, tetrahedral compound, tetrahedron, tetrahydrate, tetrahydrofuran (THF), tetrahydroxomonoxodiboric(III) acid, tetraoxophosphoric(V) acid, tetraoxosulphuric(VI) acid, tetraploid, Tetrapoda, tetravalent (quadrivalent), tetrode, texaphyrin, thalamus, thallium, Thallophyta, thallus, theca, theodolite, theoretical physics, theory, theory of everything, therapeutic half-life, therm, thermal analysis, thermal capacity, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusion, thermal equilibrium, thermal expansion, thermalization, thermal neutrons, thermal reactor, thermionic emission…
Thomson effect (Kelvin effect), Thomson scattering, thoracic cavity, thoracic duct, thoracic vertebrae, thorax, thoria, thorium, thorium series, thorn, thread cell (nematoblast; cnidoblast), three-body problem, threnardite, threonine, threshold, threshold frequency, thrombin, thrombocyte, thromboplastin, thrombosis, thromboxane A2, thrust, thulium, thumb drive, thunderstorm, thymidine, thymine, thymus, thyratron, thyristor, thyrocalcitonin, thyroglobulin (TGB), thyroid gland, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH; thyrotrophin), thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH)…
tonoplast (vacuole membrane), tonsil, tonus, tooth, topaz, top carnivore, topography, topology, topsoil, tornado, torque (moment of a force or couple), torr, Torricellian vacuum, torsion, torsion balance, torus, total internal reflection, totality, total-radiation pyrometer, touch, tourmaline, Charles Townes Biography, toxicology, toxin, trace element, trace fossil, trachea, tracheid, tracheophyte, tracing (radioactive tracing), trajectory, transactinide elements, transamination, transcendental number, transcriptase, transcription, transcription factor…
triatomic molecule, triazine, tribe, triboelectricity, tribology, triboluminescence, tribromomethane (bromoform), tricarbon dioxide (carbon suboxide), tricarboxylic acid cycle, trichloroethanal (chloral), trichloroethene (trichlorethylene), trichloromethane (chloroform), trichome, triclinic, tricuspid valve, tridymite, triglyceride (triacylglycerol), trigonal bipyramid, trigonometric functions, trihydrate, trihydric alcohol, triiodomethane (iodoform), triiodothyronine (T3), triiron tetroxide (ferrosoferric oxide), trilobite, trimethylaluminium (aluminium trimethyl), trinitrotoluene (TNT), triode, triol (trihydric alcohol), triose, trioxoboric(III) acid…
turbojet, turbulence, turgor, Alan Mathison Turing Biography, (1912–54), Turing machine, turion, Turner's syndrome, turns ratio, turpentine, turquoise, T violation, tweeter, twinning, twins, tympanic cavity, tympanum (tympanic membrane; eardrum), Tyndall effect, type specimen, typhoon, tyrosine, ubiquinone (coenzyme Q), ulna, ultracentrifuge, ultradian rhythm, ultrafiltration, ultrahigh frequency (UHF), ultramicroscope, ultramicrotome, ultrasonics, ultrastructure, ultraviolet microscope, ultraviolet radiation (UV), ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–visible spectroscopy), umbel…
uraninite, uranium, uranium(VI) fluoride (uranium hexafluoride), uranium hexafluoride, uranium–lead dating, uranium(IV) oxide, uranium series, Uranus, urea (carbamide), urea cycle (ornithine cycle), urea–formaldehyde resins, ureter, urethane resins (polyurethanes), urethra, Harold Clayton Urey Biography, (1894–1981), uric acid, uridine, urinary system, urine, uriniferous tubule, URL, USB drive, uterus (womb), utriculus (utricle), UV, UV–visible spectroscopy, vacancy, vaccination, vaccine, vacuole, vacuum, vacuum distillation…
vegetative propagation (vegetative reproduction), vein, velamen, velocity, velocity modulation, velocity ratio (distance ratio), velum, vena cava, venation, Venn diagram, venter, ventilation, ventilation centre, ventral, ventral root, ventricle, Venturi tube, venule, Venus, verdigris, vermiculite, vermiform appendix, vernalization, vernier, vertebra, vertebral column (backbone; spinal column; spine), vertebrate, very high frequency (VHF), very low frequency (VLF), Andreas Vesalius Biography, (1514–64), vesicle, vessel, vessel element…
vitamin D, vitamin E (tocopherol), vitamin K, vitelline membrane, vitreous, vitreous humour, vitriol (oil of vitriol), viviparity, vocal cords, void, volcano, volcanology (vulcanology), volt, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta Biography, (1745–1827), voltage, voltage divider (potential divider; potentiometer), voltaic cell (galvanic cell), voltaic pile, voltameter (coulometer), voltmeter, volume, volumetric analysis, voluntary, voluntary muscle (skeletal, striped, or striated muscle), Max von Laue Biography, vulcanite (ebonite), vulcanization…
weber, Wilhelm Eduard Weber Biography, (1804–91), weed, Alfred Lothar Wegener Biography, (1880–1930), weight, weightlessness, Weinberg–Salam model (WS model), Weismannism, Western blotting (protein blotting), Weston cell (cadmium cell), wet-and-dry bulb hygrometer, whalebone (baleen), whales, Sir Charles Wheatstone Biography, (1802–75), Wheatstone bridge, whey, white arsenic, white blood cell, white dwarf, white hole, white matter, white mica, white spirit, Wiedemann–Franz law, Wien formula, Wien's displacement law…
W particle, wrought iron, WS model, Wurtz reaction, xanthates, xanthophyll, X chromosome, xenobiotic, xenolith, xenon, xeric, xeromorphic, xerophyte, X-ray astronomy, X-ray crystallography, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, X-rays, X-ray sources, X-ray spectrum, X-ray tube, xylem, xylenes, YAC, Yagi aerial, Yang–Mills theory, yard, Y chromosome, year, yeast artificial chromosome (YAC), yeasts, yellow body, yield point…
2′‐5′A, 1‐O‐acetyl‐ADPribose, 1–24 ACTH, 2‐acylglycerol O‐acyltransferase, 1‐acylglycerol‐3‐phosphate O‐acyltransferase, 1‐acylglycerophosphocholine O‐acyltransferase, 1‐adamantanamine or α‐adamantanamine, 1‐alkenyl‐2‐acylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase, 1‐alkenylglycerophosphocholine O‐acyltransferase, 1‐alkenylglycerophosphoethanolamine O‐acyltransferase, 1‐alkylglycerophosphocholine O‐acetyltransferase, 1‐alkylglycerophosphocholine O‐acyltransferase, 1‐aminocyclopropane‐1‐carboxylic acid, 2‐amino‐4‐methylhex‐4‐enoic acid, 2′AMP, 3′AMP, 2‐arachidonylglycerol, 2,3‐bis(phospho)‐d‐glycerate, 2,5‐bis(3,4,5‐trimethoxyphenyl)‐1,3‐dioxolane, 13C‐NMR (spectroscopy), 2,4‐D, 2D, 2‐dehydro‐3‐deoxyphosphooctonate aldolase, 3‐dehydroquinate dehydratase, 3‐dehydroquinate synthase, (3‐)dehydroretinal, (3‐)dehydroretinoic acid, (3‐)dehydroretinol, 3‐deoxy‐d‐arabino‐(2‐)heptulosonate 7‐phosphate or (less formally) 3‐deoxy‐d‐arabino‐heptulosonate 7‐phosphate…
a, A, [A]0.5 or [A]½, [A]50, A23187 or calcimycin, Å, aa, AA, AAA, AAA protease, AAC, Aad, AAG, A antigen, aardvark, Aarskog‐Scott syndrome or Aarskog syndrome or faciogenital dysplasia, AAT, AAU, Ab, abamectin or avermectin B1, Abbe refractometer, ABC, ABC model, ABCR, ABC transporter, ABC transporter retina, abductin, Abe, abequose, abetalipoproteinemia or (Brit.) abetalipoproteinaemia, ABH antigens, abietic acid, abiogenesis or spontaneous generation…
ABM, abortive complex or dead‐end complex or nonproductive complex, abortive infection, abortive transconjugate, abortive transduction, ABO system, ABP1, Abri, abrin, abrine, abscisic acid or (formerly) abscisin II or dormin, abscissa, abscission, absolute, absolute alcohol, absolute configuration, absolute reaction rate theory, absolute temperature, absolute zero, absorb, absorbance, absorbancy or absorbency, absorbate, absorbed dose, absorbence, absorbent, absorptance or absorption factor, absorptiometer, absorption, absorption band or absorption line, absorption coefficient, absorption cross‐section…
acetyl‐CoA C‐acetyltransferase, acetyl‐CoA C‐acyltransferase, [acetyl‐CoA carboxylase] phosphatase, ACF, ACG, Ach, ACh, Achaete‐Scute complex, achatin‐1, AchBP, AChE, achiral, achlorhydria, achondroplasia, achromic point, achröodextrin, acid, acid anhydride, acid‐base balance, acid‐base catalysis, acid‐base titration, acid box, acid carboxypeptidase, acid ceramidase, acid dissociation constant or acidity constant, acid dye, acidemia or (esp. Brit.) acidaemia, acid‐fast bacillus, acid β‐glucosidase, acid‐growth hypothesis, acid hydrolase, acidic, acidic amino acid, acidic‐epididymal glycoprotein…
active acetaldehyde, active acetate, active C1, active centre, active‐enzyme centrifugation, active fatty acid, active formaldehyde, active immunity or adaptive immunity, active immunization, active methionine or active methyl, active methyl, active one‐carbon, active site, active site‐directed irreversible inhibitor, active sulfate, active transport, activicin, activin, activin receptor‐like kinase 1, activity, activity coefficient, activity stain, actobindin, actomyosin, ACU, acumentin, acute intermittent porphyria, acute myeloid leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia 1, acute‐phase protein, acute transfection, acyclic…
adenosine aminohydrolase, adenosine deaminase, adenosine deaminase acting on RNA, adenosine deaminase acting on tRNA, adenosine deaminase deficiency, adenosine diphosphatase, adenosine 5′‐diphosphate, adenosinediphosphoglucose or adenosine (5′)diphospho(1)‐α‐d‐glucose, adenosinediphosphoribose or adenosine(5′)diphospho(5)‐β‐d‐ribose, adenosinediphosphoribosyl, adenosine 5′‐[β,γ‐imido]triphosphate, adenosine kinase, adenosine 5′‐[α,β‐methylene]diphosphate, adenosine5′‐[α,β‐methylene]triphosphate, adenosine 5′‐[β,γ‐methylene]triphosphate, adenosine monophosphate, adenosine phosphate, adenosine 5′‐phosphate or 5′‐adenylic acid or 5′‐phosphoadenosine or 5′‐O‐phosphonoadenosine…
ADP‐Glc or ADPglucose, ADP‐Rib or ADPribose, ADP‐ribose (cyclic), ADP‐ribosylation, ADP‐ribosylation factor, ADP‐ribosyl cyclase, ADP‐ribosyltransferase, adren+ or adreno+, adrenal, adrenal androgen, adrenal cortex, adrenal cortical hormone or adrenocortical hormone, adrenalectomize or adrenalectomise, adrenalectomy, adrenal gland, adrenaline, adrenal medulla, adrenal medullary hormone, adrenergic, adrenergic receptor, adrenic acid, adreno+, adrenoceptor or adrenergic receptor or adrenoreceptor or adrenotropic receptor, adrenoceptor kinase, adrenochrome, adrenocortical, adrenocorticotropic hormone or adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone‐releasing factor, adrenocorticotropin or adrenocorticotrophin, adrenodoxin or (sometimes) adrenoredoxin…
AGE, agenized flour, AGE receptors, AGG, agglutinate, agglutination, agglutinin, agglutinogen, aggrecan, aggregate, aggregation, aggregation number, aggresome, aggressin, aglucon or (formerly) aglucone, aglycon or aglucon or (formerly) aglycone or aglucone, agmatine, agnotobiotic, +agogue or (US) +agog, agonist, agouti signal protein, AGP, Agranoff's turtle, agrin, agrochemical, agroclavine, agropine, AGU, Ah receptor, aHyl, AIB, AICAR, AICAR transformylase, AIDS, AIF, aIle (AIle)…
aldosterone, aldosterone synthase, aldotetrose, aldotriose, ALDP, aldrin, aleurain, aleuron or aleurone, aleuroplast, Alexander disease, alexin or alexine, ALG, alga (pl. algae), algicide, algin, alginate lyase, alginic acid, algorithm, alicyclic, alignment, alignment algorithm, alignment editor, aliphatic, aliquant, aliquot, alizarin, ALK1, alkalemia or (esp. Brit) alkalaemia, alkali, alkali metal, alkaline, alkaline earth, alkaline lysis method, alkaline phosphatase, alkaline tide, alkali reserve or alkaline reserve…
all‐alpha protein or all‐α protein, all‐beta protein or all‐β protein, all‐or‐none, allotopy, allotrope, allotropy or allotrophy or allotropism, allotype, allotypic specificity, allotypy, alloxan, allozyme or alloenzyme, all‐α protein, all‐β protein, allulose, allurin, allysine, almond emulsin, alopecia, ALP, alpha, alpha carbon atom or C‐alpha, alpha cell, alpha‐1 cell, alpha chain or α chain, alpha complementation, alpha effect, alpha‐fetoprotein, alpha globulin or α‐globulin, alpha‐helical channels, alpha helix or α‐helix, alpha‐hemolysin, alpha hemolysis…
amino+, amino acid, amino‐acid accepting RNA, amino‐acid N‐acetyltransferase, amino‐acid analyser, amino‐acid arm, amino acid exchange matrix, amino acid index, amino‐acid oxidase, amino‐acid residue, amino‐acid sequence or primary structure, amino acid transporter, amino acid‐tRNA ligase, amino aciduria, aminoacyl, aminoacylase, aminoacyl site or A site or (correctly) aminoacyl‐tRNA site, aminoacyltransferase, aminoacyl‐tRNA, aminoacyl‐tRNA synthetase, aminoadipic pathway, amino alcohol, aminodeoxysugar or amino sugar or amino‐saccharide or amino‐monosaccharide, aminoethoxyvinylglycine, aminoethyl, aminoethylbenzenesulfonyl fluoride, aminoglycoside antibiotic, aminoglycoside phosphotransferase, aminoimidazole carboxamide ribonucleotide…
AMP‐PNP, AMP‐S, amrinone, AMS, amu or AMU, amunine, amygdalin, amygdalose, amyl, amyl+, amylase, amylin or islet amyloid polypeptide, amylo+ or (before a vowel) amyl+, amylo‐1,6‐glucosidase, amyloid, amyloid A protein or serum amyloid A, amyloidogenic, amyloidosis, amyloid precursor‐like protein, amylolysis, amylopectin, amylopectin 6‐glucanohydrolase, amylopectinosis, amyloplast, amylopsin, amylopullanase, amylose, amylosucrase, amylo‐(1,4–1,6)‐transglycosylase, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Amytal, an+ or (before a consonant) a+…
angiosperm, angiostatin, angiotensin, angiotensinase, angiotensin converting enzyme, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensinogen, angiotensinogenase, angiotensin receptor, angle, angle head or angle rotor, ångström or Ångstrom, angular velocity, anhydrase, anhydride, anhydro=, anhydrosialidase, anhydrosugar, anhydrous, animal pole, animal protein factor, anion, anion channel protein or band 3 protein or anion exchanger or Cl−/HCO3− exchanger, anion exchanger, anion gap, anionic detergent, anisotropic, anisotropic motion, anisotropy, ankyrin or band 2.1 (protein) or nexin or syndein…
ANT‐C, anti+ or (sometimes before a vowel or h) ant+, anticlinal, anticoagulant, anticoagulate, anticodon, anticodon arm, anticooperativity, antidiuretic, antidiuretic hormone, antidote, antifolate, antifreeze glycoprotein, antigen (or complete antigen), antigen‐antibody complex or immune complex, antigen‐binding capacity, antigen excess, antigenic determinant, antigenic drift, antigenicity, antigenic mimicry, antigenic shift, (antigen‐independent) mitogenic factor, antigen‐presenting cell, antigibberellin, antiglobulin consumption test, antiglobulin test or Coombs test, antihemophilic factor or antihemophilic factor A or antihemophilic globulin…
A peptide, aperture, aphidicolin, Api, API, apical surface, apigenin, apiin, apiose, aplasia, aplastic, APLP, Apm, APMSF, apo+, Apo‐1, Apo(a) or lipoprotein(a), APOBEC‐1, apoB editing enzyme, apocrine, apoenzyme, apoferritin, apolar, apolar interaction, apolipophorin, apolipoprotein, apolipoprotein A‐I, apolipoprotein A‐II, apolipoprotein A‐IV, apolipoprotein B, apolipoprotein C‐I, apolipoprotein C‐II, apolipoprotein C‐III, apolipoprotein D, apolipoprotein E, apolipoprotein H, apolipoprotein J, apolipoprotein receptor, Apollon or BRUCE…
ara‐C, arachidonate 5‐lipoxygenase, arachidonate 12‐lipoxygenase, arachidonate 15‐lipoxygenase, arachidonic acid, arachidonoyl, arachidonyl, arachidoyl or (formerly) arachidyl or arachyl, arachidyl, arachin, arbovirus, arc, ARC, Archaea, Archaebacteria, Archibald method, Archimedes’ principle, architectural gene, arenavirus, arene, arene oxide, ARF, Arg, argentaffin cell, argentation chromatography, arginase, argininate, arginine, arginine (base), arginine carboxypeptidase, arginine kinase, arginine phosphate, arginine‐urea cycle, arginine vasotocin, argininium, arginino, argininosuccinase, argininosuccinate, argininosuccinate synthase…
AS‐C, AS‐C protein, Asp, ASP, asparaginase, asparaginate, asparagine, asparagine repeat or N repeat, asparagine synthase (glutamine‐hydrolysing), asparagino, asparaginyl, aspartame, aspartase, aspartate, aspartate aminotransferase, aspartate-ammonia ligase, aspartate carbamoyltransferase, aspartate kinase, aspartate‐semialdehyde dehydrogenase, aspartate transaminase, aspartate transcarbamylase, aspartic, aspartic acid, aspartic amide, aspartic andopeptidase or (formerly) acid proteinase or aspartyl protease or carboxyl protease, aspartic proteinase, asparto, aspartoacylase, aspartokinase/homoserine dehydrogenase, aspartylglucosaminuria, aspartylglucosylamine deaspartylase, aspartyl protease…
ATP‐dependent K+ channel, ATP‐diphosphatase, ATP[β,γ‐CH2], ATP[β,γ‐NH], ATP(s), ATP synthetase, atractyloside, atrial, atrial natriuretic peptide, atrial natriuretic peptide receptor, atrioactivase, atriopeptins, atrium or (formerly) auricle, atrolysin B, atrolysin C, atrolysin E, atrolysin F, atrophin, atrophy, atropine, attachment proteins, attachment site, attenuance, attenuated virus, attenuator, atto+, attractant or chemoattractant, Au, AUA, Aubergine, AUC, AUG, Auger effect, auracyanin…
a′, A‐band, A‐DNA, A‐kinase, A‐region, A‐RNA, A‐transferase, A–T tailing, avenic acid, average, average life, average molar mass or (formerly) average molecular weight, average molecular weight, average radius of gyration, average relative molecular mass, avermectin B1, avidin, avidity, avirulent, avitaminosis, Avogadro constant or (formerly) Avogadro's number, Avogadro number or Avogadro's number, Avogadro's hypothesis or Avogadro's law, avogram, AVP, awk, axenic, axenize or axenise…
bacterioferritin, bacteriology, bacteriolysin, bacteriolysis, bacteriophaeophytin, (bacterio)phage conversion or prophage‐mediated conversion or lysogenic conversion, bacteriophage vector, bacteriopheophytin or (esp. Brit.) bacteriophaeophytin, bacteriorhodopsin, bacteriostatic or bacteristatic, bacterium (pl. bacteria), bactoprenol, Bactrim, baculovirus, BAF, bafilomycin A1, baicalein, bait, bait region, bakers' yeast, baking soda, BAL, balance, balanced growth, balanced salt solution, balance study, balata, BALB/c, Balbiani ring, BAL 31 nuclease, Baltimore classification, band…
batten's disease, batyl alcohol, bayesian statistics, bay region, BCAA, b cell, BCG, b chromosome, BCIP, BCKDH, Bcl, BDF, BDNF, Be, Becker muscular dystrophy, Beckmann thermometer, becquerel, bed volume, Beer‐Lambert law or Beer‐Lambert‐Bouguer law or Lambert‐Beer law, Beer's law, beet sugar, Beh, behenoyl, Bence‐Jones protein, Benedict's solution, benign, bentonite, benzidine, benzo+ or (sometimes before a vowel) benz+ comb. form, benzoate 1,2‐dioxygenase…
bicoid protein, bicuculline, bidentate, bifunctional, bifunctional antibody, bifunctional catalyst, bifunctional reagent, big‐big gastrin or big gastrin, BigCHAP, BigDye terminator, big gastrin, big glucagon or big plasma glucagon, biglycan, bijou bottle, bikunin, biladiene, bilamellar, bilane, bilatriene, bilayer, bilayer lipid membrane, bile, bile acid, bile acid receptor, bile alcohol, bilene, bile pigment, bile salt, biliary, bilin, bilinogen, biliprotein, bilirubin or (formerly) bilirubin IXα, bilirubin oxidase, biliverdin or (formerly) biliverdin IXα…
Bio‐Gel, biogenesis, biogenic, biogenic amine, biohazard, bioinformatics, bioinformatics institute, bioinorganic chemistry, bioinorganic motif, bioleaching, biolistics, biolith, biological, biological activity, biological clock, biologically active or bioactive, biological value, biology, bioluminescence, biolysis, biomarker, biomass, biomedical science or biomedicine, biomembrane, biometry, biomimetic, biomimetic chemistry, biomineralization, biomolecular engineering, biomolecule, bioorganic chemistry, biophotolysis, biophysical chemistry, biophysics, biopolymer, biopotency, bioproduct, biopsy, biopterin, bioreactor, bioregulator, bioremediation, bios…
blast crisis, blasticidin S, blasto+ or (before a vowel) blast+, blastokinin, blast transformation, bleb, blebbistatin, blender or (sometimes, US) blendor, bleomycin, blepharoplast, BLM, BLM protein or BLM helicase or RecQ‐like protein 2 or RECQL2, block, blockade, blocker, blocking agent, blocking antibody, blocking group, block polymer, Blocks, Blocks‐format‐PRINTS, blood, blood‐brain barrier, blood coagulation or blood clotting, blood group, blood‐group substance, blood plasma, blood sugar, Bloom syndrome, BLOSUM…
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Bowman‐Birk inhibitor, Bowman's capsule or glomerular capsule, Boyden chamber, Boyle's law, bp, b.p, BP, BP‐80, BPAG, BPC, B peptide or fibrinopeptide B, BPG, BPI protein, BPOC, Bq, Br, brachyurin, Bradford assay, bradykinin or kinin‐9, bradykinin receptor, Bragg's law, brain‐derived neurotrophic factor, brain natriuretic peptide, Brain tumor, branch, branch‐and‐bound, branched‐chain, branched‐chain amino acid, branched‐chain α‐keto‐acid dehydrogenase, branched‐chain α‐keto‐acid dehydrogenase kinase, branched‐chain oxo‐acid dehydrogenase phosphatase…
b‐cell activation factor, b‐cell antigen receptor complex, b‐cell differentiation factor, B‐DNA, BTEE, B‐transferase, BT toxin, Btu, Bu, BU, bubble column, Büchner funnel, bud, budding, BUdR or BUDR, bufadienolide, buffer, buffering capacity or buffering power, buffer solution, buffer value or Van Slyke buffer value or buffering capacity, buffy coat, bufogenin B, bulge loop, bullous pemphigoid antigen, BUN, bundle sheath, bungarotoxin, Bunsen coefficient, bunyavirus, buoyant density, buoyant force, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures…
caged GTP, Cahn–Ingold–Prelog rule or Cahn–Ingold–Prelog system, CAK, cal, calbindin, calcemic factor or (esp. Brit.) calcaemic factor, calcidiol, calciductin, calcifediol, calciferol, calcification, calcified, calcimedin, calcimycin, calcineurin or protein phosphatase 2B, calciol, calciosome, calciotropic, calciphorin, calcitetrol, calcitonin or thyrocalcitonin, calcitonin gene‐related peptide, calcitonin gene‐related peptide receptor, calcitonin receptor, calcitriol, calcium, calcium‐45, calcium‐47, calcium channel, calcium‐dependent regulator protein or calcium‐dependent modulator protein, calcium ion (Ca2+)‐release channel, calcium phosphate‐mediated transfection…
candela, cane sugar, cannabinoid, cannabinoid receptor, cannabinol, cannabis, Cannizzaro reaction, canonical form or canonical structure, canonical sequence, cap, CAP, capacitance or electric capacitance, capacitance minimization method, CAPB, cap‐binding protein, Capecitabine or Xeloda, CAP factor, capillarity, capillary, capillary column, capillary electrophoresis, capillary filtration, capillary viscometer, capped mRNA, capping, capping enzyme, caprate or caprinate, capric acid or caprinic acid, caprin, caprinate, caprinyl, caproate, caproic acid, caproin, caproyl, capryl…
carboxylate, carboxylation, carboxylic acid, carboxyl proteinase or acid proteinase or aspartic proteinase, carboxyl terminus or carboxyl terminal, carboxy‐lyase, carboxymethyl, carboxymethylation, carboxypeptidase, carboxypeptidase A, carboxypeptidase B, carboxypeptidase C, carboxypeptidase D, carboxypeptidase E, carboxypeptidase H, carboxypeptidase‐tubulin, carboxypeptidase Y, carboxy‐terminal, carboxy terminus, carcinoembryonic antigen, carcinogen, carcinogenesis, carcinogenicity, carcinoid (tumour) or argentaffin carcinoma or argentaffinoma, carcinoma, CARD domain, cardenolide, cardiac, cardiac glycoside, cardiac K channel, cardiac muscle, cardiac Na channel, cardiac puncture…
catalytic concentration, catalytic constant, catalytic domain, catalytic exchange method, catalytic facilitation, catalytic factor, catalytic intermediate, catalytic power, catalytic residue, catalytic site, catalytic triad, catalyze, cataplerosis, cataract, CAT assay, catastrophe theory, CAT box, catechin, catechol, catecholamine, catechol melanin, catechol‐O‐methyltransferase, catechol oxidase, catenane, catenate, catenin, catestatin, cat‐eye syndrome, CATH, cathepsin, cathepsin A, cathepsin B, cathepsin C, cathepsin D, cathepsin E, cathepsin G, cathepsin H, cathepsin K…
CD8, CD44, CD45, CD55, CD58, CD59, CD62, CD66, CD74, CD79, CD95, Cdc‐activating kinase, Cdc42, Cdc48 or VCP/Cdc48, Cdc53p, CD66d, CDD, CD66e, CDE, CD59 glycoprotein precursor, CDH, CDI, Cdk, Cdk inhibitor, CD40L or CD154 or gp39 or TNFSF5, CD95 ligand, CD marker, cDNA, cDNA clone, cDNA library, CDP, CDPcholine, CDPdiacylglycerol, CDPdiacylglycerol‐inositol 3‐phosphatidyltransferase, CDPdiacylglycerol‐serine, CDPethanolamine, CDP‐glycerol pyrophosphorylase, CDPK, CDP‐Star, CDR, CDS…
CH, CENP‐A, centi+, centigrade temperature, centimetre‐gram‐second system, centimorgan or centiMorgan, central dogma, central nervous system, centrifugal, centrifugal analyser or centrifugal fast analyser, centrifugal elutriation, centrifugal field, centrifugal force, centrifuge, centrin, centriole, centripetal, centripetal force, centromere, centromere‐binding proteins, centrosome, centrosphere, cephaeline, cephalin, cephalosporin, cephalosporinase, Cer, ceramidase, ceramide, ceramide cholinephosphotransferase, ceramide glucosyltransferase, cercidosome, cerebellin, cerebral, cerebrodiene, cerebroglycan, cerebronate, cerebrose, cerebroside, cerebroside‐sulfatase, cerebrospinal fluid…
characteristic time, characteristic X‐ray, Charcot‐Marie‐Tooth disease, Chargaff's rules, charge, charge density, charged tRNA, charge‐relay system, chargerin II, charge‐shift electrophoresis, charge‐transfer bond, charge‐transfer chromatography, charge‐transfer complex, charging, Charles's law, charybdotoxin, chase, checkpoint, checkpoint kinase, CHEF, chel, chelate, chelate effect, chelating agent or chelator, chelation, chelation therapy, Chelex 100, chemical adsorption, chemical antagonism, chemical carcinogen, chemical cleavage method, chemical coupling hypothesis, chemical equivalent, chemical exchange, chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization…
chi‐square test, chitin synthase, chitobiose, chitosamine, chitosan, chitosome, chitotriose, chitotriosidase, Chl, chlor+, chlorambucil, chloramine T, chloramphenicol, chloramphenicol O‐acetyltransferase, chloramphenicol amplification, chlordiazepoxide, chloride, chloride channel, chloride shift or Hamburger shift, chlorin, chlorinate, chlorine, chloro+ or (sometimes before a vowel) chlor+, chlorocruorin, chlorogenic acid, chlorolabe or chloropsin or cyanopsin, chloroperoxidase, chlorophyll, chlorophyllide, chloroplast or (sometimes) chloroplastid, chloroquine, chlorosome, chlorosulfolipid, chlorpromazine, Cho, CHO, chole+ or (before a vowel) chol+…
chromatic, chromatid, chromatin, chromatin accessibility complex, chromatin assembly factor 1, chromatin body, chromatin compaction, chromatin fingerprinting, chromatin immunoprecipitation, chromatin silencing, chromato+ or (before a vowel) chromat+, chromatofocusing, chromatogram, chromatograph, chromatography, chromatophore, chromatopile, chromatoplate, chromatosome, +chrome, chromium, chromium‐51, chromo+ or (before a vowel) chrom+, chromobindin, chromodomain, chromogen, chromogenic, chromogenic substrate, chromogranin, chromomere, chromonema(pl. chromonemata), chromophore, chromoplast, chromoprotein, chromosomal inversion…
CL, citrate cycle, citrate (pro‐3S)‐lyase, citrate (Re)‐synthase, citrate (Si)‐synthase, citric acid, citric‐acid cycle, citridesmolase, citritase, citrovorum factor, citrulline, citrullinemia or citrullinuria, CJD, CKI, Cl, clade, cladinose, cladistics, cladogenesis, cladogram, clan, clarify, Clark and Lubs buffers, Clark electrode, class, classical pathway of complement activation, class switch, clastic, clastogen, clathrate, clathrin, clathrin uncoating protein or uncoating ATPase, clavaminate synthase, clavulanic acid…
Co, Co I, Co II, CoA, coacervate, coacervate droplet, coacervation, coactone, coagulant, coagulase, coagulase/fibrinolysin precursor, coagulate, coagulation factors, coagulation time or clotting time, coagulogen, coagulum (pl. coagula), coarctation, coarse, CoASAc, CoASH, coated pit, coated‐tube method, coated vesicle, coatomer, coat protein, cobalamin, cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase, cob(II)alamin reductase, cobamide, cobamide coenzyme, Cobol, cocaine, cocarboxylase, cocarcinogen, cochlin, cochromatography…
cold‐shock protein, coleoptile, ColE1 replicon, colestipol, Col factor, colforsin, colicin or (formerly) colicine, colicin factor or colicinogenic factor, colicinogenic, colicinogenic factor, coliform, colipase, coliphage, colistin or polymyxin E, colitose, collagen, collagenase, collapsin, collectin, colligation, colligative property, collimator, collinear, collision coupling hormone‐receptor‐enzyme model, collision frequency or collision number, collodion, colloid or colloidal system, colloidal dispersion, colloidal electrolyte, colloidal solution, colloid osmotic pressure, colon, colon bacillus, colony, colony hybridization or colony hybridisation…
complexity, complexometric titration, complexometry, complexone, Complexone, composite database, compound, compound A, B, C, compound heterozygote, compressed file, compression, comproportionation, Compton effect or Compton scattering, computer‐assisted tomography, computer of average transients, COMT, comutagen, comutation, con A, conalbumin or ovotransferrin, conantokin G, conarachin, conc, concanavalin A, concanavalin B, concatemer or concatenate, concatenate, concatenated dimer or circular dimer, concentrate, concentrated, concentration, concentration equilibrium constant, concentration gradient, concentration of enzymic activity…
conjugate acid‐base pair, conjugate base, conjugated, conjugated double bond, conjugated protein, conjugation, conjugation labelling, conjugative plasmid, conjugon, connective tissue, connective tissue growth factor, connectivity, connexin, connexon, conotoxin, consanguinity, consensus sequence, consensus tree, conservation, conservation of energy (law of the), conservative base change or conservative base substitution, conservative replacement or conservative substitution, conserved, consomic, constant region, constitutional base unit, constitutional block, constitutional isomer or (formerly) structural isomer, constitutive enzyme, constitutive genes…
coprostanol or coprosterol, copy‐choice hypothesis, copy error, copy number, CoQ, CoQH2, cord blood, cord factor, cordycepin, cordycepose, core, core debranching enzyme, core enzyme, core glycosylation, core particle, core polymerase, corepressor, core promoter or basal promoter, core protein, CoREST, Cori cycle or lactic acid cycle, Cori ester, corin, Cori's disease, CORN, cornea, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, cornifin or small proline‐rich protein I, corn‐steep liquor or corn‐steep water, corn sugar, corn syrup or (sometimes) liquid glucose…
co‐immunoprecipitation, co‐ion, co‐metabolism, co‐monomer, co‐stimulator, co‐trimoxazole, countercurrent distribution or countercurrent separation, countercurrent transport, counterelectrophoresis, counterflow, counterimmunoelectrophoresis or counterelectrophoresis, counterion, countermigration electrophoresis, counterstain, countertranscript, countertransport, countertrypsin, counting efficiency, COUP, couple, coupled assay, coupled oxidation and phosphorylation, coupled reaction, coupling, coupling constant, coupling factor, coupling membrane, covalence or covalency, covalent bond, covalent catalysis, covalent chromatography, covalent (closed) circle (of DNA) or covalently closed circular DNA or closed double‐stranded DNA…
cross‐link, cross‐matching, cross‐react, cross‐reacting antibody, cross‐reacting antigen, cross‐reaction, cross‐reactivation, cross‐sensitivity, cross‐tolerance, croton oil, crotoxin, crown compound or coronand, crown ether, crown‐gall disease, CRP, Crt, cruciform, crustacyanin, cruzaine, cruzipain or cruzaine, CRX, CRY, cryo+, cryobiochemistry, cryobiology, cryoelectron microscopy, cryoenzymology, cryogen, cryogenic, cryogenics, cryoglobulin, cryomicrotome, cryoprecipitate, cryopreservation, cryoscope, cryoscopy, cryosolvent, cryostat, cryosublimation, cryotolerant, cryptand, cryptate, cryptic, crypticity or latency, cryptic plasmid…
curcumin, curdlan, curie, curing, curli, curtain electrophoresis, cushingoid, Cushing's disease, Cushing's syndrome, cut, cutaneous, cutin, cutinase, CUU, cuvette, Cya, cyan+, cyanate, cyanelle, cyanhydrin, cyanide, cyanide‐resistant oxidase, cyanide‐resistant respiration, cyanidin, cyano+ or (before a vowel) cyan+, cyanobacteria or (formerly) blue‐green algae, cyanoborohydride, cyanocobalamin, cyanogen bromide or bromine cyanide, cyanogenesis, cyanogenic, cyanoginosin, cyanoglobin, cyanohydrin or (formerly) cyanhydrin, cyanolabe or cyanopsin or chloropsin or chlorolabe…
cyclo‐ligase, Cyd, CydP, Cyd2′P, Cyd‐2′,3′‐P, Cyd3′P, Cyd‐3′,5′‐P, Cyd5′P, Cyd5′PP, Cyd5′PPP, CYP19, cyproterone, Cyr61, Cys, cyst, cystamine, cystate, cystathionine, cystathionine γ‐cystathionase, cystathionine γ‐lyase, cystathionine β‐synthase, cystathionine γ‐synthase, cystathioninuria, cystatin, cysteamine, cysteate, cysteic acid, cysteinate, cysteine, cysteine (acid), cysteine desulfhydrase, cysteine endopeptidase or (formerly) thiol proteinase, cysteine‐rich secretory protein, cysteine‐type carboxypeptidase, cysteinyl, cystein‐S‐yl, cysteyl, cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator…
c‐, Cα, Cβ, C‐alpha, C‐beta, c‐di‐GMP, C‐DNA, c‐Jun N‐terminal kinase, C‐kinase, C‐reactive protein, C‐terminal peptide amidation, C‐type lectin, C‐value, C‐value paradox, cytokine, cytokine‐inducible SH2 protein, cytokine receptor, cytokinesis, cytokinin or phytokinin, cytolemma, cytology, cytolysin, cytolysis, cytomegalovirus (CMV), cytometer, cytometry, cyton or cytone, cytopathic, cytopathic effect, cytopempsis, cytophilic, cytophilic antibody, cytophotometry, cytoplasm, cytoplasmic droplet, cytoplasmic fraction, cytoplasmic gene, cytoplasmic inheritance, cytoplasmic matrix, cytoplasmic membrane…
dark‐field microscope or dark‐ground microscope, DARPP‐32, database, database division, database ID, database identification code or database ID, database‐search program, data cleaning, data mining, DATD, dative bond, dATP, Daudi, daughter, daunomycin or daunorubicin, daunosamine, Davson‐Danielli model or (sometimes) Danielli‐Davson model, day, dbcAMP, DBCAT, Dbl domain, DBM, DBMIB, DBP, dbSNP, d.c. or DC, dC, DCC or DCCD or DCCI, D cell or (formerly) A1 cell or α1 cell…
degradation, degradosome, degranulation, degree, degree Celsius, degree of polymerization, degrees of freedom, dehydrase, dehydratase or (formerly) dehydrase, dehydration, dehydro+, dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydrogenase, dehydrogenate, deionize or deionise, deionizer or deioniser, Dejerine—Sottas syndrome, deka+ or (before a vowel) dek+, delayed early gene, delayed hypersensitivity or type IV hypersensitivity, deletion, DELFIA, delipidation, deliquescent, DELLA protein, delocalization or delocalisation, delphinidin, delta, Delta, deltahedron (pl. deltahedra), deltakephalin, delta‐sleep‐inducing peptide or sleep peptide…
de‐aerate, de‐ashing, dependent variable, dephospho‐[reductase kinase] kinase, dephosphorylation, depolarization or depolarisation, depolarization ratio or depolarisation ratio, deproteinization or deproteinisation, depside, depsidone, depsipeptide, depth of coverage, depurinate, depyrimidinate, derepression, deRib, derivative, derivative of a function, derivatize or derivatise, derived database, dermaseptin, dermatan sulfate or chondroitin sulfate B, dermatosparaxis, dermis or corium, dermorphin, DES, des+, desalinate, desalt, desamidation, desamido+, desaturase, desaturation, descarboxy‐clotting factor, descending chromatography, descriptive name…
DHPR, DHU arm, dhurrin, di+, diabetes, diabetes‐associated peptide, diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus or (commonly) diabetes, diabetes mutation, diabetic, diabetogenic, diabetogenic hormone, Diablo, diabolic, diacetylchitobiose, diacetylmorphine, diacylglycerol or (formerly) diglyceride, diacylglycerol O‐acyltransferase, diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase, diacylglycerol kinase, diacytosis, diafiltration, diagnostic performance or diagnostic power, diagnostic power, diagonal chromatography, diagonal electrophoresis, diakinesis, dialdose, diallyltartardiamide, dialysable or (esp. US)) dialyzable, dialysate or (esp. US) dialyzate…
dienoyl, dietary deficiency, dietary fibre, diethyldithiocarbamate, diethyl ether, diethylpyrocarbonate, diethylstilbestrol or (esp. UK) diethylstiboestrol, difference spectrophotometry, differential centrifugation, differential counting, differential display PCR, differential labelling, differential medium, differential scanning calorimetry, differential thermal analysis, differential titration, differentiating‐stimulating factor, differentiation, differentiation antigen, diffraction, diffraction grating, diffusate, diffusible, diffusion, diffusion cell or diffusion chamber, diffusion coefficient or diffusion constant, diffusion‐controlled or diffusion‐limited, diffusion gradient, diffusion‐limited, diffusion potential, diffusive, DIFP, DiGeorge syndrome…
dimethylaminoazobenzene sulfonyl chloride, dimethylaminobenzaldehyde, dimethylaminonaphthalene sulfonyl chloride, dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyltryptamine, dimorphism, dinactin, dinitrofluorobenzene, dinitrogen, dinitrogenase reductase, dinitrophenate, dinitrophenol, dinitrophenyl, dinitrophenylate, dinoprost, dinor+, DInR, Dintzis procedure, dinuclear or binuclear, dinucleotide, dinucleotide fold, diode, dioestrus, diol, diol lipid, dioxin, dioxin receptor, dioxygen, dioxygenase, DIP, dipentene, dipeptide, dipeptide mimic, dipeptidyl‐peptidase, dip‐F, DIPF, diphenylamine reaction, diphosphate, (+)diphospho+, diphosphoglycerateformer name for, diphosphoglycerate pocket, diphosphoinosotide…
dispersive replication of DNA, displacement binding, displacement chromatography, displacement electrophoresis, displacement loop, displacement reaction, disproportionation, disRNA, dissimilation, dissimilatory nitrate reduction, dissociation, dissociation constant, dissociation energy, distal, distal protein, distance matrix, distil or (US) distill, distillate, distillation, distribution, distribution coefficient, distribution law, distributive, disulfide or disulphide, disulfide bond or disulfide bridge or disulfide link, disulfide interchange or disulphide interchange, disulfide knot or disulphide knot, disulfiram, DIT, di‐tert‐butyl‐p‐cresol or butylated hydroxytoluene, dithioerythritol…
Dnm1, Dnp, DNP, Dns, dNTP, DOC, doca or DOCA, Docetaxel, Dock, docking, docking protein, docosa+ or (before a vowel) docos+, docosadienoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, docosanoic acid or behenic acid, docosapentaenoic acid, docosatetraenoic acid, docosatrienoic acid, docosenoic acid, Dod, dodeca+ or (before a vowel) dodec+, dodecandrin, dodecanoic acid, dodecanoyl, dodecenoic acid, dodecenoyl, dodecenoyl‐CoA Δ‐isomerase, dodecyl, dodecylsulfate, doghouse configuration, DOGS, dolichol, dolichol kinase, dolichol O‐acyltransferase…
doubling dilution, doubling time, Dounce homogenizer or Dounce homogeniser, Dowex, down regulation, Down's syndrome or Down syndrome or (formerly) mongolism, downstream, doxorubicin, doxycycline, DPG or 2,3‐DPG, DPG pocket, dpm or d.p.m., Dpm, DPN, DPN+, DPNH, DPP, Dpr, dps, DPT, draft genome sequence, DRAGON, DRB, DRB‐sensitivity inducing factor, DREAM, D region, dRib, Drk, dropping‐mercury electrode, Drosha, drosomycin, Drp1, DRPLA, Drude equation…
d‐arabinose isomerase, D‐cycloserine d‐4‐amino‐3‐isoxazolidinone;, D‐cymarose, dyskerin d, d‐, D‐bifunctional enzyme, D‐enzyme or plant glucosyltransferase, D‐loop or displacement loop, D‐RNA or dRNA, dye‐ligand chromatography or pseudo‐affinity chromatography or pseudo‐ligand affinity chromatography, dye‐primer sequencing, dye‐terminator sequencing, dynactin, dynamic, dynamic programming, dynamics, dynamic state of body constituents, dynamin, dyne, dynein, dynorphin, dys+, dysferlin, dysfunction, dysgenic, dyskeratosis congenita, dyskerin, dysmorphology, dysplasia, dystrobrevin, dystroglycan, dystrophin, dystrophin‐related protein, dystrophy, e, e', E…
edeine, EDEM, edema or (esp. Brit.) oedema, edema factor or (esp. Brit.) oedema factor, edestin, edetate, EDF, editing, editosome, Edman degradation, Edman reagent, EDR, EDRF, EDTA, EEDQ, eEF‐2, eEFsec, EET, EF, EF‐1, EFE, EFEMP, effective dose, effective theoretical plate number, effectomer, effector or modifier or modulator, effector site or regulatory site, efferent, efficacy, efficiency, efficiency of counting, efficiency of plating, efflux, EF‐G or translocase…
electro+ or (sometimes before a vowel) electr+, electrochemical analysis or electrochemical assay, electrochemical double layer, electrochemical equivalent, electrochemical potential, electrochemical series, electrochemistry, electrochromatography, electrochromism, electrocompetent, electrocortin, electrocrystallization or electrocrystallisation, electrode, electrodecantation or electrophoresis convection, electrodeposition, electrode potential, electrodialysis, electroelution, electroendosmosis, electrofocusing, electrofuge, electrogenesis, electrogenic pump, electroimmunoassay, electroimmunodiffusion, electroimmunodiffusogram, electrokinetic potential or zeta potential, electrolectin, electrolysis, electrolyte, electrolyte balance, electrolytic, electrolytic conductivity or (formerly) specific conductance…
a, a0, A, Ar, As, AatII, ab initio, ab initio gene prediction, ab initio protein structure prediction, abl, AccI, AccII, AccIII, ACRP30, ADE2, AfaI, AflII, age‐1, Agrobacterium, Ah, ahnak, Air RNA, Akt, aldehydo‐, alkB, allo+, altro+, AluI, Amanitatoxin, ambo‐, aminotransferase or transaminase, AML1, electrophoresis convection, electrophoretic effect, electrophoretic mobility, electrophoretic mobility shift assay, electrophoretic molecular sieving, electrophoretic titration curve, electrophoretic transfer or electroblotting…
anti +, Aor13HI, AorI, ApaI, ApaLI, APC, APOE polymorphism, ara, araBAD, Arabidopsis thaliana, araC, aro1, aroA−H, ASCII, aspartokinase, aspartoyl, Aspergillus, attB, Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus, AvaI, AvaII, AviII, Azotobacter, b, B, Bmax, Bacillus, bacteriophage or phage or bacterial virus, Bacteroides, BalI, BamHI, band width (in NMR spectrometry), Bangasome or Bangosome, BanII, bAT, Bbe I, BCL, BcnI, BCR, bek, BglI, BglII…
c‐, CMAR, cos site, CpoI, Crk, cro, d, d‐, D, Di, daf‐2, dam, dam methyltransferase, dAMP, DBL, DCC, de novo, Desulfovibrio, diaphanous, Dictyostelium discoideum, diesterase, dis2, DISC1, DISC2, DIS2 S1, DJ‐1, dl‐, dna, doublesex, DraI, Drosophila, dsx, e, E, (E)‐, Eo or E⦵, E′ or E⦵′, Ea or EA, Eea, EaeI, Eam1105I, Eco52I, Eco81I, E. coli…
+emia or (esp. Brit.) +aemia, emilin, emiocytosis, emission, emission spectrophotometry or emission photometry, emission spectroscopy, emission spectrum, EMIT, gn, gN, gem‐, g‐factor or g‐value, GIGANTEA, gluco‐, glycero‐, gpt, gro, groEL, groES, gulo‐, h, H, H− or (sometimes) H, HaeII, HaeIII, hairy, Hansenula, HapII, Helicobacter pylori, HhaI, HincII, HindIII, HinfI, HinII, hly genes, Homo, Hox gene, HpaI, HpaII, hst/KS…
N‐acetylaspartate, N‐acetylaspartylglutamate, N‐acetylcysteine or N‐acetyl‐l‐cysteine, N‐acetylgalactosamine, N‐acetylgalactosamine‐4‐sulfatase, N‐acetylgalactosamine‐6‐sulfatase, N‐acetylgalactosaminidase, N‐acetylglucosamine, N‐acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase, N‐acetylglucosamine‐6‐sulfatase, N‐acetylglucosaminidase, N4‐(β‐N‐acetylglucosaminyl)‐l‐asparaginase, N‐acetylglucosaminyl transferase, N‐acetylglutamate synthase, N‐acetyl lactosamine synthase, N‐acetylmuramoyl‐l‐alanine amidase, N‐acetyl neuraminic acid, N‐acetyl transferase, N‐acylneuraminate glycohydrolase, N‐acylsphingosine galactosyltransferase, N‐amidinoglycine, N‐(2‐aminoethyl)isoquinoline‐5‐sulfonamide or H9, N‐bromosuccinimide, n‐decyl‐β‐d‐glucopyranoside, n‐decyl‐β‐d‐maltopyranoside, n‐dodecyl‐N, N‐dimethylglycine, n‐dodecyl‐β‐d‐glucopyranoside, n‐dodecyl‐β‐d‐maltoside, N‐ethylmaleimide, N‐ethylmaleimide‐sensitive fusion protein, N‐formylmethionine, Nω‐hydroxy‐l‐arginine, N‐hydroxysuccinimide ester or NHS ester, l, l‐, L…
O6‐alkylguanine alkyltransferase, p‐aminobenzoic acid, para‐aminohippuric acid, o‐benzoquinone, p‐benzoquinone, p‐chloromercuribenzenesulfonate, p‐chloromercuribenzoate, p′‐chloro‐p‐phenylaniline, emodin, eMOTIF, EMPIGEN BB, EMR, p‐hydroxybenzoic acid, O6‐methylguanine, N‐, neu, Neurospora, NheI, nif, N‐nitrosamide, N‐nitrosamidine, N‐nitrosamine, Nle, nod gene, noso+ or (before a vowel) nos+, notch, NotI, NruI, nus, o−, O−, ob/ob, OCT, N‐oligosaccharyltransferase, oriC, ortho, ortho‐, ortho‐ and peri‐fused, ortho‐fused, oskar, p, p‐…
S‐adenosylhomocysteine, S‐adenosylmethionine, S‐adenosylmethionine synthetase, trans‐cinnamate 4‐monooxygenase, EMSA, emu or EMU, emulsifier, emulsify, emulsifying agent or emulsifier, emulsin, (R)‐4‐hydroxyphenyllactate dehydrogenase, S‐nitroso‐N‐acetylpenicillamine, S‐nitrosoglutathione, R, RB, Rf or RF, Rp, Rs, Renilla reniformis, Re/Si convention, RET, (S)‐reticuline, Rhizobium, ribo‐, ROS, (RS)‐, R/S convention, runt gene, RB value or relative band rate or relative band speed, Rf value or RF value or band rate or band speed…
βAad, β6‐N‐acetylglucosaminyltransferase, β‐N‐acetyl hexosaminidase, Δ2Ach, Δ3Ach, Δ4Ach, εAcp, εAhx or (formerly) εAcp, βAla, β‐alanine, β‐alanine‐oxoglutarate aminotransferase, ω‐amidase, αamino‐acid site, α‐aminoadipate, α‐aminoadipic semialdehyde synthase, γ‐aminobutyrate shunt or GABA shunt, α‐amino‐n‐butyric acid, γ‐amino‐n‐butyric acid, ε‐aminocaproic acid, α‐amino 3‐hydroxy‐5‐methylisoazolepropionic acid receptor, α‐aminoisobutyric acid, β‐aminoisobutyric acid or 3‐amino‐2‐methylpropanoic acid, δ‐aminolevulinate or (esp. Brit.) δ‐aminolaevulinate, δ‐aminolevulinic acid dehydratase, α1‐antitrypsin or α1‐proteinase inhibitor, α‐aspartyl, β‐aspartyl or (formerly) isoaspartyl, β‐aspartyl‐N‐acetylglucosaminidase, β‐aspartyl phosphate or 4‐phospho‐l‐aspartate oraspartyl‐β‐phosphate…
en+ or (sometimes before b, m, and p) em+, enalapril, enamel, enamilin, enamine or alkenylamine, enanthate, enantiomer, enantiomeric, enantiomeric purity, enantiomerism, enantiomorph, enantiomorphic or enantiomorphous, enantiomorphism, enantiomorphous, enantiotopic, encapsidate, encapsis, encephalin, encephalitis, encephalomyocarditis virus, end+, endA, end capping, endemic, endergonic, end group, end‐group analysis, end labelling, endo+ or (sometimes before a vowel) end+, endo−, endoamylase, endocannabinoid, endocrine, endocrine gland or ductless gland…
enhanced chemiluminescence, enhanced green fluorescent protein, enhanced yellow fluorescent protein, enhancement, enhancement of fluorescence, enhancement spectrum, enhanceosome, enhancer, enhancer trap vector, enkephalin, enkephalinase, enkephalin convertase, enniatin, enol, enolase, enology or (esp. Brit.) oenology, eNOS, enoyl, enoyl‐[acyl‐carrier protein] reductase (NADPH, A‐specific), enoyl‐CoA hydratase, enoyl‐CoA isomerase, enrich, enrichment medium, Ensembl, entactic, entactin or nidogen, enteric or enteral, enteric‐coated, entero+ or (before a vowel) enter+…
[E]o or [E]t or [E]stoich, enzymolysis, eobiogenesis, eobiont, eosin, eosinophil(e) or eosinophil leukocyte or eosinophilic leukocyte, eosinophil cationic protein, eosinophilic, eosinotactic, eosome, eotaxin, EPA, EpETrE, ephedrine, ephexin, ephrin, epi+ or (before a vowel) ep+, epiallele, epiarginase, epichlorohydrin, epidemic, epidemiology, epidermal growth factor, epidermal growth factor receptor or EGF receptor, epidermis, epienzymatic control, epigenesis, epigenetic, epigenetics, epigenomics, epiligrin…
ER‐associated degradation, ERE, erepsin, erg, ergastoplasm, +ergic, ergo+, ergocalciferol, ergoflavin, ergometrine, ergonovine, ergosome, ergosterol, ergot, ergot alkaloid, ergotamine, ERIC, ERK, ER α‐mannosidase I, erp60, ER‐resident protein, error catastrophe, ‘error catastrophe’ hypothesis, error‐prone repair, erucic acid, ERYF1, erythritol, erythro+ or (before a vowel) erythr+ or (sometimes) eryth+, erythroblast, erythrocruorin, erythrocuprein, erythrocyte, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, erythrodextrin, erythrogenesis, erythroid, erythroid differentiation factor…
ethionine, ethoxy, ethyl, ethyl alcohol, ethylene, ethylenediaminetetraacetate, ethylene‐forming enzyme, ethylene receptor 1, ethylenic, ethyne, ethynylestradiol, ETI, etidronate, etiology or (esp. Brit.) aetiology, Etn, EtO or OEt, Etoposide, ETS, ETYA, eu+, e.u, Eu, EU, Eubacteria, eucaryon, eucell, euchromatin, eucollagen, eugenics, euglobulin, euglycemia or normoglycemia, eukarya, eukaryon or (sometimes) eucaryon (pl. eukarya or eucarya), eukaryosis or (sometimes) eucaryosis, eukaryote or (sometimes) eucaryote…
e‐cell, e‐mail, e‐mail address, E‐selectin, E‐site, e‐value, exogenous, exomorphin, exon, exon shuffling, exonuclease, exopeptidase, exophthalmic goitre or Graves' disease, exopolysaccharide, exoribonuclease, exorphin, exo‐α‐sialidase, exoskeleton, exosmosis, exosome, exothermic, exotic, exotoxin, exp, expansin, expectation value or expect value, experiment, experimental, experimentation, explant, exponent or index, exponential, exponential function, exponential growth, exponential phase, export, exportins, exposure, express, expressed sequence tag, expression, expression profile…
Fab fragment, F(ab')2 fragment, FABP, Fabry's disease or Fabry disease, facilitated diffusion, faciogenital dysplasia protein, FACIT, FACS, factor, factor I to factor XIII, factor Va, etc, factor B, factor D̄, factor F, factor F430, factor G, factor H, factor I, factorial, factor IF, factor R, factor S, factor T, facultative, facultative aerobe, facultative anaerobe, FAD, FADD, fade, FADH2, F agent, Fahrenheit temperature scale…
FBP, FBS, FCCP, F cell, Fc fragment, Fc′ fragment, Fc receptor, FCS, Fd, Fd540, Fd590, FDA, Fd fragment, FDNB, FDP, FdU, FdUrd, Fe, Fe(ii), Fe(iii), FEBS, fecal fat, fed batch process, Federation of European Biochemical Societies, feedback, feedback control, feedback inhibition or retroinhibition, feedback repression, feeder cell, feeder layer, feeder pathway, feedforward, Fehling's solution, feline, felix, female, female sex hormones…
Fe–S protein, fetuin, fetus or foetus, Feulgen reaction, FFA, F factor, FGAM synthase, FGAR, FGD1 or faciogenital dysplasia protein, FGF, FH2, FH4, FHA domain, FHA domain, FIA, FIAU, fiber, fibre or (US) fiber, fibre diagram, fibre optics, fibriform, fibril, fibrillar collagen, fibrillarin, fibrillin, fibrin, fibrinase, fibrin monomer, fibrinogen or factor I, fibrinogenase, fibrinolysin, fibrinolysis, fibrinopeptide, fibrin polymer, fibrin stabilizing factor or fibrin stabilising factor, fibroblast or fibrocyte…
fish‐odour syndrome, Fiske and SubbaRow method, FISP‐12, fissile, fission, fission product, FITC, fitness, fix, fixative, fixed antibody, fixed nitrogen, fixer, FiXeR, FIZZ, FK506, FKBP, FLAG, flagella, flagellate, flagellin, flagellum (pl. flagella or flagellums), flame emission spectrophotometry, flame ionization detector or flame ionisation detector, flame photometer, flame photometry, flame spectrophotometry, flanking marker (DNA), flash evaporation, flash evaporator, flash photolysis, flash point, flat‐bed, flat‐file, flavan, flavanol…
FoATPase, fluorescence, fluorescence‐activated cell sorter or fluorescence‐assisted cell sorter, fluorescence depolarization or depolarization of fluorescence, fluorescence energy transfer, fluorescence enhancement or enhancement of fluorescence, fluorescence immunoassay or fluorescent immunoassay or fluoroimmunoassay, fluorescence in situ hybridization, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence photobleaching recovery, fluorescence polarization or polarization of fluorescence, fluoresence probe or fluorescent probe, fluorescence quantum yield, fluorescence quenching, fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, fluorescence spectrophotometry, fluorescence spectrum, fluorescent antibody technique, fluorescent immunoassay, fluorescent probe, fluorescent screen…
follitropin, folyl, fomecin, food, foot and mouth disease virus, foot and mouth disease virus, footprinting, For, Forbes’ disease, forbidden clone, forbidden transition, force, forkhead or winged helix/forkhead‐like protein, forkhead box protein, formaldehyde dismutase, formaldehyde gel electrophoresis, formaldehyde transketolase, formalin or formol, formate, formate‐dihydrofolate ligase, formate‐tetrahydrofolate ligase, formation constant, formation function, formazan, formed elements of the blood, formimidoyl, formimino, formiminoglutamate, formin, formol, formolize or formolise, formol titration, formula (pl. formulas or formulae)…
free‐draining coil, free fatty acid, free‐flow electrophoresis, free radical, free‐radical scavenger, free rotation, freeze‐clamp, freeze‐cleaving, freeze‐dry, freeze‐dryer, freeze‐etching, freeze‐fracturing, freeze‐stop, freeze‐thaw, freezing, freezing‐microtome, freezing point, French chalk, French pressure cell, Freon, frequency, frequency distribution, fresnel, Fresnel diffraction, Fresnel lens, fret, FRET, Freund's adjuvant, Frey‐Wyssling particle, FRF, FRH, friable, friction, frictional coefficient or frictional constant, frictional force, frictional ratio, Friedreich's ataxia, Friend cell…
F‐actin, F′ factor, f‐number, Førster transfer, F‐pilus, F'‐strain, F‐type pentose phosphate pathway, fumed silica, fume hood, function, functional antagonism, functional cloning, functional genomics, functional group or function, functional polymer, fungicide, fungistat, fungus (pl. fungi), FUR, FUra, Fura 2, furan, furanoid, furanose, furanoside, FUrd, furin, furyl, fusaric acid, fused ring, fused rocket immunoelectrophoresis, fusel oil, fusicoccin, fusidic acid, fusiform, fusin or HIV entry cofactor;…
galactosylceramide lipidosis or Krabbe's disease or globoid cell leukodystrophy, galactosylceramide sulfotransferase, galactosyldiacylglycerol, galactosyltransferase, galactowaldenase, galacturonan or (formerly) polygalacturonide, galacturonate, galacturonic acid, galanin, galaptin, galectin, gall, gallate, gall bladder, gallotannic acid, gallotannin or hydrolysable tannin, gallstone or cholelith;, Galp, GalpA, GalpN, GalpNAc, GalU or GalUA, galvanic cell, gamete, gamma, gamma chain or γ chain, gamma globulin or γ‐globulin, galaptin, gamma helix or γ‐helix, gamma‐hydroxybutyrate, gamma‐peptidase, gamma radiation or γ‐radiation…
GC, GCA, GCAP, GC box, GCC, G cell, GCG, GC/MS, GCRDB, GCU, Gd, GDC, GDNF, GDP, GDP‐fucosepyrophosphorylase, GDPM or GDPmannose, GDPmannose 6‐dehydrogenase, GDPmannose 3,5‐epimerase, GDS, Ge, Geiger counter or Geiger‐Müller counter, Geiger region or Geiger–Müller region, Gek, gel, gelatin, gelatinase, gelation, gel chromatography, gel diffusion, gel electrophoresis, gel filtration or gel‐filtration chromatography, gel‐filtration chromatography, gel‐filtration high‐performance liquid chromatography, gel fluorography, gellify, gelonin or ribosome‐inactivating protein or rRNA N‐glycosidase…
gene‐regulatory protein, genetic engineering, genetic erosion, Geneticin, genetic information, genetic locus, genetic map, genetic mapping, genetic marker, genetic material, genetic pollution, genetic polymorphism, genetic profiling or DNA fingerprinting, genetic recombinant, genetic recombination, genetics, genetic screening, genetic signature or genetic fingerprint 1, genetic transformation, genetic variance, gene trap vector, Genghis Khan, genic, genin, genistein, genome, genome annotation software, genome database, genome mutation, genome project, genome‐regulatory protein, genomes online database, genome survey sequence…
Gim complex, GIP, GIPL, GIRK, GKRP, Gla, Glanzmann thrombasthenia, glass electrode, glassmilk, glaucoma, Glc, GLC or glc, GlcA, Glcf, GlcN, GlcNAc, Glcp, GlcU or GlcUA, Gleevec, Gli, GLI, glia or neuroglia, gliadin or (formerly) gliadine, glial cell‐derived neurotrophic factor, glial cells, glial derived nexin, glial fibrillary acidic protein, glibenclamide, glicentin, glicentin‐related pancreatic peptide or glicentin‐related pancreatic polypeptide, GLII, GLIMA38, gliostatin, GLIP, Gln, global alignment…
glucose‐alanine cycle or alanine cycle, glucose‐assimilation coefficient, glucose‐dependent insulinotropic peptide or glucose‐dependent insulin‐releasing peptide, glucose‐galactose malabsorption, glucose‐1‐phosphatase, glucose‐6‐phosphatase, glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase, glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, glucose‐6‐phosphate isomerase, glucose‐tolerance curve, glucose‐tolerance factor, glucose‐tolerance test, glucosidase, glucoside or (formerly) glycoside, glucosinolate, glucosuria, glucosyl, glucosylated hemoglobin, glucosylation, glucosylceramidase, glucosylceramide, glucosyloxy, glucosyltransferase, glucuronate, glucuronate pathway or glucuronate oxidation pathway, glucuronate reductase, glucuronic acid, glucuronide, glucuronoside or (formerly) glucuronide, glucuronosyl, glucuronosyltransferase, glucuronoyl, glued…
glycaric acid, glycated hemoglobin or glycohemoglobin, glycated proteins, glycation, glycemia or glucemia or (esp. UK) glycaemia or glucaemia, glycemic index or (esp. UK) glycaemic index, glyceral, glyceraldehyde, glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase (NADP+) (phosphorylating), glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase (phosphorylating), glycerate, glyceric aldehyde, glyceride, glycerin(e), glycero+, glycerokinase, glycerol, glycerol channel or glycerol facilitator, glycerol kinase, glycerol phosphate or glycerophosphate, glycerol‐3‐phosphate cycle or glycerol‐3‐phosphate shuttle orα‐glycerophosphate cycle, glycerol‐3‐phosphate cytidylyltransferase, glycerol‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase, glycerol‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase (NAD+)…
GM, GM2‐activator protein, glyconic acid, glycopeptide, glycophorin, glycoprotein, glycoprotein hormone, glycoprotein Ib, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa, glycoprotein N‐palmitoyltransferase, glycosaemia, glycosamine, glycosaminoglycan, glycosaminopeptide, glycosan, glycose, glycosemia or (esp. Brit) glycosaemia, glycosidase, glycoside or oside, glycosidic, glycosidic bond, glycosiduronate, glycosiduronic acid or (formerly) glycuronide, glycosome, glycosphingolipid, glycostatic, glycosuria, glycosyl, glycosylamine, glycosylamino acid, glycosylase, glycosylasparaginase, glycosylated hemoglobin, glycosylation, glycosyloxy, glycosylphosphatidylinositol, glycosyltransferase, glycotropic…
gp96, GPCR, GPD, GPI, GPI anchor, gp91‐phox, G protein, G protein‐coupled receptor (abbr.: GPCR) or G protein‐associated receptor or G protein‐linked receptor, GPT, Gra, Graafian follicle, grade, gradient, gradient elution, gradient former or gradient mixer, gradient gel electrophoresis or gradient acrylamide gel electrophoresis or polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis, gradient layer or gradient packing, graft, graft versus host disease, Graham's law of diffusion, grain, gram, +gram, gram‐atom or gram‐atomic weight, gram‐equivalent or (formerly) gram‐equivalent weight…
GSH, GSK‐3, GSS, GSSG, GST, GST fusion protein, GT, GT‐AG rule, GTBP, GTD, GTF, GTP, GTPase, GTP‐binding protein, GTP[S] or GTPγS, GTR1, GTT, Gu, Gua, GUA, guanidine, guanidinium, guanidinium isothiocyanate, guanidino, guanidinoacetate, guanine, guanine nucleotide binding protein, guanine nucleotide releasing protein, guanosine, guanosine 2′,3′‐(cyclic)phosphate, guanosine 3′,5′‐(cyclic)phosphate or guanosine 3′,5′‐cyclophosphate, guanosine 5′‐diphosphate, guanosine 3′‐diphosphate 5′‐diphosphate…
G‐actin, g‐atom, G‐banding or Giemsa banding, G‐1,6‐BP, G‐CSF, G‐1,6‐DP, g‐equiv, G‐patch, G‐quartet or G‐tetrad, G‐tetrad, GUU, g‐value or g‐factor, G value, Gy, gynaminic acid, gynogamone, gyrase, gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina, gyrin, gyromagnetic ratio or magnetogyric ratio, h, H, H+, H1, H7, H2, H4, Habc domain, Haber‐Weiss reaction, HAc, HACBP, haem, haema+or (before a vowel) haem+, haemadin, haemato+ or (before a vowel) haemat+…
haptoglobin, haptomer, haptophore, H+(aq), hard, Harden‐Young ester, Hardy‐Weinberg law, Hardy‐Weinberg population, harmaline, harmine, harmonin, HART, Hartley filter funnel, Hartnup disorder, hashish, HAT, hatching enzyme, Hatch‐Slack pathway or C4 cycle or C4 pathway, Haworth representation, Haymann nephritis antigen, Hb, Hb A, H band, HBD, Hb F, Hb S, HBSS, hCG or HCG, H chain, HCO, HCR, Hcy, HDAg, HDEL, HDH, HDL, HDP, He…
h+ or (not recommended) H+ prefix, hem+ or (esp. Brit.) haem+, hema+ or (esp. Brit.) haema+, hemagglutination or (esp. Brit.) haemagglutination, hemagglutinin or (esp. Brit.) haemagglutinin, hemat+ or (esp. Brit.) haemat+, hematin or (esp. Brit.) haematin, hemato+ or (before a vowel) hemat+, hematocrit or (esp. Brit.) haematocrit, hematocrit technique, hematology or (esp. Brit.) haematology, hematolysis or (esp. Brit.) haematolysis…
hepcidin, Hepes or HEPES, HepG2, hephaestin, HEPN domain, hepoxilin, hepoxilin‐epoxide hydrolase, Hepps or HEPPS or EPPS, Heppso or HEPPSO, hepsin, hepta+ or (before a vowel) hept+, heptad, heptanoate, heptanoyl, heptitol, heptose, heptulose, heptyl, heptyl glucoside, heptyl thioglucoside, HER2, herbicide, hereditary, hereditary angioedema or angioneurotic edema or C1 inhibitor deficiency, hereditary disease, hereditary fructose‐bisphosphatase deficiency, hereditary fructose intolerance, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, hereditary multiple exostoses, hereditary persistence fetal hemoglobin, heredity…
heterotopic transplant, heterotopous, heterotopy, heterotrimer, heterotroph or heterotrophe or organotroph, heterotropic, heterotypic, heterozygosis, heterozygosity, heterozygote, heterozygous or heterozygotic, HETP, heuristic, HEV, hevein, hexa+ or (before a vowel) hex+, hexabrachion, hexadecadienoic acid, hexadecanoic acid, hexadecenoic acid, hexaethyleneglycol mono‐n‐decyl ether, hexaethyleneglycol mono‐n‐dodecyl ether, hexagonal phase (of phospholipids), hexakisphosphate, hexamer, hexanoate or caproate, hexanolamino‐PAF, hexanoyl or (formerly) caproyl, hexaric acid, hexitol, hexokinase, hexon, hexonic acid, hexosamine…
hirudin, hirudisin, hirulog, hirustasin, His, hist+, His‐tag, His‐tag antibody, histaminase, histamine, histamine receptor, histamine‐releasing factor, histatin, histidase, histidinal, histidinase, histidinate, histidine, histidine ammonia‐lyase, histidine (base), histidine decarboxylase, histidine kinase, histidinemia or (esp. Brit.) histidinaemia, histidine tail, histidinium, histidino, histidinol, histidinol dehydrogenase, histidyl, histo+ or (before a vowel) hist+, histochemistry, histocompatibility, histocompatibility antigen, histocompatibility gene, histoelectrofocusing, histogram, histohematin or (esp. Brit.) histohaematin…
holorepressor, homeo+ or homoeo+ or homoio+, homeobox, homeodomain, homeomorphism or homoeomorphism, homeostasis or homoeostasis, homeotic gene or homeodomain‐encoding gene or homeobox‐encoding gene or Hox gene, homeothermic, homeotic selector, homeotypic, Homer, Homer ligand, homo+, homoarginine, homobifunctional, homocarnosine, homochromatic, homochromatography, homocitrate, homocitrate synthase, homoconjugation, homocyclic, homocysteine, homocysteine methyltransferase, homocystine, homocystinemia or (esp. Brit.) homocystinaemia, homodetic, homodimer, homoduplex, homoeo+, homogametic, homogenate, homogeneic, homogeneous, homogeneous catalysis…
hormone‐sensitive lipase, hormonotoxin, horse radish peroxidase, host, host cell, host‐cell reactivation, host‐controlled modification or host‐controlled variation or host‐induced modification or host‐induced variation, host‐induced modification or host‐induced variation, host‐guest chemistry, host range, host‐vector system, hot, hot laboratory or hot lab, hot room, hot spot, hot start PCR, hour, housekeeping genes, Houssay animal, Hp, HP‐1, HPCE, HpETE, hPL or HPL, HPLAC, HPLC, Hpo, HpODE, HPR, HPRD, H protein, HPRT, H+ pump…
hybrid, hybrid antibody, hybrid‐arrested translation, hybrid cell, hybrid DNA, hybridization or hybridisation, hybridization analysis, hybridization probe, hybrid myeloma, hybridoma, hybrid‐released translation, hydantoin, hydr+, hydrase, hydratase, hydrate, hydration, hydration shell, hydraulic, hydrazine, hydrazinolysis, hydrazone, hydride, hydride‐ion transfer, hydrindantin, hydrion, hydro+ or (sometimes before a vowel) hydr+ comb. form, hydrocarbon, hydrocarbyl, hydrocolloid, hydrocortisone, hydrodynamic, hydrodynamic particle, hydrodynamic radius, hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic shear, hydrodynamic volume…
hydroxy‐methoxymandelate, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA lyase, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA reductase (NADPH), [hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA reductase (NADPH)] kinase, [hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA reductase (NADPH)]‐phosphatase, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA synthase, hydroxyphenylpyruvate reductase, hydroxyproline, hydroxyprolinemia or hyperhydroxyprolinemia, hydroxyproline‐rich glycoproteins, hydroxyurea, hygro+, hygrometer, hygromycin B, hygromycin B phosphotransferase, hygroscopic, Hyl or (formerly) Hylys, Hylys, hyoscine or scopolamine, hyoscyamine, hyp+, Hyp or (formerly) Hypro, hypelcin A, hyper+, hyperaldosteronism, hyperammonemia or (esp. Brit.) hyperammonaemia, hyperbaric, hyperbilirubinemia or (esp. Brit.) hyperbilirubinaemia…
H‐meromyosin, H‐NS, H‐RNA, H+‐transporting ATP synthase, H+‐transporting pyrophosphatase, hypoglycin or hypoglycine A, hypokalemia or (esp. Brit.) hypokalaemia, hypolipoproteinemia, hyponatremia or (esp. Brit.) hyponatraemia, hypoparathyroidism, hypophase, hypophosphatasia, hypophosphatemia or (esp. Brit.) hypophosphataemia, hypophysectomy, hypophysiotropic factor or hypophysiotropic hormone, hypophysis or hypophysis cerebri, hypopituitarism, hypoplasia, hypoprothrombinemia or (esp. Brit.) hypoprothrombinaemia, hyposecretion, hypotension, hypothalamic (regulatory) factor or hypothalamic hormone or hypophysiotropic factor or hypophysiotropic hormone…
IDNPAP, Ido, IdoA, idose, idoxuridine, IDP, IDU, IdUrd, iduronate, iduronate‐2‐sulfatase, iduronic acid, iduronosyl, IE, IEC, IED, IEF, IEP, IF, IF‐1, IF‐2, IF‐3, IFCC, IFN, Ig, IgA, IgA nephropathy, IgA protease, IgA‐specific serine endopeptidase, IG cell, IgD, IgE, igensin, IGF, IGFBP, IgG, Ig‐Hepta, Ig‐like domain, IgM, ignose, IGT, Ii, Ii system, ikaros, IL, ILA, Ile, ileum…
immunoblotting, immunochemical, immunochemistry, immunochromatogram, immunochromatography, immunocompetent cell, immunocyte, immunocytochemistry, immunodeficiency, immunodeterminant, immunodiagnosis, immunodiagnostic, immunodiffusion, immunodominance, immunoelectrofocusing or immunoisoelectric focusing, immunoelectron microscopy, immunoelectropherogram, immunoelectrophoresis, immunoenzymatic, immunoenzymology, immunofixation or immunofixation electrophoresis, immunofluorescence or immunofluorescence microscopy, immunogelfiltration, immunogen, immunogenetics, immunogenicity, immunoglobulin, immunoglobulin A, immunoglobulin amyloidosis, immunoglobulin D, immunoglobulin E, immunoglobulin fold, immunoglobulin G, immunoglobulin M, immunoglobulin superfamily, immunogold labelling, immunogram, immunohistochemistry, immunoliposome, immunolocalization or immunolocalisation…
incubation period, incubator, indel, Inderal, index (pl. indices or indexes), index of refraction, Indian tobacco, indican, indicated hydrogen, indicator, indicator enzyme, indicator organism or indicator species, indicator yellow, indigo, indigotin, indirect antagonism, INDO‐1, indole, indoleacetate, indoleacetonitrile, indole‐3‐glycerol‐phosphate synthase, indole test, indolicidin, indoluria, indomethacin, INDOR, induced enzyme or inducible enzyme, induced‐fit theory, inducer, inducible, inducible enzyme, induction, induction coil, induction motor, inductive effect, +ine, inert…
inoculate, inoculum (pl. inocula), Ino‐3′,5′‐P, Ino5′P, Ino5′PP, Ino5′PPP, inorganic, inorganic biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, inorganic diphosphate, inorganic phosphate or inorganic orthophosphate, inorganic pyrophosphatase, inorganic pyrophosphate, iNOS, inosinate, inosine, inosine 3′,5′‐(cyclic)phosphate or inosine 3′,5′‐cyclophosphate, inosine 5′‐diphosphate, inosine monophosphate, inosine‐5′‐monophosphate dehydrogenase, inosine phosphate, inosine 3′,5′‐phosphate, inosine 5′‐phosphate or 5′‐inosinic acid or 5′‐phosphoinosine or 5′‐O‐phosphonoinosine, inosine 5′‐triphosphate, inosinic acid, inosinyl, inositol, inositol‐1,3‐bisphosphate 3‐phosphatase…
interallelic complementation, interband, intercalary deletion, intercalary DNA, intercalation, intercalator or intercalating agent, intercellular, intercept, interchain, interconvertible enzyme, intercrine, interface, interfacial tension, interference, interference (light) filter, interference fringe, interference optics, interfering RNA, interferogram, interferometer, interferon, interferon‐γ receptor, intergenic DNA, intergenic suppression, interjacent RNA, interleukin, interleukin 1, interleukin 2, interleukin 3, interleukin 4, interleukin 5, interleukin 6, interleukin 7, interleukin 8, interleukin 9, interleukin 10, interleukin 11…
intrinsic association constant or intrinsic binding constant, intrinsic birefringence, intrinsic constant, intrinsic dissociation constant, intrinsic efficacy, intrinsic factor, intrinsic pathway (of blood coagulation), intrinsic protein, intrinsic viscosity, intron or intervening sequence, inulin, inulobiose, inulosucrase, invaginate, invariant chain or CD74 or Ii, invariant residue, invasin, invasive, inverse agonist, inverse PCR, inverse‐square law, inversion, inversion isomer, invert, invertase or saccharase, invertebrate, inverted repeat or indirect repeat, invertin, invertomer or inversion isomer, invert sugar…
iotatoxin, IP, IP2, IP3, IP4, IP address, ipecacuanha or ipecac, IPP, iPr, IP3 receptor, iproniazid, Ips, IPTG, IPTS, Ir, IR, IRAK, IRE, IREG, IRES, IRG, Ir genes, IRMA, iron, iron‐59, iron hydrogenase, iron–molybdenum cofactor, iron overload, iron‐regulated transporter, iron regulatory protein, iron response element or iron regulatory element, iron–sulfur cluster, iron–sulfur protein, IRP, irradiate, irreversible competitive antagonist, irreversible process, IRS, IS, ischemia or (esp. Brit.) ischaemia…
isolectin, isoleucinate, isoleucine, isoleucine biosynthesis, isoleucinium, isoleucino, isoleucyl, isoliquivitigenin, isolog, isologous, isologous association or isologous binding, isologue or (US) isolog, isology, isomaltase, isomaltose, isomaltulose, isomer, isomerase, isomeric, isomeric state, isomeric transition, isomerism, isomerization or isomerisation, isometric, isomorph, isomorphic, isomorphism, isomorphous, isomorphous replacement method, isoniazid, isoosmotic, isopartitive, isopentenyl, isopentenyl diphosphate, isopentenyl‐diphosphate Δ‐isomerase, isopeptidase, isopeptide bond, isopiestic, isopiestic vapour pressure method, isoprenaline…
IκB, I‐band, IκB kinase, I‐cell disease or inclusion‐cell disease or mucolipidosis II, I‐clip, ITIM, +itis, ITP, itraconazole, +ity, IU, IUB, IUBMB, IUdR or IUDR, IUPAB, IUPAC, iupaciubin, IUPAP, IUPHAR, IV or i.v., IVD, ivermectin, iVl, j, J, jack bean, jack‐knife, Jacob‐Monod model, Jagged‐1, JAK, JalView, Jamaican vomiting sickness, Janus kinase, jasmonic acid, jaundice or icterus, Java, javascript, JCBN, J chain or J piece…
karyopherin, karyophilic proteins, karyosome, karyotype, kasugamine, kasugamycin, kat, katabolism, katacalcin, katal, katanin, Kat.f, katharometer, kathode, kation, KATP, Kauffmann‐White scheme, Kautsky effect, kayser, Kazal inhibitor, kb, K capture, K cell, K chromophore, KCNQ, kDa, KDEL, KDEL receptor, KDO, Kearns‐Sayre syndrome (abbr.: KSS) or chronic external ophthalmoplegia, KEGG, Keilin‐Hartree heart‐muscle preparation, Kell system, kelvin, Kendall's compounds, Kennedy's disease, kephalin…
killed vaccine, killer cell, killer‐cell helper factor, killer factor, killer strain, killer T‐lymphocyte, kilo+, kilobase, kilocalorie or kilogram calorie or (esp. in nutrition) Calorie, kilodalton, kilogram, kilogram calorie, kinase, +kinase, kinasing, kinectin, kinematic viscosity, kinesin, kinesin‐binding protein, kinetensin or neurotensin‐related peptide, kinetic, kinetic energy, kinetic proofreading, kinetics, kinetin, Kinetin, kinetochore, kinetochore microtubule, kinetoplast, Kinetoplastida, kinetosome, King‐Altman method, kingdom, kinin, kininase, kininogen, kininogenin…
k̃, K‐tup, K‐tuple or K‐tup, kynurenine, kyotorphin, l, L, La, label or (sometimes informally) tag, labelled compound or (US, usually) labeled compound, labelling or (US, usually) labeling, labile, labile factor, labile phosphate, labilize or labilise, lac, laccase, lact+, lactacin, lactadherin, lactalbumin, lactam, lactam‐lactim tautomerism, lactase, lactase deficiency, lactate, lactate dehydrogenase, lactation, lacteal, lactic, lactic acid, lactic‐acid bacterium, lactic‐acid cycle, lactic‐acid fermentation…
lamella (pl. lamellae), lamellar phase, lamin, lamina (pl. laminae), laminar flow, laminar‐flow cabinet, laminaribiose, laminarin, laminin, laminin receptor, Lamm equation, LAMP, lampbrush chromosome, lamprin, Lan, lan+, Landsteiner‐Weiner antigen, lane, Langendorff perfused heart, Lang‐Levy pipette, Langmuir adsorption isotherm, Langmuir‐Blodgett multilayer, Langmuir trough, lanolin, lanosterol, lanosterol synthase, lantern, lanthanoid or lanthanide, lanthionine, lantibiotic, LAP, LA‐PF4, Laplace transform method, Largactil, large calorie, large‐patch repair (of DNA)…
lead, lead compound, leader peptidase, leader peptide, leader sequence or lead sequence, leading strand, lead screw, leaf (pl. leaves), leaflet, leak, leakage, leaky, Le antigen, LEA protein, least squares, leaving group, Lebedev‐Saft or Lebedev juice, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, Le Chatelier principle or Le Chatelier‐Braun principle, lecithin, lecithinase, lecithin‐cholesterol acyl transferase, lectin, LED, leeching, leghemoglobin, legumain, legumin, Leigh syndrome or necrotizing encephalopathy, LEM, length, lens, lenticular…
levarterenol, levigate, levo‐ or (esp. Brit.) laevo‐, levo+ or (before a vowel) lev+, levodopa or (Brit.) laevodopa, levorotatory or (esp. Brit.) laevorotatory 1, levorphanol, levulose or (esp. Brit.) laevulose, Lewis acid, Lewis adduct, Lewis antigen, Lewis base, Lewis formula, Lewis transferase, Lewy body, Leydig cell, LFA 1, L form, LFS, lg, LH, LHC, LHCP, LH/FSH‐RF, LHRF or LH‐RF, LHRH or LH‐RH…
linear density gradient, linear dichroism, linear equation, linear growth, linearity, linearize or linearise, linearly polarized or plane‐polarized, line formula, line immunoelectrophoresis, line spectrum, Lineweaver‐Burk plot, linewidth, link, linkage, linkage disequilibrium, linkage group, linkage map, linked genes, linker, linker DNA, linking number, linoleate, linoleate synthase, linoleic family, linolenate, linolenic family, linolenoyl, linoleoyl, Linux, liothyronine, lip+, lipaemia, lipase, lipemia or lipidemia, lipid or (formerly) lipide or lipoid or lipin(e)…
Li‐Fraumeni syndrome, liquid‐crystal display, liquid‐crystalline phase, liquid‐gel chromatography, liquid‐junction potential, liquid‐liquid chromatography, liquid paraffin, liquid‐scintillation counting, liquid‐scintillation spectrometry, liquid‐solid chromatography, liquor, liquorice or (esp. US) licorice, Lisp, liter, lithiasis, lithium, lithogenesis, lithotroph, litre or (US) liter, little gastrin, liver, liver X receptor, livin or melanoma inhibitor of apoptosis protein, LLC, LLD factor, LLF or L‐L factor, lm, L meromyosin, LMM, ln, LNB‐TM7, lnRNA, load…
low‐lipid lipoprotein, low‐spin complex, Lozenge, LPG, LPH, LPL, L protein, LPS, LPS‐binding protein, Lr, L region, LRF, LRH, LRP, LRP2, LRr, LSC, LSD, L strand, LT, LTQ, LTR, LTRPC, LTRPC2, LTRPC7, Lu, Lubrol, LUCA, LUCA 15, luciferase, luciferin, Lucifer Yellow, Lucite, lufenuron, luffin, luliberin, lumen, lumichrome, lumiflavin, lumigenic substrate, lumina, luminal protein or (sometimes) ER‐resident protein, luminescence…
L‐arabinose isomerase, l‐gulonolactone oxidase, L‐iduronidase, l‐, L‐bifunctional enzyme, L‐NAME, lymphoreticular tissue, lymphotoxin, Lynx, lyo+, lyochrome, lyocytosis, lyoenzyme, lyoglycogen, lyolysis, Lyon hypothesis, lyonium ion, lyophile, lyophilic or lyophile, lyophilic sol, lyophilization or lyophilisation, lyophilizer or lyophiliser, lyophobic or lyophobe, lyophobic sol, lyotropic or lyotrope, lyotropic mesophase, lyotropic series or Hofmeister series, lypressin, Lys, lys+, lysate, +lysate, Lys‐bradykinin, lyse, +lyse, lysenin, lysergamide, lysergic acid, lysigeny…
L‐type pentose pathway, m, m+, M, M, M, M9, MAA, Mab, Mabthera, MAC, machine address, machine language, MACIF, Mac‐IP, mackerel, maconha, macro+ or (before a vowel) macr+, macroaggregate, macrocycle, macrocyclic, macrocytic anemia, macroglobulin, macroglobulinemia or (esp. Brit.) macroglobulinaemia, macro histone 2A, macroion, macrolide, macroligand, macrometabolite, macromolecule, macronutrient, macrophage, macrophage‐activating factor, macrophage‐colony stimulating factor, macrophage inflammatory protein, macrophage migration enhancement factor…
magnification, Magnogel, MAIA, Maillard reaction, main protease, major facilitator superfamily, major groove, major histocompatibility complex, majority‐rule consensus tree, major tranquillizer, MAK, Makefile, Mal, malate, malate‐aspartate cycle or malate cycle, malate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating), malate synthase, MALDI, maleate, maleoyl, maleyl, maleylation, malformin A, malic enzyme or pyruvic–malic carboxylase, malignant, malignant hyperthermia, malnutrition, malonate, malonate semialdehyde, malondialdehyde, malonyl, malonyl‐CoA, malonyl‐CoA–acyl carrier protein transacylase, maloyl, Malpighian body or Malpighian corpuscle or renal corpuscle…
map unit or Morgan's unit, maquette, MAR, marasmus, marcks, Marcus theory, marenostrin, margarine, marijuana, Mariotte bottle or Mariotte flask, Mariotte's law, marker, marker enzyme, marker gene, marker rescue, Markham still, Markovnikov('s) rule, markup language, Markush structure, Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome, marsh gas, maser, Mash, mask, masked residue, maskin, MASP, maspin, mass, mass action, law of, mass‐average molar mass, mass concentration, mass density, mass fraction…
MCD, MCDP, M cell or microfold cell, McFarlane's method, MCH, mCi, McIlwain chopper or McIlwain–Buddle chopper, McIntosh and Fildes jar, McLeod gauge, MCM protein, McOse3, McOse4, MCP, MCS, Md, MD, MDa, MDCK cell, MDH, Mdm2 or MDM2, MDMA, MDP, MDR, MDR protein, Mdv1, Me, Mead acid, mean or arithmetic mean or average, mean deviation, mean free path, mean ionic activity coefficient, mean life or average life, mean relative residue mass or (formerly) mean residue weight…
MELAS, melatonin, melezitose, melibiase, melibiose, melissyl, melitriose, melittin, melting, melting curve, melting point, melting temperature, MEM, memapsin2, membrane, membrane attack complex, membrane attack complex inhibition factor (abbr.: MACIF) or CD59 glycoprotein precursor;, membrane‐bound, membrane‐bound O‐acyltransferase, membrane channel, membrane electrode, membrane filter or filter membrane, membrane filtration, membrane‐intrusive, membrane‐organizing spike protein, membrane osmometer, membrane potential, membrane protein, membrane receptor, membrane skeleton, membrane teichoic acid, membrane transport, membrane type‐serine protease 1…
mesosome, mesothelium (pl. mesothelia), mesotocin, mesotrophic, message, message‐dependent, message sequence or message region, messenger, messenger ribonucleoprotein, messenger RNA or template RNA, messenger‐RNA‐interfering complementary RNA, Messing vector, met+, Met, meta+ or (before a vowel or letter h) met+, meta‐analysis, metabisulfite, metabolic, metabolic acidosis, metabolic activation, metabolic alkalosis, metabolic balance, metabolic block, metabolic code, metabolic compartmentation or metabolic compartmentalization, metabolic control, metabolic cycle, metabolic disease, metabolic flux, metabolic map…
metestrus, meth+, methadone (hydrochloride), methaemoglobin, methaemoglobinaemia, methane or marsh gas, methano+, methanoate, methanogen, methanogenesis, methanogenic, methanol, methanol oxidase, methanolysis, MetHb, methemalbumin or (esp. Brit.) methaemalbumin, methemoglobin or (esp. Brit.) methaemoglobin, methemoglobinemia or (esp. Brit.) methaemoglobinaemia, methene, methene bridge, methenyl+, methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase, MeTHFA, methicillin, methine, methioninate, methionine, methionine adenosyltransferase, methionine cycle, methionine dioxide, methionine oxide, methionine salvage pathway or methionine cycle or Yang cycle…
Met‐Lys‐bradykinin, metyrapone, MeV, Mevacor, mevaldate, mevalonate, mevalonate kinase, mevalonic aciduria, mevalonolactone, mevalonoyl, mevastatin or compactin, Mevinacor, mevinolin, Meyerhof pathway, Meyerhof quotient, mfd, mg, Mg, Mgm1, MHC, MHC class II deficiency, mho, MHS, MIC, mica substrate technique, micelle, micellization or micellisation, Michaelian, Michaelis kinetics or Michaelis–Menten kinetics or Henri– Michaelis–Menten kinetics, Michaelis pH function, micr+, micra, micRNA, micro, micro+, microaerophilic, microalbuminuria, microanalysis, microarray or DNA chip or DNA microarray or gene expression array…
micro‐Kjeldahl method, micromole, micromolecule, micron (pl. microns or micra), micronucleus, micronutrient, microorganism, microperoxisome, microphthalmia transcription factor, micropinocytosis, micropipette or (US) micropipet, micropore, microprocessor, Microprocessor, microRNA, microsatellite, microscope, microscopic, microscopic equilibrium constant, microscopic reversibility, microscopy, microsecond, microsequenator, microsequence, microsolute, microsomal, microsomal fraction, microsomal triglyceride transfer protein, microsome, microspectrophotometer, microspectrophotometry, microsphere, microspore, microstructure, microsyringe, microtitre plate or (esp. US) microtiter plate…
minimum inhibitory concentration, minimum lethal dose, minimum (relative) molecular mass or (formerly) minimum molecular weight, minisatellite, minivial, minor base, minor groove, minor nucleoside, minoxidil, minuend, minus end, minus 10 region and minus 35 region, minus strand, minute, MIP, mi protein, miRNA, mirror, misacylate or mischarge, mischarge, miscible, mismatch repair, mispairing, missense codon, missense mutation, mistranslation, MIT, Mitchell hypothesis, MITE, MITF, mitochondria, mitochondriac, mitochondrial carrier, mitochondrial carrier protein…
mode, modeccin, model, model organism, model system, moderator or modulator, modification, modification enzyme, modification gene, modification methylase, modification–restriction system, modified LDL, modifier, modifier gene or modifying gene, modify, modular primer, modulating codon, modulation, modulator, modulator protein, module, MODY, moesin, Moffitt–Yang equation or Moffitt equation, Mohr pipette, Mohr's salt, m.o.i, moiety, mol, mol, molal, molality, molar, molar absorbancy index, molar absorption coefficient…
mollicute, Molscript, molt, molting hormone, mol. wt, molybdate, molybdenum, molybdenum cofactor, molybdenum cofactor deficiency, molybdo+, molybdoenzyme, molybdoferredoxin, molybdophosphoric acid or phosphomolybdic acid, molybdopterin or pyranopterin, mon+, Mon, monactin, monatomic or monoatomic, monellin, monensin, Monera, mongolism, monitor, mono+ or (sometimes before a vowel) mon+, monoacidic, monoacylglycerol or (formerly) monoglyceride, monoacylglycerol pathway, monoamine oxidase, monoamine oxidase inhibitor, monoatomic, monobactam, monobasic, monochromatic, monochromator, monocistronic…
mr, mosaic, mosaic evolution, mosaic model, Mössbauer spectroscopy, most parsimonious reconstruction, most parsimonious tree, moT‐1, moT‐2, mother liquor, motif, motile, motilin, motor, motor protein, Motrin, mould or (US) mold, moult or (US) molt, moulting hormone or (US) molting hormone, mouse‐convulsion method, mouse mammary tumour virus, moving‐boundary electrophoresis, MOX, m.p, MP, MPF, M phase, MPP, M protein, MPTP, MRC, MRCK, MRE, MREBP…
mucopolysaccharidosis VI or Maroteaux‐Lamy syndrome, mucopolysaccharidosis VII, mucoprotein, mucosa (pl. mucosae) or mucous membrane, mucotetraose, mucotriaose, mucous, mucous cell, mucous gland, mucous membrane, mucus, MUG, MUGal, mugineic acid, mull, Müllerian inhibiting factor, multi+, multicatalytic endopeptidase complex, multicellular, multichain, multichannel analyser, multichannel pipette, multicopy single‐strand DNA, multidentate, multidimensional chromatography, multidrug resistance, multidrug transporter, multienzyme, multienzyme cluster, multienzyme complex, multienzyme polypeptide, multienzyme system, multifactorial, multifunctional protein, multifunctional protein ade2…
mutagenesis, mutagenize or mutagenise, mutant, mutarotation, mutase, mutate, mutation, mutational heteroduplex, mutation bias, mutation frequency, mutation frequency decline, mutation matrix, mutation pressure, mutation rate, mutator gene, mutein, MutH, MutL, muton, MutS, MVA, MVG, MVP, M.W, MWC model, my+, myc+, mycarose, mycelia, mycelium (pl. mycelia), myceto+ or (before a vowel) mycet+, myco+ or (before a vowel) myc+, mycobacterium (pl. mycobacteria)…
M‐phase‐promoting factor or maturation‐promoting factor or p34 cdc, myrosinase, MySQL, myxamoeba or (esp. US) myxameba, myxedema or (esp. Brit.) myxoedema, myxo+ or (usually before a vowel) myx+, Myxobacterales, myxobacteria, myxoedema, myxomatosis, Myxomycetes, myxothiazol, myxovirus, n, N, Na, NA, NAA, NAADP, NAc, NAC, nactin, NAD, NAD+, NAD+ ADP‐ribosyltransferase, NADH, NADH2, NADH dehydrogenase, NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), NADH kinase, Nadi reagent, NAD+ kinase…
NCBI, NCE, N cell, NC–IUB, NC–IUBMB, NCoR, ncRNA, NCS, Nd, nDNA, NDP, Ne, NE, nearest‐neighbour sequence analysis, near ultraviolet radiation, nebulette, nebulin, nebulize or nebulise, nebulizer or nebuliser, necrobiosis, necropsy, necrosis, necrotizing encephalopathy, nectary, nectin‐1, Nedd, neddylation, Needleman–Wunsch alignment algorithm, NEFA, negative, negative chromatography, negative‐contrast technique, negative control, negative cooperativity, negative effector, negative elongation factor, negative feedback, negative‐ion mass spectrometry, negative staining, negative strand…
nesidioblastoma, nesidioblastosis, nesslerize or Nesslerize, Nessler's reagent, nested deletion, nested PCR primers, nestin, netrin, netropsin, Netscape, net sensitivity, net synthesis, Neu, NeuAc or (formerly) AcNeu, Neuberg ester, Neuberg's first form of fermentation, Neuberg's second form of fermentation, Neuberg's third form of fermentation, NeuGc, NeuNAc or Neu5Ac, NeuOAc, neur+, neural, neural cell adhesion molecule, neural crest, neural network or artificial neural network, neuraminate, neuraminic acid…
Neu‐activating factor, neutral fat, neutral filter or neutral density filter, neutrality, neutralize or neutralise, neutral lipid, Neutral Red, neutral solution, neutron, neutron activation analysis, neutron diffraction, neutron flux (density), neutron number, neutron scattering, neutrophil or neutrophil leukocyte or neutrophilic leukocyte, Newman projection, newton, Newtonian flow, Newtonian fluid, Newton's law of viscosity, new yellow enzyme, New Zealand obese mouse, nexin, nexin 1, nexin 2, nexus, NF‐1, NF2, NF‐AT, NF‐κB, NF‐E1…
nitrogen‐13, nitrogen‐15, nitrogenase, nitrogenase reductase, nitrogen balance, nitrogen base, nitrogen cavitation, nitrogen cycle, nitrogen equilibrium, nitrogen fixation, nitrogen mustard, nitrogenous, nitrogenous base or nitrogen base, nitrogen regulatory protein, nitroglycerin, nitrophenyl, nitrophorin, nitroprusside test, nitros+, nitroso, nitroso+ or (before a vowel) nitros+, Nitrotetrazolium Blue or Nitroblue Tetrazolium, nitrous acid, nitroxide, NK cell, NKSF, NLM, NLP, NLS, nm, nM, NMD, NMDA, NMDA receptor, NMN, nmol…
Nonidet P‐40, non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes, noninvasive, nonionic, nonionic detergent, non‐lactose‐fermenter, nonmediated transport, non‐Newtonian fluid, non‐nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, nonoate, nonorthologous gene displacement, nonose, nonoverlapping code, nonpenetrance, nonpermissive, nonpermissive cell, nonpolar, nonpolar bond, nonpolar solvent, nonproductive binding or dystopic binding, nonproductive complex, nonprotein amino acid, nonprotein nitrogen, nonradioactive, nonradioactive labelling, nonradioactive tracer, nonreducing end, nonribosomal peptide synthesis, nonsecretor, nonselectively labelled, nonsense codon or nonsense triplet, nonsense‐mediated alternative splicing, nonsense‐mediated decay, nonsense mutation…
NRTI, ns, NSF, NSF protein, NSILA, NS‐1 myeloma cells, NSP, NST, NT, N terminus or sometimes N terminal, NTP, NTPase, NTP polymerase, nu, nu body or ν body or deoxyribosome, Nuc, nucle+, nuclear, nuclear area, nuclear assembly protein 1, nuclear atom or central atom, nuclear body (abbr.: NB) or PML nuclear body or PML oncogenetic domain, nuclear division or nuclear fission, nuclear emulsion, nuclear envelope or nuclear membrane, nuclear filament‐related protein, nuclear fission…
N‐end rule, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, nucleoside‐triphosphatase, nucleoside triphosphate, nucleoside triphosphate reductase, nucleosomal remodelling and histone deacetylase, nucleosome, nucleosome code, nucleosome remodelling factor, nucleotidase, nucleotide, nucleotide‐binding fold or nucleotide‐binding pocket, nucleotide coenzyme, nucleotide excision repair, nucleotide‐gated channel, nucleotide reductase, nucleotide sugar, nucleotide unit, nucleotidyl, nucleotidyltransferase, nucleus (pl. nuclei), nuclide, nude, NUF1, Nujol, null, null cell, nullisomic, null lymphocyte or null cell, null method or zero method, NuMA, numatrin…
OCS, oct+, OCT, octa+ or octo+ or (sometimes before a vowel)oct+, octacosa+, octacosanoate, octacosanoyl, octadeca+, octadecadienoic acid, octadecanoic acid, octadecapentaenoic acid, octadecatetraenoic acid, octadecatrienoic acid, octadecenoic acid, octaethyleneglycol mono‐n‐decyl ether, octaethyleneglycol mono‐n‐dodecyl ether, octahedral coordination, octahedron (pl. octahedra), octamer, octanoate or (formerly) caprylate, octanoyl or (formerly) capryloyl or caprylyl, octet, octo+, octonic acid, octopamine, octopine, octopinic acid, octose, octreotide, octulose, octyl…
oligo‐2′,5′‐adenylate synthetase, oligo‐1,6‐glucosidase, oligophrenin‐1, oligosaccharide, oligosaccharin, oligotrophic, olivomycin, +oma (pl. +omas or +omata), +ome, OMe, omega, Omega, omega‐oxidation or ω‐oxidation, omega protein or ω‐protein, omeprazole, omicron, +omics, OMIM, ommatidium, ommatin, ommatochrome, ommin, ommochrome or ommatochrome, OMP, OMP decarboxylase, +onate, onco+, oncofetal parvalbumin, oncogen, oncogene, oncogenesis, oncogenic, oncology, oncolysis, oncomodulin, oncoprotein, oncornavirus, oncostatin M, oncotic pressure, +one…
optically active, optically inactive, optical purity, optical rotation or rotation, optical rotatory dispersion, optical rotatory power, optical system, optical tweezers, optics, optineurin, OPTLC, Oracle, oral, Orb, orbit, orbital, orbital shaker, ORC, orcinol test or Bial's test, ORD, Ord, order, ordered mechanism or ordered pathway, order of magnitude, order of reaction, order of reflection, ordinate, ORESTES, orexin, ORF, ORF ESTs or ORESTES, organ, organ culture, organelle, organic…
oscillograph, oscilloscope, OSCP, +ose, Ose, oside, +oside, +osis, osM or osm, OSM, osmiophilic, osmium tetroxide, osmo+, osmoceptor, osmol, osmolal, osmolality, osmolar, osmolarity, osmole, osmometer, osmophile, osmoreceptor or osmoceptor, osmoregulation, osmosis, osmotic coefficient, osmotic pressure, osmotic shock, osmotin, osmotolerant, osone, ossein, ossify, osteo+ or (before a vowel) oste+ or (sometimes)ost+, osteoblast, osteocalcin, osteochondrodysplasia, osteochondromatosis, osteoclast, osteocyte…
O‐ring, oxalyl, OXBOX, oxene, oxidant, oxidase, oxidase test, oxidation, oxidation level or oxidation state, oxidation number or oxidation state, oxidation potential, oxidation–reduction, oxidation–reduction indicator, oxidation–reduction potential, oxidation state, oxidative deamination, oxidative decarboxylation, oxidative metabolism, oxidative pentose phosphate pathway or hexose monophosphate shunt, oxidative phosphorylation or respiratory‐chain phosphorylation, oxidative stress, oxide, +oxide or +olate, oxidize or oxidise, oxidizer or oxidiser, oxidizing agent or oxidising agent, oxidoreductase, oxidoreduction, oximeter, oxine, oxirane, oxo…
P81, P870, P960, Pa, pA2, p[A]50, PAB or PABA, PABA test, PABP‐2, PACAP, pacemaker reaction, pachyman, pachytene, package, packaging cell line, packaging extract, packing, packing density, packing fraction, Paclitaxel, PAF, PAF‐AH, PAGE, PAGIF, PAH, pair, paired box, pair‐rule gene, pairwise alignment, pairwise alignment algorithm, PaJaMa experiment, PAK, palindrome, pallidin, palmitate, palmitate synthase, palmitic acid, palmitoleate, palmitoleic family, palmitoleoyl…
parahemophilia, parallel, parallel dichroism, parallelism, paralogue or (esp. US) paralog, paramagnetism, paramecium (pl. paramecia), parameter, paramomycin, paramone, paramylon, paramyosin, paramyxovirus, paranemic, paraoxonase, parapepsin I, parapepsin II, paraplegin, paraprotein, paraproteinemia or (esp. Brit.) paraproteinaemia, Paraquat, parasite, parastatin, paratartaric acid, parathion, Parathormone, parathyrin or parathyroid hormone, parathyroid, parathyroid gland, parathyroid hormone, parathyroid hormone‐related protein, paratope, paratose, Parazoa, parenchyma, parenchymal liver cell…
+pathic, patho+ or (before a vowel) path+ comb. form, pathobiochemistry, pathogen, pathogenesis, pathogenesis‐related proteins, pathogenic, pathogenicity island, pathological or pathologic, pathology, pathophysiology, pathway, pathway database, pathway engineering, +pathy, pattern or signature, pattern database or secondary database or signature database, pattern hit initiated‐BLAST, pattern recognition, patulin, pauci+, paucidisperse, Pauli exclusion principle or exclusion principle or Pauli principle, Paulus filtration method, Pauly's reagent, PAUP, Pavlovian conditioning, paxillin, Pb…
penatin, pendrin, penetrance, penetratin or Trojan peptide, penicillamine, penicillicacid, penicillin, penicillin acylase, penicillin amidase, penicillinase, penicillin‐binding protein, penicillin G acylase, penicillin V acylase, penicilloic acid, penta+ or (before a vowel) pent+, pentacosa+, pentadeca+, pentafunctional arom polypeptide, pentagastrin, pentakisphosphate, pentamer, pentanoate, pentanoyl, pentaose, pentaric acid, pentasaccharide, penta‐snRNP, pentatricopeptide repeat, pentaxin or pentraxin, pentitol, pentobarbital, pentolinium test, penton, pentonic acid, pentosan, pentose, pentose cycle…
perforin, performic acid, perfusate, perfuse, perhydro+, peri+, periaxin, pericellular, pericentric, pericentrin, pericentriolar material, perifusate, perifuse, perikaryon or cell body, perilipin, perinuclear space, period, periodate, periodate oxidation, periodic, periodic acid, periodic acid‐Schiff reaction, periodic classification, periodicity, periodic law or Mendeleev's law, periodic system or periodic classification, periodic table, peripheral (cell‐membrane) protein or extrinsic protein, peripheral nervous system, peripherin, peripherin/RDS, periplasm or periplasmic space, peristalsis…
PEX7, PEX protein, pEX vector, Peyer's patch, Pfam, pFc′ fragment, PFGE, PFP, PFK, pfu, pg, PG, PGA, PGAH4, PGAM, PGB, PGD, PGE, pGEM vector, pGEX vector, PGF, PGF synthase, PGG, PGH, PGH synthase, PGI, PGK, pGL vector, P glycoprotein or MDR protein 1, PGT, pH, pH*, Ph, PHA, phaeo+, phaeochromocytoma, phaeofarnesin, phaeomelanin, phaeophorbide, phaeophytin, phage, phage conversion, phage display library…
phenomenology, phenon, phenothiazine, phenotype, phenoxide, phenoxy, phentolamine, phenyl, phenylacetaldehyde dehydrogenase, phenylalaninate, phenylalanine, phenylalanine hydroxylase, phenylalanine 4‐monooxygenase, phenylalaninium, phenylalanino, phenylalanyl, phenylalanyl chain, phenylephrine, phenylethanolamine, phenylhydrazone, phenylketonuria (abbr.: PKU) or phenylpyruvic oligophrenia, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride or phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride, phenylosazone, phenylpropanoid, phenylpyruvate decarboxylase, phenylpyruvic oligophrenia, pheo+ or (esp. Brit.) phaeo+, pheochromocytoma or (esp. Brit.) phaeochromocytoma or chromaffinoma, pheofarnesin or (esp. Brit.) phaeofarnesin, pheomelanin or (esp. Brit.) phaeomelanin…
+phospho+ or (sometimes before a vowel) +phosph+, phosphodiesterase II, phosphodiester method, phosphoenolpyruvate, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, phosphoenolpyruvate‐dependent sugar phosphotransferase system, phosphoenolpyruvate mutase, phosphoenolpyruvate‐protein phosphotransferase, phosphoester, phosphofructokinase, phosphoglucoisomerase, phosphoglucomutase, phosphogluconate, phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating), phosphogluconate (oxidative) pathway, phosphoglycerate, phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, phosphoglycerate kinase, phosphoglycerate mutase, phosphoglycerate phosphomutase, phosphoglyceride, phosphohexose isomerase, phosphohistidine, phosphoinositide, phosphoinositide cycle, phosphoketolase, phosphoketolase pathway, phosphokinase, phospholamban, phospholemman, phospholipase, phospholipid or (formerly) phospholipide…
phosphotriester method, phosphotyrosine, phosphotyrosine antibodies or antiphosphotyrosine antibodies, phosphovitin or phosvitin, phot, phot+, photagogikon (pl. photagogika), photic, photo+, photoactivate, photoactive, photoactive yellow protein, photoaddition, photoaffinity label or photolabel, photoautotroph or photolithotroph, photobiochemistry, photobiology, photobleaching, photocatalysis, photocathode, photocell or photoelectric cell, photochemical action spectrum, photochemical reaction, photochemistry, photochromism or phototropy, photoconductive, photodamage, photodensitometer, photodetector, photodimerization or photodimerisation, photodiode, photodissociation, photodynamic, photoelectric, photoelectric cell, photoelectron, photoelectron micrograph…
Pi, PH‐30 or PH30, pH‐activity profile or pH profile, php, pH paper, pH profile, phragmoplast, PHRAP, PHRED, phrenosin, PHRP, pH standard, pH‐stat, Pht< or –Pht–, Pht–, phthalate, phthaloyl, phthalyl, pH unit, phyco+, phycobilin, phycobiliprotein or biliprotein, phycobilisome, phycocyanin, phycocyanobilin, phycoerythrin, phycoerythrobilin, phycofluor, phycotoxin, phyl+, phyla, PHYLIP, phyllo+, phyllocerulein, phylloquinone, phylo+, phylogenetic analysis, phylogenetic tree, phylogenomic analysis, phylogeny…
PIAS, pi bond or π bond, picein (wax), picket‐fence (porphyrin) complex, pico+, picogram, picometre, picomolar, picomole, pi complex or π complex, picoplankton, picornavirus, picosecond, picrotoxin or cocculin, piebaldism, pi electron or π electron, piericidin A, pig, PIG, PIG‐A, pigeon, pigment, pigment 680, pigment 700, pigmentation, pigment system, pigmenturia, PI‐G‐tailed proteins, PIGylation, pili, pilin, pilocarpine, pilosulin, pilot plant, pilus (pl. pili), pI marker…
plasma, plasma albumin, plasma cell or plasmacyte or plasmocyte, plasma cholesterol, plasma clearance, plasmacyte, plasmacytoma, plasma kallikrein, plasmalemma, plasma lipid transfer protein, plasmalogen, plasmalogen synthase, plasma membrane, plasmanic acid, plasmanyl, plasmapheresis or plasmaphoresis or plasmapharesis or plasmaphaeresis, plasma protein, plasma thromboplastin antecedent, plasmenic acid, plasmenyl or (formerly) phosphatidal, plasmid, plasmid chimera, plasmid curing, plasmid engineering, plasmid incompatibility, plasmid segregation, plasmid transconjugant, plasmid vector, plasmin or fibrinolysin or fibrinase, plasminogen or profibrinolysin…
pM or pm, PmaCI, pMAL vector, pMB1, pMC9, PMF, PML, PML nuclear body, PMN, pmol, PMR or pmr, PMS, PMSF, PMSG, PN‐1, PNA, PNAD, pneumo+ or pneumono+ or (before a vowel) pneum+ or pneumon+, pneumococcus (pl. pneumococci), pneumococcus capsule swelling reaction, p[NH]ppA, PNK, PNMT, PNP, Po, pocket, podocalyxin, podophyllotoxin, +poiesis, poikilo+, poikilocyte, poikilosmotic, poikilothermic or poikilothermal, point…
polychromatophilia, polycistronic messenger RNA or multicistronic messenger RNA or polygenic messenger RNA, polyclonal, polyclonal antibody, Polycomb, polycyclic, polycystin, polydentate, polydeoxynucleotide or polydeoxyribonucleotide, polydisperse, polyelectrolyte, polyene, polyene antibiotic, polyenoic acid, polyester, polyethylene, polyethylene glycol, poly(ethyleneimine), polyfructosan, poly(G), polygalactan, polygalacturonase, polygene, polygenic, polyglucosan, polyglutamine or (sometimes) polyglutamine tract, polyglutamine disease, polygon, polyhedron (pl. polyhedrons or polyhedra), polyhormone, polyhydric, poly(hydroxybutyrate), poly(I)…
poly‐l‐lysine, poly‐α2,8‐sialic acid, polyunsaturated, polyunsaturated fatty acid, polyuria, polyuronide, polyvalent or multivalent 1, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidine fluoride, polyvinyl pyrollidone, polyxenic, pomace, POMC, Pompe's disease, Ponceau S or Fast Ponceau 2B, pontal, ponticulin, pool, POPOP, population, population genetics, population standard deviation, P:O ratio, porcine, pore, pore‐forming toxins, porin, porosity, porosome, porous, porphin or porphine, porphobilinogen, porphobilinogen deaminase, porphobilinogen synthase…
Pot‐1, potocytosis, Potter‐Elvehjem homogenizer, POU domain, pound, powder pattern or powder diagram, power, power calculation, poxvirus, Pp, PP, PPi, PPAR, P particle, ppb or p.p.b., PPCA, PP cell or (formerly) F cell, pp[CH2]pA, PPF or PP factor, ppGpp, PPIase, PPLO, ppm or p.p.m., PPO, pppGpp, P protein, PPS, ppt or ppt.;, PPT, PQ, PQH2, PQQ, Pr…
Pri, pre‐initiation complex, pre‐messenger RNA, pre‐miRNA, pre‐mRNA, pre‐mRNA processing protein (abbr.: PRP protein) or pre‐mRNA splicing factor, pre‐part or pre‐peptide, pre‐piece, pre‐steady‐state kinetics or transient‐phase kinetics, pre‐swollen, presynaptic nerve ending, pre‐transfer RNA, pretransition temperature, pretyrosine, previtamin, PRF, Pribnow box, primaeval soup, primapterin or 7‐biopterin, primaquine, primary, primary cell wall, primary culture, primary database, primary electron, primary F′‐containing strain, primary fluor or primary scintillator or primary solute, primary granule, primary hormone…
pro+ or pro‐, product, product inhibition, productive, productive binding or eutopic binding, productive complex, productivity, prodynorphin, proenkephalin, proenzyme, proestrus, profibrinolysin, profile, profilin, proflavin, progeria, progesterone, progestin, progestin receptor, progestogen or progestagen or progestin, proglucagon, program, programmable messenger, programmed ribosomal frameshifting, programming language, progress curve, progressive alignment, prohibitin, prohormone, prohormone convertase or prohormone converting enzyme, prohormone converting enzyme, proinsulin, projection formula, prokaryon or procaryon (pl. prokarya or procarya)…
PROSITE, prosolin, prosome, Prospero, prostacyclin or prostaglandin I, prostacyclin synthase, prostaglandin, prostaglandin‐D synthase, prostaglandin‐endoperoxide synthase, prostaglandin‐E2 9‐reductase, prostaglandin‐E synthase, prostaglandin‐F synthase, prostaglandin‐I synthase, prostanoate, prostanoid, prostasin, prostate‐specific antigen, prostatic, prosthetic group, prostin, protachykinin β precursor, protamine, protamine sulfate, protease, protease‐activated G‐protein‐coupled receptor, protease inhibitor 4, protease nexin I, proteasome or proteosome, protectin, protecting group or protective group or blocking group, protection of telomeres‐1, protective protein/cathepsin C, protegrin…
PR‐enzyme, protoheme or (esp. Brit.) protohaem, protohemin, protokaryon, protokaryote, protolysosome, protomer, proton, proton magnetic resonance, proton magnetogyric ratio, protonmotive, protonmotive force, protonmotive Q cycle, proton number or atomic number, proton pump, proton relaxation enhancement, protooncogene, protoplasm, protoplast, protoporphyrin IX, prototroph, Protozoa, provirus, provitamin, Pro‐X dipeptidase, proximal protein, proximate carcinogen or proximate carcinogenic metabolite, Prozac, PrP, PRP protein, PRPP, PRPP synthetase, PR protein, pRSETA, prunasin…
P‐cadherin, P‐loop, P‐protein, P‐protein body, P‐selectin, P‐site, P‐type transporter, pulldown technique, ‘pull’ model, pullulan, pullulanase, pulmonary surfactant, pulse‐chase experiment, pulsed field gel electrophoresis, pulse radiolysis, Pumilio, pump, PUMP‐1, pump‐1 protease, Punnett square, purine, purine biosynthesis, purine‐nucleoside phosphorylase, purinergic, purine salvage pathway, purinoceptor, puromycin, purothionin, purple membrane, ‘push’ model, putidaredoxin, putrescine, PVA, p‐value, PVC, PVDF, PVP, PWM, pYAC4, pycnodysostosis, pycnometer, pYD1…
quantize or quantise, quantum (pl. quanta), quantum efficiency, quantum mechanics, quantum number, quantum requirement, quantum theory, quantum yield, quartz, quasi‐species, quaternary, quaternary ammonium compound, quaternary structure, Quellung reaction or Neufeld Quellung reaction or pneumococcus capsule swelling reaction, quench correction, quenched flow, quencher, quenching, quercetin, quercitrin, query sequence, queuosine, Qui, Quin‐2, quinacrine or mepacrine or atebrine, quinacrine mustard, quinhydrone, quinhydrone electrode, quinic acid, quinidine, quinine, quinoid or quinonoid, quinol…
radiochromatogram, radiofrequency radiation, radiography, radioimmunoassay, radioimmunosorbent test, radioiodinate, radioiodine, radioisotope, radiolabel, radioligand, radiology, radiolysis, radiometer, radiomimetic, radionuclide, radionuclidic impurity, radionuclidic purity or radiopurity, radiotherapy, radiotracer, radixin, radyl, raffinose or gossypose or melitose or melitriose, raft, ragged‐red fibers, Raji, r.a.m, ram, Ramachandran plot or conformational map, Raman scattering, Raman spectrum, Ramos, RAMP, Ran, random coil, random copolymer, randomization or randomisation, random mechanism or random pathway…
reactivity, reading, reading frame, readthrough, readthrough protein, reagent, reagent grade, reagin, real‐time, real‐time PCR, rearrangase or S‐S rearrangase, rearrangement reaction, recalcitrance or persistence, recall or sensitivity, recDNA, receiver operating characteristic or receiver operator characteristic, receptor, receptor activator of NF‐κB, receptor activity modifying protein, receptor assay, receptor cross‐talk, receptor‐destroying enzyme, receptor‐effector complex, receptor‐mediated, receptor‐mediated endocytosis, receptor transformation, recessive, RecET, RecG, recipient bacterium, reciprocal, reciprocal plot, reciprocal translocation, recircularization or recircularisation…
refractory, Refsum's disease (classical) or Refsum's disease (adult), Regan isozyme or Regan isoenzyme, regeneration, regeneration time, regex, regio+, regioselective, regiospecific, registration peptide, regression coefficient, regression line, regucalcin, regular expression, regulation, regulator gene or regulatory gene, regulator of G‐protein signalling protein, regulator‐site hypothesis, regulatory enzyme, regulatory factor for X box, regulatory gene, regulatory sequence, regulatory site, regulatory subunit, regulon, rehydrate, reiterated, relational database, relational database management system…
reproduction, reptation, repton, RER, reseal, reserpine, reserve polysaccharide, residence time, resident protein, residual body, residue, residue mass, residue weight, resin or rosin, resistance, resistance donor, resistance factor, resistance plasmid, resistin or FIZZ 3, resolution, resolvase, resolving power, resonance, resonance energy, resonance hybrid, resonance Raman spectroscopy, resonance stabilization or resonance stabilisation, resonate, resorb, resorcinol, resorption, RESOURCERER, respiration, respiratory burst, respiratory chain or electron‐transport chain, respiratory complex, respiratory control…
re‐entrant loop, Re‐face, retinoic acid receptor, retinoid, retinoid receptor (abbr. : RXR) or retinoic acid orphan receptor, retinol, retinol‐binding protein, retinoyl, retinyl, retro+, retroendocytosis, retrogene, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogress, retroinhibition, retropepsin, retroposon or retrotransposon, retroregulation, retrotransposon, Retrovir, retroviral oncogene, retrovirus or ribodeoxyvirus or RNA‐DNA virus, Rett syndrome, reversal, reverse cholesterol transport, reverse dialysis, reversed phase or reverse phase, reversed rocket immunoelectrophoresis, reverse genetics, reverse gyrase, reverse mutation or back mutation…
ribocharin, ribodeoxyvirus, riboflavin, ribofuranosyl, ribonuclease, ribonuclease inhibitor, ribonuclease protection assay, ribonucleate, ribonucleic acid, ribonucleoprotein, ribonucleoside, ribonucleoside‐diphosphate reductase, ribonucleoside‐triphosphate reductase, ribonucleotide, ribonucleotide reductase, ribophorin, riboprobe, ribose, ribose nucleic acid, ribose‐5‐phosphate epimerase, ribose‐phosphate pyrophosphokinase, riboside, ribosomal ambiguity, ribosomal DNA, ribosomal protein, ribosomal protein S6 kinase, ribosomal RNA, ribosomal RNA processing, ribosome, ribosome‐inactivating protein, ribosome receptor, ribosome recycling factor, riboswitch, ribosyl or ribofuranosyl, ribosylate, ribosylthymine, ribosylthymine monophosphate, ribosylthymine phosphate…
RNA‐activated protein kinase, RNA‐dependent DNA polymerase, RNA‐dependent RNA replicase, RNA‐directed RNA polymerase, RNA‐induced silencing complex, RNA‐interacting module, [RNA‐polymerase]‐subunit kinase, RNase MRP, RNase ONE, RNase OUT, RNase P, RNase T1, RNA silencing or cosuppression or post‐transcriptional gene silencing, RNasin, RNA synthetase, RNA tumour virus, RNP, RNPase or RNP disruptase, RNP disruptase, Ro, Robertsonian translocation, Robison ester, Robo or roundabout, robot, robotics, ROC, Rochelle salt, rocket immunoelectrophoresis, rod cell or rod, rod gel…
R‐binder, R‐enzyme or starch debranching enzyme, r‐protein, RU‐486 or RU‐38486, Russell's viper venom, rusticyanin, rutamycin or oligomycin D, ruthenium red, rutinose, Ruv, RXR, ryanodine, ryanodine receptor, Ryk, RYN method, RYR, s, S, s.a, SAA, SABP, saccharase, saccharate, saccharic acid, saccharide, saccharification, saccharimeter, saccharin, saccharogenesis, saccharogenic method, saccharometer, saccharopine, saccharopine dehydrogenase (NAD+, l‐glutamate‐forming), saccharopine dehydrogenase (NAD+, l‐lysine‐forming) or lysine‐2‐oxoglutarate reductase…
SAP domain, sapecin, SAPK, sapogenin, saponifiable fraction, saponifiable lipid, saponification, saponification equivalent, saponification number, saponin, saponin detoxifying enzyme, sapor, saporin, saposin or sphingolipid activator protein, saprophyte, saquinavir, SAR, SARA, sarafotoxin, Saran Wrap, sarcoglycan, sarcolemma, sarcoma, sarcomere, sarcoplasm, sarcoplasmic reticulum, sarcosine, sarcosine dehydrogenase, sarcosinemia, sarcosome, sarcotubule, sarin, Sarkosyl, SARS, satellite colony, satellite DNA, satellite RNA, satellite virus, saturable, saturated fatty acid, saturates…
scillabiose, scinderin or adseverin, scintillant, scintillate, scintillation, scintillation autoradiography, scintillation cocktail or scintillation fluid, scintillation counter, scintillation fluid, scintillation spectrometer, scintillator or scintillant, scintillon, scissile, scission, scleral, scleroderma or systemic sclerosis, scleroprotein, sclerosis, SCOP, scopolamine, scorbutic, scoring matrix or weight matrix, scotophobin, scotopia, scotopsin, SCP, SCP2, SCPx or SCP2/3‐ketothiolase, scrambalase, scrapie, screen, screw axis, scRNA, scRNP, SCU, scurfin, scurfy, scurvy, scutelarin…
secretory piece (abbr.: SP) or secretory component, secretory protein I, sector, sector cell or sector‐shaped cell, securin, sediment, sedimentation, sedimentation coefficient, sedimentation equilibrium, sedoheptulose, sedoheptulose‐bisphosphatase, sedoheptulose 7‐phosphate, SEE1, Seebeck effect, SEG, Segawa syndrome, segmentation, segmentation genes, segment polarity gene, segregation, segresome, Seitz filter, selachyl alcohol, SelB or eEFsec, SELDI, selectable marker, selected‐ion monitoring or mass fragmentography or molecular fragmentography, selectin, selection, selection pressure, selectively labelled, selective medium…
sensor, sensor kinase, sensory rhodopsin, sensory transducer, sentrin, sepacin, separase, separation, Sephacel, Sephacryl, Sephadex, Sepharose, septanose, septate, septation, septic shock, septum, Sequenase, sequenator, sequence, sequence analysis package, sequence assembly or assembly, sequence assembly software, sequence compression, sequence database or (sometimes) primary database, sequence filter, sequence hypothesis, sequence ladder, sequencer, sequence rule or Cahn‐Ingold‐Prelog rule or R S convention, Sequence-rule priorities, sequence‐tagged site, sequencing, sequencing by hybridization…
sex‐determining region of Y chromosome, sex linkage, sex pilus (pl. sex pili), sexual conjugation, SGD, SGF, SGOT, SGPT, sh, shadow casting, SHAGGY, shaker, sham operated, SHAR, Shardinger enzyme, shark's tooth comb, Sharples super centrifuge, SHBG, SH domain, SH2 domain, SH3 domain, shear, shear gradient, shear rate, shear stress, Sherman paradox, shibire, shikalkin, shikimate, shikimate 5‐dehydrogenase, shikimate kinase, shikimate pathway, shikonin, Shine‐Dalgarno sequence, SHIRPA…
signal peptide protease, signal recognition particle, signal recognition particle receptor, signal‐to‐noise ratio, signal transduction, signature, signature database, significant, silaffin, silane, silanization, silanol, sildenafil, silent mutation or synonymous mutation or same‐sense mutation, silent polymorphism, silica, siliceous or silicious, silicone, siliconize, siloxane, silver staining, silyl, silylation, simian, simian immunodeficiency virus, simian virus 40, similarity, similarity matrix, simple diffusion or passive diffusion, simple radial immunodiffusion, simple sequence repeat, SIMS, sin, Sin 3…
SN1, SN2, Sly syndrome, Sm, Smac, Smad, small cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein, small cytoplasmic RNA, small Hsp, small intensely fluorescent cell, small leucine rich proteoglycans, small modulating RNA, small nuclear ribonucleoprotein, small nuclear RNA, small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein, small nucleolar RNA, small serine proteinase inhibitor, small T‐antigen, smapin, SMART, Smc, SMCC, SmcX, SmcY, smectic, smectic mesophase, Smith‐Waterman alignment algorithm, SMN protein, smooth, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, smooth muscle or involuntary muscle, smooth‐rough variation or S→R variation…
somato+ or (before a vowel) somat+, somatocrinin, somatogenic, somatoliberin, somatomammotropin, somatomedin, somatostatin or somatotropin‐release inhibiting factor (abbr.: SRIF) or growth hormone‐release inhibiting hormone (abbr.: GH‐RIH);, somatostatin receptor, somatotrope or somatotroph, somatotroph, somatotrophic, somatotropic, somatotropic hormone, somatotropin or growth hormone, somatotropin‐release inhibiting factor, somatrem, +some, somite, sonicate, sonication bath, sonicator, sonic hedgehog proteins, sophorose, sorbin, sorbitol, sorbose, sorcin, Soret band, sorocarp, SOS repair or error‐prone repair…
sp‐300, SP‐1, spermine, spermine synthase, sperm tail, SPF, Sph, S phase, spherocyte, spherocytosis, spheroid, spheroplast, spherosome, sphinganine, sphingoid or sphingoid base, sphingolipid, sphingolipid activator proteins, sphingolipidosis (pl. sphingolipidoses), sphingomyelin, sphingomyelinase, sphingomyelin lipidosis or Niemann‐Pick disease, sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase, sphingophospholipid, sphingosine, sphingosine N‐acyltransferase, spicule, spin, spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (abbr.: SBMA) or Kennedy's disease, spinal cord, spinal muscular atrophy, spinal nerves, spin column chromatography or spun column chromatography…
SSPE, SSR, St, Sta, stability constant, stable expression, stable factor, stable isotope, stachyose or lupeose, stacking gel, staggered conformation, stainless steel, Stains‐all, stamp collecting, standard, standard atmosphere, standard curve, standard deviation, standard error of estimate of the mean or standard error of the mean, standard free energy, standardize or standardise, standard pressure, standard state, standard temperature and pressure, stanniocalcin, staphylokinase, StAR, star activity, starch, starch (bacterial glycogen) synthase, starch debranching enzyme…
stereoregular polymer, stereoselective polymerization, stereospecific, stereospecific numbering, stereospecific polymerization, steric, steric hindrance, sterilant, sterile, sterilize or sterilise, Stern—Volmer equation, steroid, steroid diabetes, steroid‐hormone receptor, steroid Δ‐isomerase, steroid 21‐monooxygenase, steroid 11beta;‐monooxygenase, steroid 17β‐monooxygenase, steroidogenesis, steroidogenic factor 1, steroid 5α‐reductase or 3‐oxo‐5α‐Δ4‐dehydrogenase, sterol, sterol O‐acyltransferase, sterol carrier protein 2, sterol 27‐monooxygenase or sterol 27‐hydroxylase or cytochrome P45027 or CYP27, sterol‐response‐element binding protein, sterol‐sensing domain, steryl‐sulfatase, stevioside, STH, STI, Stickler syndrome or arthro‐ophthalmodystrophy…
structure‐based alignment, structure database, structure factor, strychnine, STS, Stuart factor or Stuart‐Prower factor, Student's, STX, sU, sub, sub+, subcellular, subcellular organelle, subclone, subculture, subcutaneous, suberin, sublime, submaxillaris protease, submaxillary, submaximal, submitochondrial particle, submolecular, subnatant, suboptimal, subsite, substance K, substance K receptor or neurokinin A receptor or NK‐2 receptor, substance P, substituent group or substituent, substitute cysteine accessibility method, substituted mechanism, substitution, substitution matrix or amino acid exchange matrix or mutation matrix…
SW,20, sulfite or (esp. Brit.) sulphite, sulfite oxidase, sulfite oxidase deficiency, sulfite reductase, sulfmethemoglobin, sulf(o)+ or (esp. Brit.) sulph(o)+, sulfoindocyanine or (esp. Brit.) sulphoindocyanine, sulfokinase or aryl sulfotransferase or phenol sulfotransferase, sulfolipid, sulfonamide, sulfonate, sulfone, sulfonolipid or plant sulfolipid, sulfonylurea, sulfonylurea receptor 1, sulfoxide, sulfur or (esp. Brit.) sulphur, sulfur‐35, sulfur‐38, sulfurylase, sulph(o)+, sum, sumatriptan, summation…
S‐form, S→R variation, symbiosis (pl. symbioses), symbiosome, symmetry, sympathectomy, sympathetic nervous system, sympatheticomimetic, sympathomimetic or sympatheticomimetic, symport or sometimes cotransport, syn+, Synacthen, synaeresis, synapse or (rare) synapsis, synapsin I, synapsis, synaptic cell adhesion molecule, synaptic cleft, synaptic vesicle, synaptic vesicle‐associated membrane protein, synaptobrevin or sinaptobrevin or synaptic vesicle‐associated membrane protein, synaptogyrin, synaptojanin, synaptonemal complex, synaptophysin, synaptosome, synaptosome‐associated protein, synaptotagmin, synarchic regulation, synarchy, SynCAM, syncatalytic, synchrotron…
tA, Ta, TACE, tachometer, tachy+, tachykinin, tachykinin receptor, tachyphylaxis, tachyplesin, Tacrolimus, tactic polymer, tactile, tactoid, TAE, tafazzin, tag, Tagamet, Tagit, tail, tailing, TAIL PCR, Takahara disease, Tal, talaric acid, talc, talcum powder, talin, talo+, talopeptin, talosaminouronic acid, talose, Tamm‐Horsfall glycoprotein or uromodulin, tamoxifen, tan, tandem affinity purification, tandem‐crossed immunoelectrophoresis, tandem mass spectrometry, tandem repeat, Tanford‐Kirkwood theory, tangent, tangential‐flow filtration, Tangier disease…
Te, TE, TEA, TEAE, teichoate, teichoic acid, tektins, tele, teleology, teleonomy, teleost, telestability, telethonin, telokin, telolysosome, telomerase, telomerase‐associated protein, telomere, telomere‐specific protein‐1, telomeric repeat‐binding factor, telopeptide, telophase, TEM or T.E.M., TEMED, temperate phage, temperature, temperature coefficient of a reaction, temperature jump, temperature‐sensitive mutation, template, template RNA, template strand, TEMPO, temporal gene, tenascin, teniposide, ten‐minute phosphate, tense form or taut form…
TH cell, Tet‐Off, Tet‐On, tetrahydrofuran, tetrahydromethanopterin, tetrakis+, tetrakisphosphate, tetraloop, tetramer, tetraose, +tetraose, tetrapeptide, tetraplex DNA or quadruplex DNA, tetrapyrrole, tetraric acid, tetrasaccharide, tetrasomic, tetraspanin, tetratricosapeptide repeat, tetrazolium salt, tetritol, tetrodotoxin, tetrose, tetrulose, Texas Red, text mining, TF, TFII, TFIII, TFA, T form, TG1, TGF, Th, thalassemia or (esp. Brit) thalassaemia, thalidomide, THAM, thanatogene, thanatophoric dysplasia, thapsigargin, thaumatin, Thd…
thioester, thioether, thiogalactoside transacetylase, thioglucosidase, thioglycoside or S‐glycoside, thiohemiacetal, thiohemiketal, thiohypoxanthine, thioinosine, thioketal, thiokinase, thiol, +thiol, thiolactomycin, thiolase, thiolate, thiol proteinase, thioltransacetylase A, thiolysis, thionein, thionin, thionucleoside, thionucleotide, thiopurine, thiopyrimidine, thioredoxin, thioredoxin reductase (NADPH), thiotemplate mechanism or protein thiotemplate mechanism, thiouracil, thiouridine, third law of thermodynamics, thixotrope, thixotropy, Thr, threading, threitol, threoninate, threonine, threonine aldolase, threonine dehydratase, threonine synthase, threoninium…
Thy‐1, thymulin, thymus, thymus nucleic acid, thyro+, thyrocalcitonin, thyroglobulin, thyroidectomy, thyroid gland, thyroid hormone, thyroid hormone receptor, thyroid‐hormone receptor‐associated protein, thyroid response element, thyroid‐stimulating hormone, thyroliberin, thyronine, thyroperoxidase, thyrotoxicosis, thyrotroph, thyrotrophic, thyrotropic or (esp. Brit.) thyrotrophic, thyrotropic hormone, thyrotropic hormone releasing factor, thyrotropin, thyrotropin receptor, thyrotropin‐releasing factor, thyrotropin‐releasing hormone, thyroxine, thyroxine‐binding globulin, Ti, TIC complex, tight coupling, tight junction or zona occludens, tight turn, TIGR…
Toll‐like receptor, tolloid, tol plasmid, TOM, tomography, ton, TonB‐dependent transporter, tone, tonicity, tonin, tonne or metric ton, tonometer, tonus, too many mouths, tooth‐lid factor, top+, TOPA, TOPA quinone, topical, topical magnetic resonance spectroscopy, topo+ or (before a vowel) top+, topochemical, topochemistry, topogenesis, topogenic sequence, topogenic signal, topography, topoinhibition, topoisomer or topological isomer, topoisomerase, topological bond, topological isomer, topological isomerism, topological winding number, topology, topomer…
trans+ or (sometimes before s‐) tran+, transamination, transbilayer, transbilayer distribution, transcarboxylase, transcarboxylation, transcobalamin, transconjugant, transcortin, transcribe, transcribing strand, transcript, transcriptase, transcription, transcriptional repressor, transcriptional silencing, transcriptional territory, transcriptional unit, transcription elongation complex, transcription factor, transcription initiation complex, transcription in vitro, transcription‐mediated amplification, transcription start site, transcriptome, transcriptomics, transcytosis, transdeamination, transducer, transducin, transducon, transduction, transesterification, transfection, transferase, transference number or transport number, transfer factor…
transport method, transport number, transport piece, transport process, transport protein, transposable element, transposase, transpose, transposition, transposition sequence, transposon or transposable element, transthyretin, trans‐translation, transudate, transude, transverse relaxation, transversion, TRAP, trap hypothesis, TRASH domain, Trasylol, TRE, Treacher Collins syndrome, tree length, trefoil domain, trefoil factor, trefoil motif, trehalose, TrEMBL, tremerogen, Tresyl, tretinoin, TRF, TRF‐III or TRF‐m, TRH, tri+, triac, triaconta+ or (before a vowel) triacont+…
triphosphate, triphospho+, triphosphoinositide, triphosphopyridine nucleotide (oxidized), triphosphopyridine nucleotide (reduced), triphosphoric, triple bolus test, triple helix, triple membrane, triple point, triplet, triplet code, triplet repeat, triplet repeat disorder, triplex DNA, triploid, TRI reagent, tris+, Tris or TRIS or THAM, trisaccharide, Trisacryl, triskelion, trisomic, trisphosphate, trisphospho+, tristearin, trithorax, tritiate, tritin, tritium, tritium nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, triton, Triton, tritosome, tritriaconta+ or (before a vowel) tritriacont+…
T‐cap, Tψ C arm, T‐cell growth factor, T‐cell receptor, T‐cell‐replacing factor, T‐coffee, T‐DNA, T‐even phage, T‐helper cell, T‐odd phage, tryptophan oxygenase, tryptophan pyrrolase, tryptophan repressor, tryptophan synthase, tryptophan tryptophylquinone, tryptophyl, TSE, TSF, TSH, TSS, TSST‐1, T state, tTA, TTP, TTQ, TTSP, T tubule, TTX, tuberin, tuberous sclerosis, tubocurarine, tubulin, tubulin N‐acetyltransferase, tubulinyl‐Tyr carboxypeptidase, tuftelin or enamelin, tuftsin, tumble, tumor, tumorigenic, tumour or (esp. US) tumor…
T‐vector cloning, u, U, U46619, U937, UAA, UAC, UAG, UAS, UAU, Ubbelohde viscometer, UBIP, ubiquilin, ubiquinol, ubiquinol—cytochrome c reductase, ubiquinone, ubiquinone reductase, ubiquitin, ubiquitin‐activating enzyme E1, ubiquitination, ubiquitin‐conjugating enzyme E2 or ubiquitin‐carrier protein, ubiquitin—protein ligase E3, ubiquitous immunopoietic polypeptide, Ubl protein, UCA, UCC, UCG, UCP, UCU, Udo, UDP, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 6‐dehydrogenase, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine–dolichyl‐phosphate‐N‐acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 2‐epimerase, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 4‐epimerase, UDPG, UDPGal or UDPgalactose, UDPgalactose 4‐epimerase, UDPGlc…
unified atomic mass unit or (formerly) atomic mass unit, uniformly labelled, UniGene, unimolecular reaction, uniparental disomy, uniport, UniProt, unique (sequence) DNA or single‐copy DNA, unitary matrix, unit cell, unit membrane or double membrane or triple membrane, unit of replication, unit of transcription, univalent, UniVec, universal buffer mixture, universal donor, universal primers, universal recipient, unmediated transport or nonmediated transport, unpaired electron, unrooted tree, unsaponifiable lipid or unsaponifiable material, unsaturated, unsaturated‐fatty‐acid oxidation, untranscribed spacer…
urobilin or urobilin IXα, urobilinogen or mesobilirubinogen or urobilinogen IXα, urocanase, urocanic aciduria, urocanoate, urocortin, urodilatin, uroflavin, urogastrone, urokinase, uromodulin, uronate, uronic acid, uropontin, uroporphyrin‐III C‐methyltransferase, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase, uroporphyrinogen‐III synthase, urothione, URR, ursodeoxycholate or ursodiol, ursodiol, USA, Usher syndrome, U‐snRNA, USP, USPHS, UT, uterine metalloendopeptidase, uteroglobin or blastokinin, uterus (pl. uteri), UTP, UTP‐glucose‐1‐phosphate uridylyltransferase, UTP‐hexose‐1‐phosphate uridylyltransferase, UTP‐xylose‐1‐phosphate uridylyltransferase, UTR, utrophin or dystrophin‐related protein, UUA…
vascular cell adhesion molecule, vascular endothelial growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, vascular permeability growth factor, vasculature, vasculotropin, vaso+, vasoactive, vasoactive intestinal contractor, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor or vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor, vasoconstrictor, vasodilator, vasopressin or antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin‐neurophysin 2‐copeptin precursor, vasopressin receptor, vasostatin, vasotocin, VASP, VAST, vault, VCAM, vCJD, VCP, V(D)J recombinase, VecScreen, vector, vector database, vectorette PCR, vectorial enzyme, vectorial processing…
v‐erbA related protein, virtual screening, virulence, virulent phage, virus, virusoids, visceral layer, viscometer or viscosimeter, viscosity, viscotoxin, visinin, Visual Basic, visual cascade, visualization software, visual pigment, visual purple, vitalism, vital staining, vitamer, vitamin, vitamin A, vitamin A1, vitamin A2, vitamin A acid or vitamin A1 acid, vitamin A2 acid, vitamin A alcohol or vitamin A1 alcohol, vitamin A2 alcohol, vitamin A aldehyde or vitamin A1 aldehyde, vitamin A2 aldehyde, vitamin B1 or thiamine or (sometimes) thiamin or (formerly) aneurin(e)…
watt, wave function, wavelength, wavenumber or repetency, wax, wax synthase, Wb, WBC or wbc or w.b.c., WC, WD40 or WD repeat or WD40 repeat, WDHA syndrome, WD repeat, weak interactions, weber, weight average molecular mass, weight matrix, Weigle reactivation, Weiss unit, Werner syndrome, Wernicke‐Korsakoff syndrome, Western blotting, Whitaker plot, white adipose tissue or white fat, white blood cell, white coat effect, white collar, white fat, white muscle, whole genome PCR…
X‐537A, X‐chromosome inactivation, xeno+ or (before a vowel) xen+, xenobiochemistry, xenobiotic, xenobiotic‐response element, xenogeneic, xenograft, xenologue, xenotope, xenotransplantation, xenotype, xeroderma pigmentosum, xerophthalmia, X‐gal, xi, XIAP, XIC, X‐inactive‐specific transcript, Xis protein, XIST or (in mouse) Xist, XL1‐Blue, XL1‐Blue MRF′, XML, XMP, XNU, xotch, X‐Pro dipeptidase, XPS, XPum, X‐ray crystallography, X‐ray diffraction, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X‐rays, XRE, XTP, Xul, xyl+, Xyl…
α1‐acid glycoprotein, β‐adrenergic‐receptor kinase, α+β protein or alpha+beta protein, α/β protein, γ‐aminobutyrate receptor, α‐amylase, β‐amylase, β‐amyloid peptide, β‐amyloid peptide precursor, °C, ‐C, ‐1 C4 or (formerly) ‐1C, ‐4 C1 or (formerly) ‐C1, κ‐carrageenase, ‐E, °F, α‐fetoprotein, β‐fibrillosis, β granin, −H, β IG‐M1, β IG‐M2, α‐internexin, β‐lactoglobulin, α‐lytic endopeptidase, α2‐M, α2‐macroglobulin, α‐mannosidosis, β‐mannosidosis, β2‐microglobulin or betamicroglobulin, μmol, ‐S, α‐sarcin, α‐secretase…
aa, abiotic, ablation, aborigine, abrasion, abrasion platform, abrasion terrace, absolute drought, absolute humidity, absolute plate motion, abstraction, abundance, abyssal, abysso- , accelerator, access, accessibility, accordant, accreting margin, accretion, acculturation, accumulated temperature, accumulation, acidification, acid rain, acid soil, acre, actant, actinometer, action space, active layer, active margin, active volcano, activity segregation, activity space, actor–network theory (ANT), adaptive environmental management, adaptive radiation, adiabat, administrative principle…
alkaline soil, Alleghanian orogeny, Allerød, allochthonous, allogenic, allometry, alluvial, alluviation, Alonso model, alpha index (α index), Alps, alto-, ambient, ambivalence, amenity, amphidromic point, ana-, anabranching channel, anaerobic, ana-front, anastomosis, anchor tenant, andesite, angle of repose, animal geographies, annular drainage, anomie, Antarctic, Antarctic meteorology, Antarctic plate, antecedent, anthrogeomorphology, anthropocene era, anthropogenic, anticline, anticlinorium, anticyclone, anticyclonic gloom, antidune, anti-globalization…
ash cone, ash fall, ash flow, aspect, asphalt, assarting, assimilation, assisted areas, associated number (König number), association (plant association), asthenosphere, asylum migration, asymmetry, Atlantic Period, Atlantic-type coast, atmosphere, atmospheric boundary layer, atmospheric cells, atmospheric correction, atmospheric heat engine, atmospheric pressure, atoll, Atterberg limits, attrition, aulacogen, aureole, autecology, authority constraint, autochthonous, autogenic succession, automobility, autotrophe, avalanche, avalanche wind, avulsion, awareness space, azonal…
baydzharakh (baydjarakh), beach, beach budget (beach sediment budget), beach ridge, beach rocks, bedding plane, bedforms (sedimentary bedforms), bed load, bed profile, bedrock, bed roughness (bed-floor roughness), behavioural environment, behavioural geography, behaviourism, belonging, belonging, geographies of, Benguela current, Benioff zone, benthic, Bergeron–Findeisen theory, bergschrund, berm, beta index, betterment migration, bevelled cliff, bid-rent theory, bifurcation ratio, binary distribution, biocapacity, bioclimatology, biodiversity, biodiversity crisis…
Bølling, borral, Böserup model, boulder clay, boulder field, boundary detection, boundary layer, bounded rationality, Bowen ratio, braid bars, braided channel, braunerde, Brazil current, break point (breaking point), break point bar, Bretton Woods, brown earth (brown forest soil), brownfield site, buffer state, buoyancy, bush encroachment, bush fallowing, business cycle, bustee (basti), butte, C3 and C4 plants, cadastre, caesium analysis, Cainozoic, calcrete, caldera, calibration, California current, calving…
central business height index (CBHI), central flow theory, centrally planned economy, central place, central vent eruption, centrifugal forces, centripetal acceleration, centripetal drainage, centripetal forces, chain migration, chalk, channel, channel classification, channel flow, channel management, channel order, channel roughness, chaos theory, character displacement, charter group, chatter mark, check dam, chelate, Chelford interstadial, chemical weathering, chernozem, chestnut soil, chevron, choropleth, chronosequence, c.i.f. pricing (cost, insurance, freight pricing)…
coastal flooding, coastal geomorphology, cobble, cockpit karst (kegelkarst), coefficient of localization, cognitive dissonance, cognitive mapping, cohesion, cohort, col, cold glacier (cold-based glacier, polar glacier), cold low (cold pool, polar low), collective farm, collectivism, collision margin, collision theory, colluvium, colonial discourse theory, colonialism, command economy, commercial agriculture, commercial spaces (commercial hospitality spaces), comminution, commodity, Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), communication geography, communism, community, community-supported agriculture (community-shared agriculture)(CSA)…
conurbation, convection, convection rain, convective condensation level, convective instability, convenience distance, convergence, convergence space, converging margin, convex slope, conveyor belt, cooperative, coral reef, core, core–frame concept, core–periphery, core region, corestone, CORINE, Coriolis force, corporate governance, corrasion, corridor, corrie, cosmopolitan distribution, cost–benefit analysis, cost–space convergence, cost surface, cottage industry, counter-radiation, countertrade, counter-urbanization, country rock, Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS), coupling constraint, cover crop…
cusp, cuspate foreland, customs union, cut-off low, cwm, cyberspace, cycle of poverty, cyclogenesis, cyclomatic number, cyclone, cyclone wave, cyclostrophic, daily urban system, dambo, Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) cycles, Darcy's law, dead cliff, dead ice (stagnant ice), death rate, debris, decalcification, decentralization (deconcentration), deciduous forest, decision-making, declining region, décollement, decomposer, deconcentration, deconstruction, deep ecology, deepening, deep weathering, defensible space, deflation, deflocculation…
deterritorialization, detritivore, detritus, development, development area, development control, Devensian, devolution, Devonian, dew, dew point, dialect, diapir, diaspora, diatreme, difference, differential erosion, diffusion, digital divide, digital elevation model (DEM), digital terrain analysis (geomorphological analysis, landform parametrization, land surface analysis), dike, dilatancy theory, diminishing returns, law of, dip, direct cell, dirt cone, disability; geographies of disability, welfare, and social exclusion, discharge, discordant, discourse, discrete choice modelling…
dune, duricrust, dust (atmospheric dust), Dust Bowl, dust storm, duyoda, dyke (dike), dynamic equilibrium, dynamic meteorology, earth flow, earth pillar, earthquake, easterlies, ecodevelopment, ecological balance, ecological climatology (eclimatology), ecological crisis, ecological efficiency, ecological energetics, ecological explosion, ecological fallacy, ecological footprint, ecological overshoot, ecological politics, ecological restoration, ecology, economically active population, economic base theory, economic determinism, economic development, economic distance, economic dynamism, economic geography, economic growth…
endogenous growth theory, energy, englacial, ENGO, ENSO, enterprise zones, entisol, entitlement, entrainment, entrepôt, entrepreneur, entropy, enumeration district, environment, Environment Agency, environmental accounting, environmental determinism, environmental economics, environmental gradient, environmental impact, environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental lapse rate, Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA), environmental perception, environmental policy, environmental realism, environmental science, Environment Directorate, eolian, epeirogeny, ephemeral, epicentre, epilimnion, epiphyte, epistemology, epochs, equal area map, equatorial rain forest…
extended family, extending flow, extensive agriculture, external economies, externality, extinction, extra-tropical cyclone, extrusion, exurb, eye, fabric, facet, facies, factor analysis, factorial ecology, factors of production, factory farming, factory system, fair trade, fall, fallow, family, famine, farm fragmentation, fault, fault block, fault breccia, fault scarp, faunal realms, fecundity, federalism, feedback, felsenmeer, feminist geography, feminization, ferrallitization, Ferrel cell, ferricrete, ferruginous, fertility, fetch…
fold mountain, food chain, food conversion ratio, food production, industrialization of, food security, foodshed, food web, footloose industry, foraminifera, forcing (radiative forcing), förde, Fordism, foredune, foreign direct invesment (FDI), foreign exchange, forensic geoscience, formal game, formal region, formal sector, fossil fuel, fractals, fractus, FRAGSTATS, Framework Convention on Climatic Change (FCCC), free atmosphere, free face (fall face), free trade, free trade zone, freeze–thaw, freezing front, freezing nucleus…
geochronology, geocomputation, geodesy, geoecology (landscape ecology), Geographical Analysis Machine (GAM), geographic information systems (GIS), geographic scale economies, geography, geological column, geomagnetism (terrestrial magnetism), geomorphic indices, geomorphic systems, geomorphic threshold, geomorphological threshold, geomorphology, geomorphometry (morphometry, terrain modelling, digital terrain analysis), geopolitics, geopolitik, geosophy, geostatistics, geostrophic wind, geosyncline, geothermal flux (geothermal heat), geovisualization, gerrymandering, gesellschaft society, Gestalt theory, geyser, ghetto, giant nuclei, gilgai, Gini coefficient…
gley soils, global, global circulation, global city, global commodity chain, global energy balance, globalization, global production network (GPN), global space, global value chain, global warming, glocal, glurbanization, gneiss, GNP (gross national product), goal function, Gondwanaland, gorge, governance, governmentality, grade, granite, granitization, granular disintegration (granular disaggregation), gravel, gravity anomaly, gravity model, great circle, great soil groups, green belt, greenfield site, greenhouse effect, green manure, green revolution…
Hawaiian eruption, hazard, haze, headward erosion, health, geography of, heartland, heat island, heavily indebted poor country (HIPC), hegemony, Heinrich event, helicoidal flow, henge, heritage, heterogeneous nucleation, heteronormativity, heterotopia, heterotrophe, hide, hierarchical diffusion, hierarchy, high, high-order goods and services, high-technology (high-tech), hill farming, hill fort, hill wave, hinge line, hinterland, hinterworld, historical geography, historical materialism, historiography, histosol, Hjulström diagram, holism…
hydraulic resistance, hydraulics, hydroecology, hydrograph, hydrological cycle (water cycle) (water cycle), hydrology, hydrolysis, hydromorphic, hydrosere, hydrosphere, hygroscopic nuclei, hypabyssal rock, hyperconcentrated flow, hypolimnion, hyporheic zone, hypsography, hysteresis, hythergraph, ice, ice age, ice-cap, ice contact feature, ice fall, ice floe, ice flow, ice front, ice lens, ice-marginal channel, ice mound, ice polygon (ice wedge polygon), ice segregation, ice sheet, ice shelf, ice stream…
input–output analysis, InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), inselberg, insolation, instability, institutional thickness, integrated assessment (IA), integrated land-use and transportation models, integrated water management, integration, intellectual property, intensity, intensive agriculture, interaction, interception, interdependence, interface, interflow, interglacial, intermediate technology, internal deformation, internal migration, international division of labour, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Monetary Fund, internet, interpluvial, inverted U, intersectionality, interstadial, inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ)…
knick point (nick point), knock and lochan topography, knowledge-based organizations, knowledge flows, knowledge in geography, Kondratieff cycle, Kuro Shio, Kyoto Protocol, labour, labour, geographies of, labyrinth karst, laccolith, lacustrine, lagoon, lag time (lagged time), lahar, laissez-faire economics, laminar flow, land breeze, land capability, land classification, land consolidation, land cover, land degradation, land economics, landform segmentation, Land Information System, land-locked state, land management, land reform…
life expectancy, life space, life table, life world (lifeworld), lift force, light industry, lightning, limestone, limestone pavement, limnology, linear city, line-haul costs, line squall, linguistic distance, link, linkages, literary geography, lithification, lithology, lithosphere, litter, Little Climatic Optimum, Little Ice Age, littoral drift, lixiviation, load, loam, local, local climate, local economic development policy, local food systems (LFS; local food networks), local governance, locality debate, localization economies…
mangrove swamp, Manning's roughness coefficient (Manning's n), Mann's model, manor, mantle, manufacturing industry, map, map generalization, map projection, marginal land, margin of cultivation, marine erosion, maritime, market, market cycle, market economy, marketing principle, market mechanism, market potential, marl, Marshallian industrial district, Marxist geography, masculinity, mass budget, mass conservation, principle of, mass movement (mass wasting), mass strength, material index, mathematical geography, matrix, maximum sustainable yield…
Milankovitch cycles, milieu, mimesis, mineralization, mineralized zone, minimum efficient scale of production (mes. of production), misfit stream, mist, Mistral, mixed farming, mobility, modal split, model, model township, mode of production, moder, modernity, modifiable areal units, Moho discontinuity (Mohorovičić discontinuity), Moh's scale, moist coniferous forest, moisture index, mollisols, monadnock, money, geography of, monoculture, monopoly, monsoon, monsoon depression, monsoon forest, Monte Carlo model, mor, moraine…
natural resource, natural resource evaluation, natural resource management (NRM), natural vegetation, nature, nearest neighbour analysis, nebkha, nehrung, neighbourhood, neighbourhood effect, neighbourhood unit, neoclassical economics, neo-colonialism, neo-conservatism, Neogene, neoglacial, neoliberalism, neotectonics, nesting, net primary productivity, net radiation, network, network society, névé, new economy, new industrial spaces, new international division of labour (NIDL), newly industrializing country (NIC), new political economy, new regionalism, new town, niche…
okta, oligotrophic, onion weathering, ontology, ooze, OPEC, opencast mining, open field, open system, opportunist species, opportunity cost, optimal city size, optimization model, optimizer, optimum location, optimum population, ordnance datum (OD), Ordovician, organic acid, organic weathering, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Organization of African Unity (OAU), Organization of American States (OAS), orientalism, orogeny, orographic precipitation (orographic rainfall), orthogonal, osmosis, otherness, outer space, outlet glacier, output geographies…
Palaeozoic, Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), palsa, palynology, pan, panarchy, Pangaea, parabolic dune, paradigm, paraglacial processes, parallel drainage, parallel slope retreat, parent material, Pareto optimality, park, participatory GIS, participatory research, particulates (particulate matter), passive margin, patch, path, path-dependent, patriarchy, patterned ground, peak land-value intersection (PLVI), peasant, peat, ped, pedalfer, pediment, pedocal, pedogenesis, pedon, pelagic, peneplain, perception, perched water-table…
physical quality of life index (PQLI), physiological drought, phyto-, piedmont glacier, pingo, pioneer community, pipe, pipkrakes, place, place dependent, place identity, placelessness, place names, places of memory, place utility, planation surface, planetary boundary layer, planetary winds, planeze, plankton, planning, plant, plant community, plant succession, plantation, plastic flow, plate, plateau, playa, Pleistocene, plinian eruption, plinthite, plucking, plug flow, plume, plunge pool, pluralism, pluralist geography…
postmodernism, post-productivist transition, post-socialist city, poststructuralism, potential evapotranspiration (PET), pothole, poverty, power, prairie, Pre-Boreal, Precambrian, precipitation, predator–prey relationships, pre-industrial city, preservation, pressure gradient, pressure melting point, pressure release, price mechanism, primary industry (primary activity), primate city, process domain, proclimax, producer, production, productivist, productivity, profit surface, proglacial, progradation, programming region, propulsive industry, project, protalus rampart, protection, proximity…
rain shadow, rainsplash, raised beach, ramparts, range of a good or service, ranker, ranking of towns, rank-size rule, Raoult's law, rapids, rates, rational choice theory, rationality, Ravenstein's ‘laws’ of migration, reaction time, recession, recessional moraine, reclamation, recovery rate, recreation, rectangular drainage, recurrence interval, recycling, redevelopment, redlining, red rain, reduced-complexity modelling/approaches, reduction, reflective beach, reforestation, refugee, reg, regime theory, region…
Reynolds number (Re), ria, ribbon development, Richter scale, ridge and furrow, rift valley, right to the city, rills, rime, ring dyke, riparian, rip current, rising limb, risk, river, river basin management, river capture, riverine, river restoration, river terrace, river training, road pricing, rock avalanche, rock fall, rock flour, rock glacier, Rossby waves, rotational slip, r-selection, k-selection , rubification, rudaceous, rugosity, run-off, rural…
scree, sea breeze, sea-floor spreading, sea level, seamount, search behaviour, seasonal forecasting, seawater incursion (seawater intrusion), secession, secondary air mass, secondary industry (secondary sector), second home, sector principle, sector theory, sedentary, sediment, sedimentary rock, sediment cell, segmented labour market, segregation, seiche, seif, seismic, selective logging, selective migration, self-organization, semi-globalization, semiotics, sense of place, sensible temperature, serac, sere, service industry, set-aside grant…
Silurian, sima, sink hole, sinter, sinuosity, site, Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), situation, skid row, sky view factor, slaking, slash and burn, slate, slickenside, slide, slip-off slope, slope elements, slope wash, slope winds, slum, slump, smog, SMSA, snow, snowbelt, social area analysis, social capital, social cleavage, social cohesion, social costs, social Darwinism, social distance, social exclusion, social formation, social geography, socialism, social justice…
spatiality, spatial margin, spatial monopoly, spatial ontology, spatial preference, spatial randomness, spatio-temporal fix, special economic zone (SEZ), speciation, species–area relationship, specific humidity, speleothem, sphere of influence, spheroidal weathering, spillover, spit, spodosol, spontaneous settlement, spread (lateral spread), spread effect, spring tide, squall, squatting, stability, stable ecosystem, stable population, stack, stadial, stage, stalactite, stalagmite, standard industrial classification, standard of living, index of, standardized mortality ratio…
subduction, subglacial water, subgraph, sublimation, sublittoral zone, submarine slide, sub-optimal location, subsequent streams, subsistence farming, subtropical anticyclones, suburb, succession (plant succession), sunbelt, sunspot, superadiabatic lapse rate, superimposed drainage, Super Output Areas (SOAs), supraglacial, surface boundary layer, surface process model, superterrane, surge phenomenon, surging glacier, susceptibility, suspension, sustainable development, sustained-yield resource, swallow hole, swash, swidden cultivation, symbiosis, symbolic capital, symbolic places, sympatric, synchronic analysis…
territorial seas (territorial waters), territory, terroir, tertiary, tertiary industry, Tethys, text, thalweg, thermal erosion, thermal expansion (insolation weathering), thermal low, thermal pollution, thermal stress, thermal wind, thermocirque, thermo-erosion, thermohaline circulation, thermokarst, thermosphere, Thiessen polygon, thin region, third food regime, third space theory, third world, thread, threshold, threshold population, throughfall, throughflow, throw, thrust, thufur, thunder, thunderstorm, tidal energy, tidal prism, tidal wave…
trigger, trope, trophic level, tropical cyclone, tropical dry forest, tropical forest, tropical montane forest, tropical rain forest, tropical storm, tropics, tropopause, troposphere, truncated spur, tsunami, tsunami deposits, tufa, tundra, tundra soil, tunnel valley, turbosphere, turbulence (turbulent flow), turbulent boundary layer, ubac, ultisol, umland, uncertainty, underdevelopment, underfit stream (misfit stream), underpopulation, unemployment, uneven development, uniformitarianism, unloading, Upton Warren, upwelling, urban, urban assets, urban climate…
vertisols, viscosity, vital rates, volcanic ash, volcanism (vulcanicity, vulcanism), volcano, von Thünen models, vortex (pl. vortices), vorticity, vulcanian eruption, wadi, Walker circulation, wandering river, waning slope, war on terrorism (war on terror), wash board moraine, water balance, waterfall, water framework directive, water-level weathering, water quality, watershed, water-table, wave, wave-cut platform, wave energy, wave refraction, waxing slope, weathering, Weber's theory of industrial location…
Acanthocephalans, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adaptation, Adapted Mind Ideas, Adoption, Agriculture, AIDS, Alarm Calls, Algae, Alloparental Care, Altruism, Amphibians, Ancient DNA, Angiosperms, Animals, Antibiotic Resistance, Apoptosis, Archaea, Archaeological Inference, Art, Arthropods, Artificial Life, Artificial Selection, Assortative Mating, Atavisms, Australopithecines, Bacteria and Archaea, Basic Reproductive Rate (R0), Baupläne, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Bioinformatics, Biological Warfare, Birds, Bivalves, Blood Group Polymorphisms, Body Plans, Brain Size Evolution, Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon Biography…
Emotions and Self-knowledge, Endosymbiont Theory, Engineering Applications, Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, Epidemics, Epidemiology, Epigenesis and Preformationism, Epigenetics, Ess, Ethology, Eugenics, Eukaryotes, Eusociality, Evolution, Evolutionarily Stable Strategy, Evolutionary Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Economics, Evolutionary Epistemology, Evolutionary Psychology, Exaptation, Exons, Experimental Evolution, Extinction, Extrapair Copulations, Ferns, Ronald Aylmer Fisher Biography, Fishes, Fitness, Fluctuating Asymmetry, Foraging Strategies, Forced Evolution, Forensic DNA, Rosalind Franklin Biography, Frequency-Dependent Selection…
Inclusive Fitness, Infanticide, Infectious Disease, Influenza, Insects, Interspecific Coevolution, Introns, Invertebrates, Island Biogeography, Jellyfish, Key Innovations, Motoo Kimura Biography, Kingdoms, Kin Recognition, Kin Selection, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck Biography, Lamarckism, Language, Leks, Levels of Selection, Lichens, Life History Stages, Life History Theory, Linkage, Linnaean Classification, Carolus Linnaeus Biography, Charles Lyell Biography, Macroevolution, Major Histocompatibility Complex, Major Transitions in Evolution, The, Malaria, Male–male Competition, Mammals, Marginal Values…
Pattern Formation, Pedigree Analysis, Peppered Moth, Permo-Triassic Extinction, Pesticide Resistance, Phenotypic Plasticity, Phenotypic Stability, Philosophy of Evolution, Phyla, Phylogenetic Inference, Phylotypic Stages, Placentation, Plagues and Epidemics, Plants, Plasmids, Population Dynamics, Population Genetics, Population Trends, Preformation, George Price Biography, Primate Communication, Primates, Prions, Prisoner's Dilemma Games, Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, Protein Folding, Proteins, Proteomics, Protists, Protostome–Deuterostome Origins, Punctuated Equilibrium, Quantitative Genetics, Quasi-species, Race, Reaction–Diffusion Models…
aberration, stellar, academies and learned societies, accelerator, accuracy, acid and base, acoustics and hearing, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, advancement of science, national associations for the, Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus Biography, (1724–1802), German natural philosopher, aeronautics, aether, Africa, agriculture, AI, AIDS, aircraft, air pump and vacuum pump, alchemy, alien life, alkaloids, analog/digital devices, analysis and synthesis, analytical chemistry, anatomical theaters, anatomy, animal care and experimentation, animalculism, animal machine, animal magnetism…
cat scan, causality refers to the power or propensity that an object or event has to produce a change in itself or in another object or event, Henry Cavendish Biography, (1731–1810), and, (1736–1806), the two most important contributors to the quantification of physical science during the eighteenth century, celestial mechanics, cell The term “cell” was coined by the seventeenth-century British natural philosopher Robert Hooke to describe the walled cavities he discerned through the microscope in vegetable tissue, centrifuge and ultracentrifuge, CERN, chance, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Biography, (1910–1995) mathematical astrophysicist…
empiricism, encyclopedias, endocrinology, energetics, engineer, engineering science, English-speaking world, enlightenment and industrial revolution, entomology, entropy, environment, enzyme, epigenesis and preformation, error and the personal equation, ether, ethics and science, eugenics, Leonhard Euler Biography, (1707–1783), mathematician, specialist in mechanics, European Council for Nuclear Research, Europe and Russia, evolution, exhibitions, experiment, experimental philosophy, experimentation, animal, expertise, scientific, exploration and fieldwork, extinction, extraterrestrial life, fact and theory, family…
hospital, Bernardo Alberto Houssay Biography, (1887–1971), physiologist, experimental endocrinologist, and academic leader, Edwin Hubble Biography, (1889–1953), astronomer, showed that spiral nebulae are independent island universes beyond our galaxy and that the universe is expanding, human genome project, human immunodeficiency syndrome, humanism, Alexander Von Humboldt Biography, (1769–1859), naturalist, geographer, administrator, social critic, scientific popularizer, expeditionary, and correspondent, Humboldtian science, James Hutton Biography, (1726–1797), Scottish natural philosopher, Christiaan Huygens Biography, (1629–1695), mathematician, astronomer, and physicist…
Margaret Mead Biography, (1901–1978), American cultural anthropologist, best known for her studies of South Pacific peoples. Mead's theoretical interests included child development, gender and sex roles, and cultural change, mechanical philosophy, mechanics, medicine, Lise Meitner Biography, (1878–1968), atomic physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, Gregor Johann Mendel Biography, (1822–1884), prelate, hybridist, and naturalist, Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev Biography, (1834–1907), chemist, formulator of the periodic system of chemical elements, mental sciences, mesmerism and animal magnetism, metabolism…
pH, pharmacology, phenomenology, philanthropy, philosophy and science, phlogiston, phonograph, photography, photosynthesis, phrenology and physiognomy, physical chemistry, physicalism, physics, physics, condensed matter, physics, solar, physics, solid state, physiognomy, physiology, Max Planck Biography, (1858–1947), German physicist and spokesman for science, planet, planetarium, planetary science, plasma physics and fusion, plastics, plate tectonics, Plutonism, pneumatics, polarimeter, polar science, political economy of science, polymer, polyp, popularization, population genetics…
Vasilyevich Kurchatov Igor Biography, (1903–1960), Soviet nuclear physicist and director of the Soviet nuclear weapons project;, (1904–1967), American theoretical physicist, director of the Los Alamos laboratory for design of nuclear weapons in World War, seismology, seminar, sex, sexually transmitted diseases, shift of hegemony, simulation, skepticism, sleep, slide rule, slogans from science, social responsibility in science, societies, sociobiology, solar physics, solid state (condensed matter) physics, Solvay Congresses and Institute, sonar, sound, space and time, space science…
a-, A, abacus, abelian group, Niels Henrik Abel (1802–29) Biography, ( 1802 – 29 ), Abel's test, above, abscissa, absolute address, absolute error, absolute frequency, absolute measure of dispersion, absolutely convergent series, absolutely summable, absolute value, absorbing state, absorption laws, abstract algebra, abstraction, abundant number, acceleration, acceleration-time graph, acceptance region, acceptance sampling, accuracy, accurate (correct) to n decimal places, accurate (correct) to n significant figures, Achilles paradox…
angular, angular acceleration, angular frequency, angular measure, angular momentum, angular speed, angular velocity, annualized percentage rate (APR), annulus (annuli), anonymity of survey data, ANOVA, antecedent, anti-, anticlastic, anticlockwise, antiderivative, antidifferentiate, antilog, antilogarithm, antiparallel, antipodal points, antiprism, antisymmetric matrix, antisymmetric relation, apex (apices), aphelion, apogee, Apollonius' circle, Apollonius of Perga (about 262–190 bc) Biography, (about 262 – 190 bc ), apothem, applied, applied mathematics, approximate…
axis (of a cone), axis (of a cylinder), axis (of a parabola), axis of rotation, axis of symmetry, B, Charles Babbage (1792–1871) Biography, ( 1792 – 1871 ), back-substitution, backward difference, backward induction, backward scan, balanced (of a set), balanced block design, ball, Banach space, Stefan Banach (1892–1945) Biography, ( 1892 – 1945 ), banded matrix, bar, bar chart, bar coding, Isaac Barrow (1630–77) Biography, ( 1630 – 77 ), base (of an exponential function)…
block design, block diagonal matrix, block multiplication, body, Niels Henrik David FRS Bohr (1885–1962) Biography, ( 1885 – 1962 ), János Bolyai (1802–60) Biography, ( 1802 – 60 ), Bolzano's Theorem (Intermediate Value Theorem), Rafael Bombelli (1526–72/3) Biography, ( 1526 – 72/3 ), Sir Herman Bondi (1919– ) Biography, ( 1919 – ), George Boole (1815–64) Biography, ( 1815 – 64 ), Boolean, Boolean algebra, bootstrapping, Félix Edouard Justin Emile Borel (1871–1956) Biography, ( 1871 – 1956 )…
central force, Central Limit Theorem, central moment, central quadric, centre, centre of curvature, centre of gravity, centre of mass, centre of symmetry, centrifugal force, centripetal force, centroid, centroid (of a triangle), Ceva's Theorem, chain rule, chance nodes (chance vertices), chance variable, change of base (of logarithms), change of coordinates (in the plane), change of coordinates (in 3-dimensional space), change of observer (change of reference), change of variable (in integration)…
common difference, common factor (common divisor), common fraction, common logarithm, common multiple, common perpendicular, common ratio, common tangent, commutative, commutative ring, commutator, commute, compact, competitive equilibrium, complement, complementation , complement (for angles), complementary (for probability), complementary angles, complementary function, complete graph, completely balanced block design, complete matching, complete metric space, complete quadrangle, complete quadrilateral, complete set of residues (modulo n), complete solution, complete symmetric group, completing the square, complex analysis…
consistent estimator, constant (in physical laws), constant acceleration, constant function, constant matrix, constant of integration, constant of proportionality, constants, constant speed, constant term, constrained optimization, constraint, construct, construct (figures), construction with ruler and compasses, constructivism, contact force, contained in, contains , contingency table, contingent (in logic), continued fraction, continuity correction, continuous data, continuous function, continuously differentiable, continuous random variable, continuum, continuum hypothesis, contour integral, contour line, contraction mapping…
cuboid, cumulative distribution function, cumulative frequency, cumulative frequency distribution, cup, curl, curvature, curve, curve sketching, cusp, cut (in a network), cycle (in graph theory), cycle (in mechanics), cycle, cyclic arrangement , cyclic group, cyclic polygon, cycling, cycloid, cyclotomic, cyclotomic polynomial, cylinder, cylindrical polar coordinates, cylindroid, cypher, D, damped oscillations, dashpot, data, data logging, deca-, decagon, decahedron, deceleration, deci-, decidable, decile, decimal fraction…
diagram, diameter, diamond, die (dice), difference, difference equation, difference of two squares, difference quotient, difference sequence, difference set, differentiable function, differential calculus, differential coefficient, differential equation, differential geometry, differential operator, differentiation, digit, digital, digital computer, digraph, dihedral, dihedral group, Dijkstra's method, dilatation, dimensions, Diophantine equation, Diophantus of Alexandria (about ad 250) Biography, (about ad 250 ), Paul Adrien Maurice FRS Dirac (1902–84) Biography, ( 1902 – 84 )…
ad infinitum, a posteriori, a priori, a priori (in statistics), d, d(n), double root, double sequence, double series, double tangent, doubly stochastic matrix, drag, Marcus Du Sautoy (1965– ) Biography, ( 1965 – ), dummy activity (in critical path analysis), dummy variable, duplication of the cube, dynamic equilibrium, dynamic programming, dynamics, e, e (in conics), e (in group theory), E, Earth, eccentricity, echelon form, EDA, edge (of a graph), edge-set …
equation, equation of motion, equations of motion with constant acceleration, equator, equi-, equiangular (of figures), equiangular (within a figure), equiangular spiral, equidistant, equilateral, equilibrium, equiprobable, equivalence class, equivalence relation, equivalent, equivalent circuits, Eratosthenes of Cyrene Biography, (about 275 – 195 bc ), Paul Erdos Biography, ( 1913 – 96 ), error, error-correcting and error-detecting code, escape speed, escribed circle, estimate, estimation, estimator, Euclid Biography, (about 300 bc ), Euclidean Algorithm…
factor, factor analysis (in statistics), factorial, factorize, Factor Theorem, Fahrenheit, fallacy, false negative, false position (rule of false position), false positive, family, family of curves, family of distributions, farthest point, fast Fourier transform, feasible, feasible region, Mitchell Feigenbaum (1945– ) Biography, ( 1945 – ), femto-, Pierre de Fermat Biography, ( 1601 – 65 ), Fermat point, Fermat prime, Fermat's Last Theorem, Fermat's Little Theorem, Feuerbach's Theorem, Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–88) Biography, ( 1918 – 88 )…
from the left, from the right, frontier (boundary), frustum (frusta), fulcrum, full measure, full rank, function, Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Fundamental Theorem of Game Theory, fuzzy set theory, Galileo Galilei Biography, ( 1564 – 1642 ), Évariste Galois Biography, ( 1811 – 32 ), Francis Galton Biography, ( 1822 – 1911 ), gambler's ruin, game, gamma distribution, gamma function, Gantt charts, Carl Friedrich Gauss Biography, ( 1777 – 1855 ), Gaussian distribution…
Hamiltonian, Hamiltonian graph, Hamming distance, handshaking lemma, hardware, Godfrey Harold Hardy Biography, ( 1877 – 1947 ), Hardy–Weinberg ratio, harmonic, harmonic analysis, harmonic mean, harmonic progression, harmonic range, harmonic ratio, harmonic sequence, harmonic series, Felix Hausdorf Biography, ( 1868 – 1942 ), Stephen William FRS Hawking Biography, ( 1942 – ), Hawthorne effect, h.c.f, hectare, hecto-, -hedron, height (of a triangle), Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Werner Karl FRS Heisenberg Biography, ( 1901 – 76 )…
i (ḭ), I(x), if and only if, iff, i.i.d, ill-conditioned, -illion, im, image, imaginary axis, imaginary number, imaginary part, implication, implicit, implicit differentiation, imply, improper fraction, improper integrals, impulse, incentre, incidence, incircle, inclination, inclined plane, include, inclusion–exclusion principle, inclusive disjunction, incompatible, inconsistent, increasing function, increasing sequence, increment, indefinite integral, independent, independent equations, independent events, independent random variables…
interior angle (of a polygon), interior angle (with respect to a transversal of a pair of lines), interior point, Intermediate Value Theorem, intermediate vertex (in a network), internal bisector, internal division, internal force, interpolation, interquartile range, intersect, intersection, interval, interval estimate, interval scale, intransitive relation, invalid, invariable, invariant, invariant subgroup, inverse correlation, inverse element, inverse function, inverse hyperbolic function, inversely proportional, inverse mapping, inverse matrix, inverse of a complex number, inverse square law of gravitation…
Guillaume François Antoine l'Hôpital Marquis de Biography, ( 1661 – 1704 ), l'Hôpital's rule, L, labelling algorithm, lag, Lagrange interpolation formula, Joseph-Louis Lagrange Biography, ( 1736 – 1813 ), Lagrange multiplier, Lagrange theorem (sum of four squares), Johann Heinrich Lambert Biography, ( 1728 – 77 ), lamina, Lami's Theorem, Pierre-Simon Laplace Marquis de Biography, ( 1749 – 1827 ), Laplace's equation, Laplace transform, latent root, latent vector, lateral face (surface), Latin square…
litre, John Edensor Littlewood Biography, ( 1885 – 1977 ), ln, load, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Biography, ( 1792 – 1856 ), local maximum (maxima), local minimum (minima), located vector, location, locus (loci), log, logarithm, logarithmic derivative, logarithmic differentiation, logarithmic function, logarithmic function to base a, logarithmic plotting, logarithmic scale, logarithmic series, logarithmic spiral, logic, logically equivalent, logistic function (logistic curve), lognormal distribution, log paper, longitude, longitudinal study, longitudinal wave, loop, Lorentz–Fitzgerald contraction…
median (in statistics), median (of a triangle), median–median regression line, median triangle, mega-, member, Menelaus of Alexandria Biography, (about ad 100 ), Menelaus’ Theorem, mensuration, meridian, Marin Mersenne Biography, ( 1588 – 1648 ), Mersenne prime, mesokurtic, method of least squares, method of maximum likelihood, method of moments, metre, metric (distance function), metric space, micro-, midpoint, midpoint rule, Midpoint Theorem, Millennium Prize problems, milli-, John Willard Milnor Biography, ( 1931 – ), minimum capacity (in a network)…
Napierian logarithm, John Napier Biography, ( 1550 – 1617 ), Napier's bones, John Forbes Nash Biography, ( 1928 – ), National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), natural logarithm, natural number, nautical mile, nearest point, necessary and sufficient condition, necessary condition, needle problem, negation, negative, negative (of a matrix), negative (of a vector), negative binomial distribution, negative correlation, negative direction, negative number, neighbourhood, nested multiplication, net, net (of a solid)…
odd part, odds, odds ratio, off diagonal, ogive, omega, one, one-sided surface, one-sided test, one-tailed test, one-to-many, one-to-one correspondence, one-to-one mapping, only if, onto mapping, open ball, open disc, open half-plane, open half-space, open interval, open set, operator, operation, opposite side, optimal, optimality condition, optimal strategy, optimization, or, orbit, order (of a differential equation)…
Blaise Pascal Biography, ( 1623 – 62 ), Pascal's triangle, path (in a graph), Wolfgang Ernst FRS Pauli Biography, ( 1900 – 58 ), payoff (in game theory), p.d.f, Peano curve, Giuseppe Peano Biography, ( 1858 – 1932 ), Karl Pearson Biography, ( 1857 – 1936 ), Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, pedal curve, pedal triangle, John Pell Biography, ( 1610 – 85 ), Pell's equation, pendulum, Roger FRS Penrose Biography, ( 1931 – ), penta-, pentagon…
positive direction, possible, posterior distribution, posterior probability, post-multiplication, post-optimal analysis, postulate, potential energy, pound, power (of a matrix), power (in mechanics), power (of a real number), power (of a test), power series, power set, precision (in statistics), precision (numerical analysis), predator–prey equations, predicate (in logic), predicted variable, predictor variable, pre-multiplication, pressure, prime, prime decomposition, prime factorization, prime representation, prime meridian, Prime Number Theorem…
quadruple, quality control, quantity, quantifier, quantile, quantum mechanics, quartic equation, quartic polynomial, quartiles, quartile deviation, quaternion, queuing theory, quick sort algorithm, Daniel Grey Quillen Biography, ( 1940 – ), quintic equation, quintic polynomial, quota sample, quotient, quotient rule (for differentiation), R, rad, radial and transverse components, radian, radical axis, radical sign, radius (radii), radius of convergence, radius of curvature, radius of gyration, radius vector, raise (to a power)…
relative risk, relativity theory, reliability, remainder, Remainder Theorem, removable singularity, repeated measures designs, repeated root, repeating decimal, replicable, replication, representation (of a vector), representative, representative sample, residual, residual variation, residue class (modulo n), resistant statistic, resistive force, resolution, resolve, resonance, response bias, response variable, restriction (of a mapping), resultant, retail price index (RPI), retardation, reversion to the mean, revolution, revolve, rhombohedron, rhombus (rhombi), (Georg Friedrich) Bernhard Riemann Biography, ( 1826 – 66 )…
Chu Shih-chieh (about ad 1300) Biography, (about ad 1300 ), Erwin Rudolf Alexander Schrödinger Biography, ( 1887 – 1961 ), scientific notation, sd, se, seasonal variation, secant, secant (of a curve), secant method, sech, second (angular measure), second (time), second derivative, second derivative test, second-order partial derivative, section, section formula (in vectors), section formulae (in the plane), section formulae (in 3-dimensional space), sector, segment, selection, selection bias…
slack variables, slant asymptote, slant height, slide rule, sliding–toppling condition, slope, small circle, Adrian Frederick Melhuish FRS Smith Biography, ( 1946 – ), smooth, smoothly hinged, smooth surface, snowflake curve, software, solid, solid angle, solid of revolution, solution, solution set, sorting algorithms, source, source (in transportation problems), space, space-filling curve, space–time, spanning set, spanning tree, sparse matrix, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, special relativity, speed, speed of light…
subgraph, subgroup, submatrix, subring, subset, subspace, substitution, substitution group, subtend, subtraction, subtraction (of matrices), sufficient condition, sufficient estimator, sufficient statistic (for a parameter), sum, sum (of matrices), sum (of a series), sum (of sets), summation notation, sum to infinity, sup, supersink (in a network), supersource (in a network), supplement, supplementary angles, supplementary unit, supremum (suprema), surd, surface, surface (of a solid), surface of revolution…
René Frédéric Thom Biography, ( 1923 – 2002 ), William Thomson Biography, thrust, tie, tiling, time, time series, ton, tonne, topological space, topology, toppling, torque, torus (tori), total differential, total force, total probability law, Tower of Brahma, Tower of Hanoi, trace, trail, trajectory, transcendental number, transfinite number, transformation (of the plane), transformation group, transformation matrix, transition matrix, transition probability, transitive relation, translation (of the plane), translation of axes (in the plane)…
Leonardo da Vinci Biography, ( 1452 – 1519 ), unit circle, unit cube, unit matrix, unit square, unit vector, unity, universal gravitational constant, Universal Product Code (UPC), universal quantifier, universal set, unknown, unknown constant, unstable equilibrium, upper bound, upper limit, upper triangular matrix, utility, utility function, V, valency, validation (of a simulation model), Charles-Jean De La Vallée-Poussin Biography, ( 1866 – 1962 ), value, value (of a matrix game), Vandermonde's convolution formula…
a, A, Å, AAO, AAR, AAS, AAT, AAV, AB, ab-, ABA, Cleveland Abbe Biography, (1838–1916), Ernst Abbe (not Abbé) Biography, (1840–1905), Richard Abegg Biography, (1869–1910), Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Biography, (1827–1902), John Jacob Abel Biography, (1857–1938), Niels Henrik Abel Biography, (1802–29), George Ogden Abell Biography, (1927–83), Philip Hauge Abelson Biography, (1913–2004), Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney Biography, (1844–1920), ABO, abomasum (pl. abomasa), Alexei A. Abrikosov Biography, (1928– )…
abscisic acid, abscissa (pl. abscissae; preferred to abscissas), absolute activity, absolute magnitude, absolute temperature, absorbance, absorbed dose, absorptance, absorption, absorption coefficient, abysso-, Ac, AC, a.c. (or AC), acac, Acanthodii, Acari, acaro- (or acari-), acceleration, acceleration of free fall, acceptor number density, acclimation, acclimatization, ACE, -aceae, acellular, ACES, acetal, acetaldehyde, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetic anhydride, aceto- (often acet- before vowels)…
a- (an- before vowels and usually before h), actomyosin, acyl-, acyl anhydride, acyl carrier protein, acyl halide, ad, AD, A/D (or A-D, a/d, a-d), ad-, Ada, ADA, adamantane, John Couch Adams Biography, (1819–92), Robert Adams Biography, (1804–78), Roger Adams Biography, (1889–1971), Walter Sydney Adams Biography, (1876–1956), adaptor, ADC, ADCC, adelpho-, -adelphous, adenine, adeno- (aden- before vowels), adeno-associated virus…
alanine aminotransferase (or alanine transaminase), al-Battani Biography, (c.858–929), albino (pl. albinos), Bernhard Siegfried Albinus Biography, (1697–1770), Arthur Albright Biography, (1811–1900), albumen, albumin, alcohol, aldehyde, Kurt Alder Biography, (1902–58), aldo- (ald- before vowels), aldol, Ulisse Aldrovandi Biography, (1522–1604), Jean Le Rond d' Alembert Biography, aleph, -ales, Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Biography, (1930– ), Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén Biography, (1908–95), Alfvén number, algae (pl. noun, no cap.; sing. alga)…
amino acid racemization, aminoazobenzene, aminobenzoic acid, aminobutanedioic acid, aminoethanoic acid, aminoethylsulphonic acid, aminophenol, aminosulphonic acid, ammocoete, ammonium alum, ammonium hydroxide, amnion (pl. amnions; preferred to amnia), amniote, amoeba (no cap.; pl. amoebas or amoebae), amoebo- (amoeb- before vowels, amoebi-), Amoebozoa, amount of substance, amount-of-substance concentration, amp, AMP, ampere, André Marie Ampère Biography, (1775–1836), ampere-hour, ampere-turn, amphi-, Amphibia, amphibious…
annulus (pl. annuli; preferred to annuluses for scientific and mathematical senses), anoestrus, anomaly (not anomoly), Anoplura, anorexia, anorthite, anorthosite, ANS, ANSI, Ant, ant-, ante-, antenna, anthelmintic, antherozoid, antho- (anth- before vowels), Anthocerophyta, Anthocerotopsida, Anthophyta, Anthozoa, anthracene-9,10-dione, anthranilic acid, anthropo-, anti- (ant- before a and h), anti-A, anti-B, antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, anticodon, anti-D…
Araldite, Werner Arber Biography, (1929– ), arbovirus, arccos, arccosec, arccot, arch, Archaea, Archaean (not Archean), archaebacterium (pl. archaebacteria), archaeo- (archae- before vowels), Archaeplastida, arche- (arch- before vowels, archi-, archo-), Archimedes Biography, (287 bc–212 bc), archipelago (pl. archipelagos; preferred to archipelagoes), Archosauria, arc minute, arcosech, arcosh, arcoth, arcsec, arc second, arcsin, arctan, Arctogaea, are, area, Arecaceae, Arecibo Radio Observatory, arenavirus…
Asp, ASP, asparagine, aspartate aminotransferase (or aspartate transaminase), aspartic acid (or aspartate), Alain Aspect Biography, (1947– ), assimilation, AST, astatine, William Thomas Astbury Biography, (1889–1961), Asteraceae, Asteridae, asteroid, Asteroidea, Francis William Aston Biography, (1877–1945), astro-, Astronomer Royal, astronomical unit, ASV, asymmetric digital subscriber line, asymmetry, asymptote, At, AT, -ate, ATEE, atelo- (atel- before vowels (except o), ateli- before o), atherosclerosis, atm, atmo-, atmosphere…
azobenzene, azo compound, AZT, B, Ba, BA, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade Biography, (1893–1960), Charles Babbage Biography, (1792–1871), Isaac Babbitt Biography, (1799–1862), Harold Delos Babcock Biography, (1882–1968), Horace Welcome Babcock Biography, (1912–2003), Jacques Babinet Biography, (1794–1872), Lambert Heinrich Clemens von Babo Biography, (1818–99), BAC, Alexander Dallas Bache Biography, (1806–67), Bacillariophyta, bacille Calmette–Guérin, bacillus (pl. bacilli), Ernst E. A. Back Biography, (1881–1959), backbone, backcross, back focal plane, background…
Basidiomycota, basidium (pl. basidia), basophil, Nikolai Gennediyevich Basov Biography, (1922–2001), Henry Walter Bates Biography, (1825–92), William Bateson Biography, (1861–1926), batho-, bathochromic, bathy- (or batho-), baud, Georg Bauer Biography, Antoine Baumé Biography, (1728–1804), Johann Bayer Biography, (1572–1625), Thomas Bayes Biography, (1702–61), Sir William Maddock Bayliss Biography, (1860–1924), Sir Joseph William Bazalgette Biography, (1819–91), BB (or bb), BBGKY hierarchy, BBO, BBOT, BBSRC, bc, BC, b.c.c…
Sune Bergström Biography, (1916–2004), beriberi, berkelium, John Desmond Bernal Biography, (1901–71), Claude Bernard Biography, (1813–78), Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee Biography, (1955– ), Daniel Bernoulli Biography, (1700–82), Jakob Bernoulli (or Jacques) Biography, (1654–1705), Johann Bernoulli (or Jean) Biography, (1667–1748), Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot Biography, (1827–1907), Comte Claude-Louis Berthollet Biography, (1748–1822), beryllium, Jöns Jacob Berzelius Biography, (1779–1848), BES, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Biography, (1784–1846), Sir Henry Bessemer Biography, (1813–98), Charles Herbert Best Biography, (1899–1978)…
Bk, Sir James Whyte Black Biography, (1924– ), Joseph Black Biography, (1728–99), black body, black box, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Biography, (1897–1974), black hole, blackout, bladderworm, Blandford–Znajek process, -blast, BLAST, blasto-, blastocoel, blastocyst, blastoderm, blastodisc, Blastomycetes, blastula (pl. blastulas or blastulae), John Blenkinsop Biography, (1783–1831), Günter Blobel Biography, (1936– ), Felix Bloch Biography, (1905–83), Konrad Emil Bloch Biography, (1912–2000), Nicolaas Bloembergen Biography, (1920– ), blog, blood, blood–brain barrier…
boudinage, bougainvillea (not bougainvillaea; pl. bougainvilleas), Pierre Bouguer Biography, (1698–1758), Matthew Boulton Biography, (1728–1809), Bourbaki, Eugène Bourdon Biography, (1808–84), Jean Baptiste Boussingault Biography, (1802–87), Theodor Heinrich Boveri Biography, (1862–1915), bovid, bovine, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Sir William Bowman Biography, (1816–92), Box–Jenkins model, Herbert Wayne Boyer Biography, (1936– ), Paul Delos Boyer Biography, (1918– ), Robert Boyle Biography, (1627–91), bp, bp, BP, b.p, BPEA, BPEN, BPh, bpi, bps…
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted Biography, (1879–1947), Robert Broom Biography, (1866–1951), William Brouncker Viscount Biography, (1620–85), Dirk Brouwer Biography, (1902–66), Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer Biography, (1881–1966), Alexander Crum Brown Biography, Herbert Charles Brown Biography, (1912–2004), Michael Stuart Brown Biography, (1941– ), Robert Brown Biography, (1773–1858), Robert Hanbury Brown Biography, (1916–2002), brown algae, brown dwarf, Sir David Bruce Biography, (1855–1931), Edouard Brückner Biography, (1862–1927), Isambard Kingdom Brunel Biography, (1806–59), Sir Marc Isambard Brunel Biography, (1769–1849), Johann Conrad von Brunner Biography, (1653–1727)…
byte-order mark, bytownite, Bz, Bzl, c, C, Ca, CA, cable, cable television, cache (or cache memory), cactus (pl. cacti; not cactuses), CAD, CADCAM (or CAD/CAM), cadherin, CADMAT, cadmium, Cae, CAE, caecum (pl. caeca), Caelum, caeno- (not caino-), Caesalpiniaceae, Caesarean section, caesium, Charles Cagniard De La Tour Biography, (1777–1859), Cahn–Ingold–Prelog sequence rules, August André Thomas Cahours Biography, (1813–91), CAI, Louis Paul Cailletet Biography, (1832–1913)…
Mario R. Capecchi Biography, (1937– ), capillary, capillary electrophoresis, capillary gel electrophoresis, capillary zone electrophoresis, capitellum (pl. capitella), capitulum (pl. capitula), Capricornus, caproic acid, caprylic acid, Car, carat, Carathéodory's principle, carbamide, carbaminohaemoglobin, carbo- (carb- before vowels), carbobenzyloxy, carbolfuchsin, carbon, carboniferous, Carboniferous, carbon:nitrogen ratio, carbon suboxide, carbon tetrabromide, carbon tetrachloride, carbonyl-, carbonyl chloride, carborane, carboxy-, carboxyhaemoglobin, carboxylic acid, carboxymethylcellulose, carcino- (carcin- before vowels)…
cauliflower mosaic virus, Francesco Bonaventura Cavalieri Biography, (1598–1647), Henry Cavendish Biography, (1731–1810), Jean Bienaimé Caventou Biography, (1795–1877), Arthur Cayley Biography, (1821–95), Sir George Cayley Biography, (1773–1857), cayman (not *caiman), Caytoniales, CB, C-banding, CBiol, CBZ, cc, cccDNA, CCD, CC domain, CChem, CCIR, CCITT, CCK, c.c.p, CCTV, cd, Cd, CD, CDF, CD-I, cDNA, CD nomenclature, CDP, CD-R…
CerVit, cervix (pl. cervices), Andrea Cesalpino Biography, (1519–1603), cesium, Cestoda, Cet, CET, Cetacea, cetane, Cetartiodactyla, Cetus, cetyl alcohol, Cf, CFC (pl. CFCs), CFHT, CFSE, CF theory, cfu (or CFU), CGA, CGE, CGH, CGPM, cgs (or c.g.s.) units, ch, Cha, Sir James Chadwick Biography, (1891–1974), chaeta (pl. chaetae), chaeto- (or chaeti-), Chaetognatha, Carlos Chagas Biography, (1879–1934)…
cheval vapeur, Michel Eugène Chevreul Biography, (1786–1889), John Cheyne Biography, (1777–1836), chi, chiasma (pl. chiasmata), chickenpox, Child's law, Chilopoda, chimaera, Chime, chimera (pl. chimeras), chimno- (or chimo-), ChIP, chirality, chiro-, Chiroptera, chi-square (or chi-squared), chi structure, chitin, chiton, Russell Henry Chittenden Biography, (1856–1943), Chl, Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni Biography, (1756–1827), chlamydia (pl. chlamydiae or chlamydias), chloracetic acid, chloral…
chromyl chloride, chrono- (chron- before vowels), chrysalis (pl. chrysalides; preferred to chrysalises), chryso- (chrys- before vowels), Chrysophyta, Paul Ching-Wu Chu Biography, (1941– ), Stephen Chu Biography, (1948– ), Alonzo Church Biography, (1903–95), Chu Shih-Chieh (hyphen) Biography, (fl. 1300), chyle, chylo- (chyl- before vowels), chyme, chymosin, Chytridiomycota, Ci, CI, -cide, CIE, Aaron Ciechanover Biography, (1947– ), ciliary, Ciliata, ciliate, Ciliophora, cilium (pl. cilia)…
co-, CoA, coagulase reacting factor, coagulation factor, coal-tar fuels, coax, cobalamin (not cobalamine), cobalt, cobaltic, cobalticyanide, cobaltous, Cobol (or COBOL), cocco- (cocc- before vowels), coccobacillus (pl. coccobacilli), coccus (pl. cocci), -coccus, coccygo- (coccyo-; coccyg- or coccy- before vowels), coccyx (pl. coccyges; preferred to coccyxes), cochlea (pl. cochleae), Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Biography, (1897–1967), Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell Biography, (1910–99), COD…
concentration, Charles-Marie de La Condamine Biography, condenser (not condensor), Edward Uhler Condon Biography, (1902–74), conductance, conductivity (or electrical conductivity), conductor (not conducter), conidium (pl. conidia), conifer, Coniferales, Coniferophyta, Coniferopsida, conjunctiva (pl. conjunctivae), Conon of Samos Biography, (fl. 245 bc), consensus sequence, const, content-addressable memory, continuous-wave radar, continuous-wave spectroscopy, continuum (pl. continua), contra-, contrast index, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health…
coxsackievirus, cp, CP, cpd, cpi, CP invariance, CPM, CPPO, cps, CPU (or cpu), Cr, CrA, James Mason Crafts Biography, (1839–1917), Donald James Cram Biography, (1919–2001), Gabriel Cramer Biography, (1704–52), Craniata, craniate, cranio- (crani- before vowels), cranium (pl. crania), crassulacean acid metabolism, Crater, craters, CrB, C-reactive protein, cresol, cretaceous, Cretaceous, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, CRF, CRG process, CRH, Francis Harry Compton Crick Biography, (1916–2004)…
CTP, Cu, cubane, cube root, cubic close-packed, cubic expansion coefficient, cubic metre, cubic zircona, cucumber mosaic virus, cuesta, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (hyphen) Biography, (1725–1804), Nicholas Culpeper (not Culpepper) Biography, (1616–54), cultivar, cumene, cumulonimbus (pl. cumulonimbi), cumulus (pl. cumuli), cumyl-, Marie Cunitz Biography, (?1604–64), cup fungi, cuprammonium, cuprammonium sulphate, cupric, cupro- (or cupri-), cuprous, cuprous acetylide, cuprous potassium cyanide, curie, Marie Skłodowska Curie Biography, (1867–1934)…
D/A (or D-A, d/a, d-a), -dactyly, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (hyphens) Biography, (1789–1851), Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler Biography, (1834–1900), Frederick Sydney Dainton Baron Dainton Biography, (1914–97), Henry Drysdale Dakin Biography, (1880–1952), Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Biography, (1717–83), Nils Gustaf Dalén Biography, (1869–1937), Richard Henry Dalitz Biography, (1925–2006), DALR, dalton, John Dalton Biography, (1766–1844), Carl Peter Henrik Dam Biography, (1895–1976), DAMN, damping coefficient…
Sebastian de Ferranti Biography, Lee De Forest Biography, (1873–1961), Defra, degauss (degaussing, degaussed), Gerard Jacob de Geer Biography, degree, degree Celsius, degree centigrade, degree Fahrenheit, degree Kelvin, degree Rankine, Wander Johannes de Haas Biography, (1878–1960), Sir Geoffrey De Havilland Biography, (1882–1965), Hans Georg Dehmelt Biography, (1922– ), dehydrogenase, Johann Deisenhofer Biography, (1943– ), del, Del, Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche Biography, (1796–1855), Paul Vidal de La Blache Biography, de Laplace Biography, Charles De La Tour Biography…
dia- (di- before vowels), dialyse, diameter, diaminazobenzene, diaminomaleonitrile, diamond, diaphragm (not diaphram), diaphysis (pl. diaphyses), diarrhoea, diars, diastase, diatom, diatomic, diazo compound, diazonium salt, DIBAL-H, dichlorine oxide, dichlorobenzene, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, dichloroethanoic acid, dichloromethane, (dichloromethyl)benzene, dichromate, Robert Henry Dicke Biography, (1916–97), Dicotyledoneae (or Magnoliopsida), Dictyoptera, dictyostelid, dieback, diecious, dielectric constant, dielectric polarization, Otto Paul Hermann Diels Biography, (1876–1954), dien…
displacement, dissipation factor, distil (distilling, distilled), disulphate(iv), disulphide group, disulphur dichloride, dithioerythritol, div, diverticulum (pl. diverticula), division, dl-, D layer, D loop, DMA, DMAP, DME, DMF, DMI, DMPE, DMPO, DMPP, DMPS, DMPU, DMSO, DMT, DNA, DNAase, DNA polymerase, DNase, DNBP, DnD, DNOC, DNS, dNTP, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner Biography, (1780–1849), Döbner–Miller process, Theodosius Dobzhansky Biography, (1900–75), Document Object Model…
John William Draper Biography, (1811–82), draught, draughtsman, D region, Johann Louis Emil Dreyer Biography, (1852–1926), dRib, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch Biography, (1867–1941), dripline, dRNA, -dromous, dropping-mercury electrode, dry adiabatic lapse rate, Ds, DSc (or D.Sc.), DSC, dsDNA, DSN, dT, DTA, dTDP, DTE, dTMP, DTNB, DTP, DTT, dTTP, dual in-line, dubnium, Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond (hyphen) Biography, (1818–96), René Jules Dubos Biography, (1901–82)…
echosounding, echovirus, Carl Eckart Biography, (1902–71), John Adam Presper Eckert Biography, (1919–95), ECL, ECMA, eco-, ecto-, ectocarp, ectoderm, ectoproct, ectothermic, ED50, edapho-, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Biography, (1882–1944), Gerald Maurice Edelman Biography, (1929– ), edema, Edentata, Thomas Alva Edison Biography, (1847–1931), Bengt Edlén Biography, (1906– ), EDP, EDRF, John Tileston Edsall Biography, (1902– ), edta, EDTN, EEDQ, EEG, EEROM, EF, EFA, effective atomic number, efficiency of plating…
a, A, Ac, ac-, Ac-Ds, Acidiphilium, Actinobacillus, Actinobacterium, Actinomadura, Actinomyces, Actinoplanes, Aegyptopithecus, Aerococcus, Aeromonas, Agitococcus, Agrobacterium, Al, Alphavirus, Amoebobacter, Amorphosporangium, amphi-, ana-, Ancalomicrobium, anti-, Aquaspirillum, ar-, Arachnia, arachno-, Arcanobacterium, Archaeopteryx, Arthrobacter, As, as-, Aureobacterium, Australopithecus, Avipoxvirus, Azomonas, Azospirillum, Azotobacter, b, B, B-, Beggiatoa, Betabacterium, Bifidobacterium, Blastocaulis, Bordetella, Borrelia, Bradyrhizobium, Branchiostoma…
copia element, Coprococcus, Corynebacterium, Cristispira, Croton, Cs, Cu, Cucumovirus, Curtobacterium, Cyanothece group, Cypovirus, Cytophaga, d, D, d-, (E,E)-8,10-DDDA, (E,Z)-7,9-DDDA, (E,E)-8,10-DDDOL, Dermatophilus, Desulfococcus, Desulfomonas, Desulfonema, Desulfurococcus, dextro-, diag-, dl-, dna, Drosophila, Dryopithecus, e, E, (E)-, E. coli, EM (or e.m.), EMC virus…
N-bromobutanedioic imide, N-bromoethanamide, N-bromosuccinimide, n-butyl alcohol, n-butyraldehyde, n-butyric acid, N,N′-diphenylhydrazine, Empedocles of Acragas Biography, (c.490 bc–c.430 bc), Klebsiella, Kn, l, L, l-, lac operon, Lactobacillus, laevo-, lat-, Le, Legionella, lel-, Leporipoxvirus, Leptospira, Leptospiraceae, Leuconostoc, Listeria, Lysobacter, m, M, m-, Ma, mer-, meso-, meta-, Methanococcus, Methanosarcina, Methylococcus…
trans-butenedioic acid, trans-but-2-enoic acid, s-butyl alcohol, t-butyl alcohol, trans-1,2-diphenylethene, emr (or EMR), emu (or e.m.u.), emulation, Polyomavirus, Potexvirus, Potyvirus, Pr, Propionibacterium, Propliopithecus, pros-, Prosthecomicrobium, q, Q, r, R, (R)-, Ra, Ramapithecus, Re, Rhizobium, Rhodococcus, Ri, Rm, r-strategist, Ruminococcus, s, S, s-, S-…
(Z)-7-DDOL, en, en-, enamine, encephalin, encephalo-, -enchyma, Johann Franz Encke Biography, (1791–1865), en dash (or en rule), endemic, John Franklin Enders Biography, (1897–1985), endo-, endoblast, endoderm, endodermis, endoergic, end of file, endoplasmic reticulum, Endoprocta, Endopterygota, ENDOR, endorphin, endothermic, endplate, ENE, -ene, energy, energy fluence, energy flux density, energy imparted, George Engelmann Biography, (1809–84), (Heinrich Gustav) Adolf Engler Biography, (1844–1930), enhanced graphics adapter…
EPSP (or e.p.s.p.; pl. EPSPs or e.p.s.ps), EPSRC, Epstein–Barr virus, EPT–76, EQ gate, eqn, Equ, equation of time, equi-, equid, equilibrium constant, equine, equinox (pl. equinoxes), Equisetophyta, Equisetopsida, equivalence gate, Equuleus, Er, ER, Erasistratus of Chios Biography, (c.304 bc–c.250 bc), Eratosthenes of Cyrene Biography, (c.276 bc–c.194 bc), erbium, E region, erg…
ethylene oxide, ethyl ethanoate, ethyl formate, ethylidene-, ethyl methanoate, ethyl methyl ether, ethyl methyl ketone, ethyne, etiology, ETSA, ETSI, Ettinghausen effect, Eu, eu-, euactinomycete, Eubacteria, Eubrya, eucaryote, Euclid Biography, (c.330 bc–c.260 bc), eudicots, Eudoxus of Cnidus Biography, (c.400 bc–c.350 bc), Euglenophyta, Eukarya, eukaryote, Leonhard Euler Biography, (1707–83), Ulf Svante von Euler Biography, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin Biography, (1873–1964), Euler constant…
facula (pl. faculae), FAD, FADH2, faeces, Fagaceae, (Gabriel) Daniel Fahrenheit Biography, (1686–1736), fail-safe, Kasimir Fajans Biography, (1887–1975), Fallopian tube, Gabriel Fallopius Biography, (1523–62), Étienne Louis Arthur Fallot Biography, (1850–1911), fallout, family, FAO, FAQ, farad, faraday, Michael Faraday Biography, (1791–1867), Faraday constant, FAS, fascia (pl. fasciae), FASTA, fast breeder reactor, fast Fourier transform, FAT, fathom, fauna, fax, FB element, FBR, Fc…
fibroblast growth factor, fibula (pl. fibulae or fibulas), FICE, FIChemE (or F.I.Chem.E.), Adolf Eugen Fick Biography, (1829–1901), -fid, FIEE, field-effect transistor, FIFO (or fifo), FIFST, filaria, file allocation table, file-transfer protocol, fili-, filial generation, Filicales, Filicinophyta, Filicopsida, filo-, FIMA, fimbria (pl. fimbriae), FIMechE (or F.I.Mech.E.), FIMinE (or F.I.Min.E.)…
foldback element, folic acid, Karl August Folkers Biography, (1906–97), follicle-stimulating hormone, Food and Agriculture Organization, foot, foot-candle, foot poundal, foot pound-force, For, foramen (pl. foramina), Foraminifera, Edward Forbes Biography, (1815–54), f orbital, force, Edmund Brisco Ford Biography, (1901–88), fore-, forebrain, foregut, forelimb, Lee De Forest Biography, forewing, form, form-, -form, formaldehyde, formalin acetic alcohol, formamide, format, formate, Formica, formic acid…
Sigmund Freud Biography, (1856–1939), Jules Thomas Freund Biography, (1891–1960), Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich Biography, (1880–1941), Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling Biography, (1900–88), FRGS, FRHS, FRIC, Charles Friedel Biography, (1832–99), Georges Friedel Biography, (1865–1933), Herbert Friedman Biography, (1916–2000), Jerome Isaac Friedman Biography, (1930– ), Aleksandr Alexandrovich Friedmann Biography, (1888–1925), Nikolaus Friedreich Biography, (1825–82), Elias Magnus Fries Biography, (1794–1878), Karl von Frisch Biography, (1886–1982), Otto Robert Frisch Biography, (1904–79), Felix Eugen Fritsch Biography, (1879–1954)…
Franz Joseph Gall Biography, (1758–1828), gall bladder, Johann Gottfried Galle Biography, (1812–1910), gallic acid, gallinaceous, gallium, gallon, gallstone, Evariste Galois Biography, (1811–32), GALP, Sir Francis Galton Biography, (1822–1911), Luigi Galvani Biography, (1737–98), gam-, gameto- (gamet- before vowels), gamma, Gamma, gamma-aminobutyric acid, gamma function, gammaglobulin (one word; or gamma globulin), gammaherpesvirus, gamma iron, gamma ray, gamo- (gam- before vowels), -gamous, George Gamow Biography, (1904–68)…
geo-, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (hyphen) Biography, (1772–1844), geological, Geological time scale, The, geological units, geometry, gerade, geranium (pl. geraniums), John Gerard Biography, (1545–1612), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt Biography, (1816–56), germanium, German measles, Lester Halbert Germer Biography, (1896–1971), Conrad Gesner Biography, (1516–65), GFP, GH, GHA, GHBA, G horizon, Riccardo Giacconi Biography, (1931– ), Ivar Giaever Biography, (1929– ), giant, giant molecular cloud, William Francis Giauque Biography, (1895–1982)…
Leopold Gmelin Biography, (1788–1853), GMP, GMST, GMT, gnatho-, Gnathostomata, -gnathous, gneiss, Gnetales, Gneticae, Gnetophyta, Gnetopsida, gnotobiotics, GnRH, goat pox, Robert Hutchings Goddard Biography, (1882–1945), Kurt Gödel Biography, (1906–78), Sir Harry Godwin Biography, (1901–85), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (hyphen) Biography, (1906–72), Golay cell, gold, Thomas Gold Biography, (1920–2004), Christian Goldbach Biography, (1690–1764), golden-brown algae, Johann (Hans) Wilhelm Goldschmidt Biography, (1861–1923), Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Biography, (1878–1958)…
Great Attractor, greater than, greatest common divisor, Great Red Spot, Greek alphabet, Greek alphabet, The, greeking, George Green Biography, (1793–1841), green algae, Jesse Leonard Greenstein Biography, (1909–2002), Greenwich hour angle, Greenwich Mean Time, Gregorian calendar, James Gregory Biography, (1638–75), grenz rays (not Grenz), Grévy's zebra, grey, greywacke, Frederick Griffith Biography, (1881–1941), François Auguste Victor Grignard Biography, (1871–1935), Grignard reagent, Francesco Maria Grimaldi Biography, (1618–63), gRNA, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark Biography…
hafnium, Otto Hahn Biography, (1879–1968), hahnium, Haidinger fringes, hailstone, hairline, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Biography, (1892–1964), John Scott Haldane Biography, (1860–1936), George Ellery Hale Biography, (1868–1938), Stephen Hales Biography, (1677–1761), half (pl. halves), half duplex, half frame, half-life, halftone, Asaph Hall Biography, (1829–1907), Charles Martin Hall Biography, (1863–1914), Edwin Herbert Hall Biography, (1855–1938), James Hall Biography, (1811–98), Sir James Hall Biography, (1761–1832), John L. Hall Biography, (1934– )…
Chang Heng Biography, (ad 78–142), HD, HDAL, HDL, HDODA, He, headspace, heartbeat, heartwood, heat, heat capacity, heat flow rate, heath, heather, Oliver Heaviside Biography, (1850–1925), heavy chain, heavy-water reactor, William Heberden (not Heberdon) Biography, (1710–1801), hectare, hecto-, -hedron, HEED, Alan Heeger Biography, (1936– ), Bruce Charles Heezen Biography, (1924–77), Heidelberg man, Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain Biography, (1834–97), height, height equivalent to a theoretical plate, Sir Ian Heilbron Biography, (1886–1959)…
Germain Henri Hess Biography, (1802–50), Harry Hammond Hess Biography, (1906–69), Victor Francis Hess Biography, (1883–1964), Walter Rudolf Hess Biography, (1881–1973), hetero- (heter- before vowels), heterocyclic, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein, heterogeneous nuclear RNA, heterojunction bipolar transistor, heterokont, Heteroptera, heterozygous, HETP, Fritz Heusler Biography, (1866–1947), Johannes Hevelius Biography, (1611–87), George Charles von Hevesy Biography, (1885–1966), Antony Hewish Biography, (1924– ), hex, hexa- (hex- before vowels), hexacyanocobaltate(iii), hexacyanoferrate(ii), hexacyanoferrate(iii)…
HJBT (or HBT), HLA system (not HL-A system), HMI, HMPA, HMPT, HMX, HNIW, hnRNA, hnRNP, Ho, Mahlon Bush Hoagland Biography, (1921– ), Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge Biography, (1903–75), Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Biography, (1914–98), Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Biography, (1910–94), Thomas Hodgkin Biography, (1798–1866), HOE, Jacobus van 't Hoff Biography, Felix Hoffmann Biography, (1868–1946), Roald Hoffmann Biography, (1937– ), Albert Hofmann Biography, (1906–2008), August Wilhelm von Hofmann Biography, (1818–92), Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister Biography, (1824–77)…
Russell Alan Hulse Biography, (1950– ), Hendrik Christoffell van de Hulst Biography, human B-lymphotropic virus, human chorionic gonadotrophin, human–computer interface, human growth hormone, human herpesvirus, human immunodeficiency virus, human leukocyte antigen system, human T-lymphotropic virus, Milton La Salle Humason Biography, (1891–1972), (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich) Alexander Humboldt Baron von Biography, (1769–1859), William Hume-Rothery (hyphen) Biography, (1899–1968), humerus (pl. humeri), humidity, humoral (not humoural), hundredweight, Hund rule, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Biography, (1886–1984)…
H–D curve, H–R diagram, hystero- (hyster- before vowels), Hz, i, I, IA, -ia, IAA, Ia antigens, IAEA, IAP, IAU, IBA, IBM, Ibn Musa, Ibn Rushd, ibn-Sina, iBu, i-Bu, IC, -ic, -ical, ICAM, ICBN, ICE, ice age, iceberg, iceblink, icecap, ice crystal, icefall, ice field, ice fish, ice floe, Iceland spar, IC engine, ice point, ice sheet, ice shelf…
John Imbrie Biography, (1925– ), IMechE (or I.Mech.E.), imine, iminourea, immune response gene, immuno-, immunoelectrophoresis, immunoglobulin, IMP, impedance, imperfect fungi, impulse, IMS, in, In, in-, -in, -inae, inch, InChI, incompatibility group, incus (pl. incudes), Ind, index, Index Catalogue, indexing, indium, indoleacetic acid, indole 3-butyric acid, inductance, induction, inductive effect, inductomeric effect, Indus, -ine, -ineae, inert gases…
intensity, inter-, interacting-boson model, interferon, interleukin, intermediate frequency, internal-combustion engine, internal energy, internal transmission density, International Astronomical Union, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Atomic Time, International Codes of Nomenclature, International Commission on Illumination, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, International Committee on Weights and Measures, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Energy Agency, International Federation for Information Processing, International Frequency Registration Board, International Geophysical Year, international nautical mile, International Organization for Standardization, International Practical Temperature Scale…
irido- (irid- before vowels), iris, IRM, iron, iron(ii) diiron(iii) oxide, iron(ii) oxide, iron(iii) oxide, ironstone, irradiance, IRTF, IS, Isaac Newton Telescope, Alick Isaacs Biography, (1921–67), ISBN, ischium (pl. ischia), ISDN, -ise, Shinobu Ishihara Biography, (1879–1963), ISI, Ernst Ising Biography, (1900– ), islets of *Langerhans, ISM, ISO, iso-, isobar, isoBu, isobutane, isobutanoic acid, isobutyl alcohol…
Johann Gutenberg Biography, (c.1400–c.68), Java, Java Development Kit, Java man, JavaScript, JCL, JCVI, JD, JDK, Sir James Hopwood Jeans Biography, (1877–1946), Sir Harold Jeffreys Biography, (1891–1989), jellyfish, Edward Jenner Biography, (1749–1823), Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen Biography, (1907–73), Niels Kaj Jerne Biography, (1911–94), JET, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JFET, JIT compiler, Jmol, job control language, Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen Biography, (1857–1927), Johnson Space Center, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (hyphen; originally Frédéric Joliot) Biography, (1900–58)…
Vladimir Michalovich Kernig Biography, (1840–1917), kerosene, John Kerr Biography, (1824–1907), Roy Patrick Kerr Biography, (1934– ), ketene (or keten), keto- (ket- before vowels), keto–enol tautomerism, ketone, Ketterle, Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell Biography, (1907–79), keyword, kg, kgf, Har Gobind Khorana Biography, (1922– ), kibi-, kidney, Seishi Kikuchi Biography, (1902–74), Tom Kilburn Biography, (1921– ), Jack S. Kilby Biography, (1923–2005), killer cell, kilo (pl. kilos), kilo-, kilobase, kilogram, kilogram-force…
K shell, ksi (or k.s.i.), Ku, Ku band, Richard Kuhn Biography, (1900–67), Gerard Peter Kuiper Biography, (1905–73), August Eduard Eberhard Adolph Kundt Biography, (1839–94), Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer Biography, (1829–1902), Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov Biography, (1903–60), Nicholas Kurti Biography, (1908–98), Polykarp Kusch Biography, (1911–93), Martin Wilhelm Kutta Biography, (1867–1944), kV, kW, kWh, l, L, l-, L1, La, label, Labiatae, -labile, labium (pl. labia), Labrador Current…
Robert B. Laughlin Biography, (1950– ), Auguste Laurent Biography, (1807–53), lauric acid, lauryl alcohol, Paul C. Lauterbur Biography, (1929–2007), LAV, lava (pl. lavas), lavender (not lavander), Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Biography, (1743–94), Sir John Bennet Lawes Biography, (1814–1900), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Biography, (1901–58), lawrencium, lb, lbf, LCAO, L capture, LCC, LCD, LCM (or l.c.m.), LCN, LCR, LD, LDA, LDL, l-dopa, lead…
Leu, leucine, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart Biography, (1822–98), leuco- (leuc- before vowels), leucocyte, Leu-enkephalin, leukaemia, leukemia, leukocyte, leukotriene, level, Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene Biography, (1869–1940), Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier Biography, (1811–77), Rita Levi-Montalcini Biography, (1909– ), Claude Lévi-Strauss Biography, (1908– ), levo-, levorotatory, Edward B. Lewis Biography, (1918–2004), Gilbert Newton Lewis Biography, (1875–1946), Lewis number, Franz von Leydig Biography, (1821–1908), LF, lg, LGO…
liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, liquefy (not liquify), liquid, liquid-crystal display, liquid-metal reactor, Lisp (or LISP), Jules Antoine Lissajous Biography, (1822–80), Joseph Lister Lord Biography, (1827–1912), litchi (not lichee, lichi, or lychee; pl. litchis), -lite, liter, -lith, lithia, lithium, lithium aluminium hydride, lithium oxide, lithium tetrahydridoaluminate(iii), litho-, litre, litzendraht wire (or litz wire), live, liver, liver fluke, liverwort, liveware…
LQ, LQG, Lr, LRR, LRSC, LSB (or l.s.b.), LSD, L shell, LSI, LSR, LST, L strand, LT, LTA, LTC, LTH, LTR, Lu, John Lubbock Lord Avebury Biography, (1834–1913), Jean André de Luc Biography, luci-, ‘Lucy’, lugworm, lumen, Auguste Lumière Biography, (1862–1954), Louis Lumière Biography, (1864–1948), luminance, luminosity, luminous efficacy, luminous emittance, luminous exitance, luminous flux, luminous intensity, Otto Lummer Biography, (1860–1925)…
macrophyll, Macroscelidea, macrospore, macrosporophyll, macula, macula lutea (pl. maculae luteae), MAD, Madelung constant, maduromycete, MAF, mafic, Ferdinand Magellan Biography, (1480–1521), François Magendie Biography, (1783–1855), magma (pl. magmas; not magmata), Magnadur, Magnalium, magnesia, magnesium, magnesium oxide, magnet, magnetic circular dichroism, magnetic constant, magnetic dipole moment, magnetic field strength, magnetic flux, magnetic flux density, magnetic induction, magnetic-ink character recognition, magnetic moment, magnetic polarization, magnetic potential…
John Loudon McAdam Biography, (1756–1836), Charles McBurney Biography, (1845–1913), Maclyn McCarty Biography, (1911–2005), Barbara McClintock Biography, (1902–92), Elmer Verner McCollum Biography, (1879–1967), Harden Marsden McConnell Biography, (1927– ), Herbert McLeod Biography, (1841–1923), Edwin Mattison McMillan Biography, (1907–91), MAP kinase (or MAPK), map unit, Marchantiophyta, Guglielmo Marconi Biography, (1874–1937), Rudolph Arthur Marcus Biography, (1923– ), mare, Étienne-Jules Marey (hyphen) Biography, (1830–1904), margaric acid, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf Biography, (1709–82), margo (pl. margones)…
Me, mean, mean annual increment, mean energy imparted, mean free path, mean life, mean sea level, mean time between failures, measles, meatus (pl. meatuses or meatus), mebi-, mechanoreceptor, Johan Friedrich Meckel Biography, (1724–74), Johann Friedrich Meckel Biography, (1781–1833), Sir Peter Brian Medawar Biography, (1915–87), media, median, median effective dose, median lethal dose, Medical Research Council, medium (pl. media), medium frequency, medium-scale integration, medium wave, MEDLINE, medulla (pl. medullas or medullae)…
metallo- (metall- before vowels, metalli-), metallocene, metallography, metalloid, metallurgy, metal-oxide semiconductor, metamorphism, metamorphosis (pl. metamorphoses), Metatheria, metathesis, Metazoa, Elie Metchnikoff Biography, (1845–1916), Met-enkephalin, meteor, meter, -meter, metestrus (or metestrum), methacrylic acid, methanal, methanamide, methanesulphonyl-, methanoate, methanoic acid, methanol, methanoyl-, methanoylation, methionine, methoxy-, methoxymethane, methyl-, methyl alcohol, methylbenzene, methylbenzenesulphonyl-, methylbenzoic acid, methyl bromide, methylbuta-1,3-diene…
MIEE, Johann Friedrich Miescher Biography, (1844–95), MIF, mil, Milutin Milankovich Biography, (1879–1958), mile, millepede, Hugh Miller Biography, (1802–56), Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller Biography, (1931– ), John Milton Miller Biography, (1882–1962), Oskar von Miller Biography, (1855–1935), Stanley Lloyd Miller Biography, (1930–2007), William Hallowes Miller Biography, (1801–80), milli-, Robert Andrews Millikan Biography, (1868–1953), millimicron, millipede, Auguste Millon Biography, (1812–67), Bernard Yarnton Mills Biography, (1920– ), William Hobson Mills Biography, (1873–1959), Edward Arthur Milne Biography, (1896–1950)…
moiré, Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan Biography, (1852–1907), Abraham De Moivre Biography, mol, molality, molar, molar absorption coefficient, molar conductivity, molar enthalpy, molar enthalpy change, molar entropy, molar extinction coefficient, molar gas constant, molar Gibbs function, molar heat capacity, molar Helmholtz function, molar internal energy, molarity, molar mass, molar volume, mole, molecular-beam epitaxy, molecular concentration, molecular orbital, molecular weight, molecule, mole fraction, Hans Molisch Biography, (1856–1937), mollicute, Mollusca, Karl B. Mollweide Biography, (1774–1825)…
mpg, M phase, MPhil (or M.Phil.), MPPH, MR, MRAeS (or M.R.Ae.S.), MRBS, MRC, MRCP, MRCS, MRCVS, MRGS, MRI, MRIC, MRMetS (or M.R.Met.S.), mRNA, MRSC, Ms, MS, MSB (or msb), MSc (or M.Sc.), MSD (or msd), MS-DOS, MSG, MSH, MSH, M shell, MSI, msl, MSNT, MSS, MST…
M–L relation, myco- (myc- before vowels), Mycobiota, mycoplasma, mycorrhiza (not mycorhiza; pl. mycorrhizae), Mycota, myelo- (myel- before vowels), Mylar, myo- (my- before vowels), myriapod, myrmeco-, myxo- (myx- before vowels), myxobacter, myxobacteria (pl. noun, no cap.; sing. myxobacterium), Myxobionta, Myxomycetes, Myxomycota, Mz, n, N, Na, NA, NAA, nabla, NAD, NADP, Karl Wilhelm von Naegeli Biography, (1817–91), Mark Aronovich Naimark Biography, (1909–78)…
nemato- (nemat- before vowels), Nemertea, nemertine, neo- (sometimes ne- before vowels), neo-Darwinism, neodymium, Neogene, neognathous, neo-Lamarckism, neon, neopentyl alcohol, neoprene, neper, nephelinite, nephelo- (nephel- before vowels), nepho- (neph- before vowels), nephridium (pl. nephridia), nephro- (nephr- before vowels), Neptune, neptunium, NEQ gate, NERC, Walther Hermann Nernst Biography, (1864–1941), nerve, Julius Nessler Biography, (1827–1905), net assimilation rate, Carl Gottfried Neumann Biography, (1832–1925)…
NK cell, NLP, NLQ, n mile, NMO, NMR, NNE, NNW, No, No. (or no.; pl. Nos. or nos.), NOAA, NOAO, Alfred Bernhard Nobel Biography, (1833–96), nobelium, Leopoldo Nobili Biography, (1784–1835), noble gases, nocardioform, nocti- (noct- before vowels), node of *Ranvier, (Seisako) Hideyo Noguchi Biography, (1876–1928), no-load, nomenclature of organisms, Nomenclature of organisms, nomo-, -nomy, non-, nona- (non- before vowels), nonanoic acid…
nunatak (not nunatack), Sir Paul M. Nurse Biography, (1949– ), E. K. Wilhelm Nusselt Biography, (1882–1957), Nusselt number, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Biography, (1942– ), NW, nycto- (nyct- before vowels, nycti-), Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm Biography, (1917–71), nylon, Nymphaeaceae (not Nympheaceae), Harry Nyquist Biography, (1889–1976), o, O, oasis (pl. oases), ob-, Oberon, Hermann Julius Oberth Biography, (1894–1989), OBM, obs, occam, Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini Biography, (1907–93)…
oncosphere, oncovirus, ondo-, -one, one gene–one enzyme hypothesis, online, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Biography, Lars Onsager Biography, (1903–76), onycho- (onych- before vowels), oo-, Oomycetes, Oomycota, Jan Hendrik Oort Biography, (1900–92), OP, op-amp (or opamp), Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin Biography, (1894–1980), open circuit, open reading frame, open systems interconnection, operational taxonomic unit, operations research, operator, operator-constitutive mutant, operculum (pl. opercula), Oph, ophio- (ophi- before vowels)…
osteo- (sometimes oste- or ost- before vowels), ostiole, ostium (pl. ostia), Ostracoda, Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald Biography, (1853–1932), OS X, ot-, OTF, oto- (ot- before vowels), Nikolaus August Otto Biography, (1832–91), OTU, Örjan T. G. Ouchterlony Biography, (1914–2004), William Oughtred Biography, (1575–1660), ounce, ounce troy, -ous, outcrop, outgassing, output, overpotential, overwinter, ovi-, ovo-, ovum (pl. ova), Sir Richard Owen Biography, (1804–92), ox…
Paul Greengard Biography, (1925– ), panto-, panzootic, George Nicholas Papanicolaou (not Papanicolau) Biography, (1883–1962), papilla (pl. papillae), Denis Papin Biography, (1647–c.1712), papovavirus, Alwin M. Pappenheimer Biography, (1908–95), pappus (pl. pappi), Pappus of Alexandria Biography, (fl. early 4th century ad), Pap test, PAR, para- (par- before vowels and h), -para, parabola (pl. parabolas or parabolae), Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Biography, (1493–1541), paraffin (not parrafin), paraformaldehyde, parainfluenza virus…
Pedanius Dioscorides Biography, (c.ad 40–c.ad 90), ped-, -ped (or -pede), Charles John Pedersen Biography, (1904–89), pedi- (ped- before vowels), pedo- (ped- before vowels), pedogenesis, Peg, PEG, Pegasus, Sir Rudolph Ernst Peierls Biography, (1907–95), Charles Sanders Peirce Biography, (1839–1914), Peking man, pelargonic acid, pelargonium (pl. pelargoniums), P element, Eugene Melchior Peligot Biography, (1811–90), John Pell Biography, (1610–85), Pierre Joseph Pelletier Biography, (1788–1842), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier Biography, (1785–1845)…
Peter C. Doherty Biography, (1940– ), PES, PETA, peta-, -petalous, Arno Peters Biography, (1916–2002), Sir Rudolph Albert Peters Biography, (1889–1982), Carl Georg Johan Petersen Biography, (1860–1928), Julius Petersen Biography, (1839–1910), Alexis Thérèse Petit Biography, (1791–1820), Richard Julius Petri Biography, (1852–1921), petro-, Josef Maximilian Petzval Biography, (1807–91), Johann Konrad Peyer Biography, (1653–1712), Pezizales, Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer Biography, (1845–1920), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer Biography, (1858–1945), A. Herman Pfund Biography, (1879–1949), Pg…
phosphorus(v) chloride, phosphorus pentachloride, phosphorus trichloride, phosphoryl chloride, phot, photo-, photoelectron spectroscopy, photon, Photostat, photosystem (or pigment system), PHP, phreatic, Phthiraptera, -phyceae, phyco-, Phycomycetes, -phyll, phyllo- (phyll- before vowels), phyllotaxis, phylogeny, phylum (pl. phyla), physical quantities, symbols, physisorption, -phyta, -phyte, phyto-, phytochrome, phytohaemagglutinin, pi, Giuseppe Piazzi Biography, (1746–1826), pi bond, Pic, pica, Jean Picard Biography, (1620–82), Auguste Piccard Biography, (1884–1962)…
PL/I (or PL/1), plani-, planitia, plano-, plan-position indicator, Plantae, R. L. Gaston Planté Biography, (1834–89), plant taxonomy, planum, John Stanley Plaskett Biography, (1865–1941), -plasm, plasma (or blood plasma), plasma-, plasmid, plasmo-, plasmodesma (pl. plasmodesmata; usually referred to in the pl.), Plasmodiophoromycetes, plasmodium (pl. plasmodia), -plast, plasto-, plateau (pl. plateaux; preferred to plateaus), Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau Biography, (1801–83), platelet…
poise, poiseuille, Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille Biography, (1799–1869), Siméon Denis Poisson Biography, (1781–1840), John Charles Polanyi Biography, (1929– ), Michael Polanyi Biography, (1891–1976), polar coordinates, polarize, Polaroid, Polenske number, poliovirus, H. David Politzer Biography, (1949– ), polje (pl. poljes), pollex (pl. pollices), polonium, poly-, poly(A), George Pólya Biography, (1887–1995), polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Polychaeta, polychlorinated biphenyl, polydioxoboric(iii) acid, polyethylene glycol, polymer, polymerase chain reaction…
PPi, PPI, PPLO, ppm, PPP, ppt, Pr, PR, practical electrical system, practical units, practice, prae-, Ludwig Prandtl Biography, (1875–1953), Prandtl number, praseodymium, John Henry Pratt Biography, (1809–71), pre- (not prae-), Precambrian, precipitate, precursor messenger RNA, prefixes, Fritz Pregl Biography, (1869–1930), pregnant mare's serum gonadotrophin, Vladimir Prelog Biography, (1906–98), pre-mRNA, preproinsulin, pressure, pressure coefficient, pressure potential, pressurized-water reactor, Prestel, Sir Joseph Prestwich Biography, (1812–96)…
prostheca (pl. prosthecae), prosthecobacterium, prot-, protactinium, protein, protein kinase C, protein-tyrosine kinase, Proterozoic, prothallus (pl. prothalli), prothorax (pl. prothoraces), protist, Protista, protium, proto- (usually prot- before vowels), protochordate, Protoctista, proton, protonema (pl. protonemata), proton number, Prototheria, protozoa, Joseph Proudman Biography, (1888–1975), Joseph Louis Proust Biography, (1754–1826), William Prout Biography, (1785–1850), PrP, Stanley Ben Prusiner Biography, (1942– ), prussic acid, Nikolai Mikhailovich Przewalski Biography, (1839–88)…
P–L relation, pyrazine, Pyrex, pyridine, pyridoxine, pyro- (sometimes pyr- before vowels or h), pyrogallol, pyrophosphoric acid, pyrrolidine, pyruvic acid, Pythagoras Biography, (c.580 bc–c.500 bc), Python, Pyx, Pyxis, PYY, Pz, q, Q, Q10, QA, QAM (or qam), Q band, QC, QCD, QED, QI, Q-PCR, QSO, qt, Quadrans Murali, quadrature-amplitude modulation, quadri-, quadruped, quadrupole, quality assurance, quality control…
radix (pl. radices), radon, radula (pl. radulae), rain, (Leo) James Rainwater Biography, (1917–86), RAL, RAM, r.a.m, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Biography, (1888–1970), Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan Biography, (1887–1920), ramjet, Santiago Ramón y Cajal Biography, (1852–1934), Carl Wilhelm Ramsauer Biography, (1879–1955), Sir William Ramsay Biography, (1852–1916), Jesse Ramsden Biography, (1735–1800), Norman Foster Ramsey Biography, (1915– ), ramus (pl. rami), R&D, random-access memory…
refractory (not refactory), refrigerant (not refridgerant), T. E. Regge Biography, (1931– ), regio (not ital.; pl. regiones), Regiomontanus Biography, (1436–76), Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, Henri Victor Regnault Biography, (1800–78), Tadeus Reichstein Biography, (1897–1996), Harry Fielding Reid Biography, (1859–1944), Frederick Reines Biography, (1918–98), Ernst Reissner Biography, (1824–78), Hans Reiter Biography, (1881–1969), relative activity, relative atomic mass, relative density, relative isotopic mass, relative molecular mass, relative nuclidic mass, relative permeability…
Roger Bacon Biography, (c.1220–92), riboflavin, ribonuclease, ribonucleic acid, ribonucleoprotein, ribose, ribosomal protein, ribosomal RNA, ribosome, ribosylthymine, ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate, Matteo Ricci Biography, (1552–1610), Giovanni Battista Ricciolo Biography, (1598–1671), Richard of Wallingford Biography, (c.1291–1336), Theodore William Richards Biography, (1868–1928), Lewis Fry Richardson Biography, (1881–1953), Sir Owen Willans Richardson Biography, (1879–1959), Robert Coleman Richardson Biography, (1937– ), richest-field telescope, Charles Robert Richet Biography, (1850–1935), Burton Richter Biography, (1931– )…
Roemer) Rømer (or Römer Ole Christensen Biography, (1644–1710), Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Royal Society of Chemistry, R plasmid, rpm (or r.p.m.), r-protein, RQ, -rrhoea, rRNA, RSC, R segment, RSS, RSV, RTECS, RTF, RT-PCR, Ru, Carlo Rubbia Biography, (1934– ), rubella, rubeola, Rubiaceae, rubidium, Rubisco, RuBP (or RUBP), Ruby, Olof Rudbeck Biography, (1630–1702), RuDP (or RDP)…
SAR group, SAS, satellite laser ranging, saturated adiabatic lapse rate, saturated vapour pressure, Saturn, Frederick Albert Saunders Biography, (1875–1963), -saur, saurian, Saurischia, sauro- (saur- before vowels), Horace Bénédict de Saussure Biography, (1740–99), SAV, Félix Savart Biography, (1791–1841), Thomas Savery Biography, (c.1650–1715), SAW, sb, Sb, SB, sBu, s-Bu, Sc, scalar, scalar product, Scandentia, scandium, scanning electron microscope, scanning transmission electron microscope, scanning tunnelling microscope…
Scyphozoa, scyrps, SD, SDD, SDK, SDRAM, SDS, Se, SE, sea, sea anemone, Glenn Theodore Seaborg Biography, (1912–99), seaborgium, sea cucumber, seagull, sea lily, sealion, sea mile, seamount, sea squirt, sea urchin, seaweed, sebacic acid, sec, (Pietro) Angelo Secchi Biography, (1818–78), sech, second, section, Adam Sedgwick Biography, (1785–1873), sediment, sedimentation coefficient, Sedna, Thomas Johann Seebeck Biography, (1770–1831), seed ferns, Seeliger–Donker-Voet scheme…
shear strain, shear stress, sheep pox, Francis Parker Shepard Biography, (1896–1985), Phillip Macdonald Sheppard Biography, (1921–76), Sir Charles Scott Sherrington Biography, (1857–1952), SHF, Kiyoshi Shiga Biography, (1870–1957), Osamu Shimomura Biography, (1928– ), Shine–Dalgarno sequence, Hideki Shirakawa Biography, (1936– ), SHM, William Bradford Shockley Biography, (1910–89), Shoemaker–Levy, shoran, short, Charles W. Short Biography, (1794–1863), short circuit, short-day plant, short hundredweight, short-sighted, Shortt clock, short ton, short wave, shRNA…
sinusoid, siphon (not syphon), Siphonaptera, Siphonophora, Siphunculata, Sipunculida, Sirenia, siRNA, sirocco (not scirocco), Sisyphus effect (or Sisyphus cooling), Site of Special Scientific Interest, Willem de Sitter Biography, SI units, SI units, SIV, Burrhus Frederic Skinner Biography, (1904–90), Jens C. Skou Biography, (1918– ), Zdenko Hans Skraup Biography, (1850–1910), skyrmion, SLAC, slaked lime, SLC, slime moulds, Vesto Melvin Slipher Biography, (1875–1969), SLN, SLR, slug, Sm, Smad (or SMAD)…
soluble, soluble RNA, solution, Ernest Solvay Biography, (1838–1922), solvent (not solvant), somato- (somat- before vowels), somatostatin receptor, somatotrophin, -some, Mary Somerville Biography, (1780–1872), Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld Biography, (1868–1951), Michael Somogyi Biography, (1883–1971), sonar, Franz Sondheimer Biography, (1926–81), sono- (son- before vowels), Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith Biography, (1888–1989), sorbic acid, s orbital, Henry Clifton Sorby Biography, (1826–1908), Jacques-Louis Soret (hyphen) Biography, (1827–90), sorghum (not sorgum)…
spino-, spin quantum number, spiraea (pl. spiraeas), spirillum (pl. spirilla), spiro- (spir- before vowels), spirochaete, Lyman Spitzer Jr Biography, (1914–97), splanchno-, sporangium (pl. sporangia), Gustav Freidrich Wilhelm Spörer Biography, (1822–95), sporo- (spor- before vowels), sporoactinomycete, Sporozoa, SPS, spurge, square brackets, square metre, square root, square yard, squid (or SQUID), sr, Sr, SR, SRC, S region, sRNA, SRP, SSB, SSB protein…
Otto Stern Biography, (1888–1969), sternum (pl. sterna; preferred to sternums), steroid hormone receptor, Thomas Stevenson Biography, (1818–87), Simon Stevin Biography, (1548–1620), STH, stib-, stibine, -stichous, Thomas Jan Stieltjes Biography, (1856–94), stigma (pl. stigmas; preferred to stigmata), stilb, stilbene, stilboestrol, Stillson wrench (not Stilson), stimulus (pl. stimuli), James Stirling Biography, (1692–1770), Robert Stirling Biography, (1790–1878), STLV, STM, stochastic, stoichio-, stoichiometric coefficients, stoichiometry, stokes (not stoke; pl. stokes)…
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen Biography, (1868–1939), sulphur dichloride dioxide, sulphur dichloride oxide, sulphuric(iv) acid, sulphuric(vi) acid, sulphur monochloride, sulphurous acid, sulphur(vi) oxide, sulphur trioxide, sulphuryl chloride, John Edward Sulston Biography, (1942– ), sumac (not sumach), summation, James Batcheller Sumner Biography, (1877–1955), Thomas H. Sumner Biography, (1807–76), sun, sup, super-, superfamily, supergiant, superhet, superhigh frequency, supernova (pl. supernovae; preferred to supernovas), Super Proton Synchrotron…
tan, Koichi Tanaka Biography, (1959– ), tanh, Sir Arthur George Tansley Biography, (1871–1955), tantalum, tapeworm, Tardigrada, Alfred Tarski Biography, (1902–83), tarsus (pl. tarsi), Niccoló Tartaglia Biography, (1500–57), TAS-F, TATA box, TATP, Edward Lawrie Tatum Biography, (1909–75), tau, Tau, Henry Taube Biography, (1915–2005), Alfred Tauber Biography, (1866–c.1942), tauon, tau particle, taurine, Taurus, tauto-, tautomeric effect, Taxales, taxis (pl. taxes), -taxis, taxon (pl. taxa)…
terpene nomenclature, terra, terrestrial (not terrestial), terrestrial dynamic time, Tertiary, Terylene, TES, tesla, Nikola Tesla Biography, (1856–1943), testa (pl. testae), testis (pl. testes), tetra-, tetraamminecopper(ii) sulphate, tetrabromomethane, tetrachloromethane, tetracyanoethene, tetradecanoic acid, tetraethyl lead(iv), tetrahydridoborate(iii), tetrahydropyrrole, tetrakis-, tetrapod, T-even phage group, TE wave, tex, TF, TFA, TFAA, TFT, tg, TGF, th, Th, thalamus (pl. thalami)…
Thr, threonine, threshold (not threshhold), thrips (pl. thrips), thrombo- (sometimes thromb- before vowels), thrombocyte, thromboxane, throughput, thulium, Carl Per Thunberg Biography, (1743–1828), thymidine, thymine, thyrocalcitonin, thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyrotrophin, thyroxine, Ti, tidal wave, TIGR, Sir William Augustus Tilden Biography, (1842–1926), timbre (not timber), time, time-division multiplexing, timeout, tin, Niko(laas) Tinbergen Biography, (1907–88), Samuel Chao Chung Ting Biography, (1936– ), tin(iv) hydride…
TosMIC, tosyl-, total angular momentum quantum number, Charles Hard Townes Biography, (1915– ), Sir John Sealy Edward Townsend Biography, (1868–1957), TP, TPB, TPCK, tpi, TPN, TPP, TPR motif, Tr, TrA, trabecula (pl. trabeculae), trachea (pl. tracheae), tracheid, Tracheophyta, trachyte (not trachite), tracks per inch, John Tradescant Biography, (1570–1633), John Tradescant Biography, (1608–62), trajectory, trans-, transcription factor, transference number, transferred DNA, transferred region, transfer RNA, transforming growth factor…
TΨC arm, -trophic, tropho- (troph- before vowels), -trophy, -tropic, tropical year, tropism, tropo- (trop- before vowels), Armand Trousseau Biography, (1801–67), Frederick Thomas Trouton Biography, (1863–1922), troy units, Trp, TRPGDA, TR switch, Robert Julius Trumpler Biography, (1886–1956), tryptophan, Ts, TS, Gustav Tschermak Biography, (1836–1927), TSH, TSH-RH, Roger Yonchien Tsien Biography, (1952– ), Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Biography, (1857–1935), Daniel C. Tsui Biography, (1939– ), tsunami (pl. tsunamis)…
UMP, UN, UNFO, ungerade, unguiculate, ungulate, uni-, unicellular, Unicode, unified atomic mass unit, unikont, unimolecular reaction, union, UniProt, unique region, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, unit evolutionary period, units, Universal Serial Bus, UNIX, unnil-, UN number, William George Unruh Biography, (1945– ), upsilon, uracil, uranium, Uranus, uranyl, Georges Urbain Biography, (1872–1938), urea, Urediniomycetes, U region, ureido-, Harold Clayton Urey Biography, (1893–1981), -urgy, uridine, urino- (urin- before vowels)…
variant-specific glycoprotein, variety, Harold Elliot Varmus Biography, (1939– ), Constanzo Varolio Biography, (1543–75), Varuna, vas deferens (pl. vasa deferentia), vas efferens, Vaseline, vaso-, vasoactive intestinal peptide, vasodilatation, vasopressin, Gerard Henri De Vaucouleurs Biography, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin Biography, (1763–1829), Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov Biography, (1887–1943), VAX/VMS, VB, VBA, VBScript, VCAM, vCJD, VCR, VDU, vector, vector product, Vladimir Iosofich Veksler Biography, (1907–66), Vel, Vela, velocity, velocity of light…
visual display unit, vitamin A, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, Viton, vitrify, vitro-, viviparity, vivipary, VLA, VLBI, VLDL, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Biography, VLF, VLSI, VMS, VNTR, vocal cords, Hermann Karl Vogel Biography, (1842–1907), Vogt–Russell theorem, Woldemar Voigt Biography, (1850–1919), VoIP, Vol, vol, Volans, volcano (pl. volcanoes), Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann Biography, (1800–77), George Michael Volkoff Biography, (1914–2000), volt…
Conrad Hal Waddington Biography, (1905–75), wadi, Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement, Selman Abraham Waksman Biography, (1888–1973), George Wald Biography, (1906–97), Paul Walden Biography, (1863–1957), Jan Waldenström Biography, (1906–96), Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz Biography, (1836–1921), Sir James Walker Biography, (1863–1935), John E. Walker Biography, (1941– ), Alfred Russel Wallace Biography, (1823–1913), Otto Wallach Biography, (1847–1931), Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Biography, (1887–1979), John Wallis Biography, (1616–1703), Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton Biography, (1903–95), WAN, Felix Wankel Biography, (1902–88)…
William Caxton Biography, (c.1422–91), Max C. Wien Biography, (1866–1938), Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien Biography, (1864–1928), Norbert Wiener Biography, (1894–1964), Eric F. Wieschaus Biography, (1947– ), Wi-Fi, Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth Biography, (1899–1994), Eugene Paul Wigner Biography, (1902–95), wiki, Johan Carl Wilcke Biography, (1732–96), Frank Wilczek Biography, (1951– ), John Paul Wild Biography, (1923– ), Rupert Wildt Biography, (1905–76), wild type, Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes Biography, (1913– ), Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins Biography, (1916–2004)…
γ-aminobutyric acid, (±)-2,3-dihydroxybutanedioic acid, α-MT, α-naphthol, β-naphthol, α-naphthylamine, Ørsted, Hans Christian, XHTML, xi, xiphi- (or xipho-), XML, XMP, XOR (or xor), XPES, X-ray, XSL, XTP, x-unit, XUV (or EUV), Xyl, xylene, xylic acid, xylo- (xyl- before vowels), xylose, Y, YAC, Hidetsuga Yagi Biography, (1886–1976), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Biography, (1921– )…
