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…
AFM, afterbirth, after-heat, agamospermy, agar, agate, ageing, age of the earth, age of the universe, agglutination, agglutinogen, aggression, Agnatha, agonist, agonistic behaviour, AGR, agranulocyte, agriculture, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, AI, AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), air, air bladder, air mass, air pollution (atmospheric pollution), air sac, alabaster, alanine, albedo, albinism, albumen, albumin, albuminous cell, alburnum, alcoholic fermentation, alcohols, aldehydes, aldohexose, aldol…
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, 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, anionic detergent…
arthropod, articulation, artificial chromosome, artificial insemination (AI), artificial intelligence (AI), artificial selection, artinite, Artiodactyla, aryl group, aryne, asbestos, ASCII, Ascomycota, ascorbic acid, asexual reproduction, asparagine, aspartic acid, Aspect experiment, aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), assimilation, association, association centre, associative law, astatic galvanometer, astatine, aster, asterism, asteroids (minor planets; planetoids), asthenosphere, astigmatism, Francis William Aston Biography, astrobleme, astrometry, astronomical telescope, astronomical unit (AU), astronomy…
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, bast, William Bateson Biography, batholith, bats, battery, baud, bauxite…
bituminous sand, biuret test, bivalent, Bivalvia (Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia), Joseph Black Biography, black body, blackdamp (choke damp), black dwarf, black earth, black hole, black lead, bladder, blanc fixe, Blandford–Znajek process, blast furnace, blasting gelatin, blastocoel, blastocyst, blastula, blazar, bleaching powder, blende, blending inheritance, blind spot, block, block copolymer, blood, blood–brain barrier, blood capillary, blood cell (blood corpuscle), blood clotting (blood coagulation), blood groups, blood plasma…
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, Cainozoic, calciferol, calcination, calcinite…
caudal vertebrae, causality, caustic, caustic potash, caustic soda, Henry Cavendish Biography, cavitation, cavity resonator, C cell (parafollicular cell), c.c.p, CD, CD-I, cDNA, CD-ROM, CD-RW, celestial equator, celestial mechanics, celestial sphere, celestine, cell (in physical chemistry), cell, cell body (perikaryon), cell cycle, cell division, cell fusion (somatic cell hybridization), cell junction, cell membrane, cell sap, cell theory, cellular plastics…
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, chrysalis, chrysotile, chyle…
compass plant, competent, competition, competitive inhibition, complement, complemental males, complementarity, complementary colours, complementary DNA (cDNA), complementary genes, complex, complexity, complex number, complexometric analysis, component, component vectors, composite fruit, compost, compound, compound eye, compound microscope, compressibility, compression ratio, comproportionation, Arthur Holly Compton Biography, Compton effect, Compton wavelength, computer, concave, concavo-convex, concentrated, concentration, concentration cell, concentration gradient (diffusion gradient), conceptacle, conception, conchoidal fracture…
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, Coulomb explosion, Coulomb field, Coulomb force, Coulomb's law, counter, countercurrent heat exchange, counterflow, country rock (host rock), couple, coupling, coupling constant, courtship, COV, covalent bond…
cytotoxic, dalton, John Dalton Biography, Dalton's atomic theory, Dalton's law, dam, damping, dance of the bees, Daniell cell, Daphnia, dark energy, dark galaxy, dark matter, dark period (in botany), dark reaction, darmstadtium, Charles Darwin Biography, Darwinism, Darwin's finches (Galapagos finches), DAT (digital audio tape), database, dating techniques, dative bond, daughter, Sir Humphry Davy Biography, Davy lamp, day, day-neutral plant, d.c…
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, differential equation, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), differential thermal analysis (DTA)…
double refraction, double salt, doublet, down feathers (plumules), Downs process, Down's syndrome, dragonflies, drain, dreikanter, drift-tube accelerator, drone, drug, drupe (pyrenocarp), dry cell, dry ice, drying oil, dry mass, DSC, D-series, DTA, dubnium, duct, ductility, ductless gland, ductus arteriosus, Dulong and Petit's law, Jean Baptiste André Dumas Biography, Dumas' method, dune, duodenum, duplet, duplex, duplication (in genetics)…
α−aminotoluene, anti-isomer, Australopithecus, d-block elements, d-isomer, dl-isomer, d-orbital, Drosophila, Dryopithecus, 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, elevation of boiling point, elimination reaction, Elinvar, ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), ellipse, ellipsoid…
equivalence point, equivalent proportions, equivalent weight, erbium, erecting prism, erg, ergocalciferol, ergonomics, ergosphere, ergosterol, erosion, erratic, erythroblast, erythrocyte (red blood cell), Esaki diode, ESCA, escapement, escape velocity, Escherichia coli (E. coli), esker, ESR, essential amino acid, essential element, essential fatty acids, essential oil, esterification, esters, etaerio, ethanal (acetaldehyde), ethanamide (acetamide), ethane, ethanedioic acid, ethane-1,2-diol (ethylene glycol; glycol)…
Factor VIII (antihaemophilic factor), FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide), faeces, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit Biography, Fahrenheit scale, Fajans' rules, fallopian tube (oviduct), Gabriel Fallopius Biography, fall-out, false fruit, family, farad, Michael Faraday Biography, Faraday cage, Faraday constant, Faraday disc, Faraday effect, Faraday's laws, Faraday's laws of electromagnetic induction, farming, fascia, fascicle, fast green, fast neutron, fast reactor, fat, fat body, fat cell, fathom, fatigue…
focusing, foetus, folacin, fold, folic acid (folacin), follicle, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), food, food chain, food poisoning, food preservation, food production, food reserves, food supply, food web, fool's gold, foot, foramen, forbidden band, forbidden transitions, force, forced convection, force ratio (mechanical advantage), forebrain (prosencephalon), foregut, forest, form, formaldehyde, formalin, formate, formic acid, formula, formula weight, formylation, formyl group, Fortin barometer…
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, Gaussian distribution, Gaussian units, Gauss' law, gaussmeter, Gauss' theorem, Gay-Lussac's law, gaylussite, GCMS, gebi-, Gegenschein, Hans Wilhelm Geiger Biography, Geiger counter (Geiger–Müller counter), Geissler tube, gel, gelatin(e), gel electrophoresis, gel filtration, gelignite, Murray Gell-Mann Biography…
Gopher, governor, G protein, GPS, Graafian follicle (ovarian follicle), graben, grad, gradient, gradient operator (grad), graft, graft copolymer, graft hybrid, Thomas Graham Biography, Graham's law, gram, Gram's stain, grand unified theory (GUT), granite, granulocyte, granum (pl. grana), grape sugar, graph, graphite, graphite-moderated reactor, graph theory, graptolites, grass-green bacteria, grassland, graticule, grating, gravimetric analysis, gravitation, gravitational collapse…
Heaviside–Kennelly layer, Heaviside–Lorentz units, heavy-fermion system, heavy hydrogen, heavy metal, heavy spar, heavy water (deuterium oxide), hector−, Werner Karl Heisenberg Biography, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, helicate, heliocentric universe, heliotropism, helium, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Biography, Helmholtz coils, Helmholtz free energy, helper T cell, heme, hemiacetals, hemicellulose, hemihydrate, hemiketals, Hemiptera, henry, Joseph Henry Biography, Henry's law, heparin, hepatic, Hepaticae, hepatic portal system, Hepatophyta, heptahydrate, heptane…
hyaluronidase, hybrid, hybridization, hybridoma, hybrid orbital, hybrid vigour (heterosis), hydathode, hydracid, hydrate, hydrated alumina, hydrated aluminium hydroxide, hydration, hydraulic press, hydraulics, hydrazine, hydrazoic acid, hydrazones, hydride, hydriodic acid, hydrobromic acid, hydrocarbons, hydrochloric acid, hydrochloride, hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC), hydrocortisone, hydrocyanic acid, hydrodynamics, hydroelectric power, hydrofluoric acid, hydrofluorocarbon (HFC), hydrogen, hydrogen acceptor, hydrogenation, hydrogen azide (hydrazoic acid; azoimide), hydrogen bomb, hydrogen bond, hydrogen bromide…
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, infrared radiation (IR), infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy)…
ischium, isentropic process, Ising model, islets of Langerhans, iso-, isobar, isobaric spin, isocline, isocyanate, isocyanic acid, isocyanide, isocyanide test, isodiaphere, isodynamic line, isoelectric point, isoelectronic, isoenzyme, isogamy, isogonal line, isolating mechanism, isoleucine, isomerase, isomerism, isomers, isometric, isomorphism, isonitrile (isocyanide; carbylamine), iso-octane, isopoly compound, isoprene, isospin, isostasy, isotactic polymer, isotherm, isothermal process, isotone, isotonic, isotope, isotope separation, isotopic number (neutron excess)…
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, Lamarckism, lambda particle, lambda phage, lambda point, lambert, Lambert's laws, Lamb shift, lamella, lamellar solids, Lamellibranchia, lamina, laminar flow…
L–D process, light year, lignin, lignite, ligule, limb, lime, limestone, limewater, liming, limit, limit cycle, limiting factor, limiting friction, limnology, limonite, linac, Linde process, linear absorption coefficient, linear accelerator (linac), linear energy transfer (LET), linear equation, linear expansivity, linear molecule, linear momentum, linear motor, line defect, line-of-sight velocity (radial velocity), line printer, lines of force, line spectrum, linkage, linkage map, Linnaean system…
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, magnetic induction, magnetic intensity, magnetic meridian, magnetic mirror, magnetic moment, magnetic monopole, magnetic permeability, magnetic poles, magnetic potential, magnetic quantum number…
melting point (m.p.), membrane, membrane bone (dermal bone), membranous labyrinth, memory, memory cell, Johann Gregor Mendel Biography, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev Biography, Mendeleev's law, mendelevium, Mendelism, Mendel's laws, Mendius reaction, meninges, meniscus, menopause, menstrual cycle, menstruation, menthol, mercaptans, mercapto group, mercuric compounds, mercurous compounds, mercury, Mercury, mercury cell, mercury(I) chloride, mercury(II) chloride, mercury(II) fulminate, mercury(II) oxide…
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, mobility edge, model, modem, moderator, modern synthesis, modifier gene, modulation, modulus, modulus of elasticity…
NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), nadir, NAND circuit, nano-, nanoarray, nanotechnology, nanotube, napalm, naphtha, naphthalene, naphthols, naphthyl group, John Napier Biography, Napierian logarithm, narcotic, nares (nostrils), nasal cavity, nascent hydrogen, nastic movements, natality, natron, Natta process, natural abundance, 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…
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, non-Newtonian fluid, nonpolar compound, nonpolar solvent, nonreducing sugar, nonrelativistic quantum theory, nonrenewable energy sources, nonsense mutation, nonstoichiometric compound (Berthollide compound), noradrenaline (norepinephrine), Nordhausen sulphuric acid, norepinephrine, normal, normal distribution, normalizing…
orbit, orbital, orbital quantum number, orbital velocity (orbital speed), OR circuit, order, order of magnitude, order parameter, ordinary ray, ordinate, Ordovician, ore, ore dressing, oregonator, organ, organ culture, organelle, organic chemistry, organic evolution, organism, organizer, organo-, organogenesis, organometallic compound, orgasm, origin, origin of life, origin of the elements, ornithine (Orn), ornithine cycle, orogenesis, orpiment, ortho-, orthoboric acid, orthoclase, orthogenesis, orthohydrogen, orthophosphoric acid…
P (parental generation), passive immunity, passive transport, Louis Pasteur Biography, pasteurization, patella (kneecap), path integral formulation, pathogen, pathology, patristic, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Biography, Pauli exclusion principle, Linus Carl Pauling Biography, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Biography, PC, PCB, PCR, p.d. (potential difference), PDGF, peacock ore, pearl ash, pearlite, peat, pebi-, peck order, pecten, pectic substances, pectin, pectoral fins, pectoral girdle (shoulder girdle), pedicel, pedology, peduncle…
phloem (bast), phlogiston theory, phloroglucinol, phon, phonochemistry, phonon, phosgene, phosphagen, phosphatase, phosphates, phosphatide, phosphatidylcholine, phosphide, phosphine, phosphinic acid (hypophosphorus acid), phosphite, phospholipid (phosphatide), phosphonate, phosphonic acid (phosphorous acid; orthophosphorous acid), 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)…
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), polarity, polarizability, polarization, polarization of light, polarizer, polarizing angle, polar molecule, polarography, Polaroid, polaron, polar solvent, polar vector, pole, pollen, pollen analysis…
primary amine, primary cell, primary colour, primary consumer, primary growth, primary producer, primary structure, primary winding, Primates, primordium, principal axis, principal focus, principal plane, principal point, principle of superposition, printed circuit, printer, prion, prism, 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)…
Pythagoras' theorem, QCD, QED, QFD, QSG, QSO, QSS, quadrat, quadrate, quadratic equation, quadrature, quadrivalent, qualitative analysis, qualitative variation, quality of sound (timbre), quantitative analysis, quantitative inheritance, quantitative variation, quantization, quantum (pl. quanta), quantum chaos, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), quantum electrodynamics (QED), quantum electronics, quantum entanglement, quantum field theory, quantum flavourdynamics (QFD), quantum gravity, quantum Hall effect, quantum jump, quantum mechanics, quantum number, quantum optics…
red dwarf, red giant, red lead, redox, redshift, reducing agent (reductant), reducing sugar, reductant, reduction, reduction division, reef, refinery gas, 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…
ROM, root, root cap (calyptra), root hair, root-mean-square value (RMS value), root nodule, root pressure, rootstock, Rose's metal, rot, rotary converter, rotational motion, rotor, roughage, rounding error, round window (fenestra rotunda), roundworms, r-process, RQ, RR Lyrae variable star, rRNA, R–S convention, rubber, rubidium, rubidium–strontium dating, rubisco, ruby, rumen, Count Rumford Biography, Ruminantia, runner, Russell–Saunders coupling (L–S coupling), rusting…
Seger cones (pyrometric cones), segmentation, segregation, Segrè plot, seif dune, seismic waves, seismograph, seismology, Selachii, selection, selection pressure, selection rules, selective breeding, selectron, selenides, selenium, selenium cell, selenology, 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…
smoke, smoker, smooth muscle, smuts, SN1 reaction, SN2 reaction, snakes, Snell's law, SNG, SNP, snRNP, soap, social behaviour, soda, soda ash, soda lime, sodamide, Frederick Soddy Biography, sodium, sodium acetate, sodium aluminate, sodium amide (sodamide), sodium azide, sodium benzenecarboxylate (sodium benzoate), sodium benzoate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium bisulphate, sodium bisulphite, sodium bromide, sodium carbonate, sodium chlorate(V), sodium chloride (common salt), sodium cyanide, sodium dichromate…
spontaneous combustion, spontaneous emission, spontaneous generation, sporangium, spore, spore mother cell (sporocyte), sporocyte, sporogonium, sporophore (fructification), sporophyll, sporophyte, 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…
sulphonation, sulphonic acids, sulphonium compounds, sulphoxides, sulphur, sulphur bridge, sulphur cycle, sulphur dichloride, sulphur dichloride dioxide (sulphuryl chloride), sulphur dichloride oxide (thionyl chloride), sulphur dioxide (sulphur(IV) oxide), sulphuretted hydrogen, sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), sulphuric(IV) acid, sulphur monochloride, sulphurous acid (sulphuric(IV) acid), sulphur(IV) oxide, sulphur(VI) oxide, sulphur trioxide (sulphur(VI) oxide), sulphuryl chloride, sulphuryl group, sulphydryl group…
testis (testicle), testis-determining factor (TDF; SRY protein), testosterone, tetrachloroethene, tetrachloromethane (carbon tetrachloride), tetrad, tetraethyl lead, 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…
transcriptase, transcription, transcription factor, transcriptome, transcriptomics, transducer, transduction, transect, trans effect, transferase, transfer RNA, transformer, transgene, transgenic, transient, trans-isomer, transistor, transition, transition elements, transition point (transition temperature), transition state (activated complex), transition zone, translation, translocation, translucent, transmission, transmission coefficient, transmission electron microscope, transmittance (transmission coefficient), transmitter, transmutation, transparent, transpiration, transplantation, transport coefficients, transport number, transport protein, transport theory, transposon (transposable genetic element)…
upthrust, UPVC, upwelling, uracil, 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, uric acid, uridine, urinary system, urine, uriniferous tubule, URL, USB drive, uterus (womb), utriculus (utricle), UV, UV–visible spectroscopy, vacancy, vaccination, vaccine…
Ernest Walton Biography, warfarin, warm-blooded animal, warm front, warning coloration (aposematic coloration), washing soda, waste product, water, water cycle, water gas, water glass, water of crystallization, water potential, water softening, James Dewey Watson Biography, Watson–Crick model, watt, wattmeter, wave, wave equation, wave form, wavefront, wave function, wave guide, wavelength, wave mechanics, wavemeter, wave number, wave–particle duality, wave power, wave theory, wave-vector, wax, W boson (W particle)…
a, A, [A]0.5 or [A]½, [A]50, 2′‐5′A, 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…
a.c. or AC or ac, accelerator globulin, accelerin, acceptor, accession number, accessory cell, accessory chromosome, accessory DNA, accessory food factor or accessory growth factor, accessory pigment, ACC oxidase, ACC synthase, accuracy, ACE, ACeDB or acedb, A cell or (formerly) alpha cell or αcell, aceruloplasminemia or (Brit.) acaeruloplasminaemia, Aces or ACES, acesulfame, acetal, acetaminophen or paracetamol, acetate, acetate‐CoA ligase, acetate thiokinase, acetazolamide, (+)aceto+, acetoacetate‐CoA ligase, acetoacetyl acetyltransferase, acetoacetyl‐CoA synthetase…
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…
ALA or dALA, Ala AT or ALAT, ALA dehydratase, Alagille syndrome, alamethicin, alaninal, alaninate, alanine, alanine cycle, alanine‐glyoxylate aminotransferase, alanine scanning mutagenesis, alanine transaminase, alaninium, alanino, alaninol, alanyl, alarmone, ALA synthetase, ALAT, albinism, Albright syndrome or hereditary osteoarthropathy, albumin, albuminoid, albuminuria, albuterol, Alcalase, alcapton, alcaptonuria or alkaptonuria, alcohol, alcohol dehydrogenase, alcoholic fermentation, alcoholism, alcohol oxidase abbr.: AOX or methanol oxidase abbr.: MOX;, alcoholysis, aldaric 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, aminoimidazole ribonucleotide…
anodic stripping voltammetry, anodic to, anolyte, anomalous dispersion, anomer, anomeric, anomeric effect, anorexia, anosmia, anoxia, ANP, ANPR, ANS, ansamycin, anserine, ANSI, Anson unit, ant+, Antabuse, antagonism, antagonist, antagonize or antagonise, antanamide, ANT‐C, ante+, antegrade, anteiso+, antenna complex, antennapedia complex, anterograde or antegrade, antheridiol, anthocyanidin, anthocyanin, antho‐K amide, anthracene, anthralin, anthranilate, anthranilate synthase, anthrax toxin, anthrone, anti+ or (sometimes before a vowel or h) ant+…
ara‐C, 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, arginyl, Argonaute, argon detector, [Arg8]vasopressin…
a′, A‐band, A‐DNA, A‐kinase, A‐region, A‐RNA, A‐transferase, A–T tailing, autofluorography, autogenesis or autogeny, autogenous, autogenous regulation, autograft, autoimmune regulator, autoimmunity or autoallergy, autoimmunization or autoimmunisation, autologous, autolysate or (esp. US) autolyzate, autolysin, autolysis, autolysosome, automutagen, autonomic nervous system, autonomous, autophagic vacuole, autophagosome, autophagy, autophagy factor, autophosphorylation, autoprothrombin I, autoprothrombin II, autoprothrombin IIA, autopsy or necropsy, autoradiogram, autoradiograph or autoradiogram, autoradiography, autosomal, autosomal disease…
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, benzodiazepine abbr.: BZ;, benzodiazepine inverse agonist, benzoic acid or benzene monocarboxylic acid…
Bio‐Gel, biotin carboxylase, biotinidase, biotinyl, biotinylation, biotransformation, BiP, biphenylylphenyloxadiazole, biphosphate, BIPM, BIR, biradical or diradical, bird flu, birefringence, bis+, bisalbuminemia or (esp. Brit.) bisalbuminaemia, bisbenzimide, bis(2‐chloroethyl)sulfide or (formerly) mustard gas, bisindolylmaleimide, bismethylstyrylbenzene, bis(methylthio)gliotoxin, bis‐MSB, bisphosphate, bisphospho+, bisphosphoglycerate mutase, bisphosphoglycerate phosphatase, bisphosphoglycerate pocket, bis[2‐succinimidooxycarbonyloxyethyl]sulfone, Bistris or bis‐tris, bis‐tris propane, bit, bithorax complex, Bittner factor or Bittner particle…
b‐cell activation factor, b‐cell antigen receptor complex, b‐cell differentiation factor, B‐DNA, B‐transferase, 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, burette or (US) buret, Burkitt's lymphoma…
carbamido, carbamino, carbamoyl or (formerly) carbamyl or carboxamido, carbamoylmethyl, carbamoyl‐phosphate synthase, carbamyl, carbanion, carbapenem antibiotic, carbene, carbenium ion, carbenoxolone, carbobenzyloxy or carbobenoxy, carbocation, carbocycle, carbocyclic, carbodiimide, carbohydrase, carbohydrate, carbohydrate‐deficient glycoprotein syndrome (abbr.: CDGS) or glycoconjugate syndrome or congenital defect of glycosylation, carbon, carbon‐11, carbon‐13 or heavy carbon, carbon‐14, carbonate dehydratase, carbon cycle, carbon dating or radiocarbon dating, carbon‐dioxide buffer, carbon‐dioxide electrode, carbon‐dioxide fixation, carbon‐dioxide snow, carbonic anhydrase…
CH, CD8, 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, 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, CDTA, Ce, CxEy, CEA, CEA gene member 1, cecropin, CEF10 or CEF‐10…
chemokine or intercrine, chemolithotroph, chemoorganotroph, chemoreceptor or chemoceptor, chemostat, chemosynthesis, chemotactic factor for macrophages, chemotaxin, chemotaxis, chemotaxonomy, chemotherapy, chemotractant, chemotroph, chemotropism, Cheng‐Prussoff equation, chenodeoxycholate or chenodiol, Cherenkov counter or Cerenkov counter, Cherenkov radiation or Cerenkov radiation, Ches, chewing gum, chi, chiasma (pl. chiasmata), chicle, Chico, chimera or (esp. Brit.) chimaera, chimeraplast, chimeric molecule, chimerin, chimyl alcohol, Chinese restaurant syndrome, ChIP, CHIP 28, chiral, chiral drug…
CL, 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, clearance, clearing, clearing factor, cleavage, cleavage division, cleavage‐polyadenylation specificity factor, cleave, cleft lip/palate, Cleland's reagent, Cl−/HCO3− exchanger…
commissureless, committed step or committing reaction, common ancestor, COMP, compactin, comparative genomics, compartment, compartmentation or compartmentalization, compatibility group, compatible solute, competence, competence factor, competition, competition binding, competitive antagonism, competitive binding, competitive inhibition, competitive inhibitor, competitive protein‐binding assay, complement or (formerly) alexin(e), complementarity, complementarity‐determining region (abbr.: CDR) or hypervariable region, complementary base sequence, complementary catalysis, complementary DNA, complementary genes, complementary RNA, complementary strand, complementation, complementation test…
co‐immunoprecipitation, co‐ion, co‐metabolism, co‐monomer, 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, coronand, coronate, coronavirus, corphin…
Cs, CS, CSD, CSF, cSNP, CSP, CSPCP, CstF, CT, CTAB, CTAC, CTAP‐III, CTD, CTD kinase, ctDNA, C terminus or C terminal, CTF, CTGF, CTH, CTP, CTP synthase, CTS, Cu, CUA, cubic symmetry, cubitus interruptus, cubulin, CUC, cucurbitacin, CUG, cullin or Cdc53p, culture, culture medium, cUMP, cumulative inhibition, cupin, cuprein, Cuprolinic Blue, cuproprotein, curare, curarize or curarise, curculin, curcumin, curdlan…
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, 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, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element, cytoplasmic polyadenylation element‐binding protein, cytoplast, cytosegresome, cytosine, +cytosis, cytoskeleton, cytosol…
de‐aerate, de‐ashing, dentinogenesis imperfecta, deoxy+ or (formerly) desoxy+, deoxy‐BigCHAP, deoxycholic acid, deoxycorticosterone, deoxycytidine deaminase, deoxycytidylate deaminase, deoxynojirimycin, deoxynucleoside, deoxynucleotide, deoxynucleotidyltransferase, deoxypentose, deoxypentose nucleic acid, deoxypolymeric tailing, deoxyribonuclease, deoxyribonuclease I, deoxyribonuclease II, deoxyribonuclease III, deoxyribonuclease IV (phage T4‐induced), deoxyribonuclease V, deoxyribonuclease X, deoxyribonuclease K1 or Aspergillus deoxyribonuclease K1, deoxyribonuclease (pyrimidine dimer), deoxyribonucleate, deoxyribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleoprotein, deoxyribonucleoside or deoxynucleoside, deoxyribonucleoside monophosphate kinase, deoxyribonucleotide or deoxynucleotide, deoxyribose, deoxyribose nucleic acid…
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, digest, digestion, digestive enzyme, digestive juice, digestive system, digestive tract or alimentary tract, diginose, digital imaging, digitalis, digitalose, digitogenin, digitonin…
DNA‐binding protein F/G, DNA‐dependent DNA polymerase, DNA‐dependent protein kinase, DNA‐dependent RNA polymerase, DNA‐directed DNA polymerase, DNA‐directed RNA polymerase, DNA gyrase, DNA helicase, (DNA) joinase, DnaK or heat‐shock protein 70, DNA ligase or (DNA) joinase or DNA repair enzyme, DNA‐like RNA, DNA‐3‐methyladenine glycosidase, DNA methylase, DNA methyltransferase, DNA microarray or DNA chip, (DNA) nicking‐closing enzyme or nicking‐and‐closing enzyme, DNA nucleotidylexotransferase, DNA photolyase, DNA‐PK, DNA polymerase, DNA primase, DNA print, DNA provirus, DNA repair enzyme…
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, dynorphin, dys+, dysferlin, dysfunction, dysgenic, dyskeratosis congenita, dyskerin, dysmorphology, dysplasia, dystrobrevin, dystroglycan, dystrophin, dystrophin‐related protein, dystrophy, e, e', E, E1, E2, E3, E74, Eadie‐Hofstee plot, Eagle's medium, EAR‐3, Earle's balanced salt solution, early enzyme, early gene or immediate gene, early growth response protein…
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, anti +, Aor13HI, AorI, ApaI, ApaLI, APC, APOE polymorphism, ara, araBAD, Arabidopsis thaliana, araC, aro1, aroA−H…
N4‐(β‐N‐acetylglucosaminyl)‐l‐asparaginase, d, d‐, D, Di, 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, ecology, EcoO65I, EcoO109I, EcoRI, EcoRV, EcoT14I, EcoT22I, Edg, EF‐Ts, ELF1…
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, 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, S‐adenosylhomocysteine, S‐adenosylmethionine, S‐adenosylmethionine synthetase, O6‐alkylguanine alkyltransferase, N‐amidinoglycine, p‐aminobenzoic acid, N‐(2‐aminoethyl)isoquinoline‐5‐sulfonamide or H9, para‐aminohippuric acid, o‐benzoquinone, p‐benzoquinone, N‐bromosuccinimide, p‐chloromercuribenzenesulfonate, p‐chloromercuribenzoate, p′‐chloro‐p‐phenylaniline, trans‐cinnamate 4‐monooxygenase, n‐decyl‐β‐d‐glucopyranoside, n‐decyl‐β‐d‐maltopyranoside, n‐dodecyl‐N, N‐dimethylglycine, n‐dodecyl‐β‐d‐glucopyranoside…
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…
[E]o or [E]t or [E]stoich, enzymatic, enzyme, enzyme I, enzyme II, enzyme‐activated irreversible inhibitor, enzyme activation, enzyme adaptation, enzyme cascade, enzyme classification, enzyme cluster or (sometimes) multienzyme cluster 1, Enzyme Commission or the International Commission on Enzymes, enzyme complex, enzyme detergent, enzyme differentiation, enzyme electrode, enzyme engineering or enzyme technology, enzyme immunoassay or enzymoimmunoassay, enzyme induction, enzyme‐inhibition immunoassay, enzyme labelling, enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay, enzyme membrane, enzyme‐multiplied immunoassay technique…
e‐cell, e‐mail, e‐mail address, E‐selectin, E‐site, 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, eukaryotic porin, eumelanins, eupeptide, eupeptide bond, euploid, euthyroid, eutopic binding, eutrophic, eutrophication, eV…
Fas or Apo‐1 or CD95 or APT 1 or apoptosis antigen 1 or TNFRSF6, Fas‐associated protein with death domain, fascin, FasL or CD95 ligand or CD95L or TNFSF6, Fas ligand, Fas ligand, Fas receptor interacting protein, fast, FastA, fast component, fast reaction, fat, fatal familial insomnia, fat body, fat cell or fat‐cell or lipocyte or (in animals) adipocyte, fat index, fat‐soluble vitamin, fat solvent, fatty, fatty acid, fatty‐acid activation, fatty‐acid nomenclature, fatty‐acid oxidation complex, fatty acid synthase complex…
FoATPase, 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, flavanone, flavin or (formerly) flavine, flavin‐adenine dinucleotide, flavin‐adenine dinucleotide (reduced), flavin coenzyme, flavin enzyme, flavin mononucleotide, flavin mononucleotide (reduced), flavin nucleotide…
F‐actin, F′ factor, f‐number, Førster transfer, F‐pilus, fraction I–VI, fractionate, fractionating column, fraction collector or (sometimes) fraction cutter, fraction cutter, fraction I protein, fragile X mental retardation protein, fragile X syndrome, fragment‐antigen binding, fragmentation, fragment‐crystallizable, fragment ion, fragmentography, fragmin, frame, frameshift, frameshifting, frameshift mutagen, frameshift mutation or phaseshift mutation, frameshift suppressor, framework regions, framework regions, Franck‐Condon principle, FRAP, FRAT, frataxin, fraudulent DNA, fraudulent nucleotide, frayed end…
gall, gallate, gall bladder, gallotannic acid, gallotannin or hydrolysable tannin, gallstone or cholelith;, GalU or GalUA, galvanic cell, gamete, gamma, gamma chain or γ chain, gamma globulin or γ‐globulin, gamma helix or γ‐helix, gamma‐hydroxybutyrate, gamma‐peptidase, gamma radiation or γ‐radiation, gammopathy, gamone, ganciclovir or gancyclovir, ganglion (pl. ganglia), ganglioside, ganglioside galactosyltransferase, gangliosidosis, gangliotetraose, gangliotriaose, GaOse2, GaOse3, gap, GAP, Gap a, GAPDH, gap gene, gap junction or nexus, Gap1p…
GF‐1, GFP, GFR, Gg3, Gg4, GGA, GGC, GGG, GgOse3, GgOse4, GGU, GH, ghilanten, ghost, ghrelin, GHRF, GHRH, GHRH receptor, GH‐RIH, GHRp, giantin, gibberellin, Gibbs‐Duhem equation, Gibbs energy or Gibbs free energy or Gibbs function, Gibbs energy diagram or Gibbs energy profile, Gibbs energy of activation or Gibbs free energy of activation, Gibbs free energy change, Gibbs‐Helmholtz equation, Giemsa's stain, GIF, giga+, gigantism, Gilbert syndrome, Gilson pipette…
GM, GM2‐activator protein, 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+), glycerol‐3‐phosphate, glycerol‐3‐phosphate oxidase, glycerol trinitrate, glycerone, glycerone phosphate, glycerone transferase, glycerophosphate, glycerophosphate phosphatidyltransferase, glycerophospholipid, glycerophosphoric acid, glycerose, glyceroyl, glyceryl, glycidol, glycidoyl, glycidyl, glycinamide, glycinamide ribonucleotide synthetase, glycinamide ribotide, glycinate, glycine, glycine amidinotransferase, glycine betaine, glycine cleavage enzyme or glycine oxidase…
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, grid, Grid, Grim, griseofulvin, GRK, Grn, gRNA, Gro, Grotthus and Draper law, groundplasm or cytoplasmic matrix, ground state, ground substance, ground tissue, group, group pK, group potential, group‐transfer potential, group‐transfer reaction, group translocation, growth curve, growth factor, growth factor receptor‐bound protein 2, growth hormone, growth hormone inhibitory factor, growth hormone release‐inhibiting hormone…
h+ or (not recommended) H+ prefix, 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, head, headgroup, headspace analysis, heat, heat capacity, heat content, heat‐labile, heat of activation, heat of combustion, heat of evaporation, heat of formation, heat of fusion or heat of melting…
heterograft or heterologous graft, heteroimmune, heterokaryon or heterocaryon, heterokaryosis or heterocaryosis, heterolactic fermentation, heterolipid, heterologous, heterologous association, heterologous desensitization, heterologous graft or heterograft, heterolysin, heterolysis, heterolysosome, heteromorphic or heteromorphous, heteronuclear NMR, heterooligomer, heterophagosome, heterophagy, heterophilic binding, heteroplasmy, heteroploid, heteropolymer, heteropolysaccharide, heteroside, heterospecific, heterotetramer, heterotope, heterotopia or heterotopy, heterotopic, heterotopic transplant, heterotopous, heterotopy, heterotrimer, heterotroph or heterotrophe or organotroph, heterotropic, heterotypic, heterozygosis, heterozygosity, heterozygote…
homocystine, homocystinemia or (esp. Brit.) homocystinaemia, homodetic, homodimer, homoduplex, homoeo+, homogametic, homogenate, homogeneic, homogeneous, homogeneous catalysis, homogeneous enzyme immunoassay or enzyme‐multiplied immunoassay technique, homogeneous immunoassay, homogeneously staining region, homogenesis, homogenetic, homogenic or congenic, homogenize or homogenise, homogenizer or homogeniser, homogenous, homogentisate or (formerly) alcapton, homogentisate 1,2‐dioxygenase, homogeny, homoglycan or homopolysaccharide, homograft, homoio+, homoiosmotic, homoiothermic or homoiothermal or (esp. US) homeothermic or homeothermal, homokaryon or homocaryon…
H‐meromyosin, H‐NS, H‐RNA, H+‐transporting ATP synthase, H+‐transporting pyrophosphatase, hydroquinone, hydrosol, hydrous, hydroxide, hydroxo+, hydroxocobalamin or vitamin B12b, hydroxonium ion, hydroxy, hydroxy+, hydroxy acid, hydroxyallysine, hydroxyapatite or hydroxylapatite, hydroxyeicosatetraenoate, hydroxy fatty acid, hydroxyl, hydroxylamine, hydroxylapatite, hydroxylase, hydroxylate, hydroxylation‐induced migration, hydroxylysine, hydroxy‐methoxymandelate, hydroxymethylbilane synthase, hydroxymethylglutaric aciduria, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA lyase, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA reductase (NADPH), [hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA reductase (NADPH)] kinase, [hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA reductase (NADPH)]‐phosphatase, hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA synthase…
IgE, igensin, IGF, IGFBP, IgG, Ig‐Hepta, Ig‐like domain, IgM, ignose, IGT, Ii, Ii system, ikaros, IL, ILA, Ile, ileum, illegitimate transcription, Im, IM or i.m., image analysis, imaging, imidate, imidazole or (formerly) glyoxaline or iminazole, imidazole 4‐acetate, imidazoline receptor, imidazolium, imidazolyl, imide, +imide, imidic acid, imido+, imidodipeptiduria or prolidase deficiency, Imigran, iminazole, imine, iminium, imino, imino+, imino acid…
inhibitor of apoptosis protein, inhibitor of differentiation, initial velocity or initial steady‐state rate, initiation, initiation codon or initiator codon, initiation complex, initiation factor, initiation signal, initiation switch, initiator, initiator codon, initiator transfer RNA, INK4 or CDI with 4 ankyrin repeats, innate, innate immunity, innervation, Ino, 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…
iodide‐chloride transporter or Pendrin, iodide pump or Na+/I− symporter, iodide trapping defect, iodimetry, iodinatable, iodinate, iodine, iodine‐125, iodine‐127, iodine‐131, iodine‐labelling, iodine number or iodine value, iodo, iodo+ or (sometimes before a vowel) iod+, iodoacetamide, Iodo‐Gen, iodogorgoic acid, iodometry, iodopsin, iodotyrosine deiodinase, ion, ion atmosphere, ion chamber, ion channel, ion exchange, ion‐exchange cellulose, ion‐exchange chromatography, ion‐exchange polymer, ion exchanger, ion‐exchange resin, ion‐exclusion chromatography, ion‐gated channel, ionic…
IκB, I‐band, IκB kinase, I‐cell disease or inclusion‐cell disease or mucolipidosis II, I‐clip, isovaleryl‐CoA dehydrogenase, isozyme, isozymogen, ISSD, ISWI, IT, itaconate, ITAM, iterative process, iteron, ITF, 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…
k̃, Kirkwood‐Westheimer theory of electrostatic effects on acid dissociation constants, KIRs, kirromycin or mocimycin, kis‐, kistrin, kit, Kjeldahl flask, Kjeldahl method, Kleinschmidt technique, Klenow enzyme or Klenow fragment, KLF, KLH, Klinefelter syndrome, Klotz plot, KMEF group, knallgas bacteria or hydrogen bacteria, knallgas reaction, knockdown, knockin, knockout, Knoop's hypothesis, Knop solution, Knox plot, Knudson's hypothesis (two‐hit hypothesis), Koch phenomenon, kojibiose, kojic acid, Kok effect, Kornberg enzyme, Korrigan cellulase…
LDL receptor, LDL receptor‐related protein, Le, LE392, leaching (microbial), 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…
Li‐Fraumeni syndrome, lipo+ or (before a vowel) lip+, lipoamide reductase (NADH), lipocaic, lipocalin, lipochrome, lipocortin, lipofection, lipofuscin, lipogenesis, lipogenic amino acid, lipoic acid or α‐lipoic acid, lipoid, lipolysis, lipolytic hormone, lipomodulin or annexin I, lipophilic, lipophilin, lipophorin, lipophosphoglycans, lipopolysaccharide, lipopolysaccharide N‐acetylglucosaminyltransferase, lipopolysaccharide‐binding protein, lipoprotein, lipoprotein(a), lipoprotein‐associated phospholipase A2 or platelet‐activating factor acetylhydrolase, lipoprotein lipase, lipoprotein signal peptidase, liposome, lipotaurine, lipoteichoic acid, lipotropic or lipotrophic…
L‐arabinose isomerase, l‐gulonolactone oxidase, L‐iduronidase, l‐, L‐bifunctional enzyme, L‐NAME, L‐type pentose pathway, 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…
Man, manaoic acid, Mancini technique, mandelate, mandelonitrile, manganese, manifold, manna, mannan, mannanase or mannase, Mannich reaction, manninotriose, mannite, manno+, mannobiose, mannoheptulose, mannokinase, mannosamine, mannose, mannose‐binding protein (abbr.: MBP) or mannose‐binding lectin, mannose 6‐phosphate, mannose‐1‐phosphate guanylyltransferase, mannose‐1‐phosphate guanylyltransferase (GDP), mannose‐6‐phosphate isomerase, mannose 6‐phosphate receptor, mannosidase, mannoside, mannosyl, mannuronate, manoalide, manometer, manometer constant, manometer fluid, manometric, manometry, Manp, mantissa, MAO, MAO inhibitor…
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, memory cell, MEN, menadione, menaquinone, Mendelian…
methyl‐accepting chemotaxis protein, methyl‐coenzyme M reductase, methylene+, Methylene Blue or Swiss Blue or Basic Blue 9, methylene‐interrupted double bonds, methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (NADP+), methylesterase, methylglucosamine, methylidyne, methylmalonate, methylmalonic acidemia or methylmalonic aciduria, methylmalonyl‐CoA, methylmalonyl‐CoA epimerase, methylmalonyl‐CoA mutase, methylmercuric hydroxide, Methyl Orange, methylotroph, methylotrophic yeast, Methyl Red, methylsulfonyl nitrophenyl carbonate, methylsulfonyl succinimidyl carbonate, methyltetrahydrofolate trap hypothesis, methylthioribose, methyltransferase, methyne or (formerly) methine, meticillin (sodium) or methicillin, Met‐Lys‐bradykinin, MetMb, metmyoglobin, ‘me too drug’…
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, mitochondrial disease, mitochondrial DNA, mitochondrial fission protein, mitochondrial fraction, mitochondrial plasmid DNA, mitochondrial matrix, mitochondrial processing peptidase, mitochondrial RNA, mitochondrial state, mitochondrial trifunctional protein, mitochondrion (pl. mitochondria), mitochrome, mitogen, mitogenic protein, mitogillin, mitomycin C…
mr, monophyletic group, monoploid, monosaccharide, monose, monosodium glutamate, monosome, monosomic, monospecific, monoterpene, monotonic, monotopic, monovalent, monoxenic, monozygotic, montanate, montanoyl, Monte Carlo method, Mops or MOPS, morgan, Morgan's unit, Mörner's test, morph+, +morph, morphiceptin, morphine, morpho+ or (before a vowel) morph+, morphogen, morphogenesis, morpholine, morpholino antisense oligonucleotide, morphology, Morquio syndrome, MORT1, mortalin, mosaic, mosaic evolution, mosaic model, Mössbauer spectroscopy…
M‐phase‐promoting factor or maturation‐promoting factor or p34 cdc, 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), mycobactin, mycolic acid, mycology, mycolyl, mycophenolic acid, mycoplasma or (formerly) pleuropneumonia‐like organism, mycoprotein, mycosamine, mycose, mycostatic, mycothiol, mycotoxin, myel+, myelin, myelination…
nephrectomy, nephro+ or (before a vowel) nephr+, nephrocalcin or osteocalcin‐related protein precursor, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, nephron, nephropontin, neplanocin A, neprilysin, Ner, NER, Nernst distribution law, Nernst equation, Nernst heat theorem, nerolidol, nerve, nerve cell, nerve fibre, nerve gas, nerve growth factor, nerve growth factor receptor, nerve impulse, nervon or nervone, nervonate, nervonoyl, nervous, nervous system, nervous tissue, nesidioblast, nesidioblastoma, nesidioblastosis, nesslerize or Nesslerize, Nessler's reagent…
NKSF, NLM, NLP, NLS, nm, nM, NMD, NMDA, NMDA receptor, NMN, nmol, NMP, NMR or nmr, Nn, Nno, nNOS, NNRTI, No, nociceptin, nociceptive, nociceptor, Nod, NodD, node, node of Ranvier, Nod factor, NOD mice, nodoc, nodulation factor, nodule bacterium or nodule‐forming bacterium, nodulin, NOE, NOESY, nogalamycin, nogalose, noggin, Nogo, Nogo receptor, noise, noise analysis, nojirimycin, nominal, nomogram or nomograph…
N‐end rule, nucleophilic, nucleophilic catalysis, nucleophilic displacement, nucleophilicity, nucleophilic reagent, nucleophilic substitution reaction or nucleophilic displacement, nucleophosmin, nucleoplasm, nucleoplasmin, nucleoporin, nucleoprotamine, nucleoprotein, nucleosidase, nucleoside, nucleoside antibiotic, nucleoside cyclic phosphate or cyclic nucleotide, nucleoside diphosphatase, nucleoside diphosphate, nucleoside diphosphate reductase, nucleosidediphosphosugar or nucleoside diphosphate sugar or nucleotide sugar, nucleoside monophosphate, nucleoside phosphate or nucleoside monophosphate, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, nucleoside‐triphosphatase, nucleoside triphosphate, nucleoside triphosphate reductase, nucleosomal remodelling and histone deacetylase, nucleosome, nucleosome code…
oncogenic, oncology, oncolysis, oncomodulin, oncoprotein, oncornavirus, oncostatin M, oncotic pressure, +one, one‐carbon compound, one cistron–one polypeptide hypothesis, one gene–one antigen hypothesis, one gene–one enzyme hypothesis, one gene–one polypeptide hypothesis or one cistron–one polypeptide hypothesis, one gene–one reaction hypothesis, +onic, +onium, ONPG, on‐rate, Onsager theory, ontogeny or ontogenesis, ontology, oo+, oocyte, OODB, oogenesis, oogonium (pl. oogonia), OP, opal codon or opal triplet, opalescence, opal mutant, opal mutation, opal suppressor…
O‐ring, ovoinhibitor, ovomucoid, ovothiol, ovotransferrin, ovulate, ovule, ovum (pl. ova), oxa+ or (sometimes before a vowel) ox+, oxalacetate, oxalate, oxalo, oxalo+, oxaloacetate or (rarely) oxalacetate, oxalosis, oxalosuccinate, oxaluria, 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…
parental imprinting, parenteral, PARG, parietal, parietal layer, parinaric acid, parkin, Parkinson's disease or parkinsonism, Park nucleotide, paromomycin, parotid gland, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, PARP, PARP‐1, PARP‐2, parse, parsimony, parthenocarpy, parthenogenesis, partial agonist, partial derivative, partial hydrolysate, partial inhibition, partial inverse agonist, partially overlapping code, partially overlapping gene, partial molar quantity, partial pressure, partial pressures, law of, partial specific quantity, partial specific volume (of a solute), particle, particulate enzyme…
Pep‐1, peptonize or peptonise, per+, PER, peracid or per‐acid, per cent or percent, percentage, perchloric acid, Percoll, percutaneous, 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…
phloem, phloretin, phlorizin or phlorhizin or phloridzin or phlorrhizin, phloroglucinol, phlorrhizin, pH meter, phorbol, phorbol ester, +phore, +phoresis, phosducin, +phosph+, phosphacan, phosphagen, phosphataemia, phosphatase or phosphomonoesterase, phosphatased, phosphatase inhibitor protein, phosphate, phosphate bond, phosphate bond energy, phosphatemia or (esp. Brit.) phosphataemia, phosphate potential, phosphatidal, phosphatidate, phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase, phosphatidate phosphatase, phosphatide, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidyl, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylcholine desaturase, phosphatidylcholine‐dolichol, phosphatidylcholine‐sterol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol 4,5‐bisphosphate or (formerly) triphosphoinositide…
Pi, PH‐30 or PH30, pH‐activity profile or pH profile, phototropism, phototropy, phototube, phox, 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…
plastogene, plastoglobuli, plastome or plastom, plastoquinol, plastoquinone, plate, plateau (pl. plateaux or plateaus), plate column, plate height, platelet or thrombocyte, platelet‐activating factor, platelet‐activating factor acetylhydrolase, platelet basic protein precursor, platelet‐derived endothelial cell growth factor, platelet‐derived growth factor, platelet‐derived growth factor receptor or PDGF receptor, platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule, platelet factor IV, platform protein, plating, platysome, PLC, pleated sheet, pleckstrin, pleckstrin homology domain, plectin, plectonemic coiling, pleiotropin or pleiotrophin, pleiotropism or pleiotropy…
poly‐l‐lysine, poly‐α2,8‐sialic 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, porphyr+, porphyria…
pri‐miRNA, prion, prion protein, prism, PRKAG3, PRL, pro+ or pro‐, Pro, proaccelerin, probability, probable error, proband, probe, procainamide, procainamide azide, procaine or novocaine, procapsid, procarboxypeptidase component III, procaryon, procaryote, process, processed gene, processing, processing body, processive, processivity, processivity clamp, processosome, prochiral, procholecystokinin precursor, prochromacin, Procion, procoagulant, procollagen, procollagen C‐endopeptidase, procollagen N‐endopeptidase, procollagen‐lysine 5‐dioxygenase, procollagen‐proline 4‐dioxygenase, proconvertin, procorticotropin or procortin, procyclin or PARP…
P‐cadherin, P‐loop, P‐protein, P‐protein body, PR‐enzyme, 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, ps, P‐selectin, pseudoachondroplasia, pseudoalkaloid, pseudoallele, pseudoaxial, pseudocholinesterase, pseudoequatorial…
radian, radiant energy, radiant intensity, radiant power or radiant flux, radiation, radiation absorbed dose, radiation biology, radiation‐chemical reaction, radiation chemistry, radiation damage, radiation dose equivalent, radiation hybrid map, radiation inactivation method, radiation source, radical, radical anion, radical cation, radical centre, radical ion, radical pair, radical SAM, radical scavenger, radioactivate, radioactivation analysis or activation analysis, radioactive, radioactive concentration, radioactive decay, radioactive isotope or radioisotope, radioactive label or radiolabel, radioactive tracer or radiotracer, radioactivity…
re‐entrant loop, Re‐face, 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, relative atomic mass or (formerly) atomic weight, relative band rate or relative band speed, relative biological effectiveness, relative centrifugal force, relative density, relative formula mass, relative molecular mass or relative molar mass or molecular weight, relative permittivity…
R‐binder, R‐enzyme or starch debranching enzyme, rhamnose, rhamnulose, rheology, rheoseme or flow signal, rheostat, Rhesus factor, rheumatoid factors, rhinovirus, rhizomorph, RH map, rho, Rhodamine, rhodanese, rhodanid, rhodium, rhodniin, rhodo+ or (before a vowel) rhod+, rhodopsin or visual purple, rho factor, RhoGEF, RhoGTPase, Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor, rho protein or (sometimes) rho factor, Rho protein, RI, RIA, Rib, ribaric acid, ribavarin, ribitol or adonitol, ribitol teichoic acid…
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, saccharopinuria, saccharose, Sac1p, SACS, sacsin, Saethre‐Chotzen syndrome, SAF, safety cabinet, SAG, SAGA complex, SAGE, SAH, SAICAR or SACAIR, SAICAR synthetase, Sakaguchi test, salbutamol, salicylic acid, saline, saliva, salivary gland, salivary juice…
seco‐, seco‐carotenoid, secondary lysosome or phagolysosome, secondary messenger, secondary metabolism, secondary metabolite, secondary response, secondary structure, second law of thermodynamics, second messenger or secondary messenger, second‐order rate constant, second‐order reaction, seco‐steroid, secretagogue or secretogogue, secretase, secrete, secretin, secretin receptor, secretion, secretogogue, secretogranin I, secretor, secretor gene, secretory, secretory actin‐binding protein, secretory component, secretory granule, secretory piece (abbr.: SP) or secretory component, secretory protein I, sector, sector cell or sector‐shaped cell…
SN1, SN2, shibire, shikalkin, shikimate, shikimate 5‐dehydrogenase, shikimate kinase, shikimate pathway, shikonin, Shine‐Dalgarno sequence, SHIRPA, shockate, short‐chain, short‐chain acyl‐CoA dehydrogenase, short interfering RNA, short‐patch repair, shotgun cloning, shotgun collection, shotgun sequencing, showdomycin, shrimp alkaline phosphatase, shRNA, shuttle, shuttle vector, shuttle vesicle, sI, Si, SI, Sia, sial+, sialagogue or sialogogue, sialate, sialic, sialic acid, sialidase, sialidosis, sialin or anion and sugar transporter, sialo‐ or (before a vowel) sial+…
solid‐phase technique, solid‐state, solubility, solubility product, solubilize or solubilise, soluble, soluble collagen, soluble RNA, solute, solution, solvation, solvation effect, solvent, solvent‐perturbation method, soma (pl. somata or somas), somat+, somatic cell, somatic cell genetic disorder, somatic cell hybrid, somatic cell hypermutation, somatic crossing over, 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);…
starch synthase, starch syrup, Stargardt macular dystrophy or juvenile macular degeneration, stargazin, Start, start codon, start kinase, start point, start protein, starve, stasis, +stasis, STAT, +stat, stathmin, +static, statics, statin, +statin, statine or statin, stationary phase, statistically significant, statistical mechanics, statistical sample, statistics, stator, statyl, Staufen, staurosporine, Ste, steady state, steady‐state fluorescence anisotropy, steady‐state kinetics, steapsin, stearate, stearin, stearoyl, stearoyl‐CoA desaturase, stearyl, steatite…
SW,20, S‐form, S→R variation, suicide repair (of DNA), suicide substrate, sulfa drug, sulfamethoxazole, sulfane, sulfanilamide, sulfatase, sulfate or (esp. Brit.) sulphate, sulfate adenylyltransferase, sulfatide, sulfatide lipidosis, sulfation factor, sulfenic acid, sulfhemoglobin, sulfhydryl or thiol, sulfinic acid, 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…
tandem‐crossed immunoelectrophoresis, tandem mass spectrometry, tandem repeat, Tanford‐Kirkwood theory, tangent, tangential‐flow filtration, Tangier disease, tankyrase, tannic acid or tannin or gallotannin or gallotannic acid, tannin, tanning, T antigen, TAP, tapeworm, Taps or TAPS, Tar, TAR, tare, target, target discovery or target identification, targeting subunits, target repeat, target site, target theory, target validation, tartaric acid, Tarui disease, tasiRNA, tat, TATA‐binding protein, TATA box or Hogness box, tau, tau protein, tau‐protein kinase…
thiamine or (sometimes) thiamin or (formerly) aneurin(e), thiamine diphosphate or (sometimes) thiamin diphosphate or (formerly) thiamin pyrophosphate, thick filament, thimet oligopeptidase, thin filament, thin‐film dialysis, thin‐layer chromatography, thio+ or (sometimes before a vowel) thi+, thioacetal, thiobarbituric acid, thioctic acid, thiocyanate, thioester, thioether, thiogalactoside transacetylase, thioglucosidase, thioglycoside or S‐glycoside, thiohemiacetal, thiohemiketal, thiohypoxanthine, thioinosine, thioketal, thiokinase, thiol, +thiol, thiolactomycin, thiolase, thiolate, thiol proteinase…
torr, torsin, torsion, torsion angle, torsion balance, torulin, torus (pl. tori), Tos, tosyl, total body water, totipotent, touchdown PCR, Tourette syndrome, toxic, toxicity, toxicogenic, toxicogenomics, toxicology, toxic shock syndrome, toxic shock syndrome toxin‐1, toxify, toxigenic or toxicogenic or toxinogenic, toxin, toxinogenic, toxinology, toxoid, toxophore, TP, TPA, TPAP, TPCK, TPI, TPN, TPNH, TPP, TPQ, TPR, T protein, trace, tracee, trace element or microelement…
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, triose, triose phosphate, triosephosphate dehydrogenase (NADP+), triose‐phosphate isomerase, trioxsalen, tripalmitin, tripeptide, triphenylmethyl group, 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…
UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 6‐dehydrogenase, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine–dolichyl‐phosphate‐N‐acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 2‐epimerase, UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 4‐epimerase, UDPGP, UGA, UGC, UGG, UGU, +ulose, +ulosonic acid, ultimate carcinogen or ultimate carcinogenic metabolite, ultimobranchial body, ultra+, ultracentrifuge, ultradian, ultrafilter, ultrafiltration, ultramicrotome, ultrasonic, ultrasonication, ultrasonic disintegrator, ultrasound, Ultraspiracle, ultrastructure, ultraviolet (radiation), ultraviolet‐endonuclease, ultraviolet reactivation, Ultrogel, umbelliferone, UML, UMP, UMP synthase, un+, unary operator, uncharacterized protein family, uncoating enzyme, uncoded amino acid, uncompensated acidosis, uncompensated alkalosis…
variant, variant Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease, Vasa, vascular, 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…
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…
bank erosion, bankfull discharge, bank retreat, bank storage, banner cloud, bar, barchans, baroclinic, barometric gradient, barotropic, barrage, barrier, barrier beach, barrier island, barrier reef, barrow, basal complex (basement complex), basal ice, basal slipping (basal sliding), base flow, base level, basement, base saturation, base surge, basic activity (basic workers), basin, bastide, batholith, bathymetry, baydzharakh (baydjarakh), beach, beach budget (beach sediment budget), beach ridge, beach rocks…
chemical weathering, chernozem, chestnut soil, chevron, choropleth, chronosequence, c.i.f. pricing (cost, insurance, freight pricing), cinder cone, circuit of capital, circulation, circumpolar vortex, cirque, citizenship, city, city network, city of refuge, city region, city-size distribution, city/state relations, class, classification, clast, clay, clay minerals, cleavage, cliff, climate, climate sensitivity, climatic change, climatic climax community, climatic geomorphology (climatomorphology), climatology, climax community…
cumuliform, cumulo-nimbus, cumulus, current, current bedding, curvature, 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…
economic geography, economic growth, economic man, economic rent, economic system, economies of scale, economism, ecosystem, ecotone, ecotope, ecotourism, ecozone, ecumene (oecumene), edaphic, eddy, edge, edge city, effective discharge, efficiency, effluent, EFTA, Ekman layer, electoral geography, El Niño, eluviation, embeddedness, embodiment, emergence, emigration, emissions credits, emotional geographies, enclave, enclosure, encounter, geographies of, endemic, endogenetic (endogenic), endogenous growth theory, energy, englacial, ENGO…
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, freight rate, friction, friction coefficient, friction of distance, fringe belt, front, frontier, frontogenesis, frontolysis, frost, frost cracking, frost creep, frost heaving, frost hollow, frost pocket, frost shattering, frost thrusting, frost wedging, Froude number, fugitive species, fumarole, fumigation…
habitus, Hadley cell, hail, halo, halophyte, ham, hamada, hamlet, hanging valley, hardpan, Harmattan, 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…
involution, ionosphere, irradiance, irrigation, isentropic (isentropic surface), island arc, island biogeography, isochrones, isodemographic map, isogloss, isoline/isopleths, isostasy, isosteric, isotropic, jet stream, joint, jökulhlaup, Jurassic, just city, justice, just-in-time system (JIT), Kamchatka current, kame, karre, karst (labyrinth karst), kata-, katabatic wind, kettle hole, Khamsin, kinematic wave theory, kinetic energy, knick point (nick point), knock and lochan topography, knowledge-based organizations…
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, meander, mean information field (MIF), means of production, mechanical erosion, mechanical weathering, medial moraine, medicine, geography of (medical geography), Mediterranean climate…
ocean–atmosphere interaction (ocean–atmosphere coupling), ocean current, oceanic core complexes (OCC), oceanic crust, oceanic ridge, oceanography, ocean trench, offshore, offshore bar, offshore financial centre (OF), ogives, oil crisis (oil price shock), 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…
Pleistocene, plinian eruption, plinthite, plucking, plug flow, plume, plunge pool, pluralism, pluralist geography, pluton, pluvial, pneumatic action, podzol (podsol), poetics, poikilotherm, point-bar deposit, point pattern analysis, polar, polar front, polar vortex, polder, political ecology, political economy, political geography, politics of place, polje, pollen analysis, pollution, pollution dome, polygon, polysaccharide gum, pool and riffle, population, population density, population dynamics, population equation, population geography…
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, rural depopulation, rural geography…
soil science, soil series, soil structure, soil texture, solar constant, solar energy, solar radiation, sol brun lessivée, solfatara, solifluction, solonchak, solonetz, solum, solution, sorting, Southerly Burster, sovereignty, space, space–time, spatial, spatial analysis (spatial data analysis), spatial autocorrelation, spatial covariation, spatial differentiation, spatial diffusion, spatial-interaction theory, spatiality, spatial margin, spatial monopoly, spatial ontology, spatial preference, spatial randomness, spatio-temporal fix, special economic zone (SEZ)…
threshold population, throughfall, throughflow, throw, thrust, thufur, thunder, thunderstorm, tidal energy, tidal prism, tidal wave, tide, till, time-space compression, time–space convergence, time-space geography, TNC, tolerance, tombolo, topographic(al) map, topological map, topology, topophilia, topple, topsoil, tor, tornado, total fertility rate, tourism, tower karst, traction load, trade, trade bloc, trade wind inversion, trade winds, traffic, traffic segregation, tragedy of the commons…
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, 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, anthropic principle, anthropology…
Richard Feynman Biography, fiction, field, field work, film, television, and science, fire and heat, Emil Fischer Biography, R. A Fisher Biography, flight, food, food preservation, forestry, fortification, fossil, foundations, Benjamin Franklin Biography, Rosalind Franklin Biography, fraud, Augustin Fresnel Biography, Ken'ichi Fukui Biography, fundamental constants, fusion, Gaia hypothesis, galaxy, Galenism, Galileo Biography, Luigi Galvani Biography, galvanism, gas discharge, Carl Friedrich Gauss Biography, geiger and electronic counters, gender and science…
Vasilyevich Kurchatov Igor Biography, nuclear power, nutrition, nylon, observation and experiment, observatory, occult quality, oceanographic institutions, oceanography, oncology, operation paperclip, operations research, J. Robert Oppenheimer Biography, optics and vision, orbit, organic chemistry, organism, orrery, orthogenesis, osmosis, ovism and animalculism, oxygen, ozone hole, paleontology, paradigm, parallax, Louis Pasteur Biography, patents, patriotic and economic societies, patronage, Wolfgang Pauli Biography, Linus Pauling Biography, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Biography, peer review, pendulum…
a-, A, abacus, abelian group, Niels Henrik Abel (1802–29) Biography, 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, acre…
Bernoulli family, Bernoulli number, Bernoulli's Theorem, Bernoulli trial, Bertrand's postulate, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1784–1846) Biography, Bessel function, Bessel's equation, best approximation, best unbiased estimator, beta distribution, beta function, between-groups design, Bhāskara (1114–85) Biography, bi-, bias, biased estimator, biased sample, bifurcation, bifurcation theory, bijection, bijective mapping, bilateral symmetry, bilinear, billion, bimodal, binary code, binary digit, binary notation, binary number, binary operation…
combinatorial circuits, common denominator, 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…
ad infinitum, a posteriori, a priori, a priori (in statistics), d, decreasing sequence, (Julius Wilhelm) Richard Dedekind (1831–1916) Biography, deduction, deficient number, definite integral, degenerate, degenerate conic, degenerate quadric, degree (angular measure), degree (of a polynomial), degree (of a vertex of a graph), degrees of freedom (in mechanics), degrees of freedom (in statistics), deka-, del, Delian (altar) problem, delta, Abraham De Moivre (1667–1754) Biography, De Moivre's Theorem…
equating real and imaginary parts, 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, Paul Erdos Biography, error, error-correcting and error-detecting code, escape speed, escribed circle, estimate, estimation, estimator, Euclid Biography, Euclidean Algorithm, Euclidean construction, Euclidean distance (Cartesian distance)…
Christian Goldbach Biography, Goldbach's conjecture, golden ratio, golden rectangle , golden section, goodness-of-fit test, googol, googolplex, William Sealy Gosset Biography, William Timothy Gowers Biography, grade (grad function on a calculator), gradient (of a curve), gradient (of a straight line), gradient (grad), Graeco-Latin square, gram, Gram–Schmidt method, graph, graph (of a function or mapping), graph (of a relation), graphical solution, graph paper, graph theory, gravitational constant…
Guillaume François Antoine l'Hôpital Marquis de Biography, l'Hôpital's rule, 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…
Mandelbrot set, Mann-Whitney U test, mantissa, many-to-one, mapping, marginal distribution, marginal probability density function, Andrei Andreevich Markov Biography, Markov chain, martingale, mass, mass–energy equation, matched-pairs design, matching, Mathemapedia, mathematical expectation, mathematical induction, mathematical model, mathematics, Mathieu's equation, matrix (matrices), matrix game, matrix norm, matrix of coefficients, matrix of cofactors, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis Biography, max-flow/min-cut, maximal matching…
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)…
product (of complex numbers), product (of matrices), product notation, product of inertia, product rule (for differentiation), product set, progression, projectile, projection (of a line on a plane), projection (of a point on a line), projection (of a point on a plane), projection (of a vector on a vector), projective geometry, proof, proof by contradiction, proper divisor, proper factor, proper fraction, properly included, proper subset, proportion, proposition, proposition (in mathematical logic), pseudo-prime…
Chu Shih-chieh (about ad 1300) Biography, 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, self-inverse, self-reference, self-selected samples…
Leonardo da Vinci Biography, T, tableau, tables, Table of areas and volumes, Table of centres of mass, Table of common inequalities:, Table of common ordinary differential equations and solutions:, Table of convergence tests for series:, Table of derivatives, Table of Fields Medal Winners, Table of Greek letters, Table of integrals, Table of moments of inertia, Table of Roman numerals, Table of series, Table of symbols, Table of trigonometric formulae, tangent, tangent (to a curve), tangent field, tangent line, tangent plane…
a, A, Å, a- (an- before vowels and usually before h), AAO, AAR, AAS, AAT, AAV, AB, ab-, ABA, Cleveland Abbe Biography, Ernst Abbe (not Abbé) Biography, Richard Abegg Biography, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Biography, John Jacob Abel Biography, Niels Henrik Abel Biography, George Ogden Abell Biography, Philip Hauge Abelson Biography, Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney Biography, ABO, abomasum (pl. abomasa), Alexei A. Abrikosov Biography, abs, abscisic acid, abscissa (pl. abscissae; preferred to abscissas)…
-aemia, aeon, aer-, aerial, aero- (sometimes aer- before vowels), AES, aestivation, aether, aetiology, AF, a.f. (or AF), a factor, a.f.c. (or AFC), affinity, aFGF, AFP (or afp), AFRC, afterbirth, after-ripening, Ag, agaric, Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz Biography, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Biography, a.g.c. (or AGC), ageing, Agnatha, -agogue, Agonomycetales, AGR, Peter Agre Biography, Georgius Agricola Biography…
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, antidiuretic hormone, anti-inflammatory, antilog, antilymphocyte serum, antimonic…
audiofrequency, John James Audubon Biography, Karl Auer Baron von Welsbach Biography, Pierre Victor Auger Biography, Aur, aural, auricle, Auriga, aurora (pl. auroras or aurorae), auto- (sometimes aut- before vowels), autochthonous, autoecious, autoexposure, autofocus, autoicous, automatic frequency control, automatic gain control, automatic picture transmission, automatic volume control, automaton, autonomic nervous system, autotrophic, auxiliary, auxo- (aux- before vowels), auxotrophic, AV, avatar, a.v.c. (or AVC), Averroës Biography…
berkelium, John Desmond Bernal Biography, Claude Bernard Biography, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee Biography, Daniel Bernoulli Biography, Jakob Bernoulli (or Jacques) Biography, Johann Bernoulli (or Jean) Biography, Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot Biography, Comte Claude-Louis Berthollet Biography, beryllium, Jöns Jacob Berzelius Biography, BES, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Biography, Sir Henry Bessemer Biography, Charles Herbert Best Biography, beta, Beta, beta blocker, betaherpesvirus, beta iron, beta-pleated sheet (usually written β-pleated sheet), beta receptor (two words; or β receptor)…
Wernher von Braun Biography, Josias Braun-Blanquet Biography, Auguste Bravais Biography, George Brayton Biography, breadth, breakdown, breccia, Gregory Breit Biography, bremsstrahlung, Sydney Brenner Biography, brewer's yeast, Sir David Brewster Biography, Charles Julian Brianchon Biography, Percy Williams Bridgman Biography, Henry Briggs Biography, Léon Brillouin Biography, James Brindley Biography, Johann A. Brinell Biography, bristleworm, British/American spelling differences, British Summer Time, British thermal unit, brittlestar, broadband, Pierre Paul Broca Biography, Bertram Neville Brockhouse Biography…
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), carcinogen, carcinogenesis, carcinogenicity, carcinoma (pl. carcinomata or (not in medical usage) carcinomas)…
charge-coupled device, charge density, charge number of an ion, charge-transfer device, Jacques Alexandre César Charles Biography, charm quantum number, charm quark (not charmed quark), Sir John Charnley Biography, Charophyta, Georges Charpak Biography, Jean de Charpentier Biography, chasma (not ital.; pl. chasmata), chasmo-, chasmogamy, Henri Louis Le Chatelier Biography, chat room, Yves Chauvin Biography, CH domain, Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (not Tchebyshev) Biography, cheilo- (cheil- before vowels), cheiro-, Cheiroptera, chela (pl. chelae)…
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, Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell Biography, COD, codepoint, codon, coefficient, -coel (not -coele), coel-, coelacanth (not coelocanth), coelenterate…
cross product, cross section, crosstalk, croton (pl. crotons), crotonaldehyde, crotonic acid, crotyl alcohol, CRP, Crt, CRT, Cru, Cruciferae, Alexander Crum Brown Biography, Crustacea, Paul J. Crutzen Biography, Crux, Crv, cryo-, cryoscopic constant, crypto- (crypt- before vowels), cryptogam, Cryptomonada (or Cryptophyta; cap. C), cryst, crystal-field stabilization energy, crystal-field theory, Cs, csc, CSD, CSF, C sharp (or C♯), CSI, CSIRO…
Sir Geoffrey De Havilland Biography, Hans Georg Dehmelt Biography, dehydrogenase, Johann Deisenhofer Biography, del, Del, Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche Biography, Paul Vidal de La Blache Biography, de Laplace Biography, Charles De La Tour Biography, Max Delbrück Biography, Marquis Guillaume de L'Hospital Biography, Fausto D'Elhuyar Biography, deliquescence, John Howard Dellinger Biography, Delphinus, delta, delta iron, delta opioid receptor, Jean André de Luc Biography, Eugene Anatole Demarçay Biography, Jean de Marignac Biography, Milislav Demerec Biography…
Ac, Ac-Ds, Dorado, d orbital, dormin, dorsiventral, dorso- (or dorsi-), dorsoventral, DOS, dose equivalent, dot product, double decomposition, David Douglas Biography, Donald Wills Douglas Biography, James Douglas Biography, Thomas Dover Biography, Herbert Henry Dow Biography, John Langdon Haydon Down Biography, DP (or dp), DPB, DPD, DPH, DPhil (or D.Phil.), DPM, DPN, DPPA, DPPH, DPS, dr, Dra, drachm, Draco, draft, drag and drop…
a, A, ac-, 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, Branhamella, Brassica, Brevibacterium…
trans-butenedioic acid, trans-but-2-enoic acid, s-butyl alcohol, t-butyl alcohol, (Z)-7-DDOL, trans-1,2-diphenylethene, Empedocles of Acragas Biography, emr (or EMR), emu (or e.m.u.), emulation, en, en-, enamine, encephalin, encephalo-, -enchyma, Johann Franz Encke Biography, en dash (or en rule), endemic, John Franklin Enders Biography, endo-, endoblast, endoderm, endodermis, endoergic, end of file…
ergo-, ergocalciferol, ergot, Eri, Ericaceae, John Ericsson Biography, Eridanus, Eris, ERK, Erlangen programme, Joseph Erlanger Biography, Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer Biography, Richard Robert Ernst Biography, Ertel potential vorticity, Gerhard Ertl Biography, erythro-, Es, ESA, Leo Esaki Biography, ESCA, Albert Eschenmoser Biography, ESE, ESI, ESO, esophagus, ESPRIT, ESR, essential fatty acid, EST, ester, estivation, estrogen, estrus (or estrum), esu (or e.s.u.), Et…
Albert Fert Biography, fertility plasmid, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Biography, FET, feticide, feto- (or feti-), fetus, Robert Joachim Feulgen Biography, Richard Phillips Feynman Biography, F factor, FFT, FGS, Fh, FHA domain, F horizon, fiber, FIBiol (or F.I.Biol.), Leonardo Fibonacci Biography, fibre, fibreglass, fibre optics, fibre-tracheid, fibro-, fibroblast growth factor, fibula (pl. fibulae or fibulas), FICE, FIChemE (or F.I.Chem.E.), Adolf Eugen Fick Biography…
frugivorous, fruit fly, frustum, FSD, FSE, FSH, FSS, ft, FT-IR spectroscopy, FT-NMR spectroscopy, FTP, FTS, Fuc, Leonhard Fuchs Biography, Sir Vivien Ernest Fuchs Biography, fuco-, fucose, fugacity, -fuge, Kenichi Fukui Biography, fulcrum, full-scale deflection, fumaric acid, function, Fundamental Catalogue, fundamental particles, Fungi, fungi-, Fungi Imperfecti, Casimir Funk Biography, furan, Robert F. Furchgott Biography, furlong, furyl-, fuse, fuze, FW…
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (phosphorylating), glycerine, glycerol, glyceryl-, glycine, glyco-, glycol, glycollic acid, glycoside, glycuronic acid, glyoxal, glyoxalic acid, glyoxylate, gm, gm2 (properly g/m2 or g m−2), GMC, GM-CSF, Leopold Gmelin Biography, GMP, GMST, GMT, gnatho-, Gnathostomata, -gnathous, gneiss, Gnetales, Gneticae, Gnetophyta, Gnetopsida, gnotobiotics, GnRH, goat pox, Robert Hutchings Goddard Biography, Kurt Gödel Biography, Sir Harry Godwin Biography, Maria Goeppert-Mayer (hyphen) Biography…
Chang Heng Biography, hamster polyoma virus, hamulus (pl. hamuli), Alfred Hand Biography, handheld, Sir Frederick Handley Page Biography, handset, handshake, Hankel functions, Theodor W. Hänsch Biography, Armauer Gerhard Henrik Hansen Biography, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch Biography, haplo- (hapl- before vowels), haploid, haplont, hapteron (pl. haptera), hapticity, hapto- (hapt- before vowels), Haptophyta, HaPV, Sir William Venables Vernon Harcourt Biography, Sir Arthur Harden Biography, hardware, hardwired, Godfrey Harold Hardy Biography, Sir William Bate Hardy Biography…
H–D curve, Wilhelm His Biography, Wilhelm His Biography, histamine, histidine, histiocyte (not histocyte), histo- (hist- before vowels), histocompatibility antigens, histone, George Herbert Hitchings Biography, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf Biography, HIV, HJBT (or HBT), HLA system (not HL-A system), HMI, HMPA, HMPT, HMX, HNIW, hnRNA, hnRNP, Ho, Mahlon Bush Hoagland Biography, Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge Biography, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Biography, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Biography, Thomas Hodgkin Biography, HOE…
IChI, ichthyo- (ichthy- before vowels), Ichthyopterygia, ichthyopterygium (pl. ichthyopterygia), ichthyosaur, ichthyosaurus (pl. ichthyosauruses or ichthyosauri), ICI, ICNCP, ICNP, ICNV, icon (not ikon), -ics, ICSH, ICTV, ICZN, -id, -idae, -ide, idio-, IDP, IE, i.e, IEA, IEC, IEE, IEEE, IERE, IF, iff, IFIP, IFN, -iformes, IFRB, Ig, IGF, IGFET, Louis J. Ignarro Biography, igneous (not ignious)…
Johann Gutenberg Biography, ir-, IRAS, IRES, iridescence (not irridescence), iridium, 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, ISBN, ischium (pl. ischia), ISDN, -ise, Shinobu Ishihara Biography, ISI, Ernst Ising Biography, islets of *Langerhans, ISM, ISO, iso-, isobar…
Martin Heinrich Klaproth Biography, Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs Biography, Stephen Cole Kleene (pronounced Klein-i) Biography, Kleimann–Low nebula, Felix Klein (Christian) Biography, Oskar Klein Biography, Benjamin S. Kline Biography, Harry Fitch Klinefelter Jr Biography, klinostat, Klaus von Klitzing Biography, KL nebula, Sir Aaron Klug Biography, km, K meson, kn, knockdown, knot, William S. Knowles Biography, Martin Knudsen Biography, Knudsen number, Makoto Kobayashi Biography, Robert Koch (Heinrich Hermann) Biography, Kodak, Wladimir Peter Koeppen Biography…
leucine, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart Biography, leuco- (leuc- before vowels), leucocyte, Leu-enkephalin, leukaemia, leukemia, leukocyte, leukotriene, level, Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene Biography, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier Biography, Rita Levi-Montalcini Biography, Claude Lévi-Strauss Biography, levo-, levorotatory, Edward B. Lewis Biography, Gilbert Newton Lewis Biography, Lewis number, Franz von Leydig Biography, LF, lg, LGO, LH, LHC, L horizon, Guillaume François Antoine L'Hospital (or L'Hôpital) Marquis de Biography…
Ly α, lychee, Lycoperdales, Lycophyta, lycopod, Lycopsida, Sir Charles Lyell Biography, Theodore Lyman Biography, Lyme disease, lymphadenopathy-associated virus, lymph node (not lymph gland), lymphocyte, lymphotoxin, Lyn, Feodor Lynen Biography, Lynx, lyo-, lyophilic, lyophobic, Bernard Ferdinand Lyot Biography, Lyr, Lyra, Lys, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko Biography, lysergic acid diethylamide, lysi-, lysigeny, lysine, lysis (pl. lyses), -lysis, lyso- (or lysi-), lysogeny, -lyte, m, M…
mean time between failures, measles, meatus (pl. meatuses or meatus), mebi-, mechanoreceptor, Johan Friedrich Meckel Biography, Johann Friedrich Meckel Biography, Sir Peter Brian Medawar Biography, 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), medusa (pl. medusae), mega-, megaphyll, megaspore, megasporophyll, megawatt, meio-, meiosis (pl. meioses)…
mitral valve, Eilhardt Mitscherlich Biography, MIX, mixed melting point, mks (or m.k.s.) units, ml, MLO, mm, MMC, mmf (or m.m.f.), mmH2O, mmHg, MMI, MMP, m.m.p, MMS, MMT, MMTS, Mn, MNNG, Mo, MO, mobility, August Ferdinand Möbius Biography, mod, mode, model, modem, Modula, modular, modulation transfer function, module, modulo, modulus (pl. moduli)…
M–L relation, myxo- (myx- before vowels), Myxomycetes, Myxomycota, Mz, n, N, Na, NA, NAA, nabla, NAD, NADP, Karl Wilhelm von Naegeli Biography, Mark Aronovich Naimark Biography, NAK (or nak), Yoichiro Nambu Biography, named laws, effects, etc, NAND, nano-, nanoplankton, Fridtjof Nansen Biography, naphthalen-1-amine, naphthalene (not napthalene), naphthalene acetic acid, naphthalen-1-ol, naphthalen-2-ol, John Napier (or Neper) Biography…
NPY, NQR, NRA, NRAO, NRC, NS, NSF, N shell, NT, N-t-B, NTP, N.T.P. (or NTP), NTT, n-type, nu, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear magneton, nuclear quadrupole resonance (not quadropole), nuclear reaction, nucleic acid, nucleo- (nucle- or nucl- before vowels), nucleolus (pl. nucleoli), nucleon number, nucleophilic, nucleoside, nucleoside diphosphate, nucleoside triphosphate, nucleotide, nucleus (pl. nuclei), nuclide…
Pedanius Dioscorides Biography, Paul Greengard Biography, overpotential, overwinter, ovi-, ovo-, ovum (pl. ova), Sir Richard Owen Biography, ox, oxa- (ox- before vowels), oxalate, oxalic acid, oxamide, oxbow, oxidation, oxidation number, oxidation–reduction, oxidize (not oxydize), oxidoreductase, oxime, oxirane, oxo- (ox- before vowels), oxo acid, oxoethanoic acid, Oxon, oxy-, -oxy, oxy acid, oxygen, oxygen difluoride, oxyhaemoglobin, -oyl, oz, ozone, p, p…
Peter C. Doherty Biography, permeability, permeability coefficient, permeability of vacuum, permeance, Permian, permittivity, permittivity of vacuum, permonosulphuric acid, Permo-Triassic, Permutit, Alfred Pérot Biography, peroxoacids, peroxobromic(vii) acid, peroxochloric(vii) acid, peroxodisulphuric(vi) acid, peroxosulphuric(vi) acid, peroxy- (not per-), peroxybenzoic acid, peroxyethanoic acid, Claude Perrault Biography, Jean Baptiste Perrin Biography, Perseus, persistent organic pollutant, personal computer, Perspex, PERT, Georg Clemens Perthes Biography…
PL/I (or PL/1), platy-, Platyhelminthes, platyrrhine (not platyrhine), Platyzoa, John Playfair Biography, Lyon Playfair Lord Biography, PLC, PLD, Ple, plecto-, pleio-, pleiotropy, pleisto-, Pleistocene, Pleistogene, pleo- (or pleio-, plio-), plesiosaur, plesiosaurus (pl. plesiosauruses or plesiosauri), pleura (pl. pleurae), pleuro- (pleur- before vowels), pleuropneumonia-like organism, -plex, Pli, plio-, Pliocene (not Pleiocene), -ploid, PLoS, Julius Plücker Biography, plumb-…
P–L relation, propanedioic acid, propane-1,2,3-diol, propanenitrile, propane-1,2,3-triyl trinitrate, propanoic acid, propanone, propanoyl-, propel (propels, propelling, propelled), propenal, propenenitrile, propenoic acid, proper motion, propiolic alcohol, propionaldehyde, propionic acid, propionyl-, proportional, propulsion, propyl, propylenediamine, prostaglandin, prostanoid receptor, prostheca (pl. prosthecae), prosthecobacterium, prot-, protactinium, protein, protein kinase C, protein-tyrosine kinase, Proterozoic…
Roger Bacon Biography, RAS group, RasMol, raster image processor, John Ashworth Ratcliffe Biography, rate coefficient, rate constant, rate of conversion, rate of formation, rate of reaction, rationalized units, ratite, Friedrich Ratzel Biography, Christen Raunkiaer Biography, rauwolfia, John Ray Biography, Georges Antoine Pons Rayet Biography, John William Strutt Rayleigh Lord Biography, Rayleigh number, Maurice Raynaud Biography, Rb, RBC, RC, r.d, r determinant, rDNA, RDP (or RuDP), RDX, Re, re-, reactance…
Roemer) Rømer (or Römer Ole Christensen Biography, Sir Ronald Ross Biography, Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby Biography, William Parsons Rosse Lord Biography, Bruno Benedetti Rossi Biography, rot, rotational frequency, rotavirus, Rotifera, Rot value, Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget Biography, roundworm, Rous sarcoma virus, Paul Émile Roux Biography, Frank Sherwood Rowland Biography, Henry Augustus Rowland Biography, Royal Agricultural Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Royal Society of Chemistry, R plasmid, rpm (or r.p.m.)…
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel Biography, seif dune, seismo- (seism- before vowels), Selachii, selectin, selenium, seleno- (selen- before vowels), self-, self-inductance, Seliwanoff's test, SEM, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov Biography, semi-, semicarbazone, semiconductor, semimetal, -sepalous, septi- (sept- before vowels), septicaemia, septum (pl. septa), Ser, seral, SERC, sere, serine, sero-, serosa (pl. serosae), serotonin, serotype, serous, serovar, Serpens, Jean-Pierre Serre (hyphen) Biography…
solar mass, solar parallax, solar radius, soleno- (solen- before vowels), solid, solid angle, solid-state, soln, solonchak, solonetz, solstice, solubility product, soluble, soluble RNA, solution, Ernest Solvay Biography, solvent (not solvant), somato- (somat- before vowels), somatostatin receptor, somatotrophin, -some, Mary Somerville Biography, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld Biography, Michael Somogyi Biography, sonar, Franz Sondheimer Biography, sono- (son- before vowels), Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith Biography, sorbic acid…
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen Biography, Eduard Adolf Strasburger Biography, Fritz Strassmann Biography, strata, strati-, strato-, stratocumulus (pl. stratocumuli), stratum (pl. strata), stratus (pl. strati), strepto-, stress, stria (pl. striae), strobila (pl. strobilae), strobilus (pl. strobili), Friedrich Strohmeyer Biography, stroma (pl. stromata), Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren Biography, strontium, Čeněk Strouhal Biography, Strouhal number, John William Strutt Biography, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve Biography, Otto Struve Biography…
tephra, TEPP, tera-, terato- (terat- before vowels), terbium, terephthalic acid, terminator, term symbols, terpene nomenclature, terra, terrestrial (not terrestial), terrestrial dynamic time, Tertiary, Terylene, TES, tesla, Nikola Tesla Biography, 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…
TΨC arm, trapezoid, Moritz Traube Biography, travelling-wave tube, Morris William Travers Biography, T-region, Trematoda, TrEMBL, tren, Friedrich Trendelenburg (not Trendelenberg) Biography, Richard Trevithick Biography, TRH, Tri, tri-, triacetone triperoxide, Triangulum, Triangulum Australe, Triassic, tribe, tribo-, tribromoethanal, tribromoethane, tricarbon dioxide, tricarboxylic acid cycle, trichloroethanal, trichloroethanoic acid, trichloromethane, (trichloromethyl)benzene, trichloronitromethane, tricho- (trich- before vowels), trien, triethanolamine, trig, trigonometric point, trigonometry…
var, var, Bernhard Varenius Biography, variable stars, nomenclature, variant-specific glycoprotein, variety, Harold Elliot Varmus Biography, Constanzo Varolio Biography, Varuna, vas deferens (pl. vasa deferentia), vas efferens, Vaseline, vaso-, vasoactive intestinal peptide, vasodilatation, vasopressin, Gerard Henri De Vaucouleurs Biography, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin Biography, Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov Biography, VAX/VMS, VB, VBA, VBScript, VCAM, vCJD, VCR, VDU, vector, vector product, Vladimir Iosofich Veksler Biography, Vel, Vela…
γ-aminobutyric acid, William Caxton Biography, (±)-2,3-dihydroxybutanedioic acid, α-MT, α-naphthol, β-naphthol, α-naphthylamine, Ørsted, Hans Christian, Wilhelm Eduard Weber Biography, Weber number, James Weddell Biography, Alfred Lothar Wegener Biography, Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass Biography, weight, Weigle reactivation, Adolf Weil Biography, André Weil Biography, Edmund Weil Biography, Steven Weinberg Biography, Wilhelm Weinberg Biography, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann Biography, Pierre Ernst Weiss Biography, Karl Weissenberg Biography…
