Words containing ope

Acropetal means: Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Aeroscope means: An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

Aethrioscope means: An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

Agrope means: In the act of groping.

Alethoscope means: An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

Alopecia means: Alt. of Alopecy

Alopecy means: Loss of the hair; baldness.

Alopecist means: A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

Altiscope means: An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

Amphopeptone means: A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.