Words containing chinese

chinese means: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

chinese means: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

chinese means: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

chinese means: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

chinese alligator means: small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits

chinese angelica means: similar to American angelica tree but less prickly; China

chinese angelica tree means: similar to American angelica tree but less prickly; China

chinese anise means: anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine

chinese anise means: small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative

chinese black mushroom means: edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe

acoustic gramophone means: an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically

aetiologic means: relating to the etiology of a disease

aetiologic means: of or relating to the philosophical study of causation

ball-breaker means: a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing

ball-breaker means: a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence

boutonneuse fever means: a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals

chickenhearted means: easily frightened

cultivator means: a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)

cultivator means: someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

ecballium elaterium means: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

every year means: without missing a year

fetoscope means: a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat

homo habilis means: extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics

laver means: seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds

laver means: edible red seaweeds

laver means: (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions

laver means: Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)

lower respiratory tract smear means: any of several cytologic smears obtained from different parts of the lower respiratory tract; used for cytologic study of cancer and other diseases of the lungs

planck means: German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)

port sudan means: port city in Sudan on the Red Sea