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Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat..

Rhamphorhynchus :: Rhamphorhynchus (n.) A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.

Alinasal :: Alinasal (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

Diastole :: Diastole (n.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction..

Expander :: Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc..

Spread :: Spread (n.) Expansion of parts.

Dilatability :: Dilatability (n.) The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility..

Pulmograde :: Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae..

Aliethmoidal :: Aliethmoidal (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

Stylops :: Stylopodium (n.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants..

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle..

Pyrometry :: Pyrometry (n.) The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat..

Winged :: Winged (a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

Candlebomb :: Candlebomb (n.) A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam..

Wing :: Wing (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara..

Coefficient :: Coefficient (n.) A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction..

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase..

Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction..

Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5..

Pyrometer :: Pyrometer (n.) An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

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