Category:What's the Word?
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Listed below are all of the What's the Word segments from episodes 531-617.
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- Exaptation (617)
– An organ that has a function that is not what it was originally evolved for
- Pathology (607)
– The nature of a disease, or the study of the nature of a disease.
- Impedance (605)
– The effective resistance of an electric circuit to alternating current
- Parallax (601)
– Apparent movement against a background as an observer moves
- In Situ (597)
– Being in its original position or place
- Phylogenetic (596)
– The evolutionary history of a species
- Endemic (595)
– Restricted to a particular region
- Autopoiesis(594)
– A system that is self-regulating
- Autological (594)
– A word that describes itself
- Isotropy (593)
- Xerophile (592)
– An organism that thrives in dry environments
- Relict (591)
– Something that has survived from an earlier period of time
- Taphonomy (589)
– The study of fossilization
- Autophagy (588)
– The self-digestion of a cell's organelles
- Ultracrepidarian (587)
– One who expresses opinions outside their area of expertise
- Apophenia (586)
– Perceiving a connection between random things
- Superfecundation (585)
– Successive fertilization of multiple ova from the same ovulation
- Comorbidity (584)
– Multiple simultaneous diagnoses
- Thanatosis (583)
– When an animal plays dead
- Glycolysis (582)
– The metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose
- Inquiline (581)
– An animal that exploits the living space of another species
- Flocculation (580)
– The production of fluffy masses from a colloidal suspension
- Hypnagogia (579)
– The state of drowsiness that immediately preceeds sleep
- Mondegreen (578)
– Word / phrase resulting from a mishearing of something that was said or sung
- Neoteny (577)
– Retention of juvenile characteristics in adult individuals of a species
- Estivation (576)
– Entering a dormant state when in a hot, dry environment
- Apoptosis (575)
– Programmed cell death
- Paroxysmal (574)
– Relating to a sudden fit, or attack during illness
- Alluvium (573)
– Clay or silt that's deposited by running water
- Crepuscular (572)
– Of, relating to, or resembling twilight
- Eschatology (571)
– In theology, the final destiny of the soul, and of mankind
- Iatrogenic (570)
– An infection or injury produced inadvertently by a physician
- Cauliflory (569)
– Production of flowers or fruits directly from the branches or trunks of plants
- Autotomy (568)
– The reflexive separation of an appendage, or other part of the body
- Group animal names (589)
– An obstinacy of buffalo, etc
- Amphidromic (566)
– A point where there's almost zero tides
- Propaganda (565)
– Spreading ideas to promote an institution
- Hyperthymesia (564)
– Extremely efficacious autobiographical memory
- Geodesic (563)
– The shortest distance between two points
- Homophily (562)
– The theory that people tend to form connections with others who are similar to them
- Foreign words that lack English equivalents (561)
- Chemiosmosis (560)
– Turning ADP into ATP in mitochondria
- Equilux (559)
– The day in which the length of dark and light are equal
- Sciolism (558)
– Opinionating on subjects of which one only has superficial knowledge
- Thixotropy (557)
– A property where shaking a substance thins it out
- Pleochroism (553)
– The way crystals show different colors when viewed from different directions
- Epistasis (552)
– When combined genes have a dominant effect over other combinations
- Words from science fiction (551)
– Robotics, for example
- Agnatology (550)
– The study of willful acts to spread confusion
- Algorithm (549)
– A set of prescribed rules for solving a problem
- Fugacity (548)
– The pressure of a hypothetical ideal gas that would correspond to the real gas as it exists at a given temperature, pressure, and composition
- Obligate (547)
– A creature that is restricted to one characteristic mode of life
- Consilience (544)
– Linking together principles from different disciplines to form a theory
- Hysteresis (543)
– The lag in a variable property of a system with respect to the effect producing it as this effect varies
- Homeostasis (542)
– The maintenance of internal stability in a system or organism
- Albedo (541)
– The intensity of light that's reflected from an object
- Formication (540)
– The feeling that insects are crawling all over your skin
- Indolent (539)
– Causing little or no pain, inactive, or relatively benign
- Canonical (538)
– According to recognized rules or scientific laws
- Isograd (534)
– A line connecting points on the Earth where metamorphism of rocks occurred under the same conditions
- Efferent (533)
– A body part that projects outward
- Anosmia (532)
– The loss of the sense of smell
- Stochastic (531)
– A process that is a random in the particulars, but is statistical in the aggregate
Trivia
- The longest What's the Word segment was 9 minutes and 55 seconds long, in episode 543
- The shortest was a tie at 1 minute and 50 seconds in episodes 534 and 558
Pages in category "What's the Word?"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.