| foretaste |
a partial, advance experience or realization of something that will come or happen in the future. [1/2 definitions] |
| glimpse |
a quick look; momentary or partial view. [1/4 definitions] |
| godchild |
a child whom a godparent promises at baptism to assume partial responsibility for, esp. in overseeing his or her religious education. |
| godparent |
an adult who promises at baptism to assume partial responsibility for a child, esp. to oversee his or her religious education. |
| half |
incomplete; partial. [1/7 definitions] |
| harmonics |
(used with a pl. verb) partial tones or overtones of a fundamental musical tone. [1/2 definitions] |
| hibernation |
in computing, a mode of partial deactivation for an idle computer that saves power and allows a quick restart by storing the contents of RAM in a stable location before turning the machine off. [1/3 definitions] |
| impartial |
not partial or prejudiced; even-handed or objective. |
| inkling |
a vague or partial idea or understanding. [2 definitions] |
| instrumental |
serving as an agent or partial cause. [1/3 definitions] |
| leukoderma |
a lack of skin pigmentation, either total or partial, that results in white patches. |
| loco disease |
a nervous disease of livestock, caused by locoweed poisoning and involving dullness, clumsiness, and partial paralysis. |
| microclimate |
the climate of a small, specific, or partial area rather than that of the whole, as of a city or greenhouse. (Cf. macroclimate.) |
| mongolism |
(outdated; no longer in scientific use; sometimes cap.) the abnormal condition of a person born with an additional chromosome, characterized by a flattened skull, slanted eyes, often decreased mental facility, and partial deafness; Down's syndrome. |
| ovariotomy |
surgical incision into or partial or total removal of an ovary or ovaries. |
| paralysis |
partial or complete loss of sensation or the ability to move in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nervous system. [2 definitions] |
| paresis |
slight or partial paralysis, usu. affecting movement but not sensation. |
| partiality |
the condition of being partial. [1/3 definitions] |
| partition |
that which serves to separate or divide, esp. a wall or partial wall that separates parts of a room. [2/6 definitions] |
| partway |
to some partial degree or extent; partly. |
| predigest |
to subject (food) to artificial, partial digestion before eating. |