Term: abbreviation: a shortened form of a word or phrase
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: sinningia: genus of perennial tuberous herbs and shrubs of Central and South America
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: selfishness: stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: lowering: the act of causing to become less
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: moment magnitude scale: a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: platyctenea: an order of Tentaculata
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: rehabilitation: vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: plage: the beach at a seaside resort
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: erb's palsy: paralysis of the arm resulting from injury to the brachial plexus (usually during childbirth)
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: black spleenwort: spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent
Broader: form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Unrelated: parlance: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language