Comprehensive List of Skills

## Definition

The ability to carry out a task with determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.

## Review List (A-C)

* Absolute Pitch
* Abstinence
* Accident Analysis
* Accurizing (The process of improving the accuracy and precision of a gun)
* Acoustic Emission (The phenomenon of radiation of acoustic (elastic) waves in solids that occurs when a material undergoes irreversible changes in its internal structure, for example as a result of crack formation or plastic deformation due to aging, temperature gradients or external mechanical forces; the transient elastic waves within a material, caused by the rapid release of localized stress energy)
* Acoustic Levitation (A method for suspending matter in air against gravity using acoustic radiation pressure from high intensity sound waves)
* Acoustic Location (The use of sound to determine the distance and direction of its source or reflector)
* Acoustic Quieting (The process of making machinery quieter by damping vibrations to prevent them from reaching the observer)
* Acoustic Resonance (A phenomenon in which an acoustic system amplifies sound waves whose frequency matches one of its own natural frequencies of vibration)
* Acrobatics
* Active Camouflage (Camouflage that adapts, often rapidly, to the surroundings of an object such as an animal or military vehicle)
* Active Noise Control (ANC) (A method for reducing unwanted sound by the addition of a second sound specifically designed to cancel the first)
* Active Vibration Control (The active application of force in an equal and opposite fashion to the forces imposed by external vibration)
* Adaptive Unconscious (A set of mental processes that is able to affect judgement and decision-making, but is out of reach of the conscious mind; helps to keep the organism alive)
* Adhesive Bonding (A joining technique used in the manufacture and repair of a wide range of products; components are bonded together using adhesives)

* Aeration (The process by which air is circulated through, mixed with or dissolved in a liquid or other substances that act as a fluid)
* Aerodynamic Levitation (The use of gas pressure to levitate materials so that they are no longer in physical contact with any container)
* Aerosol Burn
* Aerosol Impaction (The process in which particles are removed from an air stream by forcing the gases to make a sharp bend)
* Aerosolization (The process or act of converting some physical substance into the form of particles (such as bioaerosol, dust, fog, fume, mist, or smoke) small and light enough to be carried on the air i.e. into an aerosol)
* Aggregation (Any form of gathering of organisms and the process of coming together)
* Air Conditioning (The process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior environment and in some cases also strictly controlling the humidity of internal air)
* Air Cooling (A method of dissipating heat; expanding the surface area or increasing the flow of air over the object to be cooled, or both)
* Air Travel (A form of travel in vehicles such as airplanes, jet aircraft, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, gliders, hang gliders, parachutes, or anything else that can sustain flight)
* Allotransplantation (The transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs to a recipient from a genetically non-identical donor of the same species)
* Ambidexterity (The ability to use both the right and left hand equally well; when referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people)
* Analytical Skill

* Anaerobic Respiration (Respiration using electron acceptors other than molecular oxygen (O2))
* Anesthesia (A state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical and veterinary purposes)
* Angioscopy (A medical technique for visualizing the interior of blood vessels)
* Animal Communication (The transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers)
* Animal Training (The act of teaching animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli)
* Anomaly Detection (The identification of rare items, events or observations which deviate significantly from the majority of the data and do not conform to a well defined notion of normal behaviour; finds application in many domains including cyber security, medicine, machine vision, statistics, neuroscience, law enforcement and financial fraud)
* Anthropogenic Cloud (A cloud induced by human activity)
* Anthropometry (Cold Reading) (The measurement of the human individual)
* Anti-Corruption (Comprises activities that oppose or inhibit corruption)
* Aquatic Locomotion
* Aquatic Respiration (The process whereby an aquatic organism exchanges respiratory gases with water, obtaining oxygen from oxygen dissolved in water and excreting carbon dioxide and some other metabolic waste products into the water)
* Arc Welding (A welding process that is used to join metal to metal by using electricity to create enough heat to melt metal, and the melted metals, when cool, result in a binding of the metals)
* Arthropod Adhesion (Arthropods, including insects and spiders, make use of smooth adhesive pads as well as hairy pads for climbing and locomotion along non-horizontal surfaces)
* Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) (The ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can)
* Artificial Photosynthesis (A chemical process that biomimics the natural process of photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen)
* Asteroid Impact Prediction
* Attitudinal Fix

* Audioanalgesia (The relief of pain (analgesia) using white noise or music (that is, via audio equipment) without using pharmacological agents (that is, without analgesic drugs), usually during painful medical procedures such as dental treatments or some outpatient surgical procedures)
* Autocommunication (Communication from and to oneself; enhances and restructures the receiver's ego)
* Auto-Configuration (The automatic configuration of devices without manual intervention, without any need for software configuration programs or jumpers)
* Autodidacticism (Education without the guidance of masters or institutions)
* Autohaemorrhaging (The action of animals deliberately ejecting blood from their bodies)
* Automatic Bug-Fixing (The automatic repair of software bugs without the intervention of a human programmer)
* Automaticity (The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit)
* Automatic Target Recognition
* Autonoetic Consciousness (The human ability to mentally place oneself in the past and future (i.e. mental time travel) or in counterfactual situations (i.e. alternative outcomes), and to thus be able to examine one's own thoughts)
* Autopilot (A system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator)
* Autopsy
* Autosuggestion (A psychological technique related to the placebo effect; a form of self-induced suggestion in which individuals guide their own thoughts, feelings, or behavior)
* Autothysis (The process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin)
* Autotomy (The behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape)
* Autotransplantation (The transplantation of organs, tissues, or even particular proteins from one part of the body to another in the same person)
* Aviation (The activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry)

* Banked Turn
* Bionics
* Biopsy
* Blast Fishing
* Boat Building
* Bodywork
* Bookbinding
* Bottle Trap
* Brain Training
* Breathwork
* Building Implosion
* Bullet Catch
* Burst Mode (photography)

* Calmness
* Cartography
* Cauterization
* Circuit Bending
* Coaching
* Cogeneration
* Cognitive Shifting
* Coking
* Cold Working
* Combustion Analysis
* Competence
* Computer-Generated Holography
* Computer Vision Dazzle
* Conflict Avoidance
* Conflict Resolution
* Construction (The art and science to form objects (e.g. architectural buildings or infrastructure, armor, lifeless bodies, platforms, physical restraints, platforms, traps, and weaponry out of inorganic, organic, or synthetic materials), systems, or organizations)
* Container Gardening
* Copper Sheathing
* Corneal Tattooing
* Corset Piercing
* Countersurveillance
* Cover-Up
* Creative Problem-Solving (CPS)

## Review List (D-G)

* Depletion Gilding
* Depth Sounding
* Diplomacy
* Drafter
* Drownproofing
* Dump Leaching
* Dynamic Soaring

* Ear Training
* Electric Pulse Fishing
* Electropolishing
* Electrosurgery
* Engraving
* Event Correlation
* Extended Technique
* Extended Vocal Technique

* Fearmongering
* Feint
* Femto-Photography
* Fiber-Optic Communication
* Field of Fire
* Firewalking
* Flash Burn
* Fluoroscopy
* Formation Flying

* Gilding
* Goldbeating
* Gold Mining
* Gold Rush

## Review List (H-J)

* Hauntology
* High-G Training
* Home Automation
* Hot Swapping
* Humanitarianism
* Human Microphone
* Human Shield
* Human Wave Attack
* Hydraulic Mining
* Hydrofluoric Acid Burn
* Hypercalculia
* Hyperlexia
* Hyperthymesia

* Image Analysis
* Information Retrieval
* Inhibitory Control
* Inner Peace
* Intelligent Speed Adaptation
* Internal Monologue
* Interpersonal Accuracy

## Review List (K-M)

* Lateral Thinking
* Leadership
* Lettering
* Lip Sync
* Long-Distance Running

* Magnet Fishing
* Malware Analysis
* Manual Therapy
* Mass Communication (The character can impart and exchange information through mass media to large segments of the population)
* Maturity
* Memory Improvement
* Mentalization
* Mentorship
* Microblading
* Mining
* Mirror Therapy
* Motion Detection

## Review List (N-Q)

* Object Detection
* Organ Transplantation
* Orthodontics
* Orthognathic Surgery
* Oxygen Therapy

* Package Cushioning
* Package Tracking
* Passive Immunity
* Pathophysiology
* Pen Spinning
* Personal Development
* Physical Therapy
* Pickpocketing
* Placer Mining
* Practical Joke ()
* Precipitation Hardening
* Problem Finding ()
* Protective Sequestration
* Psychiatry
* Psychological Torture
* Quarantine ()

## Review List (R-T)

* Radiofrequency Ablation
* Radiography
* Reality Mining ()
* Repression
* Reproduction (The biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents)
* Rock Balancing
* Root Cause Analysis ()

* Scud Running
* Seabasing
* Seismic Analysis
* Self-Actualization
* Sensory Leakage
* Shade
* Sleep Tracking
* Sousveillance
* Space Exploration
* Speech Enhancement
* Statement Analysis (A technique for analyzing the words people use to try to determine if what they said is accurate by detecting for any concealed information, missing information, and whether the information that person has provided is true or false)
* Steelmaking
* Stereoscopy
* Stone Carving
* Stone Skipping
* Street Painting
* Structural Fix
* Sunburn
* Sword Making

* Tattoo Flash
* Tattoo Removal
* Teamwork ()
* Tea Tasting ()
* Technical Drawing
* Technological Fix
* Teeth Cleaning
* Teleoperation (Operating a machine or system at a distance)
* Telexistence (General technology that enables a human being to have a real-time sensation of being at a place other than where they actually exist, and being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both, which also refers to an advanced type of teleoperation system that enables an operator at the control to perform remote tasks dexterously with the feeling of existing in a surrogate robot working in a remote environment)
* Tempering (A process of heat treating, which is used to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys by decreasing the hardness, followed by an increase in ductility that leads to decreasing the brittleness of the metal)

* Theorycraft ()
* Thermographic Inspection (Nondestructive testing (NDT) of parts, materials or systems through the imaging of the temperature fields, gradients and/or patterns ("thermograms") at the object's surface)
* Threat Modeling (A process by which potential threats, such as structural vulnerabilities or the absence of appropriate safeguards, can be identified, enumerated, and mitigations can be prioritized)
* Thriving (A condition beyond mere survival, implying growth and positive development)
* Tickle Torture
* Time Management
* Tissue Engineering
* Tonal Memory
* Tooth Regeneration (A stem cell based regenerative medicine procedure in the field of tissue engineering and stem cell biology to replace damaged or lost teeth by regrowing them from autologous stem cells)
* Traffic Analysis (The process of intercepting and examining messages in order to deduce information from patterns in communication, which can be performed even when the messages are encrypted)
* Traffic Calming
* Traffic-Sign Recognition
* Treasure Hunting
* Twirling

## Review List (U-Z)

* Ultralight Aviation
* Uncertainty Quantification
* Undulatory Locomotion
* Untranslatability (A language that cannot be deciphered or translated)
* Upgrading (The character can replace a product with a newer version of the same product)

* Vaccination (The character can administer a vaccination as a form of protection from getting sick after being directly exposed to an infectious disease)
* Vascular Access ()
* Vascular Bypass ()
* Vasoconstriction (The character is capable of narrowing their blood vessels by contracting the muscular wall of the vessels in order to stop the leakage of blood)
* Vehicle Extrication
* Vehicular Automation
* Vergence (Simultaneous movement of both eyes in opposite directions to obtain or maintain single binocular vision)
* Vibration Isolation (Isolating an object, such as a piece of equipment, from the source of vibrations by using materials and mechanical linkages to absorb & damp these mechanical waves or using sensors and actuators that produce disruptive interference that cancels-out incoming vibration)
* Video Content Analysis (VCA)
* Video Editing
* Video Gaming
* Videography (Capturing moving images on electronic media, such as on videotape, hard disk recorder (direct to disk recording), solid-state drive, and even streaming media)
* Video Production
* Virtual Machining
* Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT)
* Visualization
* Visual Odometry
* Visual Search (The ability to consciously locate an object or target amongst a complex array of stimuli)
* Voice Stress Analysis (Infer deception from stress measured in the voice by recording the human voice using a microphone, which is then the technology later aims to differentiate between stressed and non-stressed outputs in response to stimuli (e.g., questions posed), with high stress seen as an indication of deception)
* Voice Therapy (Any non-surgical technique used to improve or modify the human voice)

* Water Metering (Measuring water use)
* Weather Forecasting ()
* Welding (Fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion)
* Wheelspin
* Wicked Problem
* Wine Tasting
* Wired Communication
* Wood Carving ()
* Word Recognition (The ability of a reader to recognize written words correctly and virtually effortlessly)
* Work Hardening (The strengthening of a metal or polymer by plastic deformation, which may be desirable, undesirable, or inconsequential)
* Worm Charming ()
* Wound Licking (Instinctive response in humans and many other animals to lick an injury by using their saliva that contains a tissue factor which promotes the blood clotting mechanism)

* X-Ray Motion Analysis
* Yo-Yoing
* Zip-Lining

## Umbrella List of Skills ()

* Ablation
* Animal Locomotion
* Asteroid Impact Avoidance
* Body Piercing
* Carving
* Cognitive Flexibility
* Conflict Resolution
* Coping
* Digital Imaging
* Flood Control
* Fortune-Telling (A practice of predicting information about a person's life through suggestion, spiritual or practical advice, or affirmation)
* Heat Treating
* Hunting Strategy
* Imaging
* Improvisation
* Intubation
* Martial Arts
* Metalworking
* Mining
* Navigation
* Ninjutsu
* Nondestructive Testing (NDT)
* Performing Arts
* Photography
* Problem Solving
* Public Health
* Regenerative Medicine
* Risk Management
* Skilled Worker
* Surgery ()
* Surveillance
* Technician
* Telecommunication (Transmission of information by various technologies over the wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems)
* Visual Arts
* Woodworking (The activity or skill of making items from wood)

## N-S (2 Skills)

* Quadrupedalism (The character is capable of terrestrial movement by using four limbs or legs similarly to hoq quadruped animals move)
* Scleral Tattooing ()

## T-Z (29 Skills)

* Tachylalia (Extremely rapid speech, which can be delivered quietly, mumbled, or stimulated by stimulating the brain electronically)
* Tantōjutsu (Japanese Martial Arts)
* Tarot Card Reading (Fortune-Telling) (Divination that involves using tarot cards to gain insight into the past, present, or future by formulating a question, drawing cards, and interpreting them)
* Task Analysis (Allows the character to break down complex tasks into a sequence of simplified steps or actions)
* Task Switching (The ability to unconsciously shift attention between one task and another, which allows a person to rapidly and efficiently adapt to different situations)
* Tasseography (Fortune-Telling) (Fortune-Telling that is interpreted through the patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments)
* Tengenjutsu (Fortune-Telling) (Japanese fortune-telling method based on yin and yang and the five elements that uses a person's birth date in the sexagenary cycle and their physical appearance to predict one's fate)
* Terrainability (Machines or robots having the ability to negotiate terrain irregularities)
* Terrestrial Locomotion (Animals that adapted from aquatic to terrestrial environments)
* Text Mining (The process of deriving high-quality information from text through discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information by automatically extracting information from different written resources, which includes websites, books, emails, reviews, and articles)
* Thermal Burn (A type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water and steam (scalding), hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects)
* Thermoregulation (The ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different)
* Thought Stopping (A cognitive intervention technique with the goal of interrupting, removing, and replacing problematic recurring thoughts)
* Thought Suppression (Conscious attempts to stop thinking about a particular thought)
* Tickling (The act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter)
* Tightrope Walking (The skill of walking along a tensioned thin wire or rope)
* Tōkyūjutsu (Fortune-Telling) (Japanese fortune-telling method which teaches that ones personality and character can be determined by factors such as the date of birth and facial features)
* Tracking (The science and art of observing animal spoor, which includes tracks, feces, feathers, kills, scratching posts, trails, drag marks, sounds, scents, marking posts, the behavior of other animals, habitat cues, and any other clues about the identity and whereabouts, with the goal of gaining understanding of the landscape and the animal being tracked)
* Tree Climbing (A recreational or functional activity consisting of ascending and moving around in the crown of trees)
* Tree Shaping (Using living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art)
* Trend Analysis (The widespread practice of collecting information and attempting to spot a pattern, which could be used to predict future events and estimate uncertain events in the past)
* Trick Roping (An entertainment or competitive art involving the spinning of a lasso, also known as a lariat or a rope)
* Tripedalism (Locomotion by the use of three legs)
* Tyrolean Traverse (A method of crossing through free space between two high points on a rope without a hanging cart or cart equivalent)
* Ultrasonic Antifouling (Technology that uses high frequency sound (ultrasound) to prevent or reduce biofouling on underwater structures, surfaces, and medium)
* Underwater Construction (Industrial construction in an underwater environment)
* Unipedalism (A person or creature with one foot and one leg that is capable of unipedal movement)
* Velocimetry (Measurement of velocity in fluids)
* Vigilance (Sustained concentration; the ability to maintain concentrated attention over prolonged periods of time)
* Weaving (A method of textile production that involves weaving yarn (continuous length of interlocked fibres called threads) together to form a fabric or cloth)