orgasm
climax
sexual climax
coming | the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse |
sexual conquest
score | a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse, calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang |
| sexual harassment | unwelcome sexual behavior by a supervisor toward an employee |
| sexual immorality | the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions, sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions |
sexual assault
sexual abuse
sex crime
sex offense | a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat, most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault |
sexual activity
sexual practice
sex
sex activity | activities associated with sexual intercourse, they had sex in the back seat |
b sexual intercourse
intercourse sex act
copulation
coitus
coition
sexual congress
congress sexual relation
relation carnal knowledge | the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman, the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur |
sexual love
lovemaking
making love
love
love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
coupling
mating
pairing
conjugation
union sexual union | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes, the casual couplings of adolescents, the mating of some species occurs only in the spring |
| perversion sexual perversion | an aberrant sexual practice, |
| inversion sexual inversion | a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex |
chastity
celibacy
sexual abstention | abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) |
| sexual discrimination | discrimination (usually in employment) that excludes one sex (usually women) to the benefit of the other sex |
bicycle
bike
wheel cycle | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
pedicab
cycle rickshaw | a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling), used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs |
| sexual attraction | attractiveness on the basis of sexual desire |
virtue chastity
sexual morality | morality with respect to sexual relations |
sex characteristic
sexual characteristic
sex character | those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
primary sex characteristic
primary sexual characteristic
primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
secondary sex characteristic
secondary sexual characteristic
secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
| double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
| cycle of rebirth | (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms |
| cycle oscillation | a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon, a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons |
| cardiac cycle | the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next, an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles, the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram |
Carnot cycle
Carnot's ideal cycle | a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat |
| cycle | a periodically repeated sequence of events, a cycle of reprisal and retaliation |
business cycle
trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline |
sex
sexual urge | all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses, he wanted a better sex life, the film contained no sex or violence |
sexual desire
eros
concupiscence
physical attraction | a desire for sexual intimacy |
love sexual love
erotic love | a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction, their love left them indifferent to their surroundings, she was his first love |
| sexual pleasure | pleasure derived from sexual activities |
| cycle | a series of poems or songs on the same theme, Schubert's song cycles |
food web
food cycle | (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains |
| life cycle | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
| carbon cycle | a thermonuclear reaction in the interior of stars |
| carbon cycle | the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again |
Krebs cycle
Krebs citric acid cycle
citric acid cycle
tricarboxylic acid cycle | in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy |
| life cycle | the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced |
| nitrogen cycle | the circulation of nitrogen, nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil |
sexual reproduction
amphimixis | reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete |
vicious circle
vicious cycle | one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first |
| sexual relationship | a relationship involving sexual intimacy |
| sexual arousal | the arousal of sexual desires in preparation for sexual behavior |
hertz
Hz
cycle per second
cycles
second
cps
cycle | the unit of frequency, one hertz has a periodic interval of one second |
cycle
rhythm
round | an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs, the never-ending cycle of the seasons |
| menstrual cycle | a recurring cycle (beginning at menarche and ending at menopause) in which the endometrial lining of the uterus prepares for pregnancy, if pregnancy does not occur the lining is shed at menstruation, the average menstrual cycle is days |
| cycle | recur in repeating sequences |
bicycle
cycle bike
pedal
wheel | ride a bicycle |
motorbike
motorcycle
cycle | ride a motorcycle |
| cycle | pass through a cycle, This machine automatically cycles |