12) specialization. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. The act of specializing or the process of becoming specialized. 2. Biology a. Adaptation, as of an organ or organism, to a specific function or environment. b....

13) 47651. Ruskin, John. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:47651 QUOTATION:Architecture . the adaptation of form to resist force. ATTRIBUTION:John Ruskin (1819-1900), British art critic, author. Val d'Arno, ch. 6 (1874)....

14) Saccharine Principle in Things (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Mr. Emerson means by this phrase, the adaptation of living beings to their conditions-the becoming callous to pains that have to be borne, and the acquirement of...

15) im- The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...is an assimilated adaptation of the prefix in-, one of whose meanings negates the rest of the word (accurate becomes inaccurate). Assimilation causes in- to become...

16) boondocks, boondockers, boonies. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Boondocks is an American adaptation of a Tagalog word for mountain, made by American servicemen in the Philippines in the 1920s. It has become a humorous and pejorative...

17) pawn off. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...is a slang idiom, possibly an adaptation from palm off, which means to pass off, as in The pitchman was trying to pawn off these awful neckties as genuine silk. Use...

18) adaption. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Adaptation....

19) acclimatization. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The physiological adaptation of an animal or plant to changes in climate or environment, such as light, temperature, or altitude....

20) maladaptation. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Faulty or inadequate adaptation....