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- allelomorph
Word · William Bateson - epistasis
Word · William Bateson - epistatic
Word · William Bateson - genetics
Word · William Bateson - heterozygote
Word · William Bateson - homozygote
Word · William Bateson - submerged tenth
Phrase · William Booth - Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy
Phrase · William French Smith - cyberdeck
Word · William Gibson - cyberspace
Word · William Gibson - scalar product
Phrase · William Kingdon Clifford - vector product
Phrase · William Kingdon Clifford - persiflate
Word · William Makepeace Thackeray - Hamilton River
Phrase · William Martin - quaternion
Word · William Rowan Hamilton - scalar
Word · William Rowan Hamilton - tensor
Word · William Rowan Hamilton - vector
Word · William Rowan Hamilton - Briefingate
Word · William Safire - all the world's a stage
Phrase · William Shakespeare - beggar description
Phrase · William Shakespeare - bitter cold
Phrase · William Shakespeare - brevity is the soul of wit
Phrase · William Shakespeare - cold fish
Phrase · William Shakespeare - comedy of errors
Phrase · William Shakespeare - compunctious
Word · William Shakespeare - Daniel come to judgement
Phrase · William Shakespeare - dogs of war
Phrase · William Shakespeare - hoist by one's own petard
Phrase · William Shakespeare - Miranda
Word · William Shakespeare - more honored in the breach
Phrase · William Shakespeare - out-paramour the Turk
Phrase · William Shakespeare - primrose path
Phrase · William Shakespeare - slings and arrows
Phrase · William Shakespeare - star-crossed
Word · William Shakespeare - thereby hangs a tale
Phrase · William Shakespeare - to the manner born
Phrase · William Shakespeare - what's in a name
Phrase · William Shakespeare - with bated breath
Phrase · William Shakespeare - gSign
Word · William Stokoe