| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC |
2 Chronicles
,
II Chronicles
|
| second of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel |
2 Kings
,
II Kings
|
| second of two books of the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David |
2 Samuel
,
II Samuel
|
| identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
ABA transit number
,
bank identification number
,
BIN
|
| any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent |
Adventism
,
Second Adventism
|
| second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean |
Africa
|
| hay, second crop of |
aftermath
,
rowen
|
| city in western Saudi Arabia; site of the tomb of Muhammad; the second most holy city of Islam |
Al Madinah
,
Medina
|
| second brightest star in Perseus; first known eclipsing binary |
Algol
|
| brightest star in Centaurus; second nearest star to the sun |
Alpha Centauri
,
Rigil
,
Rigil Kent
|
| multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux |
Alpha Geminorum
,
Castor
|
| second brightest star in Orion |
Alpha Orionis
,
Betelgeuse
|
| self, second |
alter ego
|
| (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments |
alto
|
| medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree |
American gray birch
,
American grey birch
,
Betula populifolia
,
gray birch
,
grey birch
|
| unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second |
ampere-second
,
C
,
coulomb
|
| (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned |
anal phase
,
anal stage
|
| renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen |
anamnestic reaction
,
anamnestic response
|
| Italian pope from 1958 to 1963 who convoked the Second Vatican Council (1881-1963) |
Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli
,
John XXIII
|
| second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536) |
Anne Boleyn
,
Boleyn
|
