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Absolute zero	✓		✓	✓
Absorption	✓	✓	✓
Acceleration	✓
Accuracy	✓		✓
Acid	✓	✓
Acid rain	✓	✓		✓
Activation energy	✓	✓	✓
Active transport	✓
Adaptive divergence	✓		✓
Addiction	✓	✓
Addition reaction	✓
Adrenaline	✓	✓	✓
Aerobic respiration	✓	✓	✓
Aerosol	✓		✓
Agar	✓	✓	✓	✓
Air resistance	✓
Alcohol	✓	✓	✓
Algae	✓	✓	✓
Alkali	✓	✓	✓
Alkali metal	✓	✓	✓
Alkaline earth metal	✓		✓
Allele	✓	✓	✓	✓
Allotropes	✓	✓	✓
Alloy	✓	✓	✓
Alpha particle	✓	✓	✓
Alternating current	✓
Altitude	✓	✓	✓
Alveoli	✓	✓	✓
Amino acid	✓	✓	✓
Amniotic fluid	✓	✓	✓
Amorphous	✓	✓	✓
Amplification of DNA	✓		✓
Amplify	✓		✓
Amplitude	✓	✓	✓	✓
Amylase	✓	✓	✓	✓
Anaerobic respiration	✓	✓	✓
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Angiosperm	✓	✓	✓
Angle of incidence	✓	✓	✓
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Angstrom	✓		✓
Anhydrous compound	✓
Anode	✓	✓	✓
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Anther	✓
Antibiotic	✓	✓	✓	✓
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Antigen	✓	✓	✓	✓
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Antioxidant	✓	✓	✓
Aorta	✓	✓	✓
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Appendix	✓		✓
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ATP	✓	✓	✓
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Autoimmune disease	✓	✓	✓
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Auxin	✓	✓
Avogadro's constant	✓
Axon	✓	✓

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Bacteria	✓	✓	✓	✓
Baryons	✓		✓
Basalt	✓	✓	✓
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Blastocyst	✓	✓	✓
Blood pressure	✓	✓
Boiling point	✓	✓
Boyle's law	✓	✓	✓
Brittle	✓		✓
Bronchi	✓	✓	✓
Bronchiole	✓	✓	✓
Brownian motion	✓
Buffer	✓
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Buoyancy	✓	✓	✓

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Caldera	✓	✓	✓
Calibrate	✓	✓	✓
Carbohydrate	✓	✓	✓
Carbon dating	✓	✓	✓
Carbonate	✓	✓	✓
Carnivore	✓
Carpel	✓	✓	✓
Catabolism	✓	✓	✓
Catalyst	✓	✓
Cathode	✓	✓	✓
Cathode ray	✓	✓	✓
Cell	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cell cycle	✓	✓	✓
Cell division	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cell wall	✓	✓	✓
Cellulose	✓	✓	✓
Centre of gravity	✓
Centripetal force	✓
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Chain reaction	✓
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Chemical energy	✓	✓	✓	✓
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Cholesterol	✓
Chordate	✓	✓	✓
Chromatin	✓	✓	✓
Chromosome	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cilia	✓
Circuit breaker	✓
Classification	✓	✓
Climate	✓	✓	✓	✓
Climatology	✓	✓	✓
Clone	✓	✓	✓	✓
Coke	✓		✓
Combustion	✓	✓		✓
Comet	✓	✓	✓	✓
Complete combustion	✓
Compound	✓	✓	✓
Compound microscope	✓		✓
Concave	✓	✓	✓
Concentration	✓	✓	✓
Conception	✓		✓
Condensation reaction	✓
Condensing	✓	✓
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Consumer	✓
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Control	✓	✓	✓
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Convex	✓	✓	✓
Core (biology)	✓		✓
Core (Earth sciences)	✓	✓	✓
Corona	✓	✓	✓
Correlation	✓	✓	✓	✓
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Cortisol	✓	✓	✓
Cosmic dust	✓	✓	✓
Cosmic rays	✓	✓	✓
Cosmology	✓		✓
Coulomb	✓	✓	✓
Covalent bond	✓	✓	✓
Cracking	✓
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Crust	✓	✓	✓
Crystal	✓		✓
Crystallisation	✓		✓
Cytoplasm	✓	✓	✓
Cytosol	✓

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Dark energy	✓		✓
Dark matter	✓	✓	✓
Data	✓	✓	✓
Decomposition	✓	✓	✓
Delocalised electrons	✓	✓	✓
Delta	✓		✓
Denature	✓	✓	✓
Denitrification	✓	✓	✓
Density	✓	✓	✓
Deoxygenated	✓	✓	✓
Depression	✓	✓	✓
Desertification	✓		✓
Diabetes	✓		✓
Diatomic	✓	✓	✓
Diffraction	✓	✓	✓
Diffusion	✓	✓	✓
Digestion	✓	✓	✓
Diode	✓	✓	✓
Diploid	✓	✓	✓
Direct current (DC)	✓
Displacement	✓
Displacement reaction	✓
Dissociate	✓	✓	✓
Dissolve	✓	✓	✓
Distillation	✓	✓		✓
Divergence	✓	✓	✓
DNA	✓	✓	✓
DNA profile	✓	✓	✓
DNA replication	✓	✓	✓
Dominant allele	✓	✓	✓
Doppler shift	✓	✓	✓

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E-Number	✓	✓	✓
Earth	✓
Earthquake	✓	✓	✓	✓
Echo	✓	✓
Echolocation	✓	✓	✓
Eclipse, lunar	✓	✓	✓
Eclipse, solar	✓	✓	✓
Ecosystem	✓	✓	✓
Efficiency	✓
Elastic	✓	✓	✓
Electric Current	✓	✓	✓
Electric force	✓	✓	✓
Electrical charge	✓	✓	✓
Electrical fuse	✓
Electrical resistance	✓
Electrode	✓	✓	✓
Electrolysis	✓	✓	✓
Electrolyte	✓	✓	✓
Electrolytic cell	✓	✓	✓
Electromagnetic induction	✓
Electromagnetic radiation	✓	✓
Electromagnetic spectrum	✓	✓
Electron	✓	✓	✓	✓
Electron shell	✓	✓	✓
Electroplating	✓
Electrostatic attraction	✓	✓	✓	✓
Element	✓	✓	✓	✓
Elliptical orbit	✓	✓	✓
Embryo	✓	✓	✓	✓
Emission	✓	✓	✓
Empirical formula	✓
Emulsion	✓
Endangered	✓	✓	✓
Endocytosis	✓	✓	✓	✓
Endothermic	✓	✓	✓
Energy	✓	✓	✓	✓
Energy level	✓		✓
Energy resources	✓
Enthalpy change	✓
Enzyme	✓	✓	✓	✓
Epicentre	✓	✓	✓	✓
Epidemiology	✓	✓	✓
Equilibrium	✓	✓	✓
Erosion	✓	✓	✓
Eukaryote	✓	✓	✓
Eutrophication	✓
Evaporation	✓	✓	✓	✓
Evolution	✓	✓
Exothermic	✓	✓	✓
Extinction	✓	✓	✓
Extraction	✓	✓	✓
Extrusion	✓	✓	✓

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Fahrenheit (Â°F)	✓	✓	✓
Fatty acid	✓	✓
Fermentation	✓	✓
Fertilisation	✓	✓	✓	✓
Filtration	✓	✓	✓	✓
Flammable	✓	✓	✓
Floodplain	✓		✓
Fluid	✓
Fluorescent	✓	✓	✓
Focus	✓	✓	✓
Foetus	✓	✓	✓	✓
Food chain	✓	✓	✓
Force	✓	✓	✓	✓
Forensic science	✓		✓
Formulae	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fossil	✓	✓	✓
Fossil fuels	✓	✓	✓
Frequency	✓	✓	✓	✓
Functional group	✓
Fusion	✓

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Galaxy	✓	✓	✓
Gamete	✓	✓	✓
Gamma ray	✓	✓
Gamma ray bursts	✓	✓	✓
Gas	✓	✓	✓
Gene	✓	✓	✓	✓
Genetic engineering	✓
Genotype	✓	✓	✓	✓
Genus	✓	✓	✓
Germination	✓	✓	✓
Giant covalent structure	✓
Glacial period	✓	✓	✓
Gland	✓	✓	✓
Glucose	✓	✓	✓	✓
Gravitational field	✓	✓	✓
Gravity	✓	✓	✓	✓
Greenhouse effect	✓	✓	✓	✓
Greenhouse gas	✓	✓		✓
Groundwater	✓	✓	✓

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Haemoglobin	✓	✓	✓
Hale-Bopp	✓	✓	✓
Half-life	✓	✓	✓
Halley	✓	✓	✓
Haploid	✓	✓	✓	✓
Harmonics	✓		✓
Heat	✓	✓	✓
Heat resistant	✓		✓
Herbivore	✓
Hertz (Hz)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Heterogeneous mixture	✓	✓	✓
Homeostasis	✓
Homogeneous mixture	✓	✓	✓
Hormones	✓	✓	✓	✓
Hot spot	✓	✓	✓
Hybridisation	✓	✓	✓
Hydrated compound	✓
Hydrocarbons	✓	✓	✓
Hydrophilic	✓	✓	✓
Hydrophobic	✓	✓	✓
Hydroxide	✓	✓	✓
Hyperventilating	✓	✓	✓
Hypothalamus	✓	✓	✓
Hypothesis	✓	✓	✓	✓

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Igneous	✓	✓	✓
Indicator	✓		✓
Indicator species	✓
Inert	✓		✓
Infectious	✓	✓	✓	✓
Infrared light	✓	✓	✓
Infrasound	✓	✓	✓
Inherited	✓	✓	✓
Insoluble	✓	✓	✓	✓
Insulator	✓	✓	✓
Interdependence of living things	✓
Interference	✓		✓
Interglacial period	✓	✓	✓
Intermolecular force	✓	✓	✓
Invertebrate	✓	✓	✓
Involuntary	✓		✓
Ion	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ionic bond	✓	✓
Ionic compound	✓	✓	✓
Ionisation	✓	✓	✓
Irritant	✓	✓	✓
Isomers	✓	✓	✓
Isotope	✓	✓	✓
Isotopic mass	✓

K

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Kilohertz	✓	✓	✓
Kinetic energy	✓	✓	✓

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Laser	✓	✓
Lattice	✓		✓
Launch window	✓		✓
Leaching	✓	✓	✓
Lens	✓		✓
Light year (ly)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Lightning	✓	✓	✓
Limestone	✓	✓	✓
Line spectra	✓		✓
Linnaean hierarchy	✓	✓	✓
Lipids	✓	✓	✓
Liquid	✓	✓	✓	✓
Lithosphere	✓	✓	✓
Long-period events	✓		✓
Longitudinal wave	✓	✓	✓
Luminance	✓		✓
Lymphocyte	✓	✓	✓	✓

M

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Magma	✓	✓	✓	✓
Magnetic field	✓	✓	✓
Magnetic force	✓	✓	✓
Magnify	✓
Mantle	✓	✓	✓
Mass	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mass spectrometer	✓	✓	✓
Matter	✓	✓	✓
Mean	✓	✓
Mechanical wave	✓		✓
Median	✓	✓	✓
Medium	✓	✓	✓
Meiosis	✓	✓	✓
Melting point	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mesosphere	✓	✓	✓
Metabolism	✓	✓	✓
Metal	✓	✓	✓
Metallic bond	✓	✓	✓
Metalloid	✓		✓
Metamorphic rock	✓	✓	✓
Metamorphism	✓	✓	✓
Meteor	✓	✓	✓
Meteor shower	✓	✓	✓
Meteorite	✓	✓	✓	✓
Methane	✓	✓	✓
Microorganism	✓	✓	✓	✓
Microwave	✓
Migration	✓	✓	✓
Milky Way	✓	✓	✓
Millibar (mb)	✓	✓	✓
Mineral (biology)	✓	✓	✓
Mineral (chemistry)	✓	✓	✓
Mitosis	✓	✓	✓
Modulation	✓		✓
Molecular formula	✓
Molecular mass	✓	✓	✓
Molecular weight	✓	✓	✓
Molecule	✓	✓	✓	✓
Molten	✓	✓	✓
Monomer	✓	✓	✓
Moon	✓	✓	✓
Motion	✓	✓		✓
Motor effect	✓
Multicellular	✓
Mutation	✓	✓	✓
Myoglobin	✓	✓	✓

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Nanomaterial	✓		✓
Nanometre	✓	✓	✓
Nanotechnology	✓	✓	✓
Nebula	✓	✓	✓
Negative charge	✓	✓	✓
Nephrons	✓
Neutral	✓	✓	✓
Neutralisation	✓	✓	✓
Neutron	✓	✓	✓	✓
Neutron star	✓	✓	✓
Niche	✓
Noble gases	✓	✓	✓
Non-flammable	✓	✓
Non-metals	✓	✓	✓
Normal	✓	✓	✓
Nova	✓		✓
Nuclear	✓	✓	✓
Nuclear fission	✓	✓	✓
Nuclear fusion	✓	✓	✓
Nucleation	✓	✓
Nucleic acid	✓	✓	✓
Nucleosynthesis	✓	✓	✓
Nucleus (biology)	✓	✓	✓
Nucleus (chemistry)	✓	✓	✓
Nutritional value	✓	✓	✓

O

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Observer	✓	✓	✓
Oceanic crust	✓	✓	✓
Octave	✓	✓	✓
Omega-3	✓	✓	✓
Omnivore	✓
Ore	✓	✓	✓
Organ	✓	✓	✓	✓
Organic chemistry	✓
Organic molecule	✓		✓
Organism	✓	✓	✓	✓
Oscillate	✓		✓
Osmosis	✓	✓	✓
Osteocyte	✓	✓	✓
Ovule	✓	✓	✓
Ovum	✓	✓	✓	✓
Oxidation	✓	✓	✓
Oxide	✓	✓	✓
Oxidiser	✓		✓
Oxygenated	✓	✓	✓
Ozone layer	✓	✓

P

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P-wave	✓		✓
Pangaea	✓	✓	✓	✓
Particle(s)	✓	✓	✓
Peer review	✓		✓
Peptide	✓	✓	✓
Percentage yield	✓
Periodic table	✓	✓	✓	✓
Peristalsis	✓
pH	✓	✓	✓	✓
Phagocyte	✓	✓	✓	✓
Phenotype	✓	✓	✓
Phloem	✓	✓	✓
Phospholipid	✓	✓	✓
Photochemical reaction	✓
Photon	✓	✓	✓
Photosynthesis	✓	✓
Pigment	✓	✓	✓
Pitch	✓	✓	✓
Planet	✓	✓	✓	✓
Planetary nebula	✓		✓
Plasma (biology)	✓	✓	✓
Plasma (physics)	✓	✓	✓
Plate boundary	✓	✓	✓
Polarisation	✓		✓
Polarity	✓	✓	✓
Pole	✓	✓	✓
Pollen	✓	✓	✓
Pollination	✓
Polymer	✓	✓	✓
Polyunsaturated	✓	✓	✓
Positive charge	✓	✓	✓
Potash	✓		✓
Potential energy	✓	✓	✓
Power	✓	✓	✓
Precipitate	✓	✓	✓	✓
Precision	✓		✓
Predator	✓	✓	✓
Pregnancy	✓		✓	✓
Preservative	✓	✓	✓
Pressure	✓	✓	✓
Prey	✓	✓	✓
Primeval soup	✓	✓	✓
Prism	✓	✓	✓
Product	✓	✓		✓
Prokaryote	✓	✓	✓
Propulsion	✓	✓	✓
Protein	✓	✓	✓
Proton	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pure	✓		✓	✓
Pyramid of numbers	✓
Pyroclastic flows	✓	✓	✓

Q

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Quantum	✓		✓
Quark	✓	✓	✓

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Radiation	✓	✓	✓
Radio waves	✓	✓
Radioactivity	✓	✓	✓
Rate of reaction	✓	✓	✓
Reactant	✓	✓		✓
Reaction	✓	✓	✓	✓
Reactivity	✓	✓	✓
Receiver	✓	✓	✓
Receptor	✓	✓	✓
Recessive allele	✓	✓	✓
Recombination	✓	✓	✓
Red giant	✓	✓
Redox reaction	✓	✓	✓
Reducing agent	✓
Reduction	✓	✓	✓
Reflection	✓	✓	✓
Reflex arc	✓	✓	✓
Refraction	✓	✓	✓
Refractive index	✓	✓	✓
Renewable energy	✓	✓	✓
Resolution	✓		✓
Resonance	✓	✓	✓
Resonant frequency	✓	✓	✓
Respiration	✓	✓	✓
Reversible reaction	✓	✓	✓
Ribosomes	✓	✓	✓
RNA	✓	✓	✓
Robot	✓		✓
Rotation	✓	✓	✓

S

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S-wave	✓		✓
Salt	✓		✓
Sampling	✓
Satellite	✓	✓	✓
Saturated fats	✓	✓	✓
Saturated solutions	✓	✓	✓
Saturn's rings	✓		✓
Scalar	✓
Seafloor spreading	✓	✓	✓
Sediment	✓	✓	✓
Sedimentary rock	✓	✓	✓
Seismic waves	✓	✓	✓
Semiconductor	✓	✓	✓
Sensory	✓	✓	✓
Shockwaves	✓	✓	✓
SI	✓	✓	✓	✓
Smog	✓		✓
Solar cell	✓	✓	✓
Solar flare	✓	✓	✓
Solar storm	✓	✓	✓
Solar System	✓	✓	✓	✓
Solar wind	✓	✓	✓
Solid	✓	✓	✓	✓
Soluble	✓	✓	✓	✓
Solute	✓	✓	✓	✓
Solution	✓	✓	✓	✓
Solvent	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sonic boom	✓	✓	✓
Source	✓		✓
Spacecraft	✓		✓
Species	✓	✓	✓
Spectrometer	✓	✓	✓
Spectroscopy	✓	✓	✓
Spectrum	✓	✓
Sperm	✓	✓	✓	✓
Spontaneous	✓		✓
Spontaneous emission	✓		✓
Stable	✓	✓	✓
Stamen	✓
Star	✓	✓
Starch	✓	✓	✓
Static electricity	✓	✓	✓
Stationary	✓		✓
Stem cells	✓
Stimulated emission	✓		✓
Stratosphere	✓	✓	✓
Strong acid	✓		✓
Strong material	✓		✓
Strong nuclear force	✓	✓	✓
Subatomic particles	✓	✓	✓
Subduction	✓	✓	✓
Sublimation	✓
Substance	✓		✓
Substitution reaction	✓
Substrate	✓	✓	✓
Sun	✓	✓	✓
Sunspot	✓	✓	✓
Superconductivity	✓	✓	✓
Supernova	✓	✓	✓
Supersonic	✓	✓	✓
Surface tension	✓	✓	✓
Sustainable	✓	✓	✓
Symbiosis	✓	✓	✓
Symptom	✓	✓	✓
Synthetic	✓	✓

T

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Taxonomy	✓	✓
Telescope	✓	✓	✓
Temperate zones	✓	✓	✓
Temperature	✓	✓	✓	✓
Tension	✓	✓	✓
Terrestrial planets	✓	✓	✓	✓
Theory	✓		✓
Thermal	✓	✓	✓
Thermal decomposition	✓		✓
Tissue	✓	✓	✓	✓
Topsoil	✓		✓
Total internal reflection	✓
Toxic	✓	✓	✓
Transducer	✓	✓	✓
Transform boundary	✓		✓
Transformer	✓
Transition element	✓
Transmitter	✓	✓	✓
Transparent	✓	✓	✓
Transpiration	✓	✓	✓
Transverse wave	✓	✓	✓
Trench	✓	✓	✓
Trophic level	✓
Tropism	✓
Troposphere	✓	✓	✓

U

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Ultrasound	✓	✓	✓
Ultraviolet light	✓	✓	✓
Universe	✓	✓	✓
Unsaturated fats	✓	✓	✓
Urea	✓	✓	✓
Uterus	✓	✓	✓	✓

V

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Vaccine	✓	✓	✓	✓
Vacuole	✓
Vacuum	✓	✓	✓
Van der Waals Force	✓		✓
Vaporise	✓	✓	✓
Variable	✓	✓	✓
Vector	✓
Velocity	✓
Vertebrate	✓	✓	✓
Vesicle	✓		✓
Villi	✓	✓	✓
Virus	✓	✓	✓	✓
Viscosity	✓
Visible light	✓	✓
Vitamin	✓	✓	✓
Volatile	✓	✓	✓
Volt (V)	✓	✓	✓
Volume	✓	✓	✓

W

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Water table	✓		✓
Watt (W)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Wavelength	✓	✓	✓
Weather	✓	✓	✓	✓
Weathering	✓		✓
Weight	✓	✓	✓	✓
White dwarf	✓	✓	✓
Work	✓		✓
Wormhole	✓		✓

X

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X-ray	✓	✓	✓
Xerophyte	✓
Xylem	✓	✓	✓

Y

Film	English (UK)	Spanish	Arabic	French
Zygote	✓	✓	✓	✓

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