Cell
//sɛl//
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The word "cell" can be used as noun and verb.
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120-cell 16-cell 24-cell 5-cell 57-cell 600-cell 8-cell APUD cell B cell B-cell Betz cell Bunsen cell Bénard cell CHO cell Castner cell Chinese hamster ovary cell Clara cell Clark cell Daniell cell Deiters' cell Downey cell Downs cell Ferrata cell Grove cell Hadley cell Hargreaves-Bird cell HeLa cell Hooker cell IT cell Jurkat cell Kenyon cell Kerr cell Kupffer cell Langerhans cell Leclanché cell Leydig cell M-cell Malpighian cell Merkel cell Merkel-Ranvier cell Mexican hat cell Mott cell P-cell PMN cell Paget cell Paneth cell Purkinje cell Reed-Sternberg cell Renshaw cell Schwann cell Sertoli cell T cell T helper cell T-cell Traube cell Türk cell Virchow's cell Vorce cell Voronoi cell Walthard cell rest Weston cell Wigner-Seitz cell absorption cell air cell alpha cell angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma antigen-presenting cell attocell auxiliary cell band cell barycell basal cell basal cell carcinoma basket cell battery cell beta cell biological fuel cell bipolar cell bite cell black queen cell virus blast cell blister cell blood cell blood-cell brain cell brood cell bulliform cell burr cell button cell cancer cell caudodorsal cell hormone cell adhesion molecule cell block cell body cell count cell cycle cell death cell division cell group cell house cell junction cell line cell membrane cell nucleus cell of Deiters cell phone lot cell plate cell sap cell shading cell theory cell therapy cell type cell up cell wall cell yell cell-adhesion molecule cell-cell junction cell-free cell-mediated immune response cell-mediated immunity cell-oriented programming cell-phone cell-wall cellblock cellbound cellco cellful cellhouse cellie celliferous celliform cellless cellmate cellome cellspot cellwide cellwise cellwork celly character cell chemical cell chief cell chloragogen cell club cell coin cell companion cell concentration cell cone cell connecting cell cons cell convection cell counting cell hemocytometer crowfoot cell crystal cell cytolytic T cell cytotoxic T cell daughter cell death cell delta cell dendritic cell detention cell diamond anvil cell diaphragm cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma direct-to-cell dry cell dry cell battery egg cell electrochemical cell enzymatic fuel cell epithelial cell fat cell femtocell flame cell flow cell foam cell follicular dendritic cell free cell formation fuel cell fuel cell vehicle galvanic cell geocell germ cell glial cell glue cell goblet cell grand 600-cell grandmother cell granular cell tumor granule cell grape cell gravity cell grid cell grit cell guard cell guardian cell hair cell hairy cell half cell half-cell head cell helper T cell hematopoietic cell holding cell host cell hot cell hypercell immune cell inner cell mass intercell intracell intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell jail cell k-cell killer T cell koniocellular cell lasso cell light green cell hormone lip cell load cell local cell macrocell macroglial cell magnocellular cell mast cell mastoid cell megaspore mother cell melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell memory B cell memory T cell memory cell mesenchymal cell mesenchymal stem cell metacell microbial fuel cell microcell mid cell midcell midget cell minicell mitral cell morula cell mossy cell mother cell multicell myeloid cell nanocell natural killer cell nerve cell nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome noncell oat cell obcell outer phalangeal cell padded cell palisade cell parasol cell parietal cell parvocellular cell pavement cell pericentral cell photo-cell photocell photoconductive cell photoelectric cell photoemissive cell photosensitive retinal ganglion cell photovoltaic cell picocell place cell plasma cell polycell polymorphonuclear cell precell prickle cell primary cell wall primordial cell prison cell progenitor cell programmed cell death protocell pseudocell pyramidal cell queen cell radial glial cell red blood cell red blood cell cast red cell renal cell carcinoma reproductive cell retort cell rod cell satellite cell secondary cell secondary cell wall segment cell selenium cell semicell sensel sex cell sickle cell sickle cell anaemia sickle cell trait sickle-cell anaemia sickle-cell anemia sickle-cell disease sieve cell single-celling skin cell sleeper cell small-cell carcinoma smudge cell solar cell somatic cell somatic cell nuclear transfer sperm cell spindle cell spinous cell spur cell stab cell stellate cell stem cell stem-cell stone cell storage cell strip cell stromal cell subcell supercell supergranulation cell target cell terror cell tracheid cell trophic cell unicell unit cell vegetative cell virocell voltaic cell water cell wet cell white blood cell white cell white-cell zombie cell
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alive alkaline alkaline battery amoeba area around atom atoms bacteria bacteria body bar barred barred enclosure barred windows bars basic basis batteries battery bed bedroom biological biological bit biological structure biological unit biology biology part biology term biology unit bit blob block blood blood stream blood thing bodies body body constituent body materials body part body unit box brain building building block buttons cage calling candy candy bar card carried carried around cell membrane cella cellar cellular cellular automaton cellular devise cellular phone cellule chamber cilia circle compartment component constituent container convection creating creating organisms criminal criminal container criminal home cube cubicle den devise dna dungeon dwelling electricity electronic enclosure entity everyone everything everything living facet flip flip phone for prisoner form four four walls freecell gaol gaol room genes genetic genetic materials group has has nucleus heart hermit hexagonal holder holding holding area holding place holding prisoners home honeycomb house human human part human particle humans in battery in biology in blood in bodies in everyone in jail in jails in phone in phones in prison in prisons inmate inmates inside inside body jail jail cube jail home jail part jail place jail room jail unit jailed jails joint kind knowledge life life form life part life unit like like phone living living structure living thing living things living tissue living unit lots lots together materials membrane memories metal metal bars microbe microscopic microscopic biology microscopic component microscopic organism microscopic plant mitosis mobile mobile phone mobile telephone molecular molecular substance molecule monastery nook nucleus numbers nunnery of body of life one person one room operation organelles organism organism atom organism basic organism constituent organism part organisms packet part particle particles person person inside phone phone kind phone type phones photosynthesis pinhead place plant plant microscopic plant unit pockets polytope portable portable phone portable telephone power prison prison bedroom prison box prison compartment prison cubicle prison enclosure prison house prison joint prison room prison rooms prison unit prisoner prisoner holder prisoner home prisoners prisoners home prisoners room prisons private private operation protoplasm punishment red red white research room rooms round section single single organism single unit skin skin basis small small life small organism small prison small room small space small square small thing small unit smallest smallest entity smallest living smallest organism smallest unit something phone space spreadsheet spreadsheet part square stream structure substance telephone term three dimensional thunderstorm tinny tiny tiny organism tissue together type type phone unit very very small very tiny walls watch watch battery where where jailed white windows wireless
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