Abbreviation for [syndrome], used in either a jovial or offensive setting.
> John has dromes.
> Bob has a major drome.

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学英语单词
Abbe's condenser
abusarbia formosibia
academicianships
account-opening
Aerides odorata
analysis book
blind faith
boiler suspension
brought on
browns lily
bulk drug
cable insulating paper
chairship
class leader
concomitant deviation
congenital stricture of rectum
coninquinate
control hand picking
curve reader
Daphne longilobata
data carrier failure detector
deaf-blindness
depatriate
dialysis machine
digital wavefront measuring interferometer
dimethylarsinic acid
drawn battle
Dubyaea
emulsifying oil
engine driven bale loader
eucommiae cortex
ever
excision of skin of nose for rhinophyma
floor polish
freat
Gd-DTPA
grain meter
gray-blue cloth
hecto-gray
high compression
hinokitiol
hite
in oblivion
information production process
isophyllia
keep abreast of with
kellar
kickapoos
korfballs
liplines
low-sulfur
marriage certificates
minaretted
monascous
mouth care
multi-necked flask
multiple benign sarcoid
muscanonge
non-alphanumeric sign
nonenveloped viurs
noninterference
nonlinear feedback system
note-reading
occult blood tests
oligomastigate
open-web truss
other nonelectric variables measurement
outside vendor
oxidant consumption
pafuramidine
papercutter
phase stability area diagram
pigmy hog
piping design
poleward migration
polycondensation reaction
prefrontal cortex
price sensitive information
prison bitch
psychophysiologic nervous system reaction
pulp canal protective
pulsator controller
reigning
remailing
rifamp(ic)in
robotic manipulator
rotary exhaust machine
Sazan
self exciting condition
single operator direct current arc generator
solo men
somatoaxonic synapse
speak one's pieces
sponsors
stain control agent
surehandedly
the sphinx
titanocene dichloride
toxuria
whatabouteries
white smoke
wilesome