English word senses marked with topical category "Fictional materials"

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Parent categories: Materials, Science fiction, Manufacturing, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Human activity, Artistic works, Genres, Human behaviour, Art, Entertainment, Human, Culture, Society
Subcategories: Hypothetical chemical elements

Total 94 word senses

• Hooke's atom (Noun) An artificial helium-like atom where the Coulombic electron-nucleus interaction potential is replaced by a harmonic potential.
• Nintendium (Noun) A fictional material credited for the durability of several Nintendo products.
• adamant (Noun) An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
• adamantine (Adjective) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated.
• adamantine (Noun) Synonym of adamantium
• adamantite (Noun) Synonym for adamantium
• adamantium (Noun) A fictional metal that is indestructible or nearly so.
• alicorn (Noun) A mythological creature, a mixture of pegasus and unicorn: a winged horse with a single horn on its head.
• alkahest (Noun) A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
• armorplast (Noun) A fictional material, often described as being strong, flexible, and transparent.
• balonium (Noun) A fictional chemical element.
• bananadine (Noun) A fictional psychoactive substance said to be extracted from banana peels.
• blue pill (Noun) Antonym of red pill; rejecting the red pill philosophy.
• cavorite (Noun) A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.
• collapsium (Noun) A fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.
• computronium (Noun) programmable matter.
• dilithium (Noun) A fictional crystalline mineral in the Star Trek franchise, described as an essential component of anti-matter energy generation systems.
• dragonbone (Noun) The bone of a dragon.
• dragonbreath (Noun) Synonym of bad breath.
• dragonhide (Noun) The hide of a dragon.
• dragonskin (Noun) The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
• dragonstone (Noun) A stone or gem having magical powers in relation to dragons.
• eka-actinium (Noun) unbiunium (element 121)
• eka-francium (Noun) ununennium
• eka-protactinium (Noun) Unbitrium (Ubt), an unsynthesized chemical element with atomic number 123.
• eka-radium (Noun) unbinilium
• element zero (Noun) Synonym of neutronium (“material composed of neutrons”)
• element zero (Noun) A fictional chemical element with element number/atomic number/proton number zero (0), often with unrealistic properties.
• elixir of life (Noun) A substance which when drunk brings immortality: eternal life, eternal youth.
• explodium (Noun) Any material that explodes extremely easily.
• fairy dust (Noun) A magical powder that would give the power of flight to whoever it was sprinkled on.
• feynmanium (Noun) The hypothetical chemical element with atomic number 137.
• glassite (Noun) A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.
• grey goo (Noun) A hypothetical end-of-the-world event involving nanotechnology, in which out-of-control self-replicating nanobots consume all life on Earth (or another planet or moon).
• handwavium (Noun) Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.
• harmonium (Noun) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.
• harmonium (Noun) Synonym of Hooke's atom.
• hedonium (Noun) Matter arranged in a way that produces pleasure or happiness as efficiently as possible, as might be encouraged by philosophical hedonism.
• hookium (Noun) Hooke's atom
• impervium (Noun) An impervious substance.
• kryptonite (Verb) To destroy, wreck, or ruin; to affect adversely, as Superman is affected by kryptonite.
• love potion (Noun) A drink supposed to have the magic power to make the drinker fall in love with a specified person.
• lunarcrete (Noun) A hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon.
• magmatter (Noun) A hypothetical form of matter, consisting of magnetic monopoles and expected to be vastly stronger and denser than normal matter.
• mellow yellow (Noun) A yellow police car used in South Africa.
• mithril (Noun) A fictional silvery metal of great strength and value, primarily in fantasy and role-playing settings.
• mooncrete (Noun) Synonym of lunarcrete (“a hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon”).
• orichalcum (Noun) A valuable yellow metal known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; now sometimes interpreted as referring to a natural alloy of gold and copper, and sometimes treated as a mythical substance.
• philosopher's stone (Noun) A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.
• philter (Noun) A kind of potion, charm, or drug; especially a love potion intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver.
• philter (Verb) To impregnate or mix with a love potion.
• philter (Verb) To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.
• phlebotinum (Noun) A fictional material used by authors to develop a plot requiring a material with properties not possessed by any real material.
• pixie dust (Noun) Synonym of fairy dust
• plasteel (Noun) A fictional durable substance.
• plasticrete (Noun) A durable construction material.
• plastiglass (Noun) A clear material combining the characteristics of plastic and glass.
• plastoid (Noun) A plastic-like material.
• potable gold (Noun) A theoretical substance which would confer eternal life on the drinker.
• potion (Noun) A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
• programmable matter (Noun) Matter which can change its physics properties in a programmable way.
• protomatter (Noun) An unstable substance that is powerful and dangerous.
• red mercury (Noun) A supposed substance for use in the creation of nuclear bombs and other weapons, about which there are various conspiracy theories.
• red pill (Noun) Something that enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
• red pill (Noun) The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.
• red pill (Noun) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.
• red pill (Verb) To enable a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
• red pill (Verb) To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.
• soma (Noun) Any kind of intoxicating drug.
• terranium (Noun) A (fictional) element, especially a metal.
• thionite (Noun) A fictional addictive drug said to induce euphoric dreams.
• transparisteel (Noun) a fictional hard transparent metal used instead of glass in windows
• unbibium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 122 (symbol Ubb).
• unbiennium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 129 (symbol Ube).
• unbihexium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 126 (symbol Ubh).
• unbinilium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 120 (symbol Ubn).
• unbioctium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 128 (symbol Ubo).
• unbipentium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 125 (symbol Ubp).
• unbiquadium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 124 (symbol Ubq).
• unbiseptium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 127 (symbol Ubs).
• unbitrium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 123 (symbol Ubt).
• unbiunium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 121 (symbol Ubu).
• unholy water (Noun) magical water with the property of harming or cursing that which is good
• unobtainium (Noun) A fictional material or component which, if it existed, would enable one to easily solve a hard problem.
• unobtanium (Noun) Alternative spelling of unobtainium
• untribium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 132 (symbol Utb).
• untrihexium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 136 (symbol Uth).
• untrinilium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 130 (symbol Utn).
• untriquadium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 134 (symbol Utq).
• untriseptium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 137 (symbol Uts).
• untritrium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 133 (symbol Utt).
• untriunium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 131 (symbol Utu).
• ununennium (Noun) The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 119 (symbol Uue).
• wishalloy (Noun) A hypothetical material that would have certain desirable properties, but is not known to exist.

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