characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"
having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious"
the branch of quantum physics that accounts for matter at the atomic level; an extension of statistical mechanics based on quantum theory (especially the Pauli exclusion principle)
line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"
compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"
cause to move fast or to rush or race; "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"
to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others; "We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"
belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself"
concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"