Spelling

• Use Oxford spelling throughout (follow the OED, The Collins English Dictionary, Hart's Rules or Chambers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
• Use the British ‘Pythagoras’ theorem’, not the American ‘Pythagorean theorem’.
• Verbal forms are normally spelt ‘-ize’ (e.g. ‘initialize’, ‘emphasizing’), but note the following example exceptions: advise, arise, comprise, compromise, devise, exercise, excise, liaise, prise, revise, supervise, surmise, surprise.
• Verbs that sometimes appear spelt ‘-yze’ should be spelt ‘-yse’ (e.g. ‘analyse’, ‘catalyse’). Note: in References and quotations the original form of spelling should be used.
• Common misuse:

• complementary vs complimentary

• elicit vs illicit

• fish vs fishes (fish when talking about several individuals of one species; fishes when talking about many fish of several different species)

• led vs lead ('lead' commonly used where 'led' is meant)

• less vs fewer (less for non-countable; fewer for countable)

• practice (noun) vs practise (verb)

• principle (1. a general truth or assumption from which to argue. 2. a scientific law, especially one that explains a natural phenomenon or the way a machine works. 3. a general rule of morality that guides conduct; the having of or holding to such rules) vs principal (first in rank or importance; chief; main)

• programme (for a television broadcast, plan of activities, to instruct) vs program (as in a computer program)

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A

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α-helix

acknowledgement

acclimatiz*

adrenaline

adviser

aerofoil

ageing

amino acid (noun or adjective)

analogue

analys*

anti-cancer

antisense

antisymmetr*

anti-tumour

arcsin (in equations)

arcsine transformed (text)

artefact

B

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backcross

behaviour

biased

bioactive

biogeographic

bioinspired

Biot–Savart

Birkhäuser

Bonferroni correction

Born–Oppenheimer

bumblebee

by-product

C

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χ2-test

Cahn–Hilliard

Camassa–Holm

Carathéodory

carer

Cartesian

categoriz*

Cauchy–Riemann

Cauchy–Schwarz

CD4⁺

Cenozoic

centr*

characteriz*

chimpanzee

Clausius–Mossotti

Clearly,_

coaxial

coevolution

coexist

cofactor

co-infect

Cole–Hopf

collinear

Colorado

coloration

colour

commercializ*

Consequently,_

Conversely,_

cooperat*

coordinate

co-resolve

co-rotating

counterintuitive

covary

coverslip

co-worker

Crank–Nicolson

cross-link

cross-section (adjectival)

crystalliz*

cytochrome b

D

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database

dataset

dependant (noun)

dependent (adjective)

diagonaliz*

diatomic

dimensionaliz*

disc (unless computer disk)

discretiz*

dispatch

dorsomedial

dorsoventral

downregulate

downwelling

E

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e.g.

e-Science

Earth (the planet)

electro-osmosis

emphasiz*

endeavour

endpoint

eukaryote

Euler–Lagrange

evaporate

Evidently,_

evolutionarily (adverb)

evolutionary (adjective)

extracellular

F

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factoriz*

faeces

favour

feedback (noun)

feed-forward

Fermi–Dirac

fetus

fibre

fibre-optic (adjectival)

fibr*

fieldwork

figure of eight

Finally,_

finite-element

Fisher’s exact probability

fishes

flavour

fluidiz*

flyby

focus

focus*

Fokker–Planck

fold

formalism

formaliz*

formulae

freeze–thaw

fruit fly

fulfil

fulfilled

fully

Furthermore,_

G

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Gaussian

gelatin

GenBank

generaliz*

geo*

geographical (not geographic unless referring to a thesis)

geometriz*

Ginzburg–Landau

Golgi (apparatus)

Gram-negative / -positive (of a bacterium)

ground state

guinea pig

H

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haemoglobin

haemopoiesis

haemopoietic

Hamilton–Jacobi

Hartree–Fock

Hashin–Shtrikman

healthcare

Hele-Shaw

Heriot–Watt

higher dimensional (adjectival)

Hilbert–Schmidt

histological (not histologic)

homogeneous

honeybee

honour

Hubble law

hunter–gatherer

I

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i.e.

icecap

idealiz*

in situ

in vitro

in vivo

inflection

infrared

Internet

interspecific

ioniz*

J

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judgement

K

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Kelvin–Helmholtz

Kirchhoff

Kronian

L

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label

labell*

least-squares (adjectival)

left-hand side

length-scale (adjectival)

Lennard-Jones

leucocyte

licence (noun)

license (verb)

life cycle

life-history (adjectival)

lifelong

lifespan

lifestyle

lifetime

lift-off (adjectival)

lineariz*

localiz*

lognormal

long-term (adjectival)

Lotka–Volterra

M

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magnetiz*

man-made

manoeuvre*

markup

maximiz*

maximum-likelihood (adjectival)

maximum-parsimony (adjectival)

Maxwell–Boltzmann

Michaelis (constant)

microorganism

microstructure

midline

Millipore (filter)

minimiz*

model

modell*

monatomic

Monte Carlo (adjectival)

Moore's law

Moreover,_

mosquito (mosquitoes)

motor neuron

mouthbrooding

movable

multi-*

multicellular

N

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nano-bit

nanoparticle

naive

Navier–Stokes

near shore

Nearctic

neighbour

nest-box

nest-mate

neuron

Nevertheless,_

Newton–Raphson

night-time (adjectival)

non-compact

non-decreas*

non-dimensional

non-dissipative

non-empty

non-equilibrium

non-exactness

non-homogeneous

non-hyperbolic

nonlinear

non-local

non-negativ*

non-parametric

non-principal

non-resonant

non-singular

non-standard

non-stationarity

non-stationary

non-symmetr*

non-trivial

non-uniform

non-vanishing

non-zero

normaliz*

northeast

Northern Hemisphere

northwest

note

O

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Obviously,_

occur

occur*

oestradiol

offshore

On the other hand,_

online

optimiz*

organiz*

orthologue

P

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palaeo*

parametriz*

per capita (italicise)

per cent

peri-operative

Perspex

Petri (dish)

phylogeographic

physico-chemical

pick-up (adjectival)

plasmodesmatal

Plasticine

Plexiglas

Poisson (distribution)

polariz

polynya

post-operative

Prandtl–Batchelor

pre-operative

Prisoner’s Dilemma

program (for computer program)

programme (for TV, events etc.)

prokaryote

proopiomelancortin

Q

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quasi-

R

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railway

rainforest

rationaliz*

ratios

reaction–diffusion

reaction–relaxation equation

realiz*

Recently,_

recognize

reconnect

redox

regulariz*

reinforce

reisolate

retest

reuse (noun)

re-use (verb)

right-hand side

role

Runge–Kutta

S

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savannah

sea-level (adjectival)

seashell

seawater

semi*

semicircle

semicircular

semi-free range (or e.g. semi-free-ranging females)

set-up (noun)

Shockley–Reed

so-called

solid-state (adjectival)

southeast

Southern blot

Southern Hemisphere

southwest

soya bean

space–time

spatio-temporal

stabiliz*

standardiz*

stress–strain

Stuart–Landau

Sturm–Liouville

subarctic

subcritical

sulfide

sulfur

summariz*

supersede

synthesiz*

T

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Teflon

Therefore,_

three-dimensional (adjectival)

time-interval (adjectival)

time-scale (adjectival)

time-series (adjectival)

time-step (adjectival)

Tollmien–Schlichting

transferring

travel

travel*

tunnel

tunnel*

type I error

U

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ultraviolet

underestimate

understorey

underway

unravelled

upregulate

use (not utilize)

V

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van der Waals

vaporiz*

vapour

vapour trail

versus

visualiz*

von Neumann

W

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wave function

wavefront

wavelength

wavenumber

wavevector

Web (as in World Wide Web)

website

Western (when referring to society)

western blot

while

Wiener–Hopf

Wilcoxon signed-rank test

wild-type (always hyphenate)

worldwide

X

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X-ray

Y

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Z

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zeroth

zoogeograph*