encephalitis
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Noun
- Inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
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| 1 | realities | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | elephants | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | municipalities | 6 | 9 |
| 4 | generalizations | 6 | 7 |
| 5 | penalties | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | charities | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | hepatitis | 4 | 3 |
| 8 | technicalities | 5 | 2 |
| 9 | generalities | 5 | 1 |
| 10 | anencephalic | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | anencephaly | 5 | 0 |
| 12 | principalities | 5 | 0 |
| 13 | encephalopathy | 6 | 0 |
| 14 | phlebitis | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | nepali | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | nealis | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | inequalities | 5 | 0 |
| 18 | hydroencephalus | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | haitis | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | cephas | 2 | 0 |
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Spelled Like: 20
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