plateau phase
noun
The second of four stages of human sexual response identified by William Masters, in which there is a period of intense sexual excitement lasting a variable but usually short time following a longer phase of increasing excitement and succeeded either by orgasm or by a longer period of decreasing excitement.
Origin
1960s.
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- torturable
- torture
- torturer
- torturous
- torturously
- torula
- torula yeast
- torulosis
- torus
- Toruń
- Torvill and Dean
- Tory
- Toryism
- tosa
- to save one's life
- to say nothing of
- to say the least (of it)
- to scale
- Toscana
- Toscanini, Arturo
- to scream (also cry, yell,etc.) blue murder
- to seek
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