See first quotes from Diane Duane
alternate world n. | 1983 | So you want to be Wizard? 112 Is this an alternate world, maybe? The next universe over?
astrogation n. | 1990 | Doctor's Orders ix. 234 Our here, the only recourse is good astrogation.
avian adj. | 1999 | Storm at Eldala 48 Long, graceful, translucent creatures, gossamer-thin, like ribbons of shimmering air, they excited some brief interest. Though avian, they were very unlike other avian species so far discovered. They spent their whole lives in the air, subsisting on airborne algae and plankton native to the high mists of the Rivendale mountain chains.
cloak v. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally 165 Fire burn it, we can build a device that can cloak a whole starship, but we can’t find a way to keep people’s hands from sweating.
Dyson sphere n. | 1990 | Doctor's Orders v. 153 They weren’t economically viable…then used the fragments to build Dyson spheres.
earther n. | 1990 | Doctor's Orders vii. 188 You are interfering with a mission team of the Klingon Empire, Earther.
escape pod n. | 1998 | Starrise at Corrivale 131 Both of them had been gutted for salvage but could easily be refitted to house either a sensor bay or even a small weapons compartment. The ship’s escape pod had also been salvaged, but its housing bay seemed in good shape.
esper n. | 1990 | Doctor's Orders iii. 73 There was no direct way to test esper ratings in a new species.
first contact n. | 1999 | Storm at Eldala 215 It is a joke…whether it is trying to be one or not… Have you looked at the real ‘first contact’ material yet?
fresher n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally i. 4 She stopped in front of another of her cabin’s luxuries, one better than private 'fresher or sleeping silks or key lighting.
mind-meld n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally vii. 98 The researcher at Levaeri determined that such abilities, the mind-techniques such as mindmeld and mindfusion and touch telepathy…could in fact be successfully passed on to the nontalented…by a procedure involving, among other things, selective neutral-tissue grafts to the corpus callosum and spinal cord.
neutronium n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally xii. 190 McCoy…timed about half his pieces out, preparing to dump them on her like a ton of neutronium in six very visible moves.
outworld n. | 1983 | So you want to be Wizard? 120 It would be folly to try matching wizardries with the Lone Power on its own ground, this outworld long given over to its rule.
phaser n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally i. 10 He and Giellun…had finally succeeded in attaching those stealthily-acquired Klingon gunnery augmentation circuits to Bloodwing’s phasers.
phaser n. | 1990 | Doctor's Orders viii. 200 Revealing the opening throats of the great main phaser batteries, and the yawning photon torpedo ports.
photon torpedo n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally vi. 85 What the hell are they doing here? Mr. Chekov, arm photon torpedoes, prepare to lock phasers on for firing. Mr. Sulu, prepare evasive action but do not execute.
planetfall n. | 1990 | Doctor’s Orders i. 35 Once we have made planetfall and had time to do some initial assessment.
realspace n. | 1984 | My Enemy, My Ally iii. 38 But she saw too little of realspace these days; and the otherspace in which ships moved while in warp was a wavering, uneasy vista, not pleasant to look at at all.
sentient n. | 1999 | Storm at Eldala 15 Besides the colonists, there’s a considerable presence of scientists studying the riglia, those avian sentients they found.
Terran adj. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally i. 6 She had been distastefully fascinated to find the word’s meaning rooted in some weird Terran story of twin brothers abandoned in the wild.
vision plate n. | 2002 | Stealing Elf-King's Roses 54 Under the spreading Whatsit Tree, in one of the cubicles, a young, short, round, dark-haired, dark-skinned man sat staring at the high-res vision plate set into the cubicle wall.
warp n. | 1983 | So you want to be Wizard? 47 ‘A warp,’ Nita whispered. ‘A tunnel through spacetime. Are you a white hole?’
warp n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally iv. 45 She came out of warp and coasted down into 285’s feeble little gravity well, settling into a long elliptical orbit around the star.
warp v. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally ii. 28 We have to break off our researches here…and go warping off on some fleet maneuver two thousand light-years away.
xenobiology n. | 1984 | My Enemy, my Ally vi. 79 ‘I thought he was in Life Sciences.’ ‘Xenobiology…This is his hobby, though. It’s useful enough’.