| anabiosis | (noun) suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns | - |
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| anabolism | (noun) the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy | Synonyms: constructive metabolism |
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| analphabet | (noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabetic |
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| analphabetic | (noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabet |
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| analphabetism | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: illiteracy |
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| answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| antidiabetic | (noun) a drug used to treat diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: antidiabetic drug |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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| antimetabolite | (noun) an antineoplastic drug that inhibits the utilization of a metabolite | - |
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| applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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| approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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| arabesque | (noun) an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design | - |
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| (noun) position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose | - |
| arability | (noun) the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation | - |
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| asarabacca | (noun) thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe | Synonyms: Asarum europaeum |
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| assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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| assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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| associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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| associableness | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associability |
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| astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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| attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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| attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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| availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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| availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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| baba | (noun) a small cake leavened with yeast | - |
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| babassu | (noun) tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa |
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| babbitt | (noun) an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction | Synonyms: Babbitt metal |
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| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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| babble | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babbling, lallation |
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| babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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| babe | (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: baby, infant |
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| babel | (noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds | - |
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| babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| babirusa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babiroussa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| babirussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babiroussa, babirusa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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| babka | (noun) a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds | - |
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| baboo | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: babu |
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| baboon | (noun) large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles | - |
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| babu | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: baboo |
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| babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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| baby | (noun) a project of personal concern to someone | - |
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| (noun) a very young mammal | - |
| (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, infant |
| (noun) the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young) | - |
| (noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: child |
| (noun) an unborn child; a human fetus | - |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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| babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
| babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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| babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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| babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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| babytalk | (noun) the developing speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk |
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| (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, motherese |
| baobab | (noun) African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread | Synonyms: Adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree |
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| believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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| bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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| bilabial | (noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
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| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| blabber | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, informer, rat, squealer |
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| blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| breakable | (noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
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| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| bugaboo | (noun) a source of concern | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugbear |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| cab | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: hack, taxi, taxicab |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cabriolet |
| (noun) a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits | - |
| cabal | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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| (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: camarilla, faction, junto |
| cabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| cabalism | (noun) adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation | Synonyms: kabbalism |
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| cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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| (noun) a member of a cabal | - |
| cabana | (noun) a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool | - |
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| cabaret | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: floor show, floorshow |
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| (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: club, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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| cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
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| (noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| cabbala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| cabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| cabby | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| caber | (noun) a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) | - |
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| cabin | (noun) the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried | - |
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| (noun) small room on a ship or boat where people sleep | - |
| (noun) a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
| cabinet | (noun) a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display | - |
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| (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: console |
| (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: locker, storage locker |
| (noun) persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers | - |
| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| cable | (noun) a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire | - |
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| (noun) a television system that transmits over cables | Synonyms: cable system, cable television, cable television service |
| (noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | Synonyms: line, transmission line |
| (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cablegram, overseas telegram |
| (noun) television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver | Synonyms: cable television |
| (noun) a nautical unit of depth | Synonyms: cable's length, cable length |
| cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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| cabman | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| cabochon | (noun) a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets | - |
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| caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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| caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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| (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
| cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
| cabriolet | (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cab |
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| cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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| calaba | (noun) West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice | Synonyms: Calophyllum calaba, Santa Maria tree |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| calabazilla | (noun) perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit | Synonyms: buffalo gourd, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin |
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| calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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