| abulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: aboulia |
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| abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
| (noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
| abuse | (noun) improper or excessive use | Synonyms: misuse |
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| (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment |
| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: contumely, insult, revilement, vilification |
| abuser | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: maltreater |
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| abutment | (noun) a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge | - |
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| (noun) point of contact between two objects or parts | - |
| abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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| acetabulum | (noun) the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint | Synonyms: cotyloid cavity |
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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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| 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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| confabulation | (noun) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered | - |
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| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze |
| constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| kookaburra | (noun) Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry | Synonyms: Dacelo gigas, laughing jackass |
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| megabucks | (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, pile |
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| nabumetone | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Relafen) | Synonyms: Relafen |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| oyabun | (noun) a Japanese supervisor | - |
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| pabulum | (noun) insipid intellectual nourishment | - |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals |
| shabu | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, trash |
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| sillabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: syllabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: syllabub |
| superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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| syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
| syllabus | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, programme |
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| tabu | (noun) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion | Synonyms: taboo |
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| (noun) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature | Synonyms: taboo |
| tabulation | (noun) the act of putting into tabular form | - |
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| (noun) information set out in tabular form | Synonyms: tabular matter |
| tabulator | (noun) a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens | Synonyms: counter |
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| (noun) an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. | Synonyms: tabulating machine |
| tabun | (noun) the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare | Synonyms: GA |
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| tintinnabulation | (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ring, ringing |
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| tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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| vocabulary | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: lexicon, mental lexicon |
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| (noun) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts) | - |
| (noun) a listing of the words used in some enterprise | - |