agal | (noun) a cord (usually of goat's hair) that Arabs (especially Bedouins) wind around their heads to hold down the kaffiyeh | - |
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agalactia | (noun) a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered | Synonyms: agalactosis |
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agalactosis | (noun) a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered | Synonyms: agalactia |
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agama | (noun) small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World | - |
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agamete | (noun) an asexual reproductive cell | - |
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agamid | (noun) a lizard of the family Agamidae | Synonyms: agamid lizard |
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agammaglobulinemia | (noun) a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection | - |
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agamogenesis | (noun) reproduction without the fusion of gametes | Synonyms: asexual reproduction |
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agapanthus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers | Synonyms: lily of the Nile |
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agape | (noun) a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship | Synonyms: love feast |
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(noun) selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature) | Synonyms: agape love |
(noun) (Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind | - |
agar | (noun) a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods | Synonyms: agar-agar |
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(noun) any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent | Synonyms: nutrient agar |
agaric | (noun) a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside | - |
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(noun) fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses | Synonyms: Fomes igniarius |
agate | (noun) an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles | - |
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agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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agave | (noun) tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber | Synonyms: American aloe, century plant |
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assagai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assegai |
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astragal | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: bead, beading, beadwork |
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(noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragalus, talus |
astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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bagascosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagassosis |
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bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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caragana | (noun) any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod | Synonyms: pea tree |
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dagame | (noun) source of a tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Calycophyllum candidissimum, lemonwood tree |
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divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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(noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
(noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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lagan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagend, ligan |
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magazine | (noun) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store |
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(noun) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object | - |
(noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip |
(noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: cartridge |
(noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: mag |
(noun) a business firm that publishes magazines | Synonyms: magazine publisher |
megagametophyte | (noun) the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores | - |
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nagami | (noun) shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats | Synonyms: Fortunella margarita, nagami kumquat, oval kumquat |
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pagan | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, infidel |
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(noun) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew) | - |
(noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: hedonist, pleasure seeker |
paganism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: heathenism, pagan religion |
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propaganda | (noun) information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | - |
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propagandist | (noun) a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government | - |
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propagation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: generation, multiplication |
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(noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: extension |
(noun) the movement of a wave through a medium | - |
propagator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: disseminator |
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(noun) someone who propagates plants (as under glass) | - |
ragamuffin | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: tatterdemalion |
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rhagades | (noun) cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus) | - |
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rutabaga | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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(noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, swede, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
saga | (noun) a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account | - |
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sagaciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagacity |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagacity |
sagacity | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagaciousness |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness |
sagamore | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sachem |
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suffragan | (noun) an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese | Synonyms: suffragan bishop |
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tagalong | (noun) someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along | Synonyms: hanger-on |
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tagasaste | (noun) shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder | Synonyms: Chamaecytisus palmensis, Cytesis proliferus |
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termagant | (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: shrew |
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tragacanth | (noun) a gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing | - |
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vagabond | (noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place | - |
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(noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagrant |
vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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vagary | (noun) an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) | - |
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verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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warragal | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, dingo, warrigal |
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(noun) Australian wild horse | Synonyms: warrigal |