| ahem | (noun) the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. | Synonyms: hem |
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| ahimsa | (noun) a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence | - |
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| alcahest | (noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists | Synonyms: alkahest, universal solvent |
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| alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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| aliyah | (noun) (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel | - |
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| (noun) (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah | - |
| alkahest | (noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists | Synonyms: alcahest, universal solvent |
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| amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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| (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
| autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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| ayah | (noun) (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
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| ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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| baht | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: tical |
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| blah | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| blahs | (noun) a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction | - |
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| brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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| (noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
| (noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
| brahmin | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahman |
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| (noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahman |
| (noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahman |
| brouhaha | (noun) a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits | - |
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| (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: hubbub, katzenjammer, uproar |
| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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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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| cahoot | (noun) collusion | - |
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| casbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: kasbah |
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| challah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: hallah |
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| cheetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, chetah |
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| chetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah |
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| chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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| dah | (noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dash |
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| dahl | (noun) small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant | Synonyms: cajan pea, pigeon pea |
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| (noun) tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: cajan pea, Cajanus cajan, catjang pea, dhal, pigeon-pea plant, pigeon pea, red gram |
| dahlia | (noun) any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia | Synonyms: Dahlia pinnata |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| decahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having ten plane faces | - |
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| dodecahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twelve plane faces | - |
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| dourah | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| ephah | (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel | Synonyms: epha |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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| fellah | (noun) an agricultural laborer in Arab countries | - |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| graham | (noun) flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage) | Synonyms: graham flour, whole meal flour, whole wheat flour |
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| hahnium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 105 | Synonyms: atomic number 105, Db, dubnium, element 105 |
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| hallah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: challah |
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| hallelujah | (noun) a shout or song of praise to God | - |
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| hexahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having six plane faces | - |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| houdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: howdah |
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| howdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: houdah |
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| hurrah | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hooray |
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| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| icosahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twenty plane faces | - |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| jonah | (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jinx |
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| kabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, qabala, qabalah |
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| kahikatea | (noun) New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood | Synonyms: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides |
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| kasbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: casbah |
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| khalifah | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif |
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| lah | (noun) the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization | Synonyms: la |
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| lahar | (noun) an avalanche of volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano | - |
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| loofah | (noun) the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit | Synonyms: Luffa cylindrica, vegetable sponge |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loufah sponge, luffa |
| madrasah | (noun) Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Synonyms: madrasa |
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| mahagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahoe, majagua |
| maharaja | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharajah |
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| maharajah | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharaja |
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| maharanee | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharani |
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| maharani | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharanee |
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| mahatma | (noun) (Hinduism) term of respect for a brahmin sage | - |
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| mahimahi | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, dolphinfish |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphinfish |
| mahjong | (noun) Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles | Synonyms: Mah-Jongg |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| mahoe | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, majagua, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, majagua |
| mahogany | (noun) a shade of brown with a tinge of red | Synonyms: burnt sienna, reddish brown, sepia, Venetian red |
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| (noun) any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish | Synonyms: mahogany tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture | - |
| mahout | (noun) the driver and keeper of an elephant | - |
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| mahuang | (noun) Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine | Synonyms: Ephedra sinica |
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| malahini | (noun) a newcomer to Hawaii | - |
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| mastabah | (noun) an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof | Synonyms: mastaba |
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| matzah | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| megahit | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: blockbuster, smash hit |
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| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| memsahib | (noun) a woman sahib | - |
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| menorah | (noun) (Judaism) a candelabrum with nine branches; used during the Hanukkah festival | - |
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| messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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| messiahship | (noun) the position of messiah | - |
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| mezuzah | (noun) religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law | Synonyms: mezuza |
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| mikvah | (noun) (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath or after menstruation) | - |
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| minah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mitsvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitzvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitzvah |
| mitzvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitsvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitsvah |
| moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| mujahadeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadein | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahid | (noun) a Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad | - |
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| mujahideen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin |
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| mujahidin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen |
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| mynah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, minah, myna, myna bird, mynah bird |
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| nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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| numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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| obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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| (noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |