abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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(noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
benzocaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester used as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: ethyl aminobenzoate |
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betaine | (noun) a sweet tasting alkaloid that occurs in sugar beets | - |
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butacaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: butacaine sulfate |
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chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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(noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
cocaine | (noun) a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive | Synonyms: cocain |
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complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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dibucaine | (noun) a local anesthetic that is administered by injection | - |
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entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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gainer | (noun) a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board | Synonyms: full gainer |
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(noun) a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits) | - |
(noun) a person who gains weight | Synonyms: weight gainer |
maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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migraine | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, sick headache |
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misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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moraine | (noun) accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier | - |
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mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
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procaine | (noun) a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine | Synonyms: Ethocaine |
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ptomaine | (noun) a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines | Synonyms: ptomaine poisoning |
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(noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomain |
restrainer | (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: controller |
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(noun) a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film | - |
retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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(noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
(noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
romaine | (noun) lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head | Synonyms: cos, cos lettuce, romaine lettuce |
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stainer | (noun) a worker who stains (wood or fabric) | - |
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strainer | (noun) a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through | - |
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sustainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, upholder |
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tetracaine | (noun) a crystalline compound used in the form of a hydrochloride as a local anesthetic | - |
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trainee | (noun) someone who is being trained | - |
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traineeship | (noun) financial aid that enables you to get trained for a specified job | - |
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trainer | (noun) simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane | Synonyms: flight simulator |
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(noun) one who trains other persons or animals | - |
villainess | (noun) a woman villain | - |
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