aluminum | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminium, atomic number 13 |
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alumna | (noun) a female person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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alumnus | (noun) a male person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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alumroot | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumbloom |
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alundum | (noun) a substance made of fused alumina | - |
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alveolar | (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
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alveolitis | (noun) inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic | - |
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(noun) inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form | Synonyms: dry socket |
alveolus | (noun) a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways | Synonyms: air cell, air sac |
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(noun) a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth | Synonyms: tooth socket |
alyssum | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: madwort |
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amalgam | (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
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(noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
amalgamation | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: merger, uniting |
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amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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aminoalkane | (noun) a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals | Synonyms: amine |
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ammonal | (noun) Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. | - |
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amobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant | - |
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amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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amorphophallus | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorphophallus | - |
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amygdala | (noun) an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamus and the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus; as part of the limbic system it plays an important role in motivation and emotional behavior | Synonyms: amygdaloid nucleus, corpus amygdaloideum |
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amygdalin | (noun) a bitter cyanogenic glucoside extracted from the seeds of apricots and plums and bitter almonds | - |
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amygdaloid | (noun) volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits | - |
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amygdalotomy | (noun) psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) | - |
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analbuminemia | (noun) an abnormally low level of albumin in the blood serum | - |
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analecta | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analects |
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analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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analeptic | (noun) a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system | - |
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analgesia | (noun) absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness | - |
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analgesic | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: anodyne, pain pill, painkiller |
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analog | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analogue, parallel |
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analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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analogue | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
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analogy | (noun) drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | - |
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(noun) an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others | - |
(noun) the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate | Synonyms: doctrine of analogy |
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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analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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analyser | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyzer |
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analysis | (noun) an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole | - |
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(noun) a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: depth psychology, psychoanalysis |
(noun) the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations | Synonyms: analytic thinking |
(noun) a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation | - |
(noun) a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed | - |
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father' | - |
analyst | (noun) someone who is skilled at analyzing data | - |
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(noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: psychoanalyst |
(noun) an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions | - |
analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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analyzer | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyser |
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anastalsis | (noun) muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis | - |
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anatomical | (noun) an expression that relates to anatomy | Synonyms: anatomical reference |
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andryala | (noun) any plant of the genus Andryala having milky sap and heads of bright yellow flowers | - |
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anecdotalism | (noun) The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting. | - |
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anencephalia | (noun) a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | Synonyms: anencephaly |
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anencephaly | (noun) a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | Synonyms: anencephalia |
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animal | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
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animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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(noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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(noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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annual | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
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(noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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anomalops | (noun) fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | Synonyms: flashlight fish |
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anomalopteryx | (noun) the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large turkey | Synonyms: Anomalopteryx oweni |
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anomalousness | (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomaly |
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anomaly | (noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) | - |
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(noun) a person who is unusual | Synonyms: unusual person |
(noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomalousness |
antialiasing | (noun) (computer graphics) a technique that is used to smooth jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines so they appear smoother | - |
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antibacterial | (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial drug, bactericide |
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anticatalyst | (noun) (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst | - |
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antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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antifungal | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent, fungicide |
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antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
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antimicrobial | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobic, disinfectant, germicide |
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antiphonal | (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonary |
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antipodal | (noun) the relation of opposition along a diameter | Synonyms: antipodal opposition, diametrical opposition |
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antiprotozoal | (noun) a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa | Synonyms: antiprotozoal drug |
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antiviral | (noun) any drug that destroys viruses | Synonyms: antiviral agent, antiviral drug |
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apicalization | (noun) (phonetics) An articulatory feature of phones, usually consonants, produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue. | - |
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apocalypse | (noun) a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil | - |
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apocryphalness | (noun) The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical. | - |
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(noun) The property of being of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness. | - |
appalling | (noun) an experience that appalls | - |
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appeal | (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | - |
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(noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appealingness, charm |
(noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: entreaty, prayer |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation |
appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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appraisal | (noun) an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something | - |
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(noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: assessment |
(noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: estimate, estimation |
apprisal | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: notification, telling |
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approval | (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approving, blessing |
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(noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: commendation |
(noun) a feeling of liking something or someone good | - |
(noun) acceptance as satisfactory | Synonyms: favorable reception, favourable reception |
aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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aralia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Aralia; often aromatic plants having compound leaves and small umbellate flowers | - |
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arbalest | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalist |
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arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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(noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
archipallium | (noun) the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: paleocortex |
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argal | (noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia | Synonyms: argali, Ovis ammon |
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argali | (noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia | Synonyms: argal, Ovis ammon |
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arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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(noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
(noun) awakening from sleep | - |
(noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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(noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
(noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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(noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
arsenical | (noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic | - |
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arthralgia | (noun) pain in a joint or joints | - |
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