| acatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
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| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| ale | (noun) a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume | - |
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| alecost | (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, costmary, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
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| alehoof | (noun) trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta | Synonyms: field balm, gill-over-the-ground, Glechoma hederaceae, ground ivy, Nepeta hederaceae, runaway robin |
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| alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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| alembic | (noun) an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube | - |
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| alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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| aleph | (noun) the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| alert | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
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| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
| (noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
| alerting | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alert |
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| (noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alertness |
| alertness | (noun) lively attentiveness | Synonyms: on the qui vive, sharp-sightedness |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: vigilance, wakefulness, watchfulness |
| (noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alerting |
| aleurone | (noun) granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains | - |
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| alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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| (noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
| alexandrite | (noun) a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone | - |
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| alexia | (noun) inability to perceive written words | Synonyms: visual aphasia, word blindness |
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| alexic | (noun) a person with alexia | - |
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| alkalemia | (noun) a blood disorder characterized by a lower concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which rises above 7.45 on the pH scale) | - |
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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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| 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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| arbalest | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalist |
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| azalea | (noun) any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors | - |
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| bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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| baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
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| balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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| balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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| bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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| calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
| calefaction | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: incalescence |
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| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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| calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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| catalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
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| catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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| cataleptic | (noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
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| catalexis | (noun) the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse | - |
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| cephalexin | (noun) a cephalosporin antibiotic (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribed for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract | Synonyms: Keflex, Keflin, Keftab |
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| chalet | (noun) a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style | - |
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| chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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| coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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| convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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| convalescent | (noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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| dale | (noun) an open river valley (in a hilly area) | - |
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| dalesman | (noun) a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
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| daleth | (noun) the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| dialectic | (noun) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments | - |
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| (noun) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction | - |
| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dialectics | (noun) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces | - |
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| dialectology | (noun) the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects | - |
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| epanalepsis | (noun) repetition after intervening words | - |
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| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| equivalent | (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
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| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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| (noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| female | (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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| gale | (noun) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale | - |
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| galea | (noun) an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum | - |
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| galena | (noun) soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead | - |
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| galere | (noun) a coterie of undesirable people | Synonyms: rogue's gallery |
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| galingale | (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galangal |
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| gunwale | (noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel | Synonyms: gun rest, gunnel |
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| haleness | (noun) a state of robust good health | Synonyms: wholeness |
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| haler | (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: heller |
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| (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: heller |
| healer | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: therapist |
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| hypercatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
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| hyperkalemia | (noun) higher than normal levels of potassium in the circulating blood; associated with kidney failure or sometimes with the use of diuretic drugs | - |
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| hypokalemia | (noun) abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics | - |
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| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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| inhaler | (noun) a dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion | Synonyms: inhalator |
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| journalese | (noun) the style in which newspapers are written | - |
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| jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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| kale | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: cole, kail |
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| (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, colewort, kail |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| kaleidoscope | (noun) an optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors | - |
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| (noun) a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes | - |
| kalemia | (noun) the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood | - |
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| legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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| locale | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locus, venue |
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| magdalen | (noun) a reformed prostitute | - |
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| male | (noun) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | - |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies | Synonyms: male person |
| maleate | (noun) a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation | - |
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| maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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| malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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| malefactor | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw |
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| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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