alliance | (noun) the act of forming an alliance or confederation | Synonyms: confederation |
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(noun) a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim | - |
(noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alinement, coalition |
(noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: bond |
(noun) the state of being allied or confederated | Synonyms: confederation |
allice | (noun) European shad | Synonyms: allice shad, allis, allis shad, Alosa alosa |
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allies | (noun) an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy | - |
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alligator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: gator |
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(noun) leather made from alligator's hide | - |
alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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allis | (noun) European shad | Synonyms: allice, allice shad, allis shad, Alosa alosa |
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alliteration | (noun) use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | Synonyms: beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme |
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alliterator | (noun) a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration | - |
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appalling | (noun) an experience that appalls | - |
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archipallium | (noun) the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: paleocortex |
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ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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(noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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bimetallism | (noun) a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio | - |
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bimetallist | (noun) an advocate of bimetallism | - |
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browallia | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers | Synonyms: bush violet |
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calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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calling | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: career, vocation |
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calliope | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard | Synonyms: steam organ |
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calliopsis | (noun) North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis | Synonyms: Coreopsis tinctoria |
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calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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(noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
callithump | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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(noun) a noisy boisterous parade | Synonyms: callathump, callithump parade |
carnallite | (noun) a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium | - |
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challis | (noun) a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed) | - |
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crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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crystallisation | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallization, crystallizing |
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crystallite | (noun) any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock | - |
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crystallization | (noun) a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation | - |
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(noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystal |
(noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallizing |
crystallizing | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization |
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dalliance | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dawdling, trifling |
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(noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
dallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope |
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dallisgrass | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum |
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davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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fallibility | (noun) the likelihood of making errors | - |
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forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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gallina | (noun) small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl | Synonyms: jungle fowl |
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gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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gallium | (noun) a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 31, Ga |
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halliard | (noun) a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag | Synonyms: halyard |
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infallibility | (noun) the quality of never making an error | - |
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installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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masdevallia | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube | - |
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medallion | (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, palm, ribbon |
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(noun) an emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered | - |
(noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) | - |
(noun) a circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat) "medallions of veal" | - |
(noun) any of various large ancient Greek coins | - |
medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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(noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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metallic | (noun) a yarn made partly or entirely of metal | - |
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(noun) a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal | - |
metallicity | (noun) The state of possessing a similar aural resonance to metal. | - |
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misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
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neopallium | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neocortex |
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palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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palliation | (noun) easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause | - |
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(noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, mitigation |
palliative | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
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pallidity | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: paleness |
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pallidness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallor, wanness |
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pallidum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, paleostriatum |
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pallium | (noun) cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome | - |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back | - |
(noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: mantle |
(noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex |
pleurothallis | (noun) any of numerous small tufted orchids of the genus Pleurothallis having leathery to fleshy leaves and racemes of 1 to many small flowers | - |
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rapscallion | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
scallion | (noun) a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads | Synonyms: green onion, spring onion |
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(noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, leek |
signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
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stalling | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stall |
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stallion | (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: entire |
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stonewalling | (noun) stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
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tallis | (noun) (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer | Synonyms: prayer shawl, tallith |
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tallith | (noun) (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer | Synonyms: prayer shawl, tallis |
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thallium | (noun) a soft grey malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air; it is highly toxic and is used in rodent and insect poisons; occurs in zinc blende and some iron ores | Synonyms: atomic number 81, Tl |
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whatchamacallit | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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