abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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alkaloid | (noun) natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants | - |
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alkalosis | (noun) abnormally high alkalinity (low hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues | - |
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alocasia | (noun) any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries | Synonyms: elephant's ear, elephant ear |
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aloe | (noun) succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa | - |
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aloes | (noun) a purgative made from the leaves of aloe | Synonyms: bitter aloes |
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aloha | (noun) an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) | Synonyms: ciao |
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aloneness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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aloofness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness |
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(noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: distance |
alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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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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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 |
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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australopithecine | (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
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baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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beefalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: cattalo |
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buffalo | (noun) any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo | Synonyms: Old World buffalo |
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(noun) large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains | Synonyms: American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison |
(noun) meat from an American bison | - |
buffalofish | (noun) any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley | Synonyms: buffalo fish |
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(noun) large carp-like North American fish | - |
bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
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calomel | (noun) a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic | Synonyms: mercurous chloride |
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calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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calorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat | - |
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calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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calosoma | (noun) any beetle of the genus Calosoma | - |
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cantaloup | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloupe |
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(noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup vine, cantaloupe, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
cantaloupe | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup |
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(noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
catalog | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalogue |
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(noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalogue |
cataloger | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloguer |
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catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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(noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
cataloguer | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloger |
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cattalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: beefalo |
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cembalo | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: harpsichord |
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cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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cephaloglycin | (noun) antibiotic related to cephalosporin but no longer in common use | Synonyms: Kafocin |
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cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
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cephalometry | (noun) measurement of human heads | - |
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cephalopod | (noun) marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles | Synonyms: cephalopod mollusk |
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cephaloridine | (noun) a broad spectrum semisynthetic antibiotic produced by modifying cephalosporin | - |
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cephalosporin | (noun) one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity | Synonyms: Mefoxin |
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cephalothin | (noun) a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin | - |
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chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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dalo | (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dasheen, taro, taro plant |
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dialog | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialogue |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialogue, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialogue |
dialogism | (noun) the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation. | - |
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dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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echoencephalogram | (noun) a graphical image of the brain produced by an echoencephalograph | - |
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echoencephalograph | (noun) a sonograph that creates an image of the brain and its abnormalities | - |
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echoencephalography | (noun) a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brain | - |
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electroencephalogram | (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, encephalogram |
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electroencephalograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain | - |
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encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
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encephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: pneumoencephalogram |
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(noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, electroencephalogram |
encephalograph | (noun) Any apparatus used to produce an encephalogram by recording electric currents generated by the brain. | - |
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encephalography | (noun) roentgenography of the brain after spinal fluid has been replaced by a gas (usually oxygen); produces an encephalogram | - |
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encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
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encephalon | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: brain |
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encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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eschalot | (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, multiplier onion, shallot |
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exomphalos | (noun) an umbilical hernia at birth in which some abdominal organs push into the umbilical cord | - |
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fanaloka | (noun) civet of Madagascar | Synonyms: Fossa fossa |
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galoot | (noun) a disreputable or clumsy man | - |
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galop | (noun) music suitable for a galop dance | - |
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galosh | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, golosh, gumshoe, rubber |
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genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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genealogy | (noun) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | - |
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(noun) successive generations of kin | Synonyms: family tree |
halo | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus |
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(noun) a circle of light around the sun or moon | - |
(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, ring |
haloalkane | (noun) organic compound in which halogen atoms have been substituted for hydrogen atoms in an alkane | Synonyms: alkyl halide |
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halobacter | (noun) halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats | Synonyms: halobacteria, halobacterium |
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halobacteria | (noun) halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats | Synonyms: halobacter, halobacterium |
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halobacterium | (noun) halophiles in saline environments such as the Dead Sea or salt flats | Synonyms: halobacter, halobacteria |
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halocarbon | (noun) one of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens | - |
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haloform | (noun) compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom | - |
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halogen | (noun) any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions | - |
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halogeton | (noun) a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content | Synonyms: Halogeton glomeratus |
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halon | (noun) a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer | - |
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haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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halophil | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophile |
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halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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halophyte | (noun) plant growing naturally in very salty soil | - |
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halothane | (noun) a nonflammable inhalation anesthetic that produces general anesthesia; used along with analgesics and muscle relaxants for many types of surgical procedures | - |
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hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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hyaloid | (noun) the transparent membrane enveloping the vitreous humor of the eye and separating it from the retina | Synonyms: hyaloid membrane |
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hyaloplasm | (noun) the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | Synonyms: ground substance |
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idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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jalopy | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, heap |
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jalousie | (noun) a shutter made of angled slats | - |
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(noun) a window with glass louvers | Synonyms: louvered window |