| hindrance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, impediment |
| hydromancer | (noun) one who practices hydromancy | - |
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| hydromancy | (noun) divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) | - |
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| ignorance | (noun) the lack of knowledge or education | - |
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| illuminance | (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illumination |
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| imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
| impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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| importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| inconstancy | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: changefulness |
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| (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness |
| incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
| inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
| inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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| inerrancy | (noun) (Christianity) exemption from error | - |
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| infancy | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: babyhood |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: babyhood, early childhood |
| inhabitancy | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitation |
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| inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
| (noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insouciance | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
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| instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
| instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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| (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
| insurance | (noun) written contract or certificate of insurance | Synonyms: insurance policy, policy |
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| (noun) promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company | - |
| (noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: indemnity |
| intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
| (noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
| intolerance | (noun) impatience with annoyances | - |
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| (noun) unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs | - |
| invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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| (noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
| irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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| irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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| issuance | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issue, issuing |
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| jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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| jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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| kanchil | (noun) small chevrotain of southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Tragulus kanchil |
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| lamellibranch | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
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| lance | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: shaft, spear |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear |
| (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lancet |
| lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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| lancer | (noun) (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance | - |
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| lancers | (noun) a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples | - |
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| lancet | (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lance |
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| (noun) an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance | Synonyms: lancet arch |
| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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| (noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
| lieutenancy | (noun) the position of a lieutenant | - |
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| lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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| lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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| luminance | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminosity, luminousness |
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| luxuriance | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, voluptuousness |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| melancholia | (noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears | - |
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| melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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| melancholic | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholiac |
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| melancholy | (noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy | Synonyms: black bile |
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| (noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness | - |
| (noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed | - |
| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| microbalance | (noun) balance for weighing very small objects | - |
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| militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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| militancy | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militance |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| nance | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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| (noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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| (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| occupancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: tenancy |
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| (noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupation |
| oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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| onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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| onomancy | (noun) divination by the letters of a name | - |
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| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| pancake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake |
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| pancarditis | (noun) inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium) | - |
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| panchayat | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayet, punchayet |
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| panchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, punchayet |
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| pancreas | (noun) a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
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| pancreatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas | - |
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