| evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| exchange | (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: interchange |
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| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, substitution |
| (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: interchange |
| (noun) the act of giving something in return for something received | - |
| (noun) (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value | - |
| (noun) (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop | - |
| (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: rally |
| (noun) a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members | - |
| (noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: central, telephone exchange |
| (noun) a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one) | - |
| (noun) chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another | - |
| exchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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| exchanger | (noun) one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country | Synonyms: money changer |
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| falanga | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: bastinado |
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| falangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: phalangist |
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| fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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| fang | (noun) hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison | - |
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| (noun) canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | - |
| (noun) an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs | - |
| fangirl | (noun) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media) | - |
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| flange | (noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: rim |
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| frangibility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibleness |
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| frangibleness | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibility |
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| frangipane | (noun) pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling | - |
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| frangipani | (noun) any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers | Synonyms: frangipanni |
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| frangipanni | (noun) any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers | Synonyms: frangipani |
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| galangal | (noun) southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots | Synonyms: Alpinia galanga |
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| (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galingale |
| gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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| gang | (noun) tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together | - |
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| (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: crew, work party |
| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: mob, pack, ring |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, crowd |
| gangboard | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangplank, gangway |
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| gangdom | (noun) underworld organizations | Synonyms: gangland, organized crime |
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| ganger | (noun) the foreman of a work gang | - |
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| gangland | (noun) underworld organizations | Synonyms: gangdom, organized crime |
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| gangliocyte | (noun) a nerve cell whose body is outside the central nervous system | Synonyms: ganglion cell |
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| ganglion | (noun) an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons | - |
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| gangplank | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangway |
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| gangrene | (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: mortification, necrosis, sphacelus |
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| (noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: slough, sphacelus |
| gangsaw | (noun) a power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts | - |
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| gangsta | (noun) (Black English) a member of a youth gang | - |
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| gangster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: mobster |
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| gangway | (noun) a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site) | - |
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| (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangplank |
| (noun) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores | Synonyms: aisle |
| grange | (noun) an outlying farm | - |
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| granger | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| haemangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks | Synonyms: hemangioma |
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| hang | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms | - |
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| (noun) the way a garment hangs | - |
| (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, knack |
| hangar | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: airdock, repair shed |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| hanger | (noun) anything from which something can be hung | - |
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| (noun) a worker who hangs something | - |
| hanging | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, suspension |
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| (noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead | - |
| (noun) decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window | Synonyms: wall hanging |
| hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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| hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| hemangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of blood vessels; some appear as birthmarks | Synonyms: haemangioma |
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| herpangia | (noun) a viral infection (usually in children) marked by sore throat and fever and papules in the mouth and throat and headache and abdominal pain; usually subsides in a short time | - |
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| hydrangea | (noun) any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea | - |
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| intangibility | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibleness |
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| intangible | (noun) assets that are saleable though not material or physical | Synonyms: intangible asset |
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| intangibleness | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: impalpability, intangibility |
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| interchange | (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation |
| (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: exchange |
| (noun) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams | - |
| interchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeableness |
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| interchangeableness | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability |
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| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| jangle | (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jingle |
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| kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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| kangaroo | (noun) any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
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| kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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| kiang | (noun) wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia | Synonyms: Equus kiang |
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| langbeinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of potassium magnesium double sulphate; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| langlaufer | (noun) a cross-country skier | - |
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| langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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| langouste | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: crayfish, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| langsat | (noun) a small fruit with fleshy pulp; tastes like a combination of grape and grapefruit. | - |
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| (noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langset, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
| langset | (noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langsat, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
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| langsyne | (noun) past times remembered with nostalgia | Synonyms: auld langsyne, good old days, lang syne, old times |
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| language | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: speech |
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| (noun) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | Synonyms: linguistic process |
| (noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | Synonyms: linguistic communication |
| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: lyric, words |
| (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: nomenclature, terminology |
| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| languor | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, lethargy, phlegm, sluggishness |
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| (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: dreaminess |
| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: lassitude, listlessness |
| (noun) oppressively still air | - |
| langur | (noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
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| leptosporangium | (noun) a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns | - |
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| lilangeni | (noun) the basic unit of money in Swaziland; equal to 100 cents | - |
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| lymphangiectasia | (noun) dilatation of a lymph vessel | Synonyms: lymphangiectasis |
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| lymphangiectasis | (noun) dilatation of a lymph vessel | Synonyms: lymphangiectasia |
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| lymphangiogram | (noun) an angiogram of the lymph nodes and lymph vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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| lymphangiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of lymph nodes and lymph vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces a lymphangiogram | Synonyms: lymphography |
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| lymphangioma | (noun) benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels | - |
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| lymphangitis | (noun) inflammation of a lymph vessel | - |
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| macrosporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: megasporangium |
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| mahuang | (noun) Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine | Synonyms: Ephedra sinica |
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| malanga | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: spoonflower, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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| manga | (noun) graphic novel that originated in Japan, usually intended for adults and characterized by highly stylized art | - |
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| mangabey | (noun) large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | - |
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| manganate | (noun) a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion | - |
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| manganese | (noun) a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals | Synonyms: atomic number 25, Mn |
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| manganite | (noun) a black mineral consisting of basic manganese oxide; a source of manganese | - |
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| mange | (noun) a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people) | - |
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| manger | (noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: trough |
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| manginess | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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| mangle | (noun) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers | - |
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| mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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| manglietia | (noun) a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China | Synonyms: genus Manglietia |
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| mango | (noun) large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed | - |
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| (noun) large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit | Synonyms: Mangifera indica, mango tree |
| mangold | (noun) beet with a large yellowish root; grown chiefly as cattle feed | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris vulgaris, mangel-wurzel, mangold-wurzel |
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| mangonel | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: bricole, traction trebuchet |
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| mangosteen | (noun) two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples | - |
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| (noun) East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Garcinia mangostana, mangosteen tree |
| mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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| marang | (noun) tropical fruit from the Philippines having a mass of small seeds embedded in sweetish white pulp | - |
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| (noun) Philippine tree similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: Artocarpus odoratissima, marang tree |