grappa | (noun) Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing | - |
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grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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(noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
(noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
grappler | (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron |
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(noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: matman, wrestler |
grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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(noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
handicapped | (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
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handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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(noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
inapplicability | (noun) irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand | - |
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inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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inappropriateness | (noun) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | Synonyms: unworthiness |
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(noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: wrongness |
kappa | (noun) the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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kidnapper | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, snatcher |
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kidnapping | (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: snatch |
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lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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(noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
(noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
lapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping |
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mapper | (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: plotter |
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mapping | (noun) (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome | Synonyms: chromosome mapping |
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(noun) the process of making maps | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) | Synonyms: function, map, mathematical function, single-valued function |
mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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misapplication | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation |
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(noun) wrong use or application | - |
misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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misappropriation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, peculation |
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(noun) wrongful borrowing | - |
nappy | (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: diaper, napkin |
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nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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overlapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, lapping |
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pappa | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pop |
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pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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pappus | (noun) calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions | - |
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pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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(noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
rappee | (noun) strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco | - |
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rappel | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: abseil |
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rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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rapper | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, knocker |
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(noun) someone who performs rap music | - |
rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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(noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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reappraisal | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reassessment, revaluation, review |
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sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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sapphire | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue |
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(noun) a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone | - |
sapphirine | (noun) a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks | - |
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sapphism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: lesbianism |
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schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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scrapper | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter |
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scrappiness | (noun) the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious | - |
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(noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: feistiness |
scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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snapper | (noun) large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite | Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle |
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(noun) any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters | - |
(noun) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots | Synonyms: Chrysophrys auratus |
(noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon |
(noun) flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas | - |
(noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, centre |
snappishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, surliness, temper |
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strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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tappa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tapa |
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(noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa, tapa bark, tappa bark |
tapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper |
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(noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapster |
(noun) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads | - |
(noun) a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes | Synonyms: tap dancer |
(noun) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly | - |
tappet | (noun) a lever that is moved in order to tap something else | - |
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tapping | (noun) the sound of light blow or knock | - |
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trapper | (noun) someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs) | - |
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trapping | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: caparison, housing |
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trappings | (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: furnishing |
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unappetisingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetizingness |
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unappetizingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetisingness |
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unapproachability | (noun) a disposition to be unapproachable; unfriendly and inaccessible | - |
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unhappiness | (noun) emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being | Synonyms: sadness |
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(noun) state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief | - |
whippersnapper | (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, lightweight |
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wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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wrapper | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrap |
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(noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, peignoir |
(noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapping |
wrapping | (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapper |
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(noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: swathe |
zapper | (noun) an electrical device that can injure or kill by means of electric currents | - |
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