guaranty | (noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guarantee |
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harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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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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harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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(noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
hemiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: semiparasite |
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huarache | (noun) a sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps | Synonyms: huaraches |
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huaraches | (noun) a sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps | Synonyms: huarache |
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hyperparathyroidism | (noun) excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis) | - |
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hypoparathyroidism | (noun) inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood | - |
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incomparability | (noun) The quality of being so much better than another as to be beyond comparison. | - |
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(noun) The condition of not being able to be compared. | - |
jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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karabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: carabiner, snap ring |
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karakul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, caracul |
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karaoke | (noun) singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs) | - |
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karat | (noun) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold | Synonyms: carat, kt |
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karate | (noun) a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent | - |
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maharaja | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharajah |
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maharajah | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharaja |
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maharanee | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharani |
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maharani | (noun) a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja | Synonyms: maharanee |
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mara | (noun) hare-like rodent of the Pampas of Argentina | Synonyms: Dolichotis patagonum |
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marabou | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou stork, marabout |
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(noun) the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments | - |
marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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maraca | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs | - |
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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 |
maranta | (noun) any of numerous herbs of the genus Maranta having tuberous starchy roots and large sheathing leaves | - |
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marasca | (noun) Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: marasca cherry, maraschino cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca |
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(noun) small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made | - |
maraschino | (noun) cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: maraschino cherry |
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(noun) distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries | Synonyms: maraschino liqueur |
marasmus | (noun) extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders | - |
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marathon | (noun) any long and arduous undertaking | Synonyms: endurance contest |
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(noun) a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards | - |
marathoner | (noun) someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) | Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathon runner, road runner |
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maraud | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: foray, raid |
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marauder | (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: piranha, predator, vulture |
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marauding | (noun) Raiding and pillaging. | - |
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maravilla | (noun) leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock |
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(noun) wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico | Synonyms: Colorado four o'clock, desert four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora |
marinara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs | - |
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mascara | (noun) makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes | - |
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microfarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad | - |
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millifarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad | - |
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naranjilla | (noun) small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges | Synonyms: Solanum quitoense |
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nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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nullipara | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child | - |
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paparazzo | (noun) a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines | - |
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para | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: paratrooper |
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(noun) 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia | - |
(noun) (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered | Synonyms: parity |
parable | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, apologue, fable |
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(noun) (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message | - |
parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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paraboloid | (noun) a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis | - |
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paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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parachute | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: chute |
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parachuter | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachutist |
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parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
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parachutist | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachuter |
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paracosm | (noun) a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history | - |
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parade | (noun) a visible display | - |
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(noun) a ceremonial procession including people marching | - |
(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things | - |
parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
(noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
paradise | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la |
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paradox | (noun) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself | - |
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paraesthesia | (noun) abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage | Synonyms: paresthesia |
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paraffin | (noun) from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings | Synonyms: paraffin wax |
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(noun) (British usage) kerosine | Synonyms: paraffin oil |
(noun) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) | Synonyms: alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin series |
parafovea | (noun) area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea | - |
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paragliding | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: parasailing |
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paragneiss | (noun) a gneiss derived from a sedimentary rock. | - |
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paragon | (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, perfection |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, saint |
paragonite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with sodium | - |
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paragram | (noun) a pun made by changing the letters of a word, especially the initial letter. | - |
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paragraph | (noun) one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line | - |
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paragrapher | (noun) a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | - |
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parahoma | (noun) ritual drink prepared from Haoma plant. | - |
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parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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paraldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent | Synonyms: ethanal trimer |
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paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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paraleipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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paralepsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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paralipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition |
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parallax | (noun) the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object | - |
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parallel | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
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(noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude |
(noun) (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes) | - |
parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelism | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: correspondence |
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parallelogram | (noun) a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length | - |
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parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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paralogism | (noun) an unintentionally invalid argument | - |
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paralysis | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: palsy |
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paralytic | (noun) a person suffering from paralysis | - |
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paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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paramecia | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecium |
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paramecium | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecia |
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paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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paramedical | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
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parameter | (noun) a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | Synonyms: parametric quantity |
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(noun) a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data | - |
(noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: argument |
(noun) any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance | - |
parametritis | (noun) inflammation of connective tissue adjacent to the uterus | - |
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paramilitary | (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
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