adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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arch | (noun) (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it | - |
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(noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: archway |
(noun) a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet) | - |
(noun) a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening | - |
archaebacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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archaebacterium | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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archaeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archeobacteria |
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archaeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archeologist |
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archaeology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | Synonyms: archeology |
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archaeopteryx | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds | Synonyms: Archaeopteryx lithographica, archeopteryx |
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archaeornis | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing | - |
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archaicism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaism |
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archaism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaicism |
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archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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(noun) a person who archaizes | - |
archangel | (noun) an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy | - |
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(noun) a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Angelica Archangelica, garden angelica |
archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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archdiocese | (noun) the diocese of an archbishop | - |
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archduchess | (noun) a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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archduchy | (noun) the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess | - |
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archduke | (noun) a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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archenteron | (noun) central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity | - |
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archeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria |
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archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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archeology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | Synonyms: archaeology |
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archeopteryx | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds | Synonyms: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx lithographica |
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archer | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: bowman |
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archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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archery | (noun) the sport of shooting arrows with a bow | - |
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archespore | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archesporium |
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archesporium | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archespore |
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archetype | (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: original, pilot |
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archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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archidiaconate | (noun) office or position of an archdeacon | - |
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archil | (noun) any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil | Synonyms: orchil |
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(noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: cudbear, orchil |
archimandrite | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: abbot |
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archine | (noun) a Russian unit of length (71 cm) | - |
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archipallium | (noun) the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: paleocortex |
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archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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architect | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: designer |
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architectonics | (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: tectonics |
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architecture | (noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | - |
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(noun) an architectural product or work | - |
(noun) (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software | Synonyms: computer architecture |
(noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings | - |
architeuthis | (noun) largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long) | Synonyms: giant squid |
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architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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(noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
archive | (noun) a depository containing historical records and documents | - |
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archives | (noun) collection of records especially about an institution | - |
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archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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archness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: impertinence, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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archosaur | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaurian, archosaurian reptile |
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archosaurian | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
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archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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(noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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countermarch | (noun) (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route | - |
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cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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cytoarchitecture | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonics |
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demarche | (noun) a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs | - |
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diarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: dyarchy |
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dyarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: diarchy |
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eparch | (noun) the governor or prefect of an eparchy in ancient Greece | - |
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(noun) a bishop or metropolitan in charge of an eparchy in the Eastern Church | - |
eparchy | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: exarchate |
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(noun) a province in ancient Greece | - |
ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
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exarch | (noun) a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire | - |
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(noun) a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan | - |
(noun) a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America | - |
exarchate | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: eparchy |
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gynarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynecocracy |
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hierarch | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate |
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(noun) a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy | - |
hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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(noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |
larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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(noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
march | (noun) the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) | Synonyms: marching |
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(noun) a steady advance | - |
(noun) genre of music written for marching | Synonyms: marching music |
(noun) a procession of people walking together | - |
(noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, borderland, marchland |
marcher | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman |
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(noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: parader |
(noun) an inhabitant of a border district | - |
marching | (noun) the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) | Synonyms: march |
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marchioness | (noun) a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess | Synonyms: marquise |
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(noun) the wife or widow of a marquis | - |
marchland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, borderland, march |
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marchpane | (noun) almond paste and egg whites | Synonyms: marzipan |
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matriarch | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: materfamilias |
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(noun) a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) | - |
matriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchy |
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matriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchate |
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menarche | (noun) the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman | - |
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monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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oligarch | (noun) one of the rulers in an oligarchy | - |
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oligarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a few people | - |
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parchesi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: pachisi, parchisi |
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parchisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: pachisi, parchesi |
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parchment | (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, sheepskin |
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(noun) a superior paper resembling sheepskin | - |
patriarch | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: paterfamilias |
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(noun) any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | - |
(noun) title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | - |
(noun) a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself | - |
patriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchy |
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(noun) the jurisdiction of a patriarch | - |
patriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchate |
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protoarchaeology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarcheology |
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protoarcheology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarchaeology |
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