apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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arista | (noun) bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies | - |
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aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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blepharism | (noun) condition in which a person blinks continuously | - |
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caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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carissa | (noun) a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits | - |
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charisma | (noun) a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others | Synonyms: personal appeal, personal magnetism |
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circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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(noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
(noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
depolarisation | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarization |
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diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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garishness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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(noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: gaudiness |
glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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incendiarism | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: arson, fire-raising |
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insularism | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularity, insulation |
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lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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liparis | (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes | - |
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militarisation | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarization, mobilisation, mobilization |
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militarism | (noun) a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests | - |
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militarist | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: warmonger |
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millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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monetarism | (noun) an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money | - |
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monetarist | (noun) an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money | - |
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naris | (noun) any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx | - |
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nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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parish | (noun) a local church community | - |
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(noun) the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor | - |
parishioner | (noun) a member of a parish | - |
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parisology | (noun) the use of ambiguous words | - |
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particularisation | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: detailing, particularization |
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particularism | (noun) a focus on something particular | - |
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pharisee | (noun) a self-righteous or sanctimonious person | - |
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plagiarisation | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: piracy, plagiarism, plagiarization |
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plagiariser | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
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plagiarism | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: piracy, plagiarisation, plagiarization |
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(noun) a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work | - |
plagiarist | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarizer |
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polarisation | (noun) the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration | Synonyms: polarization |
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(noun) the condition of having or giving polarity | Synonyms: polarization |
polariscope | (noun) an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light | Synonyms: polarimeter |
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popularisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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(noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularization |
populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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popularism | (noun) music adapted to the understanding and taste of the majority | - |
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regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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(noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
remilitarisation | (noun) the act of militarizing again | Synonyms: remilitarization |
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scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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sectarist | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarian, sectary |
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secularisation | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularization |
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(noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularization |
secularism | (noun) a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
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secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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seminarist | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarian |
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solarisation | (noun) exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: solarization |
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summarisation | (noun) the act of preparing a summary (or an instance thereof); stating briefly and succinctly | Synonyms: summarization |
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tamarisk | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil | - |
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tovarisch | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarich |
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trochlearis | (noun) either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes | Synonyms: fourth cranial nerve, trochlear, trochlear nerve |
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unitarism | (noun) Politics which favors the process of uniting a political entity which consists of smaller regions, either by cancelling the regions completely or by transferring their power to the central government. | - |
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vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
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vulgarisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, popularization, vulgarization |
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(noun) the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined | Synonyms: vulgarization |
vulgariser | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarizer |
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(noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgarizer |
vulgarism | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarity |
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(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut |