arnica | (noun) an ointment used in treating bruises | - |
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(noun) any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica | - |
(noun) used especially in treating bruises | - |
barn | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | - |
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(noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: b |
barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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(noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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(noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
barndoor | (noun) an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas | - |
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barnful | (noun) the quantity that a barn will hold | - |
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barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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(noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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carnality | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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carnallite | (noun) a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium | - |
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carnation | (noun) a pink or reddish-pink color | - |
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(noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, gillyflower |
carnauba | (noun) Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax | Synonyms: carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, wax palm |
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(noun) hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes | Synonyms: carnauba wax |
carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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carnival | (noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions | - |
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(noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: fair, funfair |
(noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: circus |
carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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(noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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carnosaur | (noun) large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws | - |
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carnotite | (noun) a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium | - |
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charnel | (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
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clearness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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(noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, uncloudedness |
cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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(noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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earnest | (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
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earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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(noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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(noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
farness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, remoteness |
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forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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garner | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: granary |
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garnet | (noun) any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive | - |
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garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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(noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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harness | (noun) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart | - |
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(noun) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | - |
incarnation | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: personification |
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(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, embodiment |
(noun) time passed in a particular bodily form | - |
learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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(noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
learning | (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: acquisition |
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(noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship |
nearness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: closeness |
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parnassia | (noun) any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup | Synonyms: grass-of-Parnassus |
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reincarnation | (noun) the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions | - |
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(noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: rebirth, renascence |
(noun) embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form) | - |
reincarnationism | (noun) a doctrine that on the death of the body the soul migrates to or is born again in another body | - |
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tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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unclearness | (noun) incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear | - |
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varna | (noun) (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | - |
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varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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warner | (noun) someone who gives a warning to others | - |
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warning | (noun) a message informing of danger | - |
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(noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: admonition, monition, word of advice |
(noun) notification of something, usually in advance | - |
yarn | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: thread |
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(noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, recital |
yearner | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, thirster |
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yearning | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, longing |
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