| ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
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| ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendant | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
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| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
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| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who ascends | - |
| ascending | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
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| ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
| (noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
| ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
| ascesis | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: asceticism |
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| ascetic | (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: abstainer |
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| asceticism | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: ascesis |
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| (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: austerity, nonindulgence |
| (noun) the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state | - |
| ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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| ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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| asclepiad | (noun) any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae | - |
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| ascocarp | (noun) mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | - |
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| ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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| ascoma | (noun) an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle | - |
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| ascomycete | (noun) any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus | Synonyms: ascomycetous fungus |
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| ascospore | (noun) sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus | - |
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| ascot | (noun) a cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin | - |
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| ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
| ascus | (noun) saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes | - |
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| bagascosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagassosis |
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| barbasco | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: Jacquinia keyensis, joewood |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| cascabel | (noun) a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh | Synonyms: sleigh bell |
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| cascade | (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: shower |
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| (noun) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units | - |
| (noun) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls | - |
| cascara | (noun) dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative | Synonyms: cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark |
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| cascarilla | (noun) West Indian shrub with aromatic bark | Synonyms: Croton eluteria |
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| damascene | (noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
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| emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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| (noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
| epidiascope | (noun) an optical projector that gives images of both transparent and opaque objects | - |
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| fasces | (noun) bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism | - |
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| fascia | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: dashboard |
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| (noun) a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc | Synonyms: facia |
| fascicle | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicule |
| fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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| fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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| fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
| (noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
| fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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| fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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| fasciolosis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fascioliasis |
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| fascism | (noun) a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | - |
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| fascist | (noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
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| fascista | (noun) an Italian fascist under Mussolini | - |
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| fiasco | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse | Synonyms: debacle |
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| gasconade | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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| irascibility | (noun) a feeling of resentful anger | Synonyms: quick temper, short temper, spleen |
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| lascar | (noun) an East Indian sailor | - |
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| lasciviousness | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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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 |
| mascara | (noun) makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes | - |
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| mascarpone | (noun) soft mild Italian cream cheese | - |
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| mascot | (noun) a character, animal or object that is adopted by a team or group as a symbolic figure | - |
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| masculine | (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | - |
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| masculinisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinization, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinity | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: maleness |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men | - |
| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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| nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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| pascal | (noun) a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter | Synonyms: Pa |
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| rascal | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| rascality | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: prankishness, roguishness |
| (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness |
| renascence | (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: rebirth, reincarnation |
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| seascape | (noun) a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) | Synonyms: waterscape |
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| (noun) a view of the sea | - |
| tabasco | (noun) very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small | Synonyms: red pepper |
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| vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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| vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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