| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| anathema | (noun) a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication | - |
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| (noun) a detested person | Synonyms: bete noire |
| anathematisation | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematization |
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| anathematization | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematisation |
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| antimetathesis | (noun) A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem". | - |
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| aromatherapy | (noun) the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage | - |
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| atheism | (noun) a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods | - |
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| atheist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the existence of a god | - |
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| athenaeum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: atheneum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: atheneum |
| atheneum | (noun) a place where reading materials are available | Synonyms: athenaeum |
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| (noun) a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning | Synonyms: athenaeum |
| atherodyde | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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| atherogenesis | (noun) the formation of atheromas on the walls of the arteries as in atherosclerosis | - |
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| atheroma | (noun) a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow | - |
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| atherosclerosis | (noun) a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries | Synonyms: coronary artery disease |
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| athetosis | (noun) a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts | - |
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| bathe | (noun) the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation | - |
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| bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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| (noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
| blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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| blatherskite | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blather |
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| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| cathedra | (noun) a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | Synonyms: bishop's throne |
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| cathedral | (noun) any large and important church | - |
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| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
| catheter | (noun) a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open | - |
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| catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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| catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
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| diathermy | (noun) a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents | - |
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| diathesis | (noun) constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality | - |
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| fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
| (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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| feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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| (noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| flathead | (noun) food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards | - |
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| (noun) pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout | - |
| forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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| (noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
| gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
| gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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| (noun) a person who gathers | - |
| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| goatherd | (noun) a person who tends a flock of goats | Synonyms: goat herder |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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| heathen | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| lathe | (noun) machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool | - |
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| lathee | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathi |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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| mathematician | (noun) a person skilled in mathematics | - |
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| mathematics | (noun) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | Synonyms: math, maths |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| metamathematics | (noun) the logical analysis of mathematical reasoning | - |
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| metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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| metathesis | (noun) a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB) | Synonyms: double decomposition, double decomposition reaction |
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| (noun) a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence | - |
| parasympathetic | (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
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| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| spathe | (noun) a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence | - |
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| stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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| swathe | (noun) an enveloping bandage | Synonyms: wrapping |
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| sympathectomy | (noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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| tollgatherer | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollkeeper, tollman |
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| uintathere | (noun) a variety of dinocerate | Synonyms: dinoceras |
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| weather | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather condition |
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| weatherboard | (noun) the side toward the wind | Synonyms: weather side, windward side |
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| (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboarding |
| weatherboarding | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboard |
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| weathercock | (noun) weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster | - |
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| weatherglass | (noun) a simple barometer for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| weatherliness | (noun) (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind) | - |
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| weatherman | (noun) predicts the weather | Synonyms: weather forecaster |
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| weatherstrip | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstripping |
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| weatherstripping | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstrip |
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| weathervane | (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: vane, weather vane, wind vane |
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| woolgatherer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: daydreamer |
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| woolgathering | (noun) an idle indulgence in fantasy | - |
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