| causalgia | (noun) a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes | - |
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| causality | (noun) the relation between causes and effects | - |
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| causation | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causing |
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| cause | (noun) any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent |
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| (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: grounds, reason |
| (noun) events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | - |
| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| causing | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causation |
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| caustic | (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
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| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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| cauterisation | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterization, cautery |
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| cauterization | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cautery |
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| cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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| (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
| caution | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, cautiousness |
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| (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: circumspection |
| (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, forethought, precaution |
| (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caveat |
| cautious | (noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: timid |
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| cautiousness | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, caution |
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| centaur | (noun) (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse | - |
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| centaury | (noun) any plant of the genus Centaurea | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurium | - |
| ceratosaur | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaurus |
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| ceratosaurus | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaur |
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| chapeau | (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: hat, lid |
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| chateau | (noun) an impressive country house (or castle) in France | - |
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| chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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| chauffeuse | (noun) a woman chauffeur | - |
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| chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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| claudication | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
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| (noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrum | (noun) a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| coauthor | (noun) a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | Synonyms: joint author |
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| corythosaur | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet | Synonyms: corythosaurus |
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| corythosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet | Synonyms: corythosaur |
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| cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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| crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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| cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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| (noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) material used to daub walls | - |
| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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| debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| default | (noun) loss due to not showing up | - |
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| (noun) an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified | Synonyms: default option |
| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| defaulter | (noun) a contestant who forfeits a match | - |
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| (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: deadbeat |
| (noun) someone who fails to make a required appearance in court | - |
| defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
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| dinosaur | (noun) any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era | - |
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| draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
| draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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| edaphosaurus | (noun) heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic | - |
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| edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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| electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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| encaustic | (noun) a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
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| epaulet | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulette |
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| epaulette | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder | Synonyms: epaulet |
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| epauliere | (noun) armor plate that protects the shoulder | - |
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| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
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| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| exhaustion | (noun) the act of exhausting something entirely | - |
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| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement |
| (noun) extreme fatigue | - |
| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| fauces | (noun) the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx | - |
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| faucet | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: spigot |
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| fauld | (noun) a piece of armor plate below the breastplate | - |
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| fault | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: error, mistake |
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| (noun) (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: demerit |
| (noun) responsibility for a bad situation or event | - |
| (noun) (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: defect, flaw |
| faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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| faultfinding | (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
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| faultiness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: defectiveness |
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| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| faultlessness | (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: impeccability |
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| faun | (noun) ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr | - |
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| fauna | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature |
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| (noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: zoology |
| fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
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| fauvism | (noun) an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | - |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| flambeau | (noun) a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night) | - |
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| flaunt | (noun) the act of displaying something ostentatiously | - |
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| flautist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flute player, flutist |
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| footfault | (noun) a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | - |
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| fraud | (noun) intentional deception resulting in injury to another person | - |
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| (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on |
| (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, rig, swindle |
| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
| fraudulence | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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| (noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: deceit |
| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: duplicity |
| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| gallimaufry | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| gateau | (noun) any of various rich and elaborate cakes | - |
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| gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| gaud | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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| gaudiness | (noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: garishness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
| gaudy | (noun) (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held at a college | - |
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