| bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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| (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
| (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
| (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
| bulbil | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulblet |
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| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| cabin | (noun) the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried | - |
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| (noun) small room on a ship or boat where people sleep | - |
| (noun) a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
| cabinet | (noun) a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display | - |
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| (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: console |
| (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: locker, storage locker |
| (noun) persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers | - |
| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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| cambium | (noun) the inner layer of the periosteum | - |
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| (noun) a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth | - |
| cannabin | (noun) a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana | Synonyms: cannabis resin |
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| cannabis | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: ganja, marihuana, marijuana |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: hemp |
| capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
| (noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
| carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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| carabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: karabiner, snap ring |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| carbide | (noun) a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element | - |
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| carbine | (noun) light automatic rifle | - |
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| carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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| catabiosis | (noun) normal aging of cells | - |
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| catbird | (noun) North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing | Synonyms: Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird |
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| (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: bowerbird |
| cedarbird | (noun) widely distributed over temperate North America | Synonyms: Bombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing |
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| cenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: coenobite |
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| chalybite | (noun) iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate | Synonyms: siderite |
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| changeability | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeableness |
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| childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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| chrysarobin | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: araroba, Goa powder |
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| chubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: pudginess, rolypoliness, tubbiness |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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| clubbing | (noun) a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease | - |
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| coalbin | (noun) a bin for holding coal | Synonyms: coalhole |
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| cobia | (noun) large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters | Synonyms: Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish |
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| coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| columbine | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, aquilegia |
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| columbite | (noun) a black mineral that is an ore of niobium and tantalum | Synonyms: niobite |
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| columbium | (noun) a former name for niobium | - |
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| combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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| (noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
| (noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
| (noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
| (noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
| (noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
| (noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
| combine | (noun) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field | - |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combining |
| (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust |
| combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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| concubine | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: courtesan, doxy, paramour |
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| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| corbina | (noun) bluish-grey whiting of California coast | Synonyms: Menticirrhus undulatus |
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| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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| crabbiness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crossness |
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| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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| crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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| cryobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living tissues or organs or organisms | - |
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| cryophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of freezing | - |
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| cryptobiosis | (noun) a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill | - |
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| cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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| cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
| cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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| cubist | (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
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| cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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| (noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
| cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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| curability | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curableness |
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| curbing | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, kerb |
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| cyberphobia | (noun) irrational fear of computers or technology | - |
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| cymbid | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbidium |
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| cymbidium | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbid |
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| cynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dogs | - |
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| dabbing | (noun) pressing a marijuana concentrate to a hot surface in order to vaporize it and inhale the concentrate | - |
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| (noun) a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | Synonyms: dab |
| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| debility | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism |
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| debit | (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | Synonyms: debit entry |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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| defensibility | (noun) capability of being defended | - |
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| definability | (noun) the quality or state of being capable of being defined, limited, or explained. | - |
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| delabialization | (noun) the pronouncing of a sound without lip rounding. | - |
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| delectability | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| demobilisation | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilization |
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| demobilization | (noun) act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops | Synonyms: demobilisation |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| dendrobium | (noun) a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers | - |
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