| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| airburst | (noun) an explosion in the atmosphere | - |
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| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| beefburger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: burger, hamburger |
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| bur | (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: burr |
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| (noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: burr |
| burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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| bureau | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: chest, chest of drawers, dresser |
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| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, federal agency, government agency, office |
| bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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| (noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
| (noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
| bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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| bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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| buret | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: burette |
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| burette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube with a tap at the bottom; used for titration | Synonyms: buret |
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| burg | (noun) colloquial American term for a town | - |
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| burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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| burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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| (noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
| (noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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| burial | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burying |
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| (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
| burin | (noun) a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving | - |
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| burka | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burqa |
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| burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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| (noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
| (noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
| burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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| burlesque | (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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| (noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| burning | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| burnous | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnouse |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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| burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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| (noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
| burp | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burping, eructation |
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| burping | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, eructation |
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| burqa | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burka |
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| burr | (noun) rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting | - |
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| (noun) rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece | - |
| (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: bur |
| (noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: bur |
| burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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| burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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| burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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| burro | (noun) small donkey used as a pack animal | - |
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| burrow | (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| bursa | (noun) a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints | - |
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| bursar | (noun) the treasurer at a college or university | - |
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| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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| bursitis | (noun) inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder | - |
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| burst | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: explosion |
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| (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley |
| (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: fit |
| (noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: flare-up, outburst |
| burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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| burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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| butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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| calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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| carburetor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburettor |
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| carburettor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburetor |
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| cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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| clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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| cloudburst | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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| (noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
| cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
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| disbursal | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursement, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursement, expense |
| disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
| disburser | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: expender, spender |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| glyburide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: DiaBeta, Micronase |
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| hamburger | (noun) beef that has been ground | Synonyms: ground beef |
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| (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, burger |
| heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| homburg | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, Stetson, trilby |
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| kookaburra | (noun) Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry | Synonyms: Dacelo gigas, laughing jackass |
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| outburst | (noun) a sudden violent disturbance | Synonyms: tumultuous disturbance |
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| (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, gush |
| (noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: burst, flare-up |
| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| politburo | (noun) the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party | - |
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| reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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| reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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| reimbursement | (noun) compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. | - |
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| sambur | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambar |
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| sandbur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandspur |
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| sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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| (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
| sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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| sunburst | (noun) a jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun | - |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it | - |
| (noun) a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds | - |
| tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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| windburn | (noun) redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind | - |
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| zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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| zamburek | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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