landscaper | (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscapist |
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landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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(noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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(noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
madcap | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, swashbuckler |
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mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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milkcap | (noun) edible mushroom | Synonyms: Lactarius delicioso |
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mobcap | (noun) large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women | - |
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nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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(noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
(noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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recap | (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recapitulation, review |
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(noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: retread |
recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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(noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
(noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: retaking |
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(noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount | - |
redcap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station | - |
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(noun) a member of the military police in Britain | - |
scape | (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: shaft |
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(noun) erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip | Synonyms: flower stalk |
scapegoat | (noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others | Synonyms: whipping boy |
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scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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scaphocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | - |
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scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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scapular | (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
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(noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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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 | - |
sexcapade | (noun) a sexual escapade; an illicit affair | - |
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skullcap | (noun) rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head | - |
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(noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: calvaria |
(noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: helmetflower |
skycap | (noun) a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport | - |
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snowcap | (noun) a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak) | - |
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toecap | (noun) a protective leather or steel cover for the toe of a boot or shoe, reinforcing or decorating it | - |
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waterscape | (noun) a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) | Synonyms: seascape |
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waxycap | (noun) any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance | - |
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whitecap | (noun) a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white | Synonyms: white horse |
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