| accelerando | (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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| arcella | (noun) an amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella | - |
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| blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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| bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
| brucellosis | (noun) an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings | Synonyms: Bang's disease, contagious abortion |
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| (noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache | Synonyms: Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever |
| cancel | (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: natural |
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| cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |
| celandine | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort |
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| (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
| celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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| (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
| celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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| celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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| (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
| (noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
| celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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| celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
| celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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| celeriac | (noun) thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant | Synonyms: celery root |
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| (noun) grown for its thickened edible aromatic root | Synonyms: Apium graveolens rapaceum, celery root, knob celery, root celery, turnip-rooted celery |
| celerity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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| celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
| celesta | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard | - |
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| celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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| celibacy | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: chastity, sexual abstention |
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| (noun) an unmarried status | - |
| celibate | (noun) an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity | - |
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| celiocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis | - |
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| celioma | (noun) an abdominal tumor | - |
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| celioscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of the abdomen through the abdominal wall | - |
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| cell | (noun) (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | Synonyms: electric cell |
| (noun) a room where a prisoner is kept | Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cubicle |
| (noun) any small compartment | - |
| (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
| (noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cadre |
| cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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| (noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
| (noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
| cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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| (noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
| cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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| cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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| cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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| cello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: violoncello |
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| cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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| cellphone | (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cell, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
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| cellularity | (noun) the state of having cells | - |
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| cellulite | (noun) lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. | - |
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| cellulitis | (noun) an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain | - |
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| celluloid | (noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: cinema, film |
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| (noun) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics | - |
| cellulose | (noun) a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers | - |
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| cellulosic | (noun) a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) | - |
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| celom | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celoma, coelom |
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| celoma | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celom, coelom |
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| celtuce | (noun) leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked | - |
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| (noun) lettuce valued especially for its edible stems | Synonyms: Lactuca sativa asparagina, stem lettuce |
| chancel | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, sanctuary |
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| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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| chancellor | (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: premier, prime minister |
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| (noun) the honorary or titular head of a university | - |
| chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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| colpocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: vaginocele |
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| colpocystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: cystocele |
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| cystocele | (noun) hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth | Synonyms: colpocystocele |
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| deceleration | (noun) the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed | - |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: retardation, slowing |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity | - |
| defencelessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defenselessness, unprotectedness |
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| encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
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| excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
| excellency | (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellence |
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| excelsior | (noun) thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing | Synonyms: wood shavings |
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| facelift | (noun) plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, lift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
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| (noun) a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes | Synonyms: face lift, face lifting |
| galactocele | (noun) a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands) | - |
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| gracelessness | (noun) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | Synonyms: ungracefulness |
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| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, stiffness |
| haematocele | (noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) | Synonyms: haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele |
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| hematocele | (noun) swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis) | Synonyms: haematocele, haematocoele, hematocoele |
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| hydrocele | (noun) disorder in which serous fluid accumulates in a body sac (especially in the scrotum) | - |
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| hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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| hypocellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally few cells | - |
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| keratocele | (noun) hernia of the cornea | - |
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| lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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| laparocele | (noun) hernia through the abdomen | - |
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| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| marcel | (noun) a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron | - |
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| meningocele | (noun) a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue) | - |
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| micelle | (noun) an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents | - |
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| miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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| miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| mycelium | (noun) the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae | - |
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| myelomeningocele | (noun) a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation | - |
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| nacelle | (noun) a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine | - |
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| nitrocellulose | (noun) a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives | Synonyms: cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocotton |
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| nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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| ocellus | (noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color | Synonyms: eyespot |
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| (noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: simple eye, stemma |
| ocelot | (noun) nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat | Synonyms: Felis pardalis, panther cat |
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| omphalocele | (noun) protrusion of the intestine and omentum through a hernia in the abdominal wall near the navel; usually self correcting after birth | Synonyms: umbilical hernia |
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| oscheocele | (noun) swelling of the scrotum | Synonyms: oscheocoele |
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| parcel | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: portion, share |
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| (noun) a wrapped container | Synonyms: package |
| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: bundle, package, packet |
| (noun) an extended area of land | Synonyms: parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
| parceling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parcelling |
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| parcellation | (noun) the division into parcels | - |
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| parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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| pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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| pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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| pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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| penoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, pennoncelle |
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| phacelia | (noun) any plant of the genus Phacelia | Synonyms: scorpion weed, scorpionweed |
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| photocell | (noun) a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations | Synonyms: electric eye, magic eye, photoconductive cell, photoelectric cell |
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| porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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| pricelessness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, preciousness, valuableness |
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| princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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| (noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| proctocele | (noun) protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth | Synonyms: rectocele |
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| promycelium | (noun) the basidium of various fungi | - |
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