architectonics | (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: tectonics |
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architecture | (noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | - |
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(noun) an architectural product or work | - |
(noun) (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software | Synonyms: computer architecture |
(noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings | - |
architeuthis | (noun) largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long) | Synonyms: giant squid |
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architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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(noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
archive | (noun) a depository containing historical records and documents | - |
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archives | (noun) collection of records especially about an institution | - |
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archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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archness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: impertinence, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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archosaur | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaurian, archosaurian reptile |
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archosaurian | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
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archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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artichoke | (noun) a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart | Synonyms: globe artichoke |
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(noun) Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head | Synonyms: artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, globe artichoke |
ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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attache | (noun) a shallow and rectangular briefcase | Synonyms: attache case |
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(noun) a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission | - |
attachment | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: fastening |
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(noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: affixation |
(noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion |
(noun) a supplementary part or accessory | - |
(noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: bond |
(noun) a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding | - |
(noun) a feeling of affection for a person or an institution | Synonyms: fond regard |
aurochs | (noun) large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle | Synonyms: Bos primigenius, urus |
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(noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: Bison bonasus, wisent |
autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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(noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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(noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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bacchanal | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchant |
bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
bacchante | (noun) (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus | - |
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bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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(noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
backache | (noun) an ache localized in the back | - |
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backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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backchat | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: banter, give-and-take, raillery |
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backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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(noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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bacteriochlorophyll | (noun) a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants | - |
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baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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(noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
batrachian | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
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batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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beech | (noun) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | Synonyms: beech tree |
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(noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beechwood |
beechnut | (noun) small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
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beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
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belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
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(noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: work bench, workbench |
(noun) (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom | - |
(noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: judiciary |
(noun) the reserve players on a team | - |
(noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: terrace |
benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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(noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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biochemist | (noun) someone with special training in biochemistry | - |
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biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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biochip | (noun) a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment | - |
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biotech | (noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotechnology |
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biotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: bioengineering, ergonomics |
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(noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotech |
birch | (noun) a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment | Synonyms: birch rod |
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(noun) any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark | Synonyms: birch tree |
(noun) hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood | - |
birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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bitch | (noun) female of any member of the dog family | - |
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(noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, gripe, kick, squawk |
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: cunt |
(noun) an unpleasant difficulty | - |
bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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(noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
(noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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blotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: splodge, splotch |
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blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borshch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borsht, bortsch |
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bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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brachiopod | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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