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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cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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(noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
(noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
cubby | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubbyhole, snug, snuggery |
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cubbyhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: pigeonhole |
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(noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, snug, snuggery |
cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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(noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
(noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
(noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
(noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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(noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
(noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
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 | - |
cuboid | (noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
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decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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incubation | (noun) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development | - |
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(noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: brooding |
(noun) (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear | - |
incubator | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: brooder |
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incubus | (noun) a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women | - |
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(noun) someone who depresses or worries others | - |
(noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: nightmare |
lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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(noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
scuba | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, aqualung |
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succuba | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succubus |
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succubus | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succuba |
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