abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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absconder | (noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution | - |
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adder | (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: common viper, Vipera berus |
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(noun) a machine that adds numbers | - |
(noun) a person who adds numbers | - |
adermin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch | Synonyms: pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, pyridoxine, vitamin B6 |
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alder | (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | Synonyms: alder tree |
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(noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc | - |
alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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(noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attender | (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, tender |
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(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, meeter |
(noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: auditor, hearer, listener |
autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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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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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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bedder | (noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed | Synonyms: bedding plant |
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beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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(noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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(noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
(noun) a tool for bending | - |
bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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(noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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(noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
(noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
(noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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birder | (noun) a person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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birdfeeder | (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, feeder |
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bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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(noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
(noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
(noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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(noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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(noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
(noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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border | (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something | - |
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(noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: molding, moulding |
(noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
(noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: edge |
(noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: margin, perimeter |
borderer | (noun) an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) | - |
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borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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borderline | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
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boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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brooder | (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: incubator |
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builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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(noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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camcorder | (noun) a portable television camera and videocassette recorder | - |
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cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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(noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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cider | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cyder |
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ciderpress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from apples | - |
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cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
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cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
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commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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(noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
(noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
(noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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confederacy | (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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(noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederation, federation |
(noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspiracy |
confederate | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: accomplice |
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(noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, henchman, partner in crime |
confederation | (noun) the act of forming an alliance or confederation | Synonyms: alliance |
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(noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, federation |
(noun) the state of being allied or confederated | Synonyms: alliance |
considerateness | (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: consideration, thoughtfulness |
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consideration | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: thoughtfulness |
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(noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, thoughtfulness |
(noun) the process of giving careful thought to something | - |
(noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, condition |
(noun) a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting) | - |
(noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: retainer |
contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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(noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
crusader | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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