curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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cyder | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cider |
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cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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(noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
(noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
(noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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(noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
decoder | (noun) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language | - |
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(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decipherer |
defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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(noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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deracination | (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: excision, extirpation |
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(noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: displacement |
derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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derangement | (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: overthrow, upset |
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(noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: mental unsoundness, unbalance |
derby | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler, bowler hat, derby hat, plug hat |
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deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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deregulation | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulating |
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derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
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(noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
derision | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: ridicule |
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(noun) contemptuous laughter | - |
derivation | (noun) the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin | - |
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(noun) drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation | - |
(noun) drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body | - |
(noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage |
(noun) a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions | - |
(noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing |
(noun) the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues) | - |
(noun) (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation | - |
derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
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(noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
(noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
(noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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derma | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, dermis |
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dermabrasion | (noun) removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer | - |
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dermatitis | (noun) inflammation of the skin; skin becomes itchy and may develop blisters | - |
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dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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dermatology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases | - |
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dermatome | (noun) a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin | - |
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dermatomycosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatophytosis |
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dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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dermatophytosis | (noun) fungal infection of the skin (especially of moist parts covered by clothing) | Synonyms: dermatomycosis |
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dermatosclerosis | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: scleroderma |
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dermatosis | (noun) disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation) | - |
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dermis | (noun) the deep vascular inner layer of the skin | Synonyms: corium, derma |
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derogation | (noun) (law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law | - |
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(noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, disparagement |
derp | (noun) someone who is silly or stupid especially when seeming cute | - |
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derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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(noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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derris | (noun) any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons | - |
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derv | (noun) diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines; from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle) | - |
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dervish | (noun) an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
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descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
desideratum | (noun) something desired as a necessity | - |
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disorder | (noun) a disturbance of the peace or of public order | - |
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(noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorderliness |
(noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: upset |
disorderliness | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disarray |
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(noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorder |
(noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
dodder | (noun) a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria | - |
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dodderer | (noun) one who dodders from old age and weakness | - |
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doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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ectoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, exoderm |
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eider | (noun) duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females | Synonyms: eider duck |
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eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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(noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
elder | (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
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(noun) any of various church officers | - |
(noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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(noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
elderly | (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
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eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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embroiderer | (noun) someone who ornaments with needlework | - |
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embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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embroidery | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: fancywork |
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(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embellishment |
endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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epidermis | (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: cuticle |
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erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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escalader | (noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders | - |
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exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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expander | (noun) an electronic device that increases the dynamic range of the audio signal. | - |
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expender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, spender |
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expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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(noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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(noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
federation | (noun) the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs | - |
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(noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, confederation |
(noun) an organization formed by merging several groups or parties | - |
federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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feeder | (noun) an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening | - |
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(noun) an animal that feeds on a particular source of food | - |
(noun) a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material | Synonyms: self-feeder |
(noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, birdfeeder |
(noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, tributary |
(noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: eater |
fender | (noun) a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact | Synonyms: buffer |
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(noun) a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud | Synonyms: wing |
(noun) a low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth | - |
(noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, cowcatcher, pilot |
fielder | (noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat | - |
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(noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fieldsman |
finder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: view finder, viewfinder |
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(noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, spotter |
(noun) someone who comes upon something after searching | - |
flinders | (noun) bits and splinters and fragments | - |
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flounder | (noun) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish | - |
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(noun) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish | - |
fodder | (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | - |
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(noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire | Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish |
folder | (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents | - |
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(noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet |
folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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founder | (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father |
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(noun) a worker who makes metal castings | - |
(noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: laminitis |
foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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gander | (noun) mature male goose | - |
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gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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(noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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