airdock | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: hangar, repair shed |
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boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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diplodocus | (noun) a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America | - |
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doc | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doctor, Dr., MD, medico, physician |
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docent | (noun) a teacher at some universities | - |
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docility | (noun) the trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable | - |
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dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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(noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
(noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
(noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
(noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
(noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
(noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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(noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
(noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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(noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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dockside | (noun) the region adjacent to a boat dock | - |
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dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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doctor | (noun) children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office | - |
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(noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, Dr., MD, medico, physician |
(noun) a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution | Synonyms: Dr. |
doctorate | (noun) one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university | Synonyms: doctor's degree |
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doctorfish | (noun) surgeon fish of the West Indies | Synonyms: Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish |
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doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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doctrinaire | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
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doctrine | (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought |
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docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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(noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
(noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
(noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
documentary | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
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documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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(noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
(noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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endocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves | - |
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endocardium | (noun) the membrane that lines the cavities of the heart and forms part of the heart valves | - |
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endocarp | (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: pit, stone |
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endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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endocrine | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: hormone, internal secretion |
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(noun) any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: ductless gland, endocrine gland |
endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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endocrinology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions | - |
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haddock | (noun) important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller | Synonyms: Melanogrammus aeglefinus |
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(noun) lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried | - |
idocrase | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: vesuvian, vesuvianite |
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indoctrination | (noun) teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically | - |
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iodochlorhydroxyquin | (noun) drug used to treat certain fungal infection (as athlete's foot) | Synonyms: Clioquinol |
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iodocompound | (noun) a compound containing the covalent iodine radical | - |
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iridocyclitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and ciliary body of the eye | - |
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lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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paddock | (noun) pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race | - |
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piddock | (noun) marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells | - |
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podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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postdoc | (noun) a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree | Synonyms: post doc |
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(noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoctoral |
postdoctoral | (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoc |
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pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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pseudocyesis | (noun) physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant | Synonyms: false pregnancy |
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rhodochrosite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese | - |
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shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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(noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |
spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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synecdoche | (noun) substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | - |
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