ardour | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardor |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
candour | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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(noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, fair-mindedness, fairness |
deodourant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodorant |
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double | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base | Synonyms: two-bagger, two-base hit, two-baser |
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(noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: doubling |
(noun) a quantity that is twice as great as another | - |
(noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: image, look-alike |
(noun) a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts | - |
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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doubler | (noun) an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal | - |
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doubles | (noun) tennis played with two players on each side | - |
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(noun) badminton played with two players on each side | - |
doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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doublet | (noun) a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance | - |
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doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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doubletree | (noun) a crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast | - |
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doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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(noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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doubt | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiousness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
doubter | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: sceptic, skeptic |
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(noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: agnostic |
doubtfulness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
douche | (noun) irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents | - |
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(noun) a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas | Synonyms: douche bag |
dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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(noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
doula | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, labor coach, monitrice |
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doura | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: dourah, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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dourah | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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douroucouli | (noun) nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur | Synonyms: Aotus trivirgatus |
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dousing | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: ducking, immersion, submersion |
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fluidounce | (noun) a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
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(noun) a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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handout | (noun) giving money or food or clothing to a needy person | - |
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(noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: press release, release |
hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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(noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
(noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
koudou | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koodoo, kudu |
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malodour | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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odour | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, olfactory property, scent, smell |
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(noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | Synonyms: odor, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell |
padouk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padauk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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pompadour | (noun) a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead | - |
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readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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(noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
(noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
redoubt | (noun) an entrenched stronghold or refuge | - |
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(noun) (military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses | - |
sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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(noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
splendour | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendor |
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(noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor |
troubadour | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer |
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vodoun | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, voodoo, voodooism |
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