bandtail | (noun) wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon | Synonyms: band-tail pigeon, band-tailed pigeon, Columba fasciata |
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bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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(noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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(noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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(noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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hundredth | (noun) one part in a hundred equal parts | Synonyms: one-hundredth, one percent |
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(noun) position 100 in a countable series of things | - |
midterm | (noun) an examination administered in the middle of an academic term | Synonyms: midterm exam, midterm examination |
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(noun) middle of an academic term or a political term in office | - |
(noun) the middle of the gestation period | - |
oldtimer | (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, gaffer, old-timer, old geezer |
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(noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, stager, veteran, warhorse |
redtail | (noun) dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail | Synonyms: Buteo jamaicensis, red-tailed hawk |
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(noun) European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | Synonyms: redstart |
roundtable | (noun) a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views | Synonyms: round-table conference, round table |
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seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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(noun) any time of new development | - |
soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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spendthrift | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
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swordtail | (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri |
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thousandth | (noun) one part in a thousand equal parts | Synonyms: one-thousandth |
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(noun) position 1,000 in a countable series of things | - |
veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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width | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: breadth |
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windtalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: codetalker |
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