| abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| achillea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads | - |
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| acorea | (noun) absence of the pupil in an eye | - |
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| acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| aculea | (noun) small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects | - |
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| addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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| agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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| agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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| (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
| airhead | (noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops | - |
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| (noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton | - |
| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| albuginea | (noun) whitish tunic | - |
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| althaea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althea, hollyhock |
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| althea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, hollyhock |
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| amenorrhea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhoea |
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| amenorrhoea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhea |
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| amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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| (noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
| amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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| (noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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| (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
| (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
| antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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| apnea | (noun) transient cessation of respiration | - |
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| appeal | (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | - |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appealingness, charm |
| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: entreaty, prayer |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation |
| appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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| appearance | (noun) the act of appearing in public view | - |
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| (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearing, coming into court |
| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | Synonyms: visual aspect |
| (noun) a mental representation | - |
| (noun) the event of coming into sight | - |
| appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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| appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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| appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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| archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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| archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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| area | (noun) a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function | - |
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| (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: expanse, surface area |
| (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: region |
| (noun) a subject of study | - |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: country |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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| (noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| azalea | (noun) any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors | - |
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| baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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| (noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
| backbeat | (noun) a loud steady beat | - |
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| backseat | (noun) a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile) | - |
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| (noun) a secondary or inferior position or status | - |
| bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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| bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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| bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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| beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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| beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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| beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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| beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
| beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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| beacon | (noun) a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes | Synonyms: radio beacon |
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| (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon light, lighthouse, pharos |
| (noun) a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance | Synonyms: beacon fire |
| bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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| (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
| beading | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beadwork |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beadwork |
| beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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| beads | (noun) several beads threaded together on a string | Synonyms: string of beads |
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| beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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| beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
| beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| beam | (noun) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | - |
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| (noun) a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts | Synonyms: balance beam |
| (noun) the broad side of a ship | - |
| (noun) (nautical) breadth amidships | - |
| (noun) a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather | Synonyms: radio beam |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: electron beam, ray |
| bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| (noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
| (noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
| (noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
| beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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| beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| beano | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: bingo, keno, lotto |
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| beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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| beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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| bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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| (noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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| beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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| (noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
| (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
| (noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
| (noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
| beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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| bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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| (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
| bearing | (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
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| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
| (noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| beast | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: brute, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
| beat | (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
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| (noun) a stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
| (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
| (noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations | - |
| beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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| (noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
| beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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| beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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| beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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| beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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| beau | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: boyfriend, fellow, swain |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| beaut | (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beauty |
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| beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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| beauty | (noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | - |
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| (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beaut |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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