neb | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, nib, pecker |
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(noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: snout |
nebbech | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbish |
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nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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nebula | (noun) (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea | - |
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(noun) an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | - |
(noun) cloudiness of the urine | - |
(noun) a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer | - |
nebule | (noun) a small cloud | - |
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nebuliser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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nebulizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, spray, sprayer |
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needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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nosebag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: feedbag |
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noseband | (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
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nosebleed | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: epistaxis |
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notebook | (noun) a small compact portable computer | Synonyms: notebook computer |
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(noun) a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda | - |
pageboy | (noun) a smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inward | - |
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(noun) a boy who is employed to run errands | Synonyms: page |
paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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palpebra | (noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | Synonyms: eyelid, lid |
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palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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peba | (noun) having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay | Synonyms: Dasypus novemcinctus, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo |
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pebble | (noun) a small smooth rounded rock | - |
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pebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibits or 2^50 bits | Synonyms: Pibit |
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pebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes | Synonyms: PB, petabyte, PiB |
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phlebectomy | (noun) surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins | - |
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phlebitis | (noun) inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs) | - |
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phlebogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: venogram |
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phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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phlebotomist | (noun) someone who practices phlebotomy | - |
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phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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phlebotomy | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: venesection |
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phoebe | (noun) small dun-colored North American flycatcher | Synonyms: phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe |
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phonebook | (noun) a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers | Synonyms: phone book, telephone book, telephone directory |
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pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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placebo | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead | - |
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(noun) an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug | - |
pleb | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: plebeian |
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plebe | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: cadet |
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plebeian | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
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plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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prebend | (noun) the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon | - |
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prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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(noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
pueblo | (noun) a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States | - |
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pureblood | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
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purebred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
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rarebit | (noun) cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast | Synonyms: Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit |
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rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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(noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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(noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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(noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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(noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
(noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
(noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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(noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
(noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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(noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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rebus | (noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
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rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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(noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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(noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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(noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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roebuck | (noun) male roe deer | - |
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ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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rosebud | (noun) (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl | - |
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(noun) the bud of a rose | - |
rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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(noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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sauceboat | (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: boat, gravy boat, gravy holder |
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scoreboard | (noun) a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) | - |
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scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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seborrhea | (noun) a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily | - |
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sebum | (noun) the oily secretion of the sebaceous glands; with perspiration it moistens and protects the skin | - |
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serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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(noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
shebang | (noun) an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang' | - |
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shebeen | (noun) unlicensed drinking establishment | - |
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shoebill | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebird |
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shoebird | (noun) large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe | Synonyms: Balaeniceps rex, shoebill |
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shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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(noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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(noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
sideboard | (noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | Synonyms: buffet, counter |
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(noun) a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib | - |
(noun) a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity | - |
sideboob | (noun) A breast exposed from the side | - |
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sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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skateboard | (noun) a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot | - |
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