| hypercatalectic | (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
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| hypersecretion | (noun) excessive secretion | - |
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| hypophysectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the pituitary gland | - |
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| hysterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the uterus | - |
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| icecap | (noun) a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) | Synonyms: ice cap |
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| icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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| idiolect | (noun) the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life | - |
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| imbecile | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
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| imbecility | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, stupidity |
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| (noun) retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot | - |
| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| impeccability | (noun) the quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: faultlessness |
| impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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| imperfect | (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
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| imperfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming imperfect | - |
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| imperfection | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfectness |
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| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| imperfectness | (noun) the state or an instance of being imperfect | Synonyms: imperfection |
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| imprecation | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: malediction |
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| (noun) a slanderous accusation | - |
| impreciseness | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: imprecision |
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| imprecision | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: impreciseness |
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| incorrectness | (noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: wrongness |
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| (noun) lack of conformity to social expectations | - |
| indecency | (noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| (noun) the quality of being indecent | - |
| indecision | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecisiveness |
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| (noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecisiveness, irresolution |
| indecisiveness | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecision |
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| (noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecision, irresolution |
| indecorousness | (noun) a lack of decorum | Synonyms: indecorum |
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| indecorum | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, liberty |
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| (noun) a lack of decorum | Synonyms: indecorousness |
| indirection | (noun) indirect procedure or action | - |
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| (noun) deceitful action that is not straightforward | - |
| indirectness | (noun) having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | - |
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| ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectuality | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectualness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectuality |
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| infection | (noun) moral corruption or contamination | - |
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| (noun) (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure | - |
| (noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: contagion |
| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, transmission |
| (noun) (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease | - |
| (noun) (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound | - |
| (noun) the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms | - |
| inflection | (noun) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language | Synonyms: prosody |
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| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: modulation |
| (noun) deviation from a straight or normal course | Synonyms: flection, flexion |
| (noun) a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function | Synonyms: inflexion |
| injectant | (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injection |
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| injection | (noun) the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure | - |
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| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injectant |
| injectiveness | (noun) (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain). | - |
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| injector | (noun) a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) | - |
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| (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, thermocompressor |
| insect | (noun) small air-breathing arthropod | - |
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| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, louse, worm |
| insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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| insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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| insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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| (noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
| insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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| insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
| inspection | (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: review |
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| inspector | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: examiner |
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| (noun) a high ranking police officer | - |
| inspectorate | (noun) a body of inspectors | - |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| insurrection | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising |
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| insurrectionism | (noun) the principle of revolt against constituted authority | - |
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| insurrectionist | (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, rebel |
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| intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |
| intellection | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| intellectual | (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellect |
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| intellectualisation | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualization |
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| intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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| interconnectedness | (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnection |
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| interconnection | (noun) (computer science) the act of interconnecting (wires or computers or theories etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a state of being connected reciprocally | Synonyms: interconnectedness |
| interjection | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interpellation, interpolation, interposition |
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| (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: ejaculation |
| interreflection | (noun) reciprocal reflection between two reflecting surfaces | - |
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| intersection | (noun) the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path) | - |
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| (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway |
| (noun) a point where lines intersect | Synonyms: intersection point, point of intersection |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: convergence, overlap |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, product |
| (noun) a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations | - |
| introject | (noun) (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized | - |
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| introjection | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego | - |
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| (noun) (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects | - |
| introspection | (noun) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct | Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| invective | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: vitriol, vituperation |
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| ipecac | (noun) a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning) | - |
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| iridectomy | (noun) an eye operation that treats closed-angle glaucoma by surgical removal of part of the iris of the eye | - |
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| keratectasia | (noun) abnormal bulging of the cornea of the eye | - |
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| kneecap | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneepan, patella |
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| kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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| laminectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae | - |
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| laryngectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
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| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| lecanopteris | (noun) any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes that provide homes for symbiotic ants | - |
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| lecanora | (noun) any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food | - |
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| lech | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lecher, letch, satyr |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| lecher | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, letch, satyr |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| lechwe | (noun) tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species | Synonyms: Kobus leche |
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| lecithin | (noun) a yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier | - |
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| lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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| lectin | (noun) any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus | - |
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| lector | (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lecturer, reader |
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| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: reader |
| lecture | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecturing |
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| (noun) a speech that is open to the public | Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
| (noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: speech, talking to |
| lecturer | (noun) someone who lectures professionally | - |
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| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, reader |
| lectureship | (noun) the post of lecturer | - |
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| lecturing | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecture |
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| leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
| leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| linecut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: line block, line engraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from a line drawing | Synonyms: line engraving |
| lipectomy | (noun) plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue | Synonyms: selective lipectomy |
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| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| lobectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (as the lung or brain) | - |
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| lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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| lutecium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium | Synonyms: atomic number 71, Lu, lutetium |
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