angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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caecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, cecum |
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canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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cecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, caecum |
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decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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decussation | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasm, chiasma |
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ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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(noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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execution | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, executing |
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(noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: murder, slaying |
(noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, performance |
(noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, implementation |
(noun) a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out | Synonyms: writ of execution |
(noun) (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable | Synonyms: execution of instrument |
(noun) (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer | Synonyms: instruction execution |
executioner | (noun) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | Synonyms: public executioner |
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executive | (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
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(noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
(noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
executor | (noun) a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will | - |
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executrix | (noun) a woman executor | - |
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eyecup | (noun) (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina | Synonyms: optic cup |
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(noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyebath |
fecula | (noun) excreta (especially of insects) | - |
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feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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(noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
(noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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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 | - |
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 |
macromolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: supermolecule |
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molecule | (noun) (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound | - |
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(noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, mote, particle, speck |
oecumenism | (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: ecumenism |
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peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
(noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |
persecution | (noun) the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) | - |
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persecutor | (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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pinguecula | (noun) a slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it | - |
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precursor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, predecessor |
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(noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: forerunner |
(noun) a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction) | - |
prosecution | (noun) the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior | Synonyms: criminal prosecution |
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(noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: pursuance |
(noun) the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant | - |
prosecutor | (noun) a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state | Synonyms: prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor |
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recuperation | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recovery |
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recurrence | (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: return |
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recursion | (noun) (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive | - |
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recusal | (noun) (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves | Synonyms: recusation |
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recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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recusant | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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recusation | (noun) (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves | Synonyms: recusal |
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(noun) (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties | - |
rudapithecus | (noun) fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene | Synonyms: Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus |
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secular | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, layperson |
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secularisation | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularization |
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(noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularization |
secularism | (noun) a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
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secularist | (noun) an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education | - |
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secularization | (noun) transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession | Synonyms: secularisation |
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(noun) the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion | Synonyms: secularisation |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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secureness | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture |
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(noun) the state of freedom from fear or danger | - |
securer | (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: procurer |
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security | (noun) measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc. | Synonyms: security measures |
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(noun) an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in | Synonyms: security measure, security system |
(noun) a guarantee that an obligation will be met | Synonyms: surety |
(noun) freedom from anxiety or fear | - |
(noun) a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers | Synonyms: security department |
(noun) property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation | Synonyms: surety |
(noun) defense against financial failure; financial independence | Synonyms: protection |
(noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: certificate |
(noun) the state of being free from danger or injury | - |
sinecure | (noun) an office that involves minimal duties | - |
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(noun) a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached | - |
speculation | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: conjecture |
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(noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: meditation |
(noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
(noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: venture |
speculativeness | (noun) the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation | - |
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(noun) financial risk | - |
speculator | (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: plunger |
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(noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts | - |
speculum | (noun) a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior | - |
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(noun) a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument | - |
stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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supermolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: macromolecule |
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trabecula | (noun) rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure of an organ (as in the spleen) | - |
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vallecula | (noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: groove |
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whitecup | (noun) prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose | Synonyms: Nierembergia repens, Nierembergia rivularis |
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