| adequacy | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequateness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: sufficiency |
| adequateness | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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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: barbecue |
| (noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
| bequest | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: legacy |
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| cheque | (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, check |
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| chequebook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: checkbook |
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| chequer | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: checker |
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| chequerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, checkerboard |
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| consequence | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: import, moment |
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| (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: aftermath |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| discotheque | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: disco |
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| disequilibrium | (noun) loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
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| equal | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, match, peer |
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| equalisation | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalization, leveling |
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| equaliser | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalizer |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equalizer |
| equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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| equality | (noun) the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status | - |
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| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equation, equivalence, par |
| equalization | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, leveling |
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| equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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| (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
| equanimity | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure |
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| equatability | (noun) capability of being equated | - |
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| equating | (noun) the act of regarding as equal | Synonyms: equation |
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| equation | (noun) the act of regarding as equal | Synonyms: equating |
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| (noun) a mathematical statement that two expressions are equal | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equivalence, par |
| equator | (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles | - |
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| (noun) a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts | - |
| equatorial | (noun) a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it | - |
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| equerry | (noun) an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles | - |
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| (noun) a personal attendant of the British royal family | - |
| equestrian | (noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
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| equid | (noun) hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck | Synonyms: equine |
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| equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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| equilateral | (noun) a figure whose sides are all equal | - |
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| equilibration | (noun) stabilization by bringing into equilibrium | - |
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| equilibrium | (noun) a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head | Synonyms: labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense |
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| (noun) a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates | Synonyms: chemical equilibrium |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equipoise |
| (noun) a stable situation in which forces cancel one another | - |
| equine | (noun) hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck | Synonyms: equid |
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| equinoctial | (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles | Synonyms: celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line |
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| equinox | (noun) (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic | Synonyms: equinoctial point |
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| (noun) either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length | - |
| equipage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, rig |
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| (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: materiel |
| equipment | (noun) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | - |
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| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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| equipping | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, arming |
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| equitation | (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: horseback riding, riding |
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| equity | (noun) conformity with rules or standards | Synonyms: fairness |
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| (noun) the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation | - |
| (noun) the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it | - |
| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| equivalent | (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
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| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| equivocalness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: ambiguity |
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| equivocation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: evasiveness, prevarication |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: evasion |
| equivocator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: hedger, tergiversator |
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| exchequer | (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: treasury |
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| forequarter | (noun) the front half of a side of meat | - |
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| frequence | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequency, oftenness |
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| frequency | (noun) the number of observations in a given statistical category | Synonyms: absolute frequency |
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| (noun) the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations | Synonyms: relative frequency |
| (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, oftenness |
| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| frequenter | (noun) a regular customer | Synonyms: patron |
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| harlequin | (noun) a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| inadequacy | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequateness |
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| (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: insufficiency |
| inadequateness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequacy |
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| inconsequence | (noun) having no important effects or influence | - |
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| (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness |
| inequality | (noun) lack of equality | - |
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| inequity | (noun) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards | Synonyms: unfairness |
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| infrequency | (noun) noteworthy scarcity | Synonyms: rareness, rarity |
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| lambrequin | (noun) short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing | - |
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| (noun) a scarf that covers a knight's helmet | - |
| mannequin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannikin, model |
| metasequoia | (noun) large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China | Synonyms: dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostrodoides |
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| milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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| nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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| obsequiousness | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: servility, subservience |
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| obsequy | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: funeral |
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| prerequisite | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
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| ramequin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramekin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramekin |
| request | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: asking |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, postulation |
| requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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| requiem | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, lament, threnody |
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| requiescat | (noun) a prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person | - |
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| requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
| requisite | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement |
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| requisiteness | (noun) the state of being absolutely required | - |
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| requisition | (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use | - |
| (noun) an official form on which a request is made | Synonyms: requisition form |
| requital | (noun) an act of requiting; returning in kind | Synonyms: payment |
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| (noun) a justly deserved penalty | Synonyms: retribution |
| sequel | (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) something that follows something else | Synonyms: subsequence |
| sequela | (noun) any abnormality following or resulting from a disease or injury or treatment | - |
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| sequella | (noun) a secondary consequence | - |
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| sequenator | (noun) (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer | Synonyms: sequencer |
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| sequence | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: succession |
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| (noun) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | Synonyms: episode |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness |
| (noun) several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys | - |
| (noun) serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern | - |
| sequencer | (noun) computer hardware that sorts data or programs into a predetermined sequence | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer | Synonyms: sequenator |
| sequestration | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: segregation |
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| (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: requisition |
| (noun) a writ that authorizes the seizure of property | - |
| (noun) the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions | - |
| sequin | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, spangle |
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| sequoia | (noun) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: redwood |
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| (noun) wood of either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae | Synonyms: redwood |
| subsequence | (noun) following in time | Synonyms: posteriority, subsequentness |
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| (noun) something that follows something else | Synonyms: sequel |
| subsequentness | (noun) following in time | Synonyms: posteriority, subsequence |
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| tequila | (noun) Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant | - |
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| unequivocalness | (noun) clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity | Synonyms: unambiguity |
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