| breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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| breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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| breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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| breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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| brewer | (noun) the owner or manager of a brewery | - |
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| (noun) someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water | Synonyms: beer maker |
| brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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| briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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| brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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| (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
| (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| (noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| broiler | (noun) an oven or part of a stove used for broiling | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling | - |
| broker | (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, factor |
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| brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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| (noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
| (noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
| broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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| bronzer | (noun) A cosmetic powder that comes in various shades of brown, meant to create an impression of tanned skin. | Synonyms: bronzing powder |
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| brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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| brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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| (noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
| brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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| (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
| (noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
| browser | (noun) a program used to view HTML documents | Synonyms: web browser |
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| (noun) a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular | - |
| bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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| bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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| (noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
| buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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| buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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| buckeroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, vaquero |
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| buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
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| buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| buffer | (noun) a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact | Synonyms: fender |
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| (noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: polisher |
| (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: cowcatcher, fender, pilot |
| (noun) (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system | Synonyms: buffer storage, buffer store |
| (noun) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | Synonyms: buff |
| (noun) a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict | Synonyms: buffer zone |
| (noun) (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH | - |
| buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| bugger | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: sod, sodomist, sodomite |
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| buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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| bugler | (noun) someone who plays a bugle | - |
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| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bumbler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bummer | (noun) an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing | - |
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| (noun) a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug | - |
| bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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| (noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bunker | (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: sand trap, trap |
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| (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: dugout |
| (noun) a large container for storing fuel | - |
| bunter | (noun) a batter who bunts | - |
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| burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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| buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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| (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
| (noun) a robust child | - |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
| (noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| butler | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: pantryman |
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| butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
| butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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| (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
| butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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| butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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| butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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| (noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| buttery | (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
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| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| buyer | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: emptor, purchaser, vendee |
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| buzzer | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, doorbell |
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| (noun) a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | - |
| bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| caber | (noun) a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) | - |
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| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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| cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
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| (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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| cafeteria | (noun) a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier | - |
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| caffer | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffre, kaffir, kafir |
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| cager | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, basketeer |
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