agnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: hangnail |
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agnate | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
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agnathan | (noun) eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | Synonyms: jawless fish, jawless vertebrate |
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agnation | (noun) line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family | Synonyms: patrilineage |
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assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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(noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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bologna | (noun) large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork | Synonyms: Bologna sausage |
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chaetognath | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: arrowworm |
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cognate | (noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
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(noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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(noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
compsognathus | (noun) very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria | - |
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cosignatory | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
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countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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(noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
(noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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gnarl | (noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: knot |
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gnat | (noun) any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies | - |
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(noun) (British usage) mosquito | - |
gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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gnathion | (noun) the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline | - |
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gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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gnawer | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: rodent |
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hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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impregnability | (noun) having the strength to withstand attack | Synonyms: invulnerability |
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impregnation | (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: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
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(noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: saturation |
(noun) material with which something is impregnated | - |
indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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lasagna | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagne |
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(noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagne |
magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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magnanimousness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, nobility, nobleness |
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magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
plectognath | (noun) tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | Synonyms: plectognath fish |
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poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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(noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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pregnanediol | (noun) a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women | - |
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prognathism | (noun) the condition of being prognathous; the condition of having a projecting jaw | - |
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pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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(noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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signal | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signaling, signalling |
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(noun) any incitement to action | - |
(noun) an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | - |
signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
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signaling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalling |
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signalisation | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalization |
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signalization | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalisation |
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signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
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signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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(noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
(noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
(noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
(noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |
toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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