agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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(noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
(noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agrimonia | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimony |
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agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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chagrin | (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: humiliation, mortification |
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filaggrin | (noun) the main protein of the keratohyalin granules | - |
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grid | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: gridiron |
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(noun) an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube | Synonyms: control grid |
(noun) a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region | Synonyms: power grid, power system |
(noun) a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material | Synonyms: storage-battery grid |
(noun) a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines | - |
griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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(noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
gridiron | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: grid |
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(noun) the playing field on which football is played | Synonyms: football field |
gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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grief | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak |
grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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griffin | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffon, gryphon |
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griffon | (noun) breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle | Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon |
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(noun) breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France | Synonyms: wire-haired pointing griffon |
(noun) large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings | Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus |
(noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, gryphon |
grifter | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
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grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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(noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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(noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
(noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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(noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
grimace | (noun) a contorted facial expression | Synonyms: face |
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grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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griminess | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: grubbiness |
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grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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grin | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grinning, smile, smiling |
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grind | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization |
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(noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding |
(noun) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground | - |
(noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk |
grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
(noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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(noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
(noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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griot | (noun) a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village | - |
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grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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(noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
(noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
(noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
(noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
(noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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grit | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
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(noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone |
gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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grivet | (noun) white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops |
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grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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grizzly | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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handgrip | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handle, hold |
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hungriness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: longing, yearning |
(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hunger |
integrity | (noun) moral soundness | - |
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(noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting | Synonyms: unity, wholeness |
megrim | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, migraine, sick headache |
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megrims | (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, blues, vapors, vapours |
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peregrination | (noun) traveling or wandering around | - |
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peregrine | (noun) a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon |
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pilgrim | (noun) someone who journeys in foreign lands | - |
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(noun) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion | - |
pilgrimage | (noun) a journey to a sacred place | Synonyms: pilgrim's journey |
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sangria | (noun) sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water | Synonyms: sangaree |
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transmogrification | (noun) the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one) | - |
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tugrik | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mongolia | Synonyms: tughrik |
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verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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(noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |