alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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(noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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chamarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chimer, simarre |
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chamber | (noun) a natural or artificial enclosed space | - |
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(noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
(noun) a room where a judge transacts business | - |
(noun) an enclosed volume in the body | - |
(noun) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly | - |
chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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(noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chamaeleon |
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(noun) a changeable or inconstant person | - |
chamfer | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, cant |
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chamfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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chammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
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chamois | (noun) hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips | Synonyms: Rupicapra rupicapra |
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(noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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chamosite | (noun) a greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum | - |
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champ | (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champion, title-holder |
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champagne | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: bubbly |
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champaign | (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: field, plain |
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champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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champion | (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: fighter, hero, paladin |
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(noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champ, title-holder |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, friend, protagonist, supporter |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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(noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
(noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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dirham | (noun) worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils | Synonyms: Kuwaiti dirham |
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(noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya | Synonyms: Libyan dirham |
(noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | Synonyms: Tunisian dirham |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes | Synonyms: Moroccan dirham |
(noun) the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 100 fils | Synonyms: United Arab Emirate dirham |
(noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar | Synonyms: Qatari dirham |
gingham | (noun) a clothing fabric in a plaid weave | - |
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graham | (noun) flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage) | Synonyms: graham flour, whole meal flour, whole wheat flour |
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ham | (noun) meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) | Synonyms: gammon, jambon |
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(noun) an unskilled actor who overacts | Synonyms: ham actor |
(noun) a licensed amateur radio operator | - |
hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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(noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
hamartia | (noun) the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall | Synonyms: tragic flaw |
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hamartoma | (noun) a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ | - |
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hamate | (noun) the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers | Synonyms: hamate bone, os hamatum, unciform bone |
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hamburger | (noun) beef that has been ground | Synonyms: ground beef |
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(noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, burger |
hame | (noun) stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces | - |
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hamelia | (noun) any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia | - |
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hamlet | (noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: crossroads |
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(noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: village |
hammer | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding |
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(noun) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking | - |
(noun) a power tool for drilling rocks | Synonyms: power hammer |
(noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate | - |
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: mallet |
(noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: cock |
(noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw | - |
(noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: malleus |
hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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(noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
(noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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hamming | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: overacting |
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hammock | (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: sack |
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(noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hillock, hummock, knoll, mound |
hamper | (noun) a basket usually with a cover | - |
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(noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, shackle, trammel |
hamster | (noun) short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches | - |
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hamstring | (noun) one of the tendons at the back of the knee | Synonyms: hamstring tendon |
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jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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khamsin | (noun) an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring | - |
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methamphetamine | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
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methylenedioxymethamphetamine | (noun) a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States | Synonyms: MDMA |
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sham | (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: fake, postiche |
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(noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, shammer |
shaman | (noun) in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination | Synonyms: priest-doctor |
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shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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(noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
shamble | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shambling, shuffle, shuffling |
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shambles | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse |
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(noun) a condition of great disorder | - |
shambling | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle, shuffling |
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shame | (noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: pity |
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(noun) a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt | - |
(noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, ignominy |
shamefacedness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: sheepishness |
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shamefulness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, ignominiousness |
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shamelessness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: brazenness |
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shamisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: samisen |
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shammer | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham |
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(noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, skulker |
shammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy leather |
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shampoo | (noun) the act of washing your hair with shampoo | - |
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(noun) cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair | - |
shamrock | (noun) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock | Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
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(noun) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage | Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover |
(noun) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella |
shamus | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, sherlock |
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sisham | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sissoo, sissu |
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sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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triphammer | (noun) a massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity | - |
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whammy | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, jinx |
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(noun) a serious or devastating setback | - |
whatchamacallit | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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whatchamacallum | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatsis, widget |
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yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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(noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |