ablepharia | (noun) a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | - |
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athar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, attar, ottar |
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bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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blepharism | (noun) condition in which a person blinks continuously | - |
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blepharitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts | - |
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blepharospasm | (noun) spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye | - |
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blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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cardsharp | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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catharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, katharsis |
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(noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: katharsis, purgation |
cathartic | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
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cathartid | (noun) large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | Synonyms: New World vulture |
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char | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: charr |
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(noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
(noun) a charred substance | - |
charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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characid | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characin, characin fish |
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characin | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characid, characin fish |
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character | (noun) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | - |
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(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: lineament, quality |
(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
(noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character reference, reference |
(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
(noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
(noun) good repute | - |
characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
characteristic | (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
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(noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
(noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |
charade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: masquerade |
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(noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | - |
charades | (noun) guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess | - |
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charcoal | (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: fusain |
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(noun) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material | - |
(noun) a very dark grey color | Synonyms: charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey |
(noun) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air | Synonyms: wood coal |
charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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chard | (noun) long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves | Synonyms: leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
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(noun) beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris cicla, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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(noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
(noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
(noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
(noun) a person committed to your care | - |
(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
(noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
(noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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(noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
chariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: wariness |
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chariot | (noun) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage | - |
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(noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome | - |
charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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charisma | (noun) a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others | Synonyms: personal appeal, personal magnetism |
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charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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charity | (noun) an activity or gift that benefits the public at large | - |
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(noun) a kindly and lenient attitude toward people | Synonyms: brotherly love |
(noun) a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) | - |
(noun) an institution set up to provide help to the needy | - |
(noun) pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers | Synonyms: Greek valerian, Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae |
charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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charm | (noun) something believed to bring good luck | Synonyms: good luck charm |
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(noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, appealingness |
(noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks | - |
(noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, spell |
charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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charmer | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: beguiler |
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(noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker |
charnel | (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
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charr | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: char |
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chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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(noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
(noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
charter | (noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation | - |
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(noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation | - |
charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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chartreuse | (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
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charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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(noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
diehard | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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disaccharidase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
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disaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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(noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
(noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
(noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
(noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
(noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
(noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
(noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
(noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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eschar | (noun) a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin | - |
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flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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foolhardiness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: rashness, recklessness |
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gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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(noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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harbor | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbour |
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(noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbour, haven, seaport |
harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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(noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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hardback | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardcover |
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hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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(noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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hardcover | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
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hardener | (noun) one that hardens, especially a substance added to varnish or paint to give it a harder surface or finish. | - |
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hardening | (noun) the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | - |
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(noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying |
(noun) abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue | - |
hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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hardiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: lustiness, robustness |
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(noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardihood |
hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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hardness | (noun) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering | - |
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(noun) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale | - |
(noun) the quality of being difficult to do | Synonyms: ruggedness |
(noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
(noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
hardpan | (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: caliche |
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hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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(noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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(noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
(noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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hare | (noun) swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes | - |
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(noun) flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food | Synonyms: rabbit |
harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
hareem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: harem, seraglio, serail |
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