| amphictyony | (noun) an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center | - |
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| anthelminthic | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, vermifuge |
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| bioethics | (noun) the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences | - |
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| chic | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
| (noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| chicha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| chichi | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| (noun) someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way | - |
| chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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| chick | (noun) young bird especially of domestic fowl | Synonyms: biddy |
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| (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, dame, doll, skirt, wench |
| chickadee | (noun) any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America | - |
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| chicken | (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
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| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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| chickenpox | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: varicella |
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| chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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| chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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| chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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| (noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
| chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
| chicle | (noun) gum-like substance from the sapodilla | Synonyms: chicle gum |
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| chicness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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| (noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
| (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
| (noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
| chicot | (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
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| colchicine | (noun) an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout | - |
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| dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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| demographic | (noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) | - |
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| dermatoglyphic | (noun) the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) | - |
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| dermatoglyphics | (noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet | - |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| ethic | (noun) the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group | Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation |
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| (noun) a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct | Synonyms: ethical code |
| ethicality | (noun) The state, quality or manner of conforming to accepted standards of conduct. | - |
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| ethician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethicist |
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| ethicism | (noun) a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important | - |
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| ethicist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethician |
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| ethics | (noun) the philosophical study of moral values and rules | Synonyms: moral philosophy |
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| (noun) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | Synonyms: ethical motive, morality, morals |
| eutrophication | (noun) excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life | - |
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| geographics | (noun) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation | Synonyms: geography |
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| graphic | (noun) an image that is generated by a computer | Synonyms: computer graphic |
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| graphics | (noun) the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book | - |
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| (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, artwork, nontextual matter |
| helminthic | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, vermifuge |
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| hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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| hiccup | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, singultus |
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| hick | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| hickory | (noun) American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hickory tree |
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| (noun) valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees | - |
| hieroglyphic | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| machicolation | (noun) a projecting parapet supported by corbels on a medieval castle; has openings through which stones or boiling water could be dropped on an enemy | - |
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| methicillin | (noun) antibiotic drug of the penicillin family used in the treatment of certain staphylococcal infections | - |
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| neuroethics | (noun) the study of ethical implications of treatments for neurological diseases | - |
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| orthicon | (noun) a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons | Synonyms: image orthicon |
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| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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| philosophicalness | (noun) The state or quality of having the attitude of a philosopher; specifically, of being calm or unflinching in the face of trouble, defeat, or loss. | - |
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| pichiciago | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciego |
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| pichiciego | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago |
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| psychic | (noun) a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception | - |
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| psychographics | (noun) market research or statistics classifying population groups according to psychological variables (as attitudes, values, or fears); also: variables or trends identified through such research. | - |
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| pyrrhic | (noun) an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare | - |
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| (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: dibrach |
| taichichuan | (noun) a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation and balance and health | Synonyms: t'ai chi, t'ai chi chuan, tai chi, tai chi chuan, taichi |
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| thick | (noun) the location of something surrounded by other things | Synonyms: midst |
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| thickener | (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickening |
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| thickening | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: inspissation |
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| (noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: knob, node |
| (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickener |
| thicket | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse |
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| thickhead | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: whistler |
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| thickness | (noun) the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | - |
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| (noun) resistance to flow | - |
| (noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: heaviness |
| (noun) indistinct articulation | - |
| vehicle | (noun) a conveyance that transports people or objects | - |
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| (noun) a medium for the expression or achievement of something | - |
| (noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: fomite |
| (noun) any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it | - |
| whicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
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