achillea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads | - |
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acidophil | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophile |
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acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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acidophilus | (noun) a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics | Synonyms: Lactobacillus acidophilus |
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aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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aerophile | (noun) a lover of aviation | - |
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algophilia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algolagnia |
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angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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annihilation | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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(noun) total destruction | Synonyms: disintegration |
annihilator | (noun) a total destroyer | - |
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anthill | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: formicary |
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antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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archil | (noun) any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil | Synonyms: orchil |
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(noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: cudbear, orchil |
basophil | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophile |
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basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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chilblain | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblains, pernio |
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chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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child | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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(noun) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | Synonyms: kid |
(noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: baby |
(noun) a member of a clan or tribe | - |
childbearing | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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childcare | (noun) a service involving care for other people's children | Synonyms: child care |
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childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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(noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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childlessness | (noun) the condition of being without offspring | - |
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chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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chili | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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(noun) ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans | Synonyms: chili con carne |
chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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chiliasm | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism |
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chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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chill | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: gelidity, iciness |
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(noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: pall |
(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
(noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: shivering |
chiller | (noun) excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones | Synonyms: hair-raiser |
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chilli | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilly |
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chilliness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: coolness, nip |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
chilling | (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction |
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chilly | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli |
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chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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(noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
(noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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(noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
drosophila | (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | Synonyms: Drosophila melanogaster |
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dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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(noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
enchilada | (noun) tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili | - |
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enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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eosinophil | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophile |
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eosinophile | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophil |
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eosinophilia | (noun) a symptom of allergic states; increased eosinophils in the blood | - |
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europhilia | (noun) admiration for Europe, Europeans, or the European Union. | - |
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exhilaration | (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: excitement |
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foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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ghillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: gillie |
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godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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grandchild | (noun) a child of your son or daughter | - |
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haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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haemophilia | (noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | Synonyms: bleeder's disease, hemophilia |
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haemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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halophil | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophile |
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halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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heliophila | (noun) any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes | - |
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hemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophiliac |
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hemophilia | (noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | Synonyms: bleeder's disease, haemophilia |
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hemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile |
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hilarity | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, mirth, mirthfulness |
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hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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(noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
(noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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hilliness | (noun) the quality of being hilly | - |
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hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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hillside | (noun) the side or slope of a hill | - |
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hilltop | (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: brow |
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hilt | (noun) the handle of a sword or dagger | - |
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hilum | (noun) (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | Synonyms: hilus |
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(noun) the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle | - |
hilus | (noun) (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | Synonyms: hilum |
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homophile | (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homosexual |
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huamachil | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: camachile, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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kanchil | (noun) small chevrotain of southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Tragulus kanchil |
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lyophilisation | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilization |
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lyophilization | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilisation |
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machilid | (noun) wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed | Synonyms: jumping bristletail |
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malacophily | (noun) (botany) pollination of plants by snails. | - |
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meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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myrmecophile | (noun) an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | - |
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mysophilia | (noun) abnormal attraction to filth | - |
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narghile | (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, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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neurosyphilis | (noun) syphilis of the central nervous system | - |
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neutrophil | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophile |
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neutrophile | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophil |
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nihil | (noun) (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ) | - |
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nihilism | (noun) a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake | - |
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(noun) complete denial of all established authority and institutions | - |
(noun) the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal | Synonyms: nihilistic delusion |
nihilist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist |
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(noun) someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief | - |
nihility | (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nothingness, nullity, void |
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