| aching | (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: ache |
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| adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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| anhinga | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: darter, snakebird |
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| apomorphine | (noun) a morphine derivative that is not as strong as morphine; used as an emetic and in small doses as a sedative | - |
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| approaching | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
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| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
| (noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
| archine | (noun) a Russian unit of length (71 cm) | - |
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| baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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| bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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| (noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
| behind | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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| (noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
| beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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| breathing | (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
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| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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| capuchin | (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: Cebus capucinus, ringtail |
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| (noun) a hooded cloak for women | - |
| catarrhine | (noun) of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together | Synonyms: Old World monkey |
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| catching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
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| (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
| (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
| catechin | (noun) a tannic acid that is extracted from black catechu as a white crystalline substance | - |
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| cephalothin | (noun) a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin | - |
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| chin | (noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: mentum |
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| china | (noun) high quality porcelain originally made only in China | - |
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| (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: chinaware |
| chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
| chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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| chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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| chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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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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| chinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: cinchona |
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| chine | (noun) backbone of an animal | - |
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| (noun) cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone | - |
| chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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| (noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
| chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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| chino | (noun) a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms | - |
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| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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| chinook | (noun) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon |
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| (noun) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon |
| (noun) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies | Synonyms: chinook wind, snow eater |
| chinos | (noun) (plural) trousers made with chino cloth | - |
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| chinquapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin |
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| (noun) shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts | Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin |
| (noun) shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States | Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin |
| chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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| clothing | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable |
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| coaching | (noun) the job of a professional coach | Synonyms: coaching job |
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| cochin | (noun) Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs | Synonyms: cochin china |
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| cochineal | (noun) Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye | Synonyms: cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus |
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| (noun) a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects | - |
| corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| crushing | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
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| dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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| delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| diacetylmorphine | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: heroin |
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| dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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| dolphin | (noun) any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises | - |
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| (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphinfish, mahimahi |
| dolphinfish | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, mahimahi |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: mahimahi |
| doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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| doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| echinocactus | (noun) any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil | Synonyms: barrel cactus |
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| echinococcosis | (noun) infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms) | Synonyms: hydatid disease, hydatidosis |
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| echinococcus | (noun) tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals | - |
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| echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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| echinus | (noun) ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column | - |
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| endorphin | (noun) a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties | - |
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| etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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| (noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
| (noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| filthiness | (noun) moral corruption or pollution | - |
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| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, foulness, nastiness |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| flashiness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
| fleshiness | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, obesity |
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| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| frothiness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, effervescence |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| healthiness | (noun) the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease | Synonyms: good health |
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| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| hin | (noun) ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons | - |
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| hind | (noun) a female deer, especially an adult female red deer | - |
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| (noun) any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers | - |
| hindbrain | (noun) the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem | Synonyms: rhombencephalon |
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| hinderance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hindrance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hindrance, impediment |
| hindfoot | (noun) a rear foot of a quadruped | - |
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| hindgut | (noun) the caudal part of the alimentary canal in vertebrate embryos | - |
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| hindlimb | (noun) a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals | Synonyms: hind limb |
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| hindquarter | (noun) the back half of a side of meat | - |
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| hindquarters | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| hindrance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, impediment |