amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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arachnid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnoid |
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arachnoid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnid |
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(noun) the middle of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: arachnoid membrane |
arachnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of spiders | - |
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archness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: impertinence, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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beechnut | (noun) small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
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biotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: bioengineering, ergonomics |
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(noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotech |
bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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(noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
boyishness | (noun) being characteristic of a boy | - |
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brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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brashness | (noun) the trait of being rash and hasty | - |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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clayishness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayiness |
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(noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayiness |
cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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daphne | (noun) any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers | - |
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daphnia | (noun) minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae | Synonyms: water flea |
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demijohn | (noun) large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork | - |
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devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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(noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
(noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
(noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
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ethnic | (noun) a person who is a member of an ethnic group | - |
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ethnicity | (noun) an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | - |
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ethnocentrism | (noun) belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | - |
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ethnographer | (noun) an anthropologist who does ethnography | - |
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ethnography | (noun) the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies | Synonyms: descriptive anthropology |
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ethnologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies ethnology | - |
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ethnology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics | - |
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ethnos | (noun) people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture | Synonyms: ethnic group |
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feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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(noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
fishnet | (noun) a net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in | Synonyms: fishing net |
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foehn | (noun) a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | Synonyms: fohn |
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fohn | (noun) a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | Synonyms: foehn |
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foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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(noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
foppishness | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: dandyism |
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freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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freshness | (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: novelty |
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(noun) the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated | - |
(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
(noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: novelty |
(noun) an alert and refreshed state | Synonyms: glow |
garishness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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(noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: gaudiness |
girlishness | (noun) being characteristic of a girl | - |
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greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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hahnium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 105 | Synonyms: atomic number 105, Db, dubnium, element 105 |
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harshness | (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: roughness |
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(noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
(noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness |
(noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty |
hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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highness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: loftiness |
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(noun) a high degree (of amount or force etc.) | - |
hoggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, piggishness |
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huffishness | (noun) a feeling of sulky resentment | Synonyms: sulkiness |
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ichneumon | (noun) northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs | Synonyms: Herpestes ichneumon |
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impishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality |
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john | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: trick, whoremaster, whoremonger |
johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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(noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
loutishness | (noun) The state or quality of behaving like a troublemaker, often violent; like a rude violent person; like a yob. | - |
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lushness | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriance, voluptuousness |
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lychnis | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: catchfly |
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mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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(noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
modishness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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muchness | (noun) greatness of quantity or measure or extent | - |
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mulishness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness |
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nanotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules) | - |
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nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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outlandishness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: bizarreness, weirdness |
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overmuchness | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, superabundance |
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palaeoethnography | (noun) the ethnography of paleolithic humans | Synonyms: paleoethnography |
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paleoethnography | (noun) the ethnography of paleolithic humans | Synonyms: palaeoethnography |
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pantechnicon | (noun) a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture) | - |
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peevishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance |
pettishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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piggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, hoggishness |
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polytechnic | (noun) a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences | Synonyms: engineering school, polytechnic institute |
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prankishness | (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: rascality, roguishness |
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priggishness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: primness |
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prudishness | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery |
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puckishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, mischievousness, whimsicality |
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pyrotechnic | (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: firework |
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pyrotechnics | (noun) the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechny |
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(noun) (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music) | - |
pyrotechny | (noun) the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnics |
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rakishness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness |
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(noun) the quality of a rake | - |
rashness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: foolhardiness, recklessness |
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(noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, mindlessness |
reddishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat red. | - |
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richness | (noun) a strong deep vividness of hue | - |
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(noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, mellowness |
(noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, rankness |
(noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, profusion |
(noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, magnificence |
(noun) the quality of having high intrinsic value | - |
(noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: affluence |
roguishness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, shenanigan |
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(noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: prankishness, rascality |
roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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roughness | (noun) harsh or severe speech or behavior | - |
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(noun) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven | Synonyms: raggedness |
(noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: harshness |
(noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: crudeness |
(noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, pitting |
(noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: choppiness, rough water |
(noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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schnaps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnapps |
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schnauzer | (noun) old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs | - |
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schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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schnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: shnook |
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schnorchel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorkel | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: breather, schnorchel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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schnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: shnorrer |
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