airsickness | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) | Synonyms: air sickness |
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bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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(noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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(noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
brickbat | (noun) blunt criticism | - |
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(noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon | - |
brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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(noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
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 |
chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
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click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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(noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
(noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
(noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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cricket | (noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs | - |
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(noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together | - |
cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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(noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
dick | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
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(noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: gumshoe, hawkshaw |
dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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dickey | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
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(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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dickhead | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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dickie | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dicky, shirtfront |
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(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dicky |
dicky | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, shirtfront |
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(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat |
dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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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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downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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(noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
fickleness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy |
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fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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flick | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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(noun) a short stroke | - |
(noun) a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) | - |
flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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(noun) North American woodpecker | - |
(noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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gimmick | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, twist |
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(noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
(noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: catch |
gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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(noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
(noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
(noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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haick | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haik |
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hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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heartsickness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, disconsolateness |
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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 | - |
homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
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icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
joystick | (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, stick |
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(noun) a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers | - |
kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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(noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
(noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
(noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
(noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
kickback | (noun) a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction | - |
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kicker | (noun) a player who kicks the football | - |
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kicking | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kick |
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(noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kick |
kickoff | (noun) (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score | - |
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(noun) a start given to contestants | Synonyms: send-off, start-off |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
kickshaw | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, treat |
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kicksorter | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of an electronic circuit that permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass | Synonyms: pulse height analyzer |
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kickstand | (noun) a swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden | - |
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klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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knickerbockers | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers |
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knickers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, pants |
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(noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers |
knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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(noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |
knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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(noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
(noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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