abortifacient | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
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ancient | (noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
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(noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
ancientness | (noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: antiquity |
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ancients | (noun) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
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aperient | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
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client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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(noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
(noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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conscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience | - |
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(noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: painstakingness |
disorientation | (noun) a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | Synonyms: freak out |
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(noun) confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction | - |
emollient | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, ointment |
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expedient | (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
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gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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(noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
(noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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neuroscientist | (noun) a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain | - |
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nutrient | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
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(noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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orientalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations | - |
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orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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orientation | (noun) the act of orienting | - |
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(noun) a course introducing a new situation or environment | Synonyms: orientation course |
(noun) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
(noun) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships | - |
(noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: predilection, preference |
(noun) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | - |
outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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patient | (noun) the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: affected role, patient role |
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(noun) a person who requires medical care | - |
percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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pimiento | (noun) fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked | Synonyms: pimento |
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(noun) plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | Synonyms: bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
quotient | (noun) the number obtained by division | - |
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(noun) the ratio of two quantities to be divided | - |
recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
reorientation | (noun) the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented | Synonyms: change of direction |
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(noun) a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
rubefacient | (noun) a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin | - |
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salient | (noun) (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy | - |
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salientian | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, toad, toad frog |
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scientist | (noun) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | - |
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subservientness | (noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservience |
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transient | (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
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(noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |
unconscientiousness | (noun) the quality of being willing to ignore the dictates of conscience | - |
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(noun) the trait of not being painstaking or careful | - |
whoriental | (noun) An East Asian Whore | - |
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