acromikria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromicria |
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aikido | (noun) a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo | - |
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alikeness | (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: likeness, similitude |
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aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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antiknock | (noun) any of various compounds that are added to gasoline to reduce engine knocking | - |
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apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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(noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
balalaika | (noun) a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings | - |
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batik | (noun) a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted | - |
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beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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bike | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, wheel |
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(noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: motorcycle |
biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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bikini | (noun) a woman's very brief bathing suit | Synonyms: two-piece |
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cannikin | (noun) a small can | - |
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(noun) a wooden bucket | - |
chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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daikon | (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Japanese radish, radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
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daishiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: dashiki |
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dashiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: daishiki |
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dika | (noun) African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites | Synonyms: Irvingia gabonensis, wild mango, wild mango tree |
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dike | (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea | Synonyms: dam, dyke |
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(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: butch, dyke |
dislike | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour |
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(noun) a feeling of aversion or antipathy | - |
epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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garpike | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garfish, Lepisosteus osseus |
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haik | (noun) an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa | Synonyms: haick |
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haiku | (noun) an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines | - |
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handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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harikari | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harakiri, seppuku |
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hike | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hiking, tramp |
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(noun) the amount a salary is increased | Synonyms: raise, rise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase |
(noun) an increase in cost | Synonyms: boost, cost increase, rise |
hiker | (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: tramp, tramper |
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hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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hitchhiker | (noun) a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles | - |
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hygrodeik | (noun) a wet and dry bulb hygrometer | - |
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ikon | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, image, picture |
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(noun) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church | Synonyms: icon |
instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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kahikatea | (noun) New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood | Synonyms: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides |
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kamikaze | (noun) a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | - |
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(noun) a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash | - |
kapeika | (noun) 100 kapeikas equal 1 rubel in Belarus | - |
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kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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kike | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, sheeny, yid |
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klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
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kolkhoznik | (noun) a member of a kolkhoz | - |
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ladylikeness | (noun) behavior befitting a lady | - |
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like | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: ilk |
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(noun) a similar kind | Synonyms: the like, the likes of |
likelihood | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likeliness |
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likeliness | (noun) the probability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: likelihood |
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likeness | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: semblance |
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(noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, similitude |
likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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liking | (noun) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment | - |
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likuta | (noun) 100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire | - |
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lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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maikoa | (noun) a South American plant that is cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers | Synonyms: angel's trumpet, Brugmansia arborea, Datura arborea |
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malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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manikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, mannequin, mannikin |
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(noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, mannikin |
(noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
mannikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannequin |
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(noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, manikin |
(noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, model |
marlinespike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlingspike, marlinspike |
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marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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marlinspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlingspike |
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matrikin | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib |
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mikado | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: tenno |
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mikagura | (noun) a type of formal ritual Shinto kagura dance. | - |
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mike | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, microphone |
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mikvah | (noun) (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath or after menstruation) | - |
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minibike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: motorbike |
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moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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motorbike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: minibike |
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moujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: mujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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mujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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muzhik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzjik |
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muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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nastika | (noun) Technical term in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons that do not accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures. | - |
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nudnik | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnick |
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pannikin | (noun) a small pan or cup (usually of tin) | - |
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paprika | (noun) a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos | - |
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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, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
patrikin | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
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peacenik | (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: dove |
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perestroika | (noun) an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy | - |
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pika | (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: coney, cony, mouse hare, rock rabbit |
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pike | (noun) any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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(noun) medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet | - |
(noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
(noun) a sharp point (as on the end of a spear) | - |
(noun) highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh | - |
pikeblenny | (noun) tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory | - |
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pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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psychometrika | (noun) any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements | Synonyms: psychometrics, psychometry |
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realpolitik | (noun) politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations | Synonyms: practical politics |
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schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
schtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
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sheik | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheikh, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, swell |
sheika | (noun) the wife of a sheik | Synonyms: sheikha |
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sheikdom | (noun) the domain ruled by a sheik | Synonyms: sheikhdom |
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sheikh | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheik, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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sheikha | (noun) the wife of a sheik | Synonyms: sheika |
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sheikhdom | (noun) the domain ruled by a sheik | Synonyms: sheikdom |
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shiksa | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shikse |
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shikse | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shiksa |
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shrike | (noun) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals | - |
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shtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
(noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
shtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtickl |
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sika | (noun) small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers | Synonyms: Cervus nippon, Cervus sika, Japanese deer |
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soshnik | (noun) an iron plowshare that is a part of a sokha. | - |
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