bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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(noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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(noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
(noun) the occupants of a building | - |
buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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(noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
(noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
child | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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(noun) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | Synonyms: kid |
(noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: baby |
(noun) a member of a clan or tribe | - |
childbearing | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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childcare | (noun) a service involving care for other people's children | Synonyms: child care |
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childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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(noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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childlessness | (noun) the condition of being without offspring | - |
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coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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dildo | (noun) a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
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evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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gild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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grandchild | (noun) a child of your son or daughter | - |
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guild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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guilder | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, gulden |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, gulden |
guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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kildeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, killdeer, killdeer plover |
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kilderkin | (noun) an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons | - |
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maildrop | (noun) a drop where mail can be deposited | - |
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mildew | (noun) a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter | - |
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(noun) the process of becoming mildewed | Synonyms: mold, mould |
mildness | (noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, leniency, lenity |
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(noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: gentleness, softness |
(noun) good weather with comfortable temperatures | Synonyms: clemency |
musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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outbuilding | (noun) a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building | - |
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rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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(noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
(noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
shipbuilding | (noun) the construction of ships | Synonyms: ship building |
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sild | (noun) any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway | - |
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sildenafil | (noun) virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: sildenafil citrate, Viagra |
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stepchild | (noun) a child of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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tilde | (noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
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wild | (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wilderness |
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(noun) a wild primitive state untouched by civilization | Synonyms: natural state, state of nature |
wildcat | (noun) any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | - |
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(noun) an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | Synonyms: wildcat well |
(noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf |
wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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(noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
(noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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wilding | (noun) an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | - |
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(noun) a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) | - |
wildlife | (noun) all living things (except people) that are undomesticated | - |
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wildness | (noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature | - |
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(noun) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases | - |
(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence |
(noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: abandon |