ability | (noun) the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment | - |
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(noun) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | Synonyms: power |
acceptability | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptableness |
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accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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(noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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acetanilid | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilide, phenylacetamide |
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acetanilide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, phenylacetamide |
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achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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adaptability | (noun) the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances | - |
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admirability | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirableness, wonderfulness |
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admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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(noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
affiliation | (noun) the act of becoming formally connected or joined | - |
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(noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: association, tie-up, tie |
agility | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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algophilia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algolagnia |
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alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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amenability | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenableness, cooperativeness |
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amiability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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(noun) a cheerful and agreeable mood | Synonyms: good humor, good humour, good temper |
amicability | (noun) having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amicableness |
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(noun) a disinclination to quarrel | Synonyms: amicableness |
angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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aniline | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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antifertilizin | (noun) An immunologically specific substance produced by animal sperm to implement attraction by the egg before fertilization. | - |
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antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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arability | (noun) the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation | - |
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assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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auxiliary | (noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: aide |
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availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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bailiff | (noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. | - |
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bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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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 | - |
basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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(noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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(noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
(noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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bilimbi | (noun) East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa bilimbi |
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bilingual | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
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bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
bilirubin | (noun) an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice | Synonyms: haematoidin, hematoidin |
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boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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(noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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caecilian | (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: blindworm |
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calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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(noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
(noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
ceilidh | (noun) an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling | - |
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ceiling | (noun) the overhead upper surface of a covered space | - |
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(noun) (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds | - |
(noun) maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions) | - |
(noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: cap, roof |
centiliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centilitre, cl |
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centilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centiliter, cl |
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changeability | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeableness |
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cheilitis | (noun) inflammation and cracking of the skin of the lips | - |
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chili | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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(noun) ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans | Synonyms: chili con carne |
chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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chiliasm | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism |
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chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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ciliate | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran |
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ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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cilium | (noun) a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms | - |
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(noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: eyelash, lash |
civilian | (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
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civilisation | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilization, refinement |
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(noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilization |
(noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilization, culture |
(noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilization |
civility | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: politeness |
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(noun) formal or perfunctory politeness | - |
civilization | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilisation, refinement |
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(noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilisation |
(noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilisation, culture |
(noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilisation |
collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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(noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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(noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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conciliation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: placation, propitiation |
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(noun) any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration | - |
(noun) the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled | - |
conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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cotilion | (noun) a lively dance originating in France in the 18th century | Synonyms: cotillion |
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(noun) a ball at which young ladies are presented to society | Synonyms: cotillion |
credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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cunnilinctus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilingus |
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cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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curability | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curableness |
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