| centimo | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain | - |
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| ceriman | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: monstera |
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| (noun) tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor | Synonyms: Monstera deliciosa |
| cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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| chemoimmunology | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: immunochemistry |
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| cherimolla | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimoya |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| chimaera | (noun) a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail | - |
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| (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimera |
| chime | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, gong |
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| chimer | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, simarre |
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| chimera | (noun) a grotesque product of the imagination | Synonyms: chimaera |
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| chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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| (noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chimp | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes |
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| chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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| chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| cimarron | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn, bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| cimetidine | (noun) a drug (trade name Tagamet) used to treat peptic ulcers by decreasing the secretion of stomach acid | Synonyms: Tagamet |
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| claim | (noun) demand for something as rightful or due | - |
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| (noun) an established or recognized right | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an informal right to something | Synonyms: title |
| (noun) an assertion of a right (as to money or property) | - |
| (noun) a demand | Synonyms: call |
| (noun) an assertion that something is true or factual | - |
| claimant | (noun) someone who claims a benefit or right or title | - |
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| climacteric | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, menopause |
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| (noun) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause | - |
| climate | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: clime |
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| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: mood |
| climatologist | (noun) someone who is expert in climatology | - |
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| climatology | (noun) meteorology of climates and their phenomena | - |
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| climax | (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: culmination |
| (noun) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness | - |
| (noun) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding | Synonyms: flood tide |
| (noun) the most severe stage of a disease | - |
| climb | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climbing, mounting |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade |
| climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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| (noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
| (noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
| (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
| (noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
| climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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| clime | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: climate |
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| collimation | (noun) the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope | - |
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| collimator | (noun) optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam | - |
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| (noun) a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one | - |
| colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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| complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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| compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| conima | (noun) a gum resin from the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum | - |
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| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
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| crime | (noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act | Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking |
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| (noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law | - |
| criminal | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
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| criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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| criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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| criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
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| criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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| criminalness | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminality |
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| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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| criminology | (noun) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement | - |
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| crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| crimson | (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: deep red, ruby |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cybercrime | (noun) crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs | - |
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| daimon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| decimal | (noun) a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 | Synonyms: decimal fraction |
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| (noun) a number in the decimal system | - |
| decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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| decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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| decimation | (noun) destroying or killing a large part of the population | - |
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| decimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimetre, dm |
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| decimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimeter, dm |
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| decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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| denim | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: dungaree, jean |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, jeans |
| densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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| detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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| dime | (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars | Synonyms: dime bag |
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| (noun) a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar | - |
| dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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| dimension | (noun) the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) | - |
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| (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: proportion |
| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, property |
| (noun) one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space | - |
| dimensionality | (noun) the spatial property of having dimensions | - |
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| dimer | (noun) a compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers | - |
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| dimethylglyoxime | (noun) a compound used in analysis as a precipitant for palladium or nickel | - |
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| dimetrodon | (noun) carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail | - |
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| diminuendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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| diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
| diminutive | (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
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| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| dimity | (noun) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains | - |
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| dimmer | (noun) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination | - |
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| dimness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: subduedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: faintness |
| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: duskiness |
| dimorphism | (noun) (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms | - |
| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| dimple | (noun) a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin | - |
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| (noun) any slight depression in a surface | - |
| (noun) a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached | Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad |
| dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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| dinnertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: suppertime |
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| disclaimer | (noun) (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something | - |
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| (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disavowal |
| discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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| (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
| discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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| dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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| dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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| (noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
| dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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