absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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(noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
(noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
(noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
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cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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(noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
(noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
(noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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feeblemindedness | (noun) severe mental deficiency | - |
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finder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: view finder, viewfinder |
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(noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, spotter |
(noun) someone who comes upon something after searching | - |
flinders | (noun) bits and splinters and fragments | - |
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grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
(noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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hinderance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hindrance, interference |
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(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hindrance, impediment |
indebtedness | (noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: obligation |
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(noun) an obligation to pay money to another party | Synonyms: financial obligation, liability |
indecency | (noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: impropriety |
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(noun) the quality of being indecent | - |
indecision | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecisiveness |
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(noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecisiveness, irresolution |
indecisiveness | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecision |
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(noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecision, irresolution |
indecorousness | (noun) a lack of decorum | Synonyms: indecorum |
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indecorum | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, liberty |
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(noun) a lack of decorum | Synonyms: indecorousness |
indefatigability | (noun) tireless determination | Synonyms: indefatigableness, tirelessness |
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indefatigableness | (noun) tireless determination | Synonyms: indefatigability, tirelessness |
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indefinability | (noun) The quality of not being able to be precisely defined or put into words. | - |
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indefiniteness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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indefinity | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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indelibility | (noun) The quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. | Synonyms: ineffaceability |
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indelicacy | (noun) an impolite act or expression | - |
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(noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive | - |
indemnification | (noun) an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance | - |
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(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution |
indemnity | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, redress, restitution |
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(noun) legal exemption from liability for damages | - |
(noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: insurance |
indene | (noun) a colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins | - |
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indent | (noun) an order for goods to be exported or imported | - |
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(noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indentation, indention, indenture |
indentation | (noun) the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions | - |
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(noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indention, indenture |
(noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: pitting, roughness |
(noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indenture |
indention | (noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indentation, indenture |
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indenture | (noun) a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term | - |
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(noun) formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt | - |
(noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | Synonyms: indent, indentation, indention |
(noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) | Synonyms: indentation |
independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
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(noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
independency | (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independence |
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independent | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, freelancer, self-employed person |
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(noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, mugwump |
indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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indescribableness | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribability |
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indestructibility | (noun) the strength to resist destruction | - |
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indeterminacy | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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indeterminateness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indetermination |
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indetermination | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness |
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index | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: forefinger, index finger |
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(noun) an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed | - |
(noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index number, indicant, indicator |
(noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: exponent, power |
(noun) a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number | - |
indexation | (noun) a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation | - |
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indexer | (noun) someone who provides an index | - |
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indexing | (noun) the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve | - |
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kindergarten | (noun) a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school | - |
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kindergartener | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartner, preschooler |
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kindergartner | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, preschooler |
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linden | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: basswood |
minder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
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(noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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reindeer | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus |
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rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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(noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
(noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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(noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
(noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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(noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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tinderbox | (noun) a box for holding tinder | - |
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(noun) a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence | - |
viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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waterfinder | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowser, dowsing rod, water finder |
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winder | (noun) mechanical device around which something can be wound | - |
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(noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: key |
(noun) a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism) | - |
wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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