| actinia | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinian, actiniarian |
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| actinian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actiniarian |
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| actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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| actinide | (noun) any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 | Synonyms: actinoid, actinon |
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| actinism | (noun) the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects | - |
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| actinium | (noun) a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores | Synonyms: Ac, atomic number 89 |
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| administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
| (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
| administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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| (noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| agglutinin | (noun) an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen | - |
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| albinism | (noun) the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair | - |
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| alkalinity | (noun) pH values above 7 | - |
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| alpinist | (noun) a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs | - |
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| aluminium | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminum, atomic number 13 |
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| antifeminism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: chauvinism, male chauvinism |
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| antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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| arginine | (noun) a bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa | - |
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| asininity | (noun) the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness | - |
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| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| bikini | (noun) a woman's very brief bathing suit | Synonyms: two-piece |
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| blini | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: bliny |
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| brainiac | (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
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| brininess | (noun) the relative proportion of salt in a solution | Synonyms: salinity |
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| caffeinism | (noun) poisoning resulting from excessive intake of caffeine containing products | Synonyms: caffeine intoxication |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chlorinity | (noun) a measure of the quantity of chlorine or other halides in water (especially seawater) | - |
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| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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| clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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| (noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
| (noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| clinid | (noun) mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds | Synonyms: clinid fish |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| condominium | (noun) housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned | - |
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| (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condo |
| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| cretinism | (noun) severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting | - |
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| crinion | (noun) point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead | Synonyms: trichion |
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| crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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| cyprinid | (noun) soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales | Synonyms: cyprinid fish |
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| cytokinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: kinin |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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| (noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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| desalinisation | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalination, desalinization |
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| desalinization | (noun) the removal of salt (especially from sea water) | Synonyms: desalination, desalinisation |
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| destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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| destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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| determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| dining | (noun) the act of eating dinner | - |
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| divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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| (noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
| (noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
| dominie | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominus |
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| dominion | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: rule |
| einsteinium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons | Synonyms: atomic number 99, E, Es |
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| encainide | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients | Synonyms: Enkaid |
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| enjoining | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoinment, injunction |
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| erwinia | (noun) rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants | - |
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| feminine | (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | - |
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| feminineness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: femaleness |
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| femininity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: muliebrity |
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| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| feminism | (noun) the movement aimed at equal rights for women | Synonyms: feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement |
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| (noun) a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | - |
| feminist | (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
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| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| fettuccini | (noun) pasta in flat strips wider than linguine | Synonyms: fettuccine |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| finis | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finale |
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| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finish, last, stopping point |
| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| finiteness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finitude |
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| finitude | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finiteness |
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| flecainide | (noun) oral antiarrhythmic medication (trade name Tambocor) used as a last resort in treating arrhythmias; increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients | Synonyms: Tambocor |
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| foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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| gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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| gadolinium | (noun) a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 64, Gd |
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| gloxinia | (noun) any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers | - |
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| glucinium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, beryllium |
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| graininess | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, granularity |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| haematinic | (noun) a medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia | Synonyms: hematinic |
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| hematinic | (noun) a medicine that increases the hemoglobin content of the blood; used to treat iron-deficiency anemia | Synonyms: haematinic |
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| hominid | (noun) a primate of the family Hominidae | - |
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| hyalinisation | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinization |
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| hyalinization | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinisation |
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| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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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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| infinite | (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
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| infiniteness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| infinitesimal | (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
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| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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