omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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overlip | (noun) the upper lip | - |
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overlordship | (noun) the position of overlord | - |
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ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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ownership | (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: possession |
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(noun) the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others | - |
(noun) the state or fact of being an owner | - |
oxlip | (noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel | Synonyms: paigle, Primula elatior |
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panpipe | (noun) a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | Synonyms: pandean pipe, syrinx |
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paperclip | (noun) a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together | Synonyms: gem clip, paper clip |
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paraleipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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paralipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition |
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parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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parsnip | (noun) whitish edible root; eaten cooked | - |
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(noun) a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root | Synonyms: Pastinaca sativa |
(noun) the whitish root of cultivated parsnip | - |
participant | (noun) someone who takes part in an activity | Synonyms: player |
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(noun) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game | Synonyms: player |
participation | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, involvement |
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(noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: involvement |
participial | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participle |
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participle | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participial |
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partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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partnership | (noun) a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses | - |
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(noun) the members of a business venture created by contract | - |
(noun) a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal | - |
pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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payslip | (noun) a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out | - |
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penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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peripatetic | (noun) a person who walks from place to place | - |
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peripateticism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science | Synonyms: Aristotelianism |
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peripatus | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: onychophoran, velvet worm |
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peripeteia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripetia, peripety |
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peripetia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripety |
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peripety | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripetia |
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peripheral | (noun) electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device |
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periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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periphrasis | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, circumlocution |
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philippic | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, tirade |
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phillipsite | (noun) a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum | - |
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phospholipid | (noun) any of various compounds composed of fatty acids and phosphoric acid and a nitrogenous base; an important constituent of membranes | - |
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pinnatiped | (noun) aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers | Synonyms: pinniped, pinniped mammal |
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pinniped | (noun) aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers | Synonyms: pinnatiped, pinniped mammal |
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pinstripe | (noun) a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) | - |
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(noun) a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
(noun) a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
pip | (noun) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) | Synonyms: spot |
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(noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: blip, radar target |
(noun) a small hard seed found in some fruits | - |
(noun) a disease of poultry | - |
(noun) a minor nonspecific ailment | - |
pipage | (noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipe, piping |
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(noun) a fee charged for the use of pipes | - |
pipal | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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pipe | (noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipage, piping |
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(noun) a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco | Synonyms: tobacco pipe |
(noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipework |
(noun) a tubular wind instrument | - |
(noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: tube |
pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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pipefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: needlefish |
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pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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pipeful | (noun) the quantity of tobacco that can be smoked in a pipe at one time | - |
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pipeline | (noun) a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | Synonyms: line |
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(noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: grapevine, word of mouth |
piper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: bagpiper |
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piperacillin | (noun) a synthetic type of penicillin antibiotic (trade name Pipracil) used for moderate to severe infections | Synonyms: Pipracil |
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piperazine | (noun) vermifuge used to treat infestations by roundworms or pinworms | - |
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piperin | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperine |
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piperine | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperin |
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piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
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pipet | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipette |
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pipette | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube | Synonyms: pipet |
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pipework | (noun) the flues and stops on a pipe organ | Synonyms: organ pipe, pipe |
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pipewort | (noun) aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers | Synonyms: Eriocaulon aquaticum |
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piping | (noun) playing a pipe or the bagpipes | - |
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(noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | Synonyms: pipage, pipe |
(noun) a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems | - |
pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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pipit | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: lark, titlark |
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pipsissewa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila | Synonyms: prince's pine |
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pipul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, sacred fig |
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playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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pogonip | (noun) a dense winter fog containing ice particles | Synonyms: ice fog |
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polydipsia | (noun) excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction) | - |
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postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
praetorship | (noun) the office of praetor | - |
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precentorship | (noun) the position of precentor | - |
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preceptorship | (noun) the position of preceptor | - |
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precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitant | (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
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precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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(noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
(noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
(noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
(noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
(noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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(noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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prescription | (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
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(noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
(noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
(noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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primipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | Synonyms: para I |
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principal | (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
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(noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
(noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
(noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
(noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
(noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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(noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
(noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
(noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
priorship | (noun) the office of prior | - |
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proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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proctorship | (noun) the position of proctor | - |
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professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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