antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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biped | (noun) an animal with two feet | - |
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bipedalism | (noun) the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet | - |
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blowpipe | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowtube |
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(noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowtube |
caliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: calliper |
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calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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fissiped | (noun) terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons | Synonyms: fissiped mammal |
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gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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hawsepipe | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsehole |
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hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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(noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
(noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |
hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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hyperlipemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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ipecac | (noun) a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning) | - |
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jacksnipe | (noun) American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting | Synonyms: Calidris melanotos, pectoral sandpiper |
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(noun) a small short-billed Old World snipe | Synonyms: half snipe, Limnocryptes minima |
juniper | (noun) wood of a coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
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(noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam, retem |
(noun) coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
lipectomy | (noun) plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue | Synonyms: selective lipectomy |
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lipemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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maxilliped | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: gnathopod |
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milliped | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, millipede |
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millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
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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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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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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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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 | - |
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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recipe | (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: formula |
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ripeness | (noun) the state of being ripe | - |
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ripening | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, maturement |
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(noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
sandpiper | (noun) any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers | - |
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sesquipedalia | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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sesquipedalian | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
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sesquipedality | (noun) using long words | - |
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sideswipe | (noun) a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles) | - |
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snipe | (noun) a gunshot from a concealed location | - |
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(noun) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks | - |
snipefish | (noun) small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth | Synonyms: bellows fish |
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sniper | (noun) a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place | - |
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standpipe | (noun) a vertical pipe | - |
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stipe | (noun) supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap | - |
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stipend | (noun) a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose | - |
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stipendiary | (noun) (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases | Synonyms: stipendiary magistrate |
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stovepipe | (noun) chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue | - |
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(noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, top hat, topper |
stripe | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, banding |
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(noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, streak |
(noun) a kind or category | - |
(noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes |
(noun) a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service | - |
striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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(noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
(noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
stripes | (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe |
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swipe | (noun) a sweeping stroke or blow | - |
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tailpipe | (noun) a pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car | - |
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talipes | (noun) congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes | Synonyms: clubfoot |
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tripe | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, trumpery, wish-wash |
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(noun) lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food | - |
velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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(noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
viper | (noun) venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw | - |
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windpipe | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: trachea |
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wipe | (noun) the act of rubbing or wiping | Synonyms: rub |
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wipeout | (noun) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | - |
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(noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, destruction |
wiper | (noun) a mechanical device that cleans the windshield | Synonyms: windscreen wiper, windshield wiper, wiper blade |
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(noun) contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet | Synonyms: contact arm, wiper arm |
(noun) a worker who wipes | - |
worshiper | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: believer, worshipper |
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(noun) someone who admires too much to recognize faults | Synonyms: worshipper |