| acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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| acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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| (noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
| (noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
| (noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
| admirer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: adorer |
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| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| (noun) a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves | - |
| affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| armoire | (noun) a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons | - |
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| aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| attire | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: dress, garb |
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| backfire | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: boomerang |
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| (noun) a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine | - |
| (noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: blowback |
| (noun) a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path | - |
| balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| biretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: berretta, birretta |
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| bonfire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: balefire |
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| campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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| crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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| (noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| desire | (noun) an inclination to want things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state | - |
| (noun) something that is desired | - |
| direction | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: management |
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| (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: guidance, steering |
| (noun) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, commission |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: instruction |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: way |
| (noun) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | - |
| directionality | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directivity |
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| (noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction | - |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directness | (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: straightness |
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| (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, frankness |
| director | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: manager, managing director |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: conductor, music director |
| (noun) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show | Synonyms: theater director, theatre director |
| (noun) member of a board of directors | - |
| (noun) the person who directs the making of a film | Synonyms: film director |
| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| doctrinaire | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
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| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| enquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| entire | (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: stallion |
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| entireness | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entirety, integrality, totality |
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| entirety | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entireness, integrality, totality |
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| epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| fire | (noun) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy | Synonyms: firing |
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| (noun) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning | - |
| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, flack, flak |
| (noun) the event of something burning (often destructive) | - |
| (noun) a severe trial | - |
| (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: flame, flaming |
| (noun) fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking | - |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile | - |
| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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| (noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
| (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| firebird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, hangbird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| (noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager |
| (noun) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage | Synonyms: Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher |
| fireboat | (noun) a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront | - |
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| firebomb | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: incendiary, incendiary bomb |
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| firebox | (noun) a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned | - |
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| firebrand | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: inciter, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: brand |
| firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| firebug | (noun) a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain | - |
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| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, incendiary |
| fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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| firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| firedog | (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: andiron, dog-iron, dog |
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| firedrake | (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: dragon, European dragon |
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| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| firefly | (noun) nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs | Synonyms: lightning bug |
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| (noun) tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots | Synonyms: fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca |
| fireguard | (noun) a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) | Synonyms: fire screen |
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| (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: firebreak |
| firehouse | (noun) a station housing fire apparatus and firemen | Synonyms: fire station |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
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| fireman | (noun) play in which children pretend to put out a fire | - |
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| (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter |
| (noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: stoker |
| (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever |
| fireplace | (noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: hearth, open fireplace |
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| fireplug | (noun) an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire | Synonyms: fire hydrant, plug |
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| firepower | (noun) (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target | - |
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| fireroom | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: stokehold, stokehole |
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| fireside | (noun) home symbolized as a part of the fireplace | Synonyms: hearth |
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| (noun) an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) | Synonyms: hearth |
| firestone | (noun) a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns | - |
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| (noun) a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire | - |
| firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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| (noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
| firethorn | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha |
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| firetrap | (noun) a building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire | - |
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| firewall | (noun) (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust | - |
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| (noun) a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle | - |
| (noun) (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet | - |
| firewater | (noun) any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum) | - |
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| fireweed | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb, wickup |
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| (noun) an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers | Synonyms: Erechtites hieracifolia |
| firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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| firework | (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: pyrotechnic |
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| grassfire | (noun) an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area | Synonyms: prairie fire |
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| grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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| gunfire | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunshot |
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| haywire | (noun) wire for tying up bales of hay | - |
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| heiress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: inheritress, inheritrix |
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| hellfire | (noun) a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned | Synonyms: red region |
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| hire | (noun) the act of hiring something or someone | - |
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| (noun) a newly hired employee | - |
| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| hirer | (noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: boss |
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| impairer | (noun) an agent that impairs | - |
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| indirection | (noun) indirect procedure or action | - |
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| (noun) deceitful action that is not straightforward | - |
| indirectness | (noun) having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | - |
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| inquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, querier, questioner |
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| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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