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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counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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irridentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irredentism |
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irridentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irredentist |
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irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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(noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
irritability | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: excitability |
(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance |
irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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(noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
(noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
(noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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stirring | (noun) agitating a liquid with an implement | - |
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(noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: inspiration |
whirring | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr |
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