arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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artiste | (noun) a public performer (a dancer or singer) | - |
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banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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(noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
(noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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(noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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(noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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(noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
(noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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(noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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(noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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(noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
(noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
(noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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(noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
(noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
(noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
(noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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(noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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(noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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enlistee | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: recruit |
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episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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epistemology | (noun) the philosophical theory of knowledge | - |
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existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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(noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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(noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
listeria | (noun) any species of the genus Listeria | - |
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listeriosis | (noun) an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms | Synonyms: listeria meningitis |
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meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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(noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
(noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
(noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
modiste | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress |
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(noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, milliner |
moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
(noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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phrontistery | (noun) an establishment for study and learning (sometimes including modern universities) | - |
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piste | (noun) a ski run densely packed with snow | - |
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(noun) a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts | - |
preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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(noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
(noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
(noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
(noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
(noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
(noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
relistening | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: rehearing |
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resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
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schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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sister | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sis |
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(noun) a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group | - |
sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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(noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
(noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
sistership | (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sisterhood |
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(noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sisterhood |
spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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(noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
(noun) a means of surviving | - |
subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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tristearin | (noun) a triglyceride of stearic acid | Synonyms: glycerol tristearate |
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twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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(noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |
waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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(noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
wisteria | (noun) any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria | Synonyms: wistaria |
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