titi | (noun) small South American monkeys with long beautiful fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: titi monkey |
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(noun) tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: buckwheat tree, Cliftonia monophylla |
(noun) deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves | Synonyms: Oxydendrum arboreum, sorrel tree, sourwood |
titillation | (noun) the act of tickling | Synonyms: tickle, tickling |
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(noun) an agreeable arousal | - |
(noun) a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling) | - |
titivation | (noun) sprucing up; making decorative additions to | Synonyms: tittivation |
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tonsillitis | (noun) inflammation of the tonsils (especially the palatine tonsils) | - |
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tracheitis | (noun) inflammation of the trachea | - |
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tracheobronchitis | (noun) common respiratory infection characterized by inflammation of the trachea and the bronchi | - |
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tradition | (noun) an inherited pattern of thought or action | - |
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(noun) a specific practice of long standing | Synonyms: custom |
traditionalism | (noun) adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) | - |
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(noun) strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings | Synonyms: traditionality |
(noun) the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions | - |
traditionalist | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: diehard |
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traditionality | (noun) strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings | Synonyms: traditionalism |
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transition | (noun) the act of passing from one state or place to the next | Synonyms: passage |
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(noun) a passage that connects a topic to one that follows | - |
(noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: modulation |
(noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, conversion |
(noun) a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another | - |
transitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
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transitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitivity |
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transitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitiveness |
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(noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third | - |
transposition | (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: reversal |
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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards | - |
(noun) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign | - |
(noun) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance | - |
(noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome | - |
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch |
(noun) any abnormal position of the organs of the body | Synonyms: heterotaxy |
transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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tripalmitin | (noun) a triglyceride of palmitic acid | Synonyms: glycerol tripalmitate |
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tritium | (noun) a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms | - |
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tuition | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tutelage, tutorship |
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(noun) a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education) | Synonyms: tuition fee |
tympanitis | (noun) inflammation of the inner ear | - |
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typewriting | (noun) writing done with a typewriter | Synonyms: typing |
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ulitis | (noun) inflammation of the gums | - |
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uncompetitiveness | (noun) The quality of not being good enough to compete successfully with others. | - |
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unconditionality | (noun) The quality or state of being absolute; of being without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications. | - |
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uninitiate | (noun) people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | - |
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uniting | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, union |
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(noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, merger |
unitisation | (noun) conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust | Synonyms: unitization |
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(noun) the joint development of a petroleum resource that straddles territory controlled by different companies | Synonyms: unitization |
(noun) the act of packaging cargo into unit loads | Synonyms: unitization |
(noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: chunking, unitization |
unitization | (noun) conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust | Synonyms: unitisation |
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(noun) the joint development of a petroleum resource that straddles territory controlled by different companies | Synonyms: unitisation |
(noun) the act of packaging cargo into unit loads | Synonyms: unitisation |
(noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: chunking, unitisation |
unpropitiousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: inauspiciousness |
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urarthritis | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gout, gouty arthritis |
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ureteritis | (noun) inflammation of the ureter | - |
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urethritis | (noun) inflammation of the urethra; results in painful urination | - |
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uveitis | (noun) inflammation of the uvea of the eye | - |
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uvulitis | (noun) inflammation of the uvula | - |
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vaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis) | - |
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valvulitis | (noun) inflammation of a valve (especially of a cardiac valve as a consequence of rheumatic fever) | - |
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vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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vasovesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis | - |
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vendition | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vending |
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vesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a seminal vesicle (usually in conjunction with prostatitis) | - |
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visiting | (noun) the activity of making visits | - |
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vitiation | (noun) nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null | - |
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viticulture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viniculture |
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viticulturist | (noun) a cultivator of grape vine | - |
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vitiligo | (noun) an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) | - |
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volition | (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: willing |
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(noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: will |
vomiting | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit |
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vomitive | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomit |
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vulvitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva | - |
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vulvovaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva and the vagina | - |
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waiting | (noun) the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something) | Synonyms: wait |
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wapiti | (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk |
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(noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer |
whiting | (noun) a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | Synonyms: Gadus merlangus, Merlangus merlangus |
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(noun) any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters | - |
(noun) found off Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake |
(noun) a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish | - |
(noun) flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America | - |
(noun) flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | - |
writing | (noun) the activity of putting something in written form | Synonyms: committal to writing |
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(noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning |
(noun) the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) | Synonyms: piece of writing, written material |
(noun) letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language | - |
(noun) (usually plural) the collected work of an author | - |
ziti | (noun) medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces | - |
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