| amitosis | (noun) the direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes | - |
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| antitoxin | (noun) an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin | - |
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| auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
| (noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
| auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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| barbitone | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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| baritone | (noun) the second lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: baritone horn |
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| (noun) the second lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: baritone voice |
| (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: barytone |
| bitok | (noun) a Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream | - |
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| bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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| (noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
| (noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
| burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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| caimito | (noun) evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum cainito, star apple |
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| calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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| capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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| capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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| caracolito | (noun) large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families | Synonyms: Ruptiliocarpon caracolito |
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| chiton | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle |
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| (noun) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece | - |
| circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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| citole | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, cittern, gittern |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| densitometry | (noun) measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission | - |
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| depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| digitoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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| (noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
| epitope | (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, determinant |
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| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| excitotoxin | (noun) any of a group of neurologically active compounds, such as glutamate and aspartame, that have detrimental excitatory effects on the central nervous system when taken in high concentrations. | - |
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| exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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| expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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| felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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| fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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| genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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| graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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| graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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| halitosis | (noun) offensive breath | - |
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| heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| inheritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, heritor |
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| inhibitor | (noun) a substance that retards or stops an activity | - |
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| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| janitor | (noun) someone employed to clean and maintain a building | - |
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| litoral | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: littoral, littoral zone, sands |
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| litotes | (noun) understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | Synonyms: meiosis |
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| mannitol | (noun) a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine | Synonyms: Osmitrol |
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| meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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| (noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| mitochondrion | (noun) an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy | Synonyms: chondriosome |
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| mitogen | (noun) an agent that triggers mitosis | - |
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| mitomycin | (noun) a complex of antibiotic substances obtained from a streptomyces bacterium; one form (trade name Mutamycin) shows promise as an anticancer drug | Synonyms: Mutamycin |
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| mitosis | (noun) cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes | - |
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| monitor | (noun) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | Synonyms: monitor lizard, varan |
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| (noun) a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble | - |
| (noun) electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions | - |
| (noun) display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor | Synonyms: monitoring device |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, reminder |
| (noun) someone who supervises (an examination) | Synonyms: proctor |
| monitoring | (noun) the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it) | - |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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| pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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| (noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
| pentaerythritol | (noun) a coronary vasodilator (trade name Peritrate) used to treat angina pectoris | Synonyms: Peritrate |
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| peritoneum | (noun) a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera | - |
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| peritonitis | (noun) inflammation of the peritoneum | Synonyms: peritoneal inflammation |
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| phenobarbitone | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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| piton | (noun) a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold | - |
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| precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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| (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
| primogenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: progenitor |
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| progenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: primogenitor |
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| repository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, depository |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: monument |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: secretary |
| ritonavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Norvir |
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| saxitoxin | (noun) a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans | - |
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| semitone | (noun) the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument | Synonyms: half step |
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| sensitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
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| servitor | (noun) someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else | - |
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| sgraffito | (noun) a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground | - |
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| solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
| solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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| solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
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| soliton | (noun) (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate | Synonyms: solitary wave, soliton wave |
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| subeditor | (noun) an assistant editor | - |
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| suitor | (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suer, wooer |
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| suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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| territorial | (noun) a territorial military unit | Synonyms: territorial reserve |
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| (noun) nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit | - |
| territorialisation | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialization |
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| territoriality | (noun) the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory | - |
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| territorialization | (noun) the act of organizing as a territory | Synonyms: territorialisation |
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| territory | (noun) an area of knowledge or interest | - |
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| (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, dominion, territorial dominion |
| (noun) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | Synonyms: soil |
| thyrocalcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: calcitonin |
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| toitoi | (noun) used by Maoris for thatching | Synonyms: Arundo conspicua, Chionochloa conspicua, toetoe |
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| traitor | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: treasonist |
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| (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer |