| crock | (noun) an earthen jar (made of baked clay) | Synonyms: earthenware jar |
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| (noun) nonsense; foolish talk | - |
| (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, smut, soot |
| crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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| crocket | (noun) an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable | - |
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| crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
| crookback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
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| crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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| crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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| (noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
| crossjack | (noun) the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen course |
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| crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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| crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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| crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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| (noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
| cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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| cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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| cuckoldom | (noun) the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | - |
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| cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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| cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| cuke | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cucumber |
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| cupcake | (noun) small cake baked in a muffin tin | - |
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| cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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| cusk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, torsk |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters | - |
| cutback | (noun) a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
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| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| cyberpunk | (noun) a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies | - |
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| (noun) a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology | - |
| (noun) a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism | Synonyms: cyber-terrorist |
| cycloalkene | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloolefin |
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| cytokine | (noun) any of various protein molecules secreted by cells of the immune system that serve to regulate the immune system | - |
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| cytokinesis | (noun) organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells | - |
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| cytokinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: kinin |
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| cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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| daikon | (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Japanese radish, radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
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| daishiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: dashiki |
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| dak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dhak, palas |
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| dakoit | (noun) a member of an armed gang of robbers | Synonyms: dacoit |
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| dakoity | (noun) robbery by a gang of armed dacoits | Synonyms: dacoity |
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| daktylos | (noun) a Greek unit of length equal to one centimeter. | - |
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| damask | (noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
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| (noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
| dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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| dark | (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
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| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| dashiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: daishiki |
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| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| deck | (noun) any of various platforms built into a vessel | - |
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| (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs | - |
| (noun) a porch that resembles the deck on a ship | - |
| (noun) a pack of 52 playing cards | Synonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards |
| decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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| deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| dekagram | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, decagram, dkg |
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| dekaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekalitre, dkl |
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| dekalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dkl |
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| dekameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm |
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| dekametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dkm |
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| dekko | (noun) British slang for a look | - |
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| derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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| (noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
| desk | (noun) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments | - |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| desktop | (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: background, screen background |
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| (noun) the top of a desk | - |
| dhak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, palas |
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| diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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| dibbuk | (noun) (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior | Synonyms: dybbuk |
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| dick | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: gumshoe, hawkshaw |
| dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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| dickey | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
| dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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| dickhead | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| dickie | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dicky, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dicky |
| dicky | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, shirtfront |
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| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat |
| dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| dika | (noun) African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites | Synonyms: Irvingia gabonensis, wild mango, wild mango tree |
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| dike | (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea | Synonyms: dam, dyke |
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| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: butch, dyke |
| dink | (noun) a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net | Synonyms: drop shot |
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| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| dinky | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinkey |
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| dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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| dirk | (noun) a relatively long dagger with a straight blade | - |
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| disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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| disk | (noun) a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| (noun) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored | Synonyms: disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, saucer |
| diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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| dislike | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour |
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| (noun) a feeling of aversion or antipathy | - |