| acromikria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromicria |
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| backrest | (noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: back |
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| backroom | (noun) the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations | - |
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| bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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| bankrupt | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: insolvent |
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| bankruptcy | (noun) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent | - |
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| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: failure |
| (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | - |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| buckram | (noun) a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing | - |
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| checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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| checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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| cloakroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: coatroom |
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| (noun) a private lounge off of a legislative chamber | - |
| cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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| jackrabbit | (noun) large hare of western North America | - |
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| kraal | (noun) a pen for livestock in southern Africa | - |
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| (noun) a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade | - |
| kraft | (noun) strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution | Synonyms: kraft paper |
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| krait | (noun) brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula | - |
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| kraurosis | (noun) atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane | - |
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| kremlin | (noun) citadel of a Russian town | - |
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| krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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| krigia | (noun) any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia | - |
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| krill | (noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
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| kris | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: crease, creese |
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| krona | (noun) the basic unit of money in Iceland | Synonyms: Icelandic krona |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Sweden | Synonyms: Swedish krona |
| krone | (noun) the basic unit of money in Denmark | Synonyms: Danish krone |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Norway | Synonyms: Norwegian krone |
| kroon | (noun) the basic unit of money in Estonia | - |
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| krubi | (noun) malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet | Synonyms: Amorphophallus titanum, titan arum |
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| krummhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, crumhorn |
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| krypton | (noun) a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air | Synonyms: atomic number 36, Kr |
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| lockring | (noun) washer that prevents a nut from loosening | Synonyms: lock ring, lock washer |
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| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| okra | (noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: gumbo |
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| (noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra plant |
| (noun) long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant | - |
| packrat | (noun) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects | Synonyms: bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, pack rat, trade rat |
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| (noun) a collector of miscellaneous useless objects | - |
| pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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| rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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| rockrose | (noun) small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage | Synonyms: rock rose |
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| (noun) any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers | Synonyms: rock rose |
| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| sickroom | (noun) a room to which a sick person is confined | - |
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| stockroom | (noun) storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business | Synonyms: stock room |
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| workroom | (noun) room where work is done | - |
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