blain | (noun) an inflammatory swelling or sore | - |
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chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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(noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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(noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
chilblain | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblains, pernio |
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chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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(noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
(noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
(noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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peneplain | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplane |
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plain | (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | Synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch |
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(noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, field |
plainchant | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainsong |
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plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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plainness | (noun) the appearance of being plain and unpretentious | - |
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(noun) an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful | Synonyms: homeliness |
(noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, perspicuousness |
(noun) the state of being unmixed with other material | - |
plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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plainsong | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainchant |
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plaint | (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, lamentation, wail |
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(noun) (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed | - |
plaintiff | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: complainant |
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plaintiveness | (noun) expressing sorrowfulness | - |
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porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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slain | (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | - |
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supervillain | (noun) a villain with superpowers | - |
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villain | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: scoundrel |
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(noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: baddie |
villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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villainess | (noun) a woman villain | - |
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villainousness | (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainy |
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villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
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(noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |