| acetaldehyde | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: ethanal |
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| acetaldol | (noun) unsaturated aldol | - |
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| afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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| airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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| alcalde | (noun) a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town | - |
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| aldehyde | (noun) any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids | - |
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| alder | (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | Synonyms: alder tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc | - |
| alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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| alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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| aldohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
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| aldol | (noun) an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO) | Synonyms: aldehyde-alcohol |
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| aldose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal | - |
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| aldosterone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone that is secreted by the cortex of the adrenal gland; regulates salt (sodium and potassium) and water balance | - |
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| aldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism |
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| aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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| aldotriose | (noun) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde. | - |
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| backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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| baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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| baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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| baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
| baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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| baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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| baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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| balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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| battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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| beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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| beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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| blindfold | (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
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| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| bold | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold face, boldface |
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| boldface | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold, bold face |
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| boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
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| (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
| (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
| (noun) the occupants of a building | - |
| buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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| (noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
| (noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
| bulldog | (noun) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting | Synonyms: English bulldog |
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| bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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| caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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| caldron | (noun) a very large pot that is used for boiling | Synonyms: cauldron |
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| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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| (noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
| cauldron | (noun) a very large pot that is used for boiling | Synonyms: caldron |
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| centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| centerfold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centrefold |
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| centrefold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centerfold |
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| chaldron | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels | - |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| child | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| (noun) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | Synonyms: kid |
| (noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: baby |
| (noun) a member of a clan or tribe | - |
| childbearing | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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| childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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| childcare | (noun) a service involving care for other people's children | Synonyms: child care |
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| childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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| (noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
| childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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| childlessness | (noun) the condition of being without offspring | - |
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| chokehold | (noun) a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind | Synonyms: choke hold |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: stranglehold, throttlehold |
| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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| coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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| cold | (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
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| (noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: coldness |
| (noun) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) | Synonyms: common cold |
| coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| coldness | (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
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| (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
| (noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: cold |
| copyhold | (noun) a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services | - |
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| copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| 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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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| culdoscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina | - |
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| dildo | (noun) a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
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| doldrums | (noun) a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific | - |
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| (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: stagnancy, stagnation |
| dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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| earldom | (noun) the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess | - |
| eld | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, geezerhood, old age, years |
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| (noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: age |
| elder | (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
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| (noun) any of various church officers | - |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| elderly | (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
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| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| eldest | (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
| enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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| evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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