balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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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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battlefront | (noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: front, front line |
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bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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calefaction | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: incalescence |
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clef | (noun) a musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it | - |
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cleft | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: crack, crevice, fissure, scissure |
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(noun) a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin) | - |
cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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dolefulness | (noun) sadness caused by grief or affliction | - |
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filefish | (noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
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gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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kettleful | (noun) the quantity a kettle will hold | Synonyms: kettle |
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leflunomide | (noun) an anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally; can slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis by slowing the proliferation of white blood cells which reduces inflammation in the synovium | Synonyms: Arava |
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left | (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east | - |
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(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left field, leftfield |
(noun) the hand that is on the left side of the body | Synonyms: left hand |
(noun) those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare | Synonyms: left wing |
(noun) location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east | - |
leftfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: left field |
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(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left | Synonyms: left, left field |
lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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leftism | (noun) the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left | - |
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leftist | (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: collectivist, left-winger |
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leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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lefty | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, southpaw |
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(noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, southpaw |
malefactor | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw |
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maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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(noun) doing or causing evil | - |
needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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(noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
olefin | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: alkene, olefine |
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olefine | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: alkene, olefin |
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paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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paleface | (noun) (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) | - |
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tablefork | (noun) a fork for eating at a dining table | - |
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telefilm | (noun) a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
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thimbleful | (noun) as much as a thimble will hold | Synonyms: thimble |
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tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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(noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |