| lethality | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: deadliness |
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| lethargy | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, slackness |
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| (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, phlegm, sluggishness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, sluggishness |
| letter | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: missive |
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| (noun) the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech | Synonyms: alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet |
| (noun) an award earned by participation in a school sport | Synonyms: varsity letter |
| (noun) a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention) | - |
| (noun) owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire | - |
| lettercard | (noun) a postcard that folds so the message is inside | - |
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| letterer | (noun) a painter of letters | - |
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| letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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| lettering | (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: inscription |
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| letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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| letterpress | (noun) printing from a plate with raised characters | Synonyms: relief printing |
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| letters | (noun) the literary culture | - |
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| (noun) scholarly attainment | - |
| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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| lettuce | (noun) leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Lactuca | - |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| letup | (noun) a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished | Synonyms: lull |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| mallet | (noun) a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | Synonyms: beetle |
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| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: hammer |
| (noun) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball | - |
| mantelet | (noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantilla |
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| (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantlet |
| mantlet | (noun) portable bulletproof shelter | Synonyms: mantelet |
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| mexiletine | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Mexitil) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias | Synonyms: Mexitil |
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| millet | (noun) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica | - |
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| (noun) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine | - |
| millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
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| mistletoe | (noun) Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | Synonyms: Old World mistletoe, Viscum album |
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| (noun) American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe | Synonyms: false mistletoe |
| (noun) shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks | Synonyms: Loranthus europaeus |
| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| mullet | (noun) bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin | - |
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| (noun) freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| (noun) highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet | Synonyms: gray mullet, grey mullet |
| necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| nutlet | (noun) a small nut | - |
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| obsoleteness | (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: superannuation |
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| omelet | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelette |
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| omelette | (noun) beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly | Synonyms: omelet |
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| outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
| (noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
| (noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
| owlet | (noun) young owl | - |
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| paletiology | (noun) the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) | Synonyms: palaetiology |
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| palette | (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: pallet |
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| (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: pallette |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: pallet |
| pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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| (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
| (noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
| pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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| pamphlet | (noun) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet | Synonyms: tract |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet |
| pamphleteer | (noun) a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | - |
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| pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
| pentathlete | (noun) an athlete who competes in a pentathlon | - |
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| phenylethylene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, styrene, vinylbenzene |
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| piculet | (noun) small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers | - |
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| piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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| piolet | (noun) an ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice | Synonyms: ice ax, ice axe |
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| plantlet | (noun) a young plant or a small plant | - |
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| platelet | (noun) tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting | Synonyms: blood platelet, thrombocyte |
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| plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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| playlet | (noun) a short play | - |
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| plethodont | (noun) mostly terrestrial salamanders that breathe through their thin moist skin; lay eggs in moist places on land; rarely enter water | Synonyms: lungless salamander |
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| plethora | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: embarrassment, overplus, superfluity |
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| plethysmograph | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains) | - |
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| poulet | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, volaille |
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| poulette | (noun) allemande sauce with chopped parsley | - |
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| proletarian | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
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| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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| pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
| quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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| (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
| repletion | (noun) eating until excessively full | Synonyms: surfeit |
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| (noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: satiation, satiety |
| ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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| (noun) a little ring | - |
| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
| rivulet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| rondelet | (noun) a shorter form of rondeau | - |
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| rootlet | (noun) small root or division of a root | - |
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| roulette | (noun) a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in | - |
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| (noun) a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations | Synonyms: toothed wheel |
| (noun) a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure | Synonyms: line roulette |
| sallet | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: salade |
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| scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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| sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
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| simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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| singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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| singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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| (noun) a set containing a single member | - |
| (noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
| skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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| (noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
| (noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
| (noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
| skillet | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, frypan |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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| (noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
| stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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| streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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| stylet | (noun) small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | - |
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| sublet | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublease |
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| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| surmullet | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: goatfish, Mullus surmuletus, red mullet |
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| swiftlet | (noun) swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest | Synonyms: Collocalia inexpectata |
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| swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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| tablet | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab |
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| (noun) a small flat compressed cake of some substance | - |
| (noun) a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription | - |
| (noun) a portable computer with a touchscreen | Synonyms: tablet computer |
| (noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad, pad of paper |
| tabletop | (noun) the top horizontal work surface of a table | - |
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| taleteller | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| tartlet | (noun) a small tart usually used as a canape | - |
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| tattletale | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale |
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| telethermometer | (noun) a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point | - |
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| teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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| templet | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, template |
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| tercelet | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tiercel |
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| toilet | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilette |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, privy |
| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne |
| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, sewer |
| toiletry | (noun) artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body) | Synonyms: toilet articles |
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| toilette | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilet |
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| treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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| triplet | (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triple |
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| (noun) one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika |