| juvenility | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: youth, youthfulness |
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| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, jejuneness |
| kiloliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kilolitre |
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| kilolitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kiloliter |
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| kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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| knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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| laterality | (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: dominance |
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| (noun) the property of using one hand more than the other | Synonyms: handedness |
| (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, lateralization |
| laudability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudableness, praiseworthiness |
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| legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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| legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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| (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
| lepidolite | (noun) a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium | - |
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| lethality | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: deadliness |
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| leukoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the white matter of the brain | - |
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| liabilities | (noun) anything that is owed to someone else | - |
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| liability | (noun) the quality of being something that holds you back | - |
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| (noun) an obligation to pay money to another party | Synonyms: financial obligation, indebtedness |
| (noun) the state of being legally obliged and responsible | - |
| liberality | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberalness |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberalness |
| lit | (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: literature |
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| litany | (noun) any long and tedious address or recital | - |
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| litas | (noun) the basic unit of money in Lithuania | - |
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| litchee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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| litchi | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi nut, lychee |
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| (noun) Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium | Synonyms: lichee, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi |
| liter | (noun) a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) | Synonyms: cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, l, litre |
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| literacy | (noun) the ability to read and write | - |
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| literal | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error |
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| literalism | (noun) the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense | - |
| literalness | (noun) adhering to the concrete construal of something | - |
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| literate | (noun) a person who can read and write | Synonyms: literate person |
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| literati | (noun) the literary intelligentsia | - |
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| literature | (noun) the profession or art of a writer | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: lit |
| (noun) creative writing of recognized artistic value | - |
| (noun) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject | - |
| litheness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: lissomeness, suppleness |
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| lithiasis | (noun) the formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ | - |
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| lithium | (noun) a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals | Synonyms: atomic number 3, Li |
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| lithoglyptics | (noun) the art of engraving on precious stones | Synonyms: glyptics |
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| lithograph | (noun) duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern | Synonyms: lithograph machine |
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| (noun) a print produced by lithography | - |
| lithographer | (noun) a printmaker who uses lithography | - |
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| lithography | (noun) the act of making a lithographic print | - |
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| (noun) a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface | - |
| lithology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification | Synonyms: petrology |
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| lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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| lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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| lithophyte | (noun) plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere | Synonyms: lithophytic plant |
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| lithops | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant, stoneface |
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| lithosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: geosphere |
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| lithotomy | (noun) surgical removal of a stone (calculus) | - |
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| lithuresis | (noun) passing small stones with the urine | - |
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| litigant | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigator |
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| litigation | (noun) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights | Synonyms: judicial proceeding |
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| litigator | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigant |
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| litigiousness | (noun) a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits | - |
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| litmus | (noun) a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator | Synonyms: litmus test |
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| litoral | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: littoral, littoral zone, sands |
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| litotes | (noun) understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | Synonyms: meiosis |
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| litre | (noun) a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) | Synonyms: cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, l, liter |
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| litter | (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding, bedding material |
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| (noun) conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers | - |
| (noun) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal | - |
| (noun) rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) | - |
| litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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| litterbin | (noun) bin (usually in or outside a public building) into which the public can put rubbish | Synonyms: litter-basket, litter basket |
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| litterbug | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterer |
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| litterer | (noun) a person who litters public places with refuse | Synonyms: litter lout, litterbug |
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| little | (noun) a small amount or duration | - |
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| littleneck | (noun) a young quahog | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
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| (noun) a quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York | Synonyms: littleneck clam |
| littleness | (noun) the property of having a relatively small size | Synonyms: smallness |
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| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: pettiness, smallness |
| (noun) the property of having relatively little strength or vigor | Synonyms: smallness |
| littoral | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral zone, sands |
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| liturgics | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgiology |
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| liturgiology | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgics |
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| liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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| liturgy | (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship | - |
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| locality | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity |
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| logicality | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicalness |
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| lyricality | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricism, songfulness |
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| malleability | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: plasticity |
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| manageability | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageableness |
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| maneuverability | (noun) the quality of being maneuverable | Synonyms: manoeuvrability |
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| manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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| manoeuvrability | (noun) the quality of being maneuverable | Synonyms: maneuverability |
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| marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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| marlite | (noun) metamorphic rock with approximately the same composition as marl | Synonyms: marlstone |
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| marriageability | (noun) eligibility for marriage | - |
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| materiality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, corporeality, physicalness |
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| (noun) relevance requiring careful consideration | - |
| matrilineality | (noun) a system in which a person's descent is traced through their mother and her maternal ancestors. | - |
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| measurability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: quantifiability |
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| medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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| megalith | (noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe) | Synonyms: megalithic structure |
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| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| meltability | (noun) Capability of being reduced from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat. | - |
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| memorability | (noun) the quality of being worth remembering | - |
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| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
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| mentality | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, wit |
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| (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mind-set, mindset, outlook |
| merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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| metabolite | (noun) any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism) | - |
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| metastability | (noun) the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed | - |
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| metropolitan | (noun) a person who lives in a metropolis | - |
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| (noun) in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity | - |
| militainment | (noun) entertainment with military themes in which the Department of Defense is celebrated | - |
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| militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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| militancy | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militance |
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| militant | (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: activist |
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| militarisation | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarization, mobilisation, mobilization |
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| militarism | (noun) a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests | - |
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| militarist | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: warmonger |
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| militarization | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, mobilisation, mobilization |
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| military | (noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
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| militia | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: reserves |
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| (noun) the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service | - |
| militiaman | (noun) a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies | - |
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