| abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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| acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| aloneness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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| anticyclone | (noun) (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern | - |
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| baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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| belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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| blond | (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
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| (noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blonde | (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
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| (noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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| cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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| carillon | (noun) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower | Synonyms: bell ringing, carillon playing |
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| (noun) set of bells hung in a bell tower | - |
| carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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| ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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| chelonian | (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
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| chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| clon | (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clone |
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| clone | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: knockoff |
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| (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clon |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: dead ringer, ringer |
| clonidine | (noun) an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches | Synonyms: Catapres |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clonus | (noun) convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations | - |
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| colon | (noun) the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted | - |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) | - |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos | Synonyms: Costa Rican colon |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos | Synonyms: El Salvadoran colon |
| colonel | (noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general | - |
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| colonial | (noun) a resident of a colony | - |
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| colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| colonic | (noun) a water enema given to flush out the colon | Synonyms: colonic irrigation |
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| colonisation | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonization, settlement |
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| coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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| colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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| colonization | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, settlement |
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| colonizer | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: coloniser |
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| colonnade | (noun) structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns | - |
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| (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: arcade |
| colonoscope | (noun) an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum | - |
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| colonoscopy | (noun) visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation | - |
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| colony | (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | - |
| (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | - |
| (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: dependency |
| (noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | - |
| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cyclone | (noun) a violent rotating windstorm | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern | - |
| decathlon | (noun) an athletic contest consisting of ten different events | - |
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| decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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| decolonization | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonisation |
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| diencephalon | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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| echelon | (noun) a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset | - |
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| (noun) a body of troops arranged in a line | - |
| (noun) status in a society or organization | - |
| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| encephalon | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: brain |
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| epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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| epixylon | (noun) organisms that are attached to submerged wood surfaces in aquatic ecosystems. | - |
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| epsilon | (noun) the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| felon | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw |
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| (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: whitlow |
| feloniousness | (noun) The property of relating to, or having the nature of a serious criminal offense. | - |
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| felony | (noun) a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
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| furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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| gallon | (noun) United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters | Synonyms: gal |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters | Synonyms: congius, Imperial gallon |
| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| halon | (noun) a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer | - |
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| holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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| holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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| klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
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| livelong | (noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium |
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| loneliness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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| (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, forlornness |
| (noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: solitariness |
| loner | (noun) a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | Synonyms: lone hand, lone wolf |
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| lonesomeness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, solitariness |
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| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| longboat | (noun) the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel | - |
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| longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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| longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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| (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
| longhand | (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
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| longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| longness | (noun) the property of being of long spatial extent | - |
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| (noun) duration as an extension | - |
| longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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| longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| longways | (noun) country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | Synonyms: longways dance |
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| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| longyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: lungi, lungyi |
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| lontar | (noun) tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving | Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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| megacolon | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate) | - |
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| melon | (noun) any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh | - |
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| (noun) any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers | Synonyms: melon vine |
| merlon | (noun) a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement | - |
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| mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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| mesocolon | (noun) mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall | - |
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| metencephalon | (noun) the part of the hindbrain that develops into the pons and the cerebellum | - |
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| methaqualone | (noun) sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Quaalude) that is a drug of abuse | Synonyms: Quaalude |
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