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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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 | - |
furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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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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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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oblong | (noun) a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation | - |
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oblongness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: rectangularity |
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oolong | (noun) Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried | - |
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prolongation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, perpetuation, protraction |
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(noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, lengthiness |
(noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, lengthiness, protraction |
prolonge | (noun) a rope fitted with a hook and used for towing a gun carriage | - |
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singalong | (noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singsong |
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tagalong | (noun) someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along | Synonyms: hanger-on |
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