| aloofness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness |
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| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: distance |
| alumbloom | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumroot |
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| balloon | (noun) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air | - |
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| (noun) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck | - |
| balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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| ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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| balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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| blood | (noun) temperament or disposition | - |
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| (noun) the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) people viewed as members of a group | - |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| bloodbath | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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| (noun) the state of being bloody | - |
| bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| bloodline | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| bloodlust | (noun) a desire for bloodshed | - |
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| bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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| bloodroot | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort |
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| bloodshed | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting |
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| (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: gore |
| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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| bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| bloom | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: efflorescence |
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| (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: blossom, flower |
| (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: blooming |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: blush, flush, rosiness |
| (noun) the best time of youth | Synonyms: bloom of youth, salad days |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
| bloomer | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (noun) a flower that blooms in a particular way | - |
| bloomers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: drawers, knickers, pants |
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| blooming | (noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
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| blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| broadloom | (noun) a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams | - |
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| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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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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| cyclooxygenase | (noun) either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin | Synonyms: Cox |
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| doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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| flashflood | (noun) a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | Synonyms: flash flood |
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| flood | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flowage |
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| (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
| (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
| (noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide |
| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent |
| floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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| (noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
| floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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| flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| floor | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: flooring |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: level, storey, story |
| (noun) a large room in a exchange where the trading is done | Synonyms: trading floor |
| (noun) the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business | - |
| (noun) the parliamentary right to address an assembly | - |
| (noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) the occupants of a floor | - |
| (noun) the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water | - |
| (noun) the ground on which people and animals move about | - |
| (noun) the lower inside surface of any hollow structure | - |
| floorboard | (noun) a board in the floor | Synonyms: floor board |
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| (noun) the floor of an automobile | - |
| flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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| (noun) building material used in laying floors | - |
| floorshow | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: cabaret, floor show |
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| floorwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: shopwalker |
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| floozie | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| floozy | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| galoot | (noun) a disreputable or clumsy man | - |
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| gloom | (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloominess, somberness, sombreness |
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| (noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloominess, glumness |
| gloominess | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: lugubriousness, sadness |
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| (noun) The property of having a frowning or scowling appearance. | - |
| (noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, somberness, sombreness |
| (noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, glumness |
| halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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| handloom | (noun) a loom powered by hand | - |
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| heirloom | (noun) something that has been in a family for generations | - |
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| (noun) (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance | - |
| hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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| igloo | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: iglu |
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| lifeblood | (noun) an essential or life-giving force | - |
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| (noun) the blood considered as the seat of vitality | - |
| linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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| loo | (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: closet, W.C., water closet |
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| loofa | (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofah, loufah sponge, luffa |
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| loofah | (noun) the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit | Synonyms: Luffa cylindrica, vegetable sponge |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loufah sponge, luffa |
| look | (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: looking, looking at |
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| (noun) physical appearance | - |
| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone |
| lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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| looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
| looking | (noun) the act of searching visually | Synonyms: looking for |
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| (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: look, looking at |
| lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
| (noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| lookup | (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: search |
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| loom | (noun) a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile | - |
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| loon | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: diver |
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| (noun) a worthless lazy fellow | - |
| (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, addlehead, birdbrain |
| looney | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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| loonie | (noun) the basic unit of money in Canada | Synonyms: Canadian dollar |
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| loony | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
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| loop | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane | Synonyms: loop-the-loop |
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| (noun) an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop | - |
| (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet |
| (noun) a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates | Synonyms: closed circuit |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component | Synonyms: loop topology |
| (noun) the basic pattern of the human fingerprint | - |
| (noun) a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied | - |
| (noun) an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan) | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated | Synonyms: iteration |
| (noun) anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself) | - |
| looper | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: inchworm, measuring worm |
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| loophole | (noun) a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons | - |
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| (noun) an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation | - |
| looping | (noun) (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained | Synonyms: iteration |
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| looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
| (noun) freedom from restraint | - |
| (noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
| (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| loot | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| looter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| looting | (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: robbery |
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| onlooker | (noun) someone who looks on | Synonyms: looker-on |
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| outlook | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: lookout |
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| (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, prospect |
| (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, mindset |
| overlook | (noun) a high place affording a good view | - |
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| palooka | (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: stumblebum |
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| pantaloon | (noun) trousers worn in former times | - |
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| photoflood | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, floodlight |
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| pureblood | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
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| purloo | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, poilu |
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| saloon | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, ginmill, taproom |
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| (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, taphouse |
| (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | Synonyms: sedan |
| sloop | (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow | - |
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| waterloo | (noun) a final crushing defeat | - |
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| witloof | (noun) young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head | Synonyms: Belgian endive, French endive |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, endive |