amber | (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: gold |
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(noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry | - |
amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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amberjack | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberfish |
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antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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bomber | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | - |
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(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
(noun) a person who plants bombs | - |
camber | (noun) the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top | - |
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(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, cant |
(noun) a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road) | - |
chamber | (noun) a natural or artificial enclosed space | - |
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(noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
(noun) a room where a judge transacts business | - |
(noun) an enclosed volume in the body | - |
(noun) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly | - |
chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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(noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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(noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
(noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
(noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
(noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
clumber | (noun) a thickset spaniel with longish silky hair | Synonyms: clumber spaniel |
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comber | (noun) a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
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(noun) a long curling sea wave | - |
(noun) a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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(noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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ember | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: coal |
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jamberry | (noun) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo |
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(noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
kimberlite | (noun) a rare type of peridotite that sometimes contains diamonds; found in South Africa and Siberia | - |
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lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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limber | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
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limbers | (noun) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well | - |
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lumber | (noun) an implement used in baseball by the batter | Synonyms: baseball bat |
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(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: timber |
lumbering | (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |
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lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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(noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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lumbermill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: sawmill |
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lumberyard | (noun) a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale | - |
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member | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, extremity |
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(noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: penis, phallus |
(noun) an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations) | - |
(noun) one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization) | Synonyms: fellow member |
(noun) anything that belongs to a set or class | - |
membership | (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: rank |
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(noun) the state of being a member | - |
nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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(noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) a clothing measurement | - |
(noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
(noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
(noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
(noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
(noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
(noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
(noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
(noun) a select company of people | - |
(noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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plumber | (noun) a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | Synonyms: pipe fitter |
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plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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remembering | (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: memory |
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slumber | (noun) a dormant or quiescent state | - |
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(noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: sleep |
slumberer | (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: sleeper |
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somberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness |
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(noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness |
(noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, sombreness |
timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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(noun) a post made of wood | - |
(noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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umber | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
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(noun) an earth pigment | - |