| comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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| (noun) something that is commanded | - |
| commelina | (noun) any plant of the genus Commelina | - |
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| commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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| (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
| commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| commensal | (noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
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| commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| comment | (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: input, remark |
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| (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: commentary |
| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt |
| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
| commerce | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commercialism, mercantilism |
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| (noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. | - |
| commercial | (noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television | Synonyms: commercial message |
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| commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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| commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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| commercialization | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialisation |
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| commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
| (noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
| (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
| (noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
| (noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
| (noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
| (noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
| complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
| complementary | (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
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| complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
| compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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| complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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| compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| conferment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferral |
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| confinement | (noun) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | - |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the state of being confined | - |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| congealment | (noun) the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing | Synonyms: congelation |
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| conglomerate | (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: empire |
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| (noun) a composite rock made up of particles of varying size | Synonyms: pudding stone |
| conglomeration | (noun) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass | Synonyms: conglobation |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, congeries |
| (noun) a rounded spherical form | Synonyms: conglobation |
| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| consumer | (noun) a person who uses goods or services | - |
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| consumerism | (noun) a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | - |
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| (noun) the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial | - |
| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| contentment | (noun) happiness with one's situation in life | - |
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| contumely | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, insult, revilement, vilification |
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| copolymer | (noun) a polymer consisting of two or more different monomers | - |
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| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| cosmea | (noun) any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals | Synonyms: cosmos |
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| cosmetic | (noun) a toiletry designed to beautify the body | - |
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| cosmetician | (noun) someone who sells or applies cosmetics | - |
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| (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: beautician |
| cosmetologist | (noun) an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
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| cosmetology | (noun) the practice of beautifying the face and hair and skin | - |
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| costume | (noun) the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball | - |
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| (noun) the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class | - |
| (noun) unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place | - |
| (noun) the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments) | - |
| costumer | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumier |
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| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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| countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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| crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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| crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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| (noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
| (noun) a student who crams | - |
| (noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
| craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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| creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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| crime | (noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act | Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking |
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| (noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law | - |
| cryometer | (noun) a thermometer designed to measure low temperatures | - |
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| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| curettement | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettage |
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| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| customer | (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: client |
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| cybercrime | (noun) crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs | - |
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| cyclamen | (noun) Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: Cyclamen purpurascens |
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| cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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| cyme | (noun) more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first | - |
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| cymene | (noun) any of three isotopes of a colorless aromatic liquid hydrocarbon occurring in the volatile oil of cumin and thyme and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins | - |
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| cytochrome | (noun) (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration) | - |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| cytomembrane | (noun) a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell | Synonyms: cell membrane, plasma membrane |
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| cytophotometer | (noun) a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm | - |
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| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytosmear | (noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, smear |
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| cytostome | (noun) mouth of a protozoan | - |
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| dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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| dagame | (noun) source of a tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Calycophyllum candidissimum, lemonwood tree |
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| dame | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, doll, skirt, wench |
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| (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam |
| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| debarment | (noun) the act of prevention by legal means | - |
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| (noun) the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices) | - |
| debasement | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: degradation |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: adulteration |
| debridement | (noun) surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing | - |
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| decameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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| decametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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| decampment | (noun) breaking camp | - |
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| (noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: abscondment |
| decimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimetre, dm |
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| decimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimeter, dm |
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| decipherment | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decoding, decryption |
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| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |