alumna | (noun) a female person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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alumnus | (noun) a male person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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amnesia | (noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: blackout, memory loss |
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amnesiac | (noun) a person suffering from amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
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amnesic | (noun) a person suffering from amnesia | Synonyms: amnesiac |
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amnesty | (noun) the formal act of liberating someone | Synonyms: free pardon, pardon |
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(noun) a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense | Synonyms: pardon |
(noun) a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment | - |
amnio | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amniocentesis |
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amniocentesis | (noun) (pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities | Synonyms: amnio |
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amnion | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnios, amniotic sac |
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amnios | (noun) thin innermost membranous sac enclosing the developing embryo of higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | Synonyms: amnion, amniotic sac |
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amniote | (noun) any member of the Amniota | - |
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anamnesis | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: recollection, remembrance |
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(noun) the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient | Synonyms: medical history, medical record |
autumn | (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: fall |
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belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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buxomness | (noun) the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed | - |
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calmness | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, composure, equanimity |
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(noun) a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement | - |
(noun) an absence of strong winds or rain | - |
calumniation | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
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calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander |
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(noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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(noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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column | (noun) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure | Synonyms: pillar |
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(noun) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) | Synonyms: pillar |
(noun) a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands | Synonyms: chromatography column |
(noun) any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body | - |
(noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: editorial, newspaper column |
(noun) a page or text that is vertically divided | - |
(noun) a line of units following one after another | - |
(noun) a vertical array of numbers or other information | - |
(noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: pillar, tower |
columnea | (noun) tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage | - |
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columniation | (noun) (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure | - |
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columnist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: editorialist |
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condemnation | (noun) (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | - |
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(noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence |
(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: disapprobation |
(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: curse, execration |
(noun) the condition of being strongly disapproved of | - |
damn | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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damnation | (noun) the act of damning | - |
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(noun) the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell | Synonyms: eternal damnation |
damned | (noun) people who are condemned to eternal punishment | - |
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dimness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: subduedness |
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(noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: faintness |
(noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: duskiness |
firmness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: steadiness |
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(noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve |
(noun) the property of being unyielding to the touch | - |
(noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: soundness |
glumness | (noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: moroseness, sullenness |
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(noun) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess |
grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
gymnasium | (noun) athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training | Synonyms: gym |
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gymnast | (noun) an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics | - |
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gymnastics | (noun) a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility | Synonyms: gymnastic exercise |
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gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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gymnosophy | (noun) the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation | - |
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gymnosperm | (noun) plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary | - |
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hydramnios | (noun) an abnormality of pregnancy; accumulation of excess amniotic fluid | - |
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hymn | (noun) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) | Synonyms: anthem |
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hymnal | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnary, hymnbook |
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hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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hymnbook | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnary |
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hymnody | (noun) the act of singing psalms or hymns | Synonyms: psalmody |
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hymnography | (noun) (music) the craft of hymn composition. | - |
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hypersomnia | (noun) an inability to stay awake | - |
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indemnification | (noun) an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance | - |
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(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution |
indemnity | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, redress, restitution |
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(noun) legal exemption from liability for damages | - |
(noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: insurance |
insomnia | (noun) an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness | - |
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insomniac | (noun) someone who cannot sleep | Synonyms: sleepless person |
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lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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lemniscus | (noun) a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus | Synonyms: fillet |
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limner | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer |
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limnimeter | (noun) a tide gage used for measuring lake level variations. | - |
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limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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limnology | (noun) the scientific study of bodies of fresh water for their biological and physical and geological properties | - |
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lukewarmness | (noun) a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | Synonyms: tepidity, tepidness |
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(noun) lack of passion, force or animation | Synonyms: tepidness |
mnemometer | (noun) An outdated mechanical device used for presenting a series of stimuli to be memorized. | Synonyms: memory apparatus |
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mnemonic | (noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |
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mnemonics | (noun) a method or system for improving the memory | - |
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mnemonist | (noun) an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory | - |
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omnibus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, passenger vehicle |
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(noun) an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author | - |
omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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omnirange | (noun) a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing | Synonyms: omnidirectional radio range, omnidirectional range |
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omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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omnivore | (noun) an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances | - |
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(noun) a person who eats all kinds of foods | - |
omnivorousness | (noun) The state of eating both animal and plant matter. | - |
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paramnesia | (noun) (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality | - |
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primness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: priggishness |
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(noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, prudery, prudishness |
progymnosperm | (noun) an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived | - |
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randomness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, noise, stochasticity |
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(noun) (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work | Synonyms: entropy, S |
remnant | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remainder |
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(noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: leftover |
simnel | (noun) a crisp bread of fine white flour | - |
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(noun) a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas | - |
slimness | (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slightness |
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(noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, narrowness |
solemness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemnity, staidness |
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solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, staidness |
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(noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: gravity |
solemnization | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnisation |
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somnambulation | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulism |
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somnambulism | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, sleepwalking, somnambulation |
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somnambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, sleepwalker |
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somniloquism | (noun) uttering speech while asleep | Synonyms: sleep talking, somniloquy |
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somniloquist | (noun) someone who talks while asleep | - |
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somniloquy | (noun) uttering speech while asleep | Synonyms: sleep talking, somniloquism |
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somnolence | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, sleepiness |
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trimness | (noun) a state of arrangement or appearance | Synonyms: trim |
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uniformness | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformity |
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warmness | (noun) the quality of having a moderate degree of heat | Synonyms: warmth |
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(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness |