alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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anaglyph | (noun) anything carved in low relief | - |
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(noun) moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed | - |
anaglyphy | (noun) the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens | - |
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anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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anagram | (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | - |
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anagrams | (noun) a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
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apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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(noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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(noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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coinage | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
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(noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
(noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: metal money, mintage, specie |
commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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drainage | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drain |
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emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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espionage | (noun) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets | - |
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finagler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: wangler |
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hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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linage | (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: lineage |
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(noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: lineage |
manageability | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageableness |
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manageableness | (noun) the capability of being managed or controlled | Synonyms: manageability |
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management | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: direction |
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(noun) those in charge of running a business | - |
manager | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: director, managing director |
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(noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: coach, handler |
manageress | (noun) a woman manager | - |
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managership | (noun) the position of manager | - |
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menage | (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, home, house, household |
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menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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(noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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nag | (noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: hack, jade, plug |
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(noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nagger, scold, scolder |
nagami | (noun) shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats | Synonyms: Fortunella margarita, nagami kumquat, oval kumquat |
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nagger | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, scold, scolder |
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nagi | (noun) medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves; southern China to Taiwan and southern Japan | Synonyms: Nageia nagi |
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nonage | (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: minority |
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nonagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
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nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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nonagon | (noun) a nine-sided polygon | - |
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onager | (noun) Asiatic wild ass | Synonyms: Equus hemionus |
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(noun) small catapult used by the Romans | - |
orphanage | (noun) a public institution for the care of orphans | Synonyms: orphans' asylum |
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(noun) the condition of being a child without living parents | Synonyms: orphanhood |
parsonage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: rectory, vicarage |
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patronage | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, championship |
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(noun) (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support | - |
(noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: trade |
(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, disdain |
(noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, clientele |
peonage | (noun) the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged | - |
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(noun) the condition of a peon | - |
personage | (noun) another word for person; a person not meriting identification | - |
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(noun) a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Synonyms: important person, influential person |
preteenager | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteen |
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signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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snag | (noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, hitch, rub |
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(noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, split, tear |
(noun) a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest | - |
(noun) a sharp protuberance | - |
synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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tamponage | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponade |
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tanager | (noun) any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males | - |
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teenager | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teen |
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tonnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage duty, tunnage |
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tunnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage, tonnage duty |
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unmanageableness | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness |
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villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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(noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |