corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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corundom | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundum |
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corundum | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundom |
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costochondritis | (noun) inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage | - |
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countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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crescendo | (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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(noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
(noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
(noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
cylindricality | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricalness |
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cylindricalness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricality |
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dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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(noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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(noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
dandy | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: yawl |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
dandyism | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: foppishness |
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deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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decrescendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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(noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
(noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
(noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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dendrite | (noun) short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron | - |
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dendrobium | (noun) a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers | - |
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dendrology | (noun) the study of wooden plants | - |
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dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
dependant | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
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dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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(noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
dependent | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
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descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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descendent | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
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descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
(noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
(noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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dichondra | (noun) a creeping perennial herb with hairy stems and orbicular to reniform leaves and small white to greenish flowers; used as a grass substitute in warm regions | Synonyms: Dichondra micrantha |
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diminuendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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dirndl | (noun) a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt | - |
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(noun) a full skirt with a gathered waistband | - |
disbandment | (noun) the act of disbanding | - |
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dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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dwindling | (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
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effendi | (noun) a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials | - |
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eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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enchondroma | (noun) benign slow-growing tumor of cartilaginous cells at the ends of tubular bones (especially in the hands and feet) | - |
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end | (noun) the part you are expected to play | - |
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(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line | - |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: oddment, remainder, remnant |
(noun) a final part or section | - |
(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: goal |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, ending |
(noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: last |
(noun) either extremity of something that has length | Synonyms: terminal |
(noun) a boundary marking the extremities of something | - |
(noun) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object | - |
(noun) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other | - |
(noun) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, destruction |
(noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: ending |
endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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endband | (noun) a part of a book, most often found with hardcover bindings, that consists of a small cord or strip of material affixed near the spine to provide structural reinforcement and sometimes decorative effect. | - |
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endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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endeavor | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavour, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavour, enterprise |
endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
endemic | (noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
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(noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
endemism | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: autochthony, indigenousness |
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endgame | (noun) the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | Synonyms: end game |
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(noun) the final stages of an extended process of negotiation | Synonyms: end game |
ending | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: conclusion, termination |
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(noun) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme) | Synonyms: termination |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, end |
(noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, finish |
(noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: end |
endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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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, witloof |
endlessness | (noun) the property of being (or seeming to be) without end | - |
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endoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoderm, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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endocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves | - |
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endocardium | (noun) the membrane that lines the cavities of the heart and forms part of the heart valves | - |
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endocarp | (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: pit, stone |
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endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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endocrine | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: hormone, internal secretion |
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(noun) any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: ductless gland, endocrine gland |
endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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endocrinology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions | - |
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endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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endodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontics |
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endodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontia |
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endodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in diseases of the dental pulp and nerve | - |
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endogamy | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: inmarriage, intermarriage |
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endogen | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: liliopsid, monocot, monocotyledon |
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endogeny | (noun) a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth | - |
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