aconite | (noun) any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers | - |
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acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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adenitis | (noun) inflammation of a gland or lymph node | - |
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admonition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, monition |
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(noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: monition, warning, word of advice |
affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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(noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
(noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
(noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
(noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
(noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
(noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
alkalinity | (noun) pH values above 7 | - |
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amblygonite | (noun) a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium | - |
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amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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amenity | (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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ammonite | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonoid |
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ammunition | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammo |
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(noun) information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint | - |
(noun) any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | - |
aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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aragonite | (noun) a mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic with calcite | - |
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asininity | (noun) the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness | - |
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austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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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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benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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(noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
bentonite | (noun) an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash | - |
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bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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(noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
(noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
bornite | (noun) a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits | Synonyms: peacock ore |
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ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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chlorinity | (noun) a measure of the quantity of chlorine or other halides in water (especially seawater) | - |
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chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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(noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
(noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
(noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
(noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
(noun) common ownership | - |
(noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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cyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: kyanite |
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definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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(noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
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(noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
(noun) high office or rank or station | - |
disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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(noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
(noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
ebonite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: hard rubber, vulcanite |
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essonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, hessonite |
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eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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(noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
(noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
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femininity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: muliebrity |
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fergusonite | (noun) a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals | - |
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finiteness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finitude |
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finitude | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finiteness |
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flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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fraternity | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, sodality |
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(noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: frat |
furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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genitalia | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates |
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genitals | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, private parts, privates |
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genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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glauconite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand | - |
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granite | (noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) | - |
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(noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz | - |
graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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gunite | (noun) a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure | - |
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hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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hessonite | (noun) a garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown | Synonyms: cinnamon stone, essonite |
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hiddenite | (noun) a green transparent form of the mineral spodumene used as a gemstone | - |
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humanitarian | (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
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(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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humanity | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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(noun) the quality of being humane | - |
(noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanness, manhood |
igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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(noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
ignition | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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(noun) the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: ignition system |
(noun) the process of initiating combustion or catching fire | - |
ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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(noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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immunity | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: exemption, granting immunity |
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(noun) the quality of being unaffected by something | - |
(noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
(noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: resistance |
impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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importunity | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunateness |
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(noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: urgency, urging |
impunity | (noun) exemption from punishment or loss | - |
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inanition | (noun) exhaustion resulting from lack of food | - |
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(noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: lassitude, lethargy, slackness |
inanity | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: mindlessness, pointlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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indefiniteness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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indefinity | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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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 |
indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
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infinite | (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
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infiniteness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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infinitesimal | (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
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infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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infinitude | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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(noun) an infinite quantity | - |
infinity | (noun) time without end | Synonyms: eternity |
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inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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(noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
initial | (noun) the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | - |
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initialisation | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting |
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initialism | (noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately | - |
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(noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: acronym |
initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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initiate | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: enlightened |
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(noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: learned person, pundit, savant |
(noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, novice, tiro, tyro |
initiation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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(noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: induction, trigger |
(noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledgeability, knowledgeableness |
(noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, installation |
initiative | (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
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(noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
initiator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: instigator |
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insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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