| penuchle | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: bezique, pinochle, pinocle |
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| penult | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penultima, penultimate |
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| penultima | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultimate |
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| penultimate | (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
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| penumbra | (noun) a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penuriousness | (noun) a disposition to be niggardly with money | - |
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| (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, pennilessness |
| penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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| phenylketonuria | (noun) a genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency | Synonyms: PKU |
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| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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| pinnule | (noun) division of a usually pinnately divided leaf | Synonyms: pinna |
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| planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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| platinum | (noun) a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits | Synonyms: atomic number 78, Pt |
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| plenum | (noun) an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside | - |
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| (noun) a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present | - |
| polynucleotide | (noun) (biochemistry) a linear polymer whose molecule is composed of many nucleotide units constituting a section of a nucleic acid molecule | - |
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| pronucleus | (noun) the nucleus of the ovum or sperm after fertilization but before they fuse to form the nucleus of the zygote | - |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| pronunciation | (noun) the manner in which someone utters a word | - |
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| (noun) the way a word or a language is customarily spoken | Synonyms: orthoepy |
| proteinuria | (noun) the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder | Synonyms: albuminuria |
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| quidnunc | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: busybody, nosey-parker, nosy-parker |
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| ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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| renunciation | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, forswearing |
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| (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renouncement |
| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: repudiation |
| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, defection |
| retinue | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, suite |
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| revenue | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, receipts |
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| (noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation |
| revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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| ribonuclease | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonucleinase, RNase |
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| ribonucleinase | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonuclease, RNase |
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| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| sangapenum | (noun) a variety of gum | Synonyms: gum sangapenum |
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| sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| silenus | (noun) any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) | - |
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| sinuosity | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuousness |
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| sinuousness | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuosity |
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| sinus | (noun) a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel | Synonyms: venous sinus |
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| (noun) any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull | - |
| (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: fistula |
| sinusitis | (noun) inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| sinusoid | (noun) tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ | - |
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| (noun) the curve of y=sin x | Synonyms: sine curve |
| snub | (noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, cut |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: rebuff, repulse |
| snuff | (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
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| (noun) finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose | - |
| (noun) a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time | - |
| (noun) the charred portion of a candlewick | - |
| snuffbox | (noun) a small ornamental box for carrying snuff in your pocket | - |
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| snuffer | (noun) a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles | - |
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| (noun) a person who uses snuff | Synonyms: snuff user |
| (noun) a person who snuffs out candles | - |
| snuffers | (noun) scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick | - |
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| snuffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snivel |
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| snuffler | (noun) a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus) | - |
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| snug | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, cubbyhole, snuggery |
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| snuggery | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, cubbyhole, snug |
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| snuggle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, nestle |
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| snuggling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching |
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| snugness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: cosiness, coziness |
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| sphagnum | (noun) any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | Synonyms: bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum moss |
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| sternum | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: breastbone |
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| sternutation | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sneezing |
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| sternutator | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
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| strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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| strenuousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: arduousness |
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| subgenus | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species | - |
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| submenu | (noun) a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu | Synonyms: cascading menu, hierarchical menu |
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| sunup | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise |
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| superannuation | (noun) the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension) | - |
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| (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: obsoleteness |
| (noun) a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work | Synonyms: old-age pension, retirement benefit, retirement check, retirement fund, retirement pension |
| supernumerary | (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: extra, spear carrier |
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| (noun) a person serving no apparent function | - |
| tenuity | (noun) a rarified quality | Synonyms: low density, rarity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: feebleness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, thinness |
| tenure | (noun) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands | Synonyms: land tenure |
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| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: incumbency, term of office |
| terminus | (noun) either end of a railroad or bus route | - |
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| (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: depot, terminal |
| (noun) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | Synonyms: term, terminal figure |
| (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: destination |
| (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, endpoint, termination |
| tetanus | (noun) a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses | - |
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| (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: lockjaw |
| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| thysanuron | (noun) primitive wingless insects: bristletail | Synonyms: thysanuran insect |
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| tonus | (noun) the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | Synonyms: tone, tonicity |
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| trigeminus | (noun) the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication | Synonyms: fifth cranial nerve, nervus trigeminus, trigeminal, trigeminal nerve |
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| turnup | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: cuff |
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| tympanum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, kettledrum, timpani, tympani |
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| (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: eardrum, myringa, tympanic membrane |
| (noun) the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear | Synonyms: middle ear, tympanic cavity |
| ununbium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 112 | Synonyms: atomic number 112, element 112, Uub |
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| ununhexium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 116 | Synonyms: atomic number 116, element 116, Uuh |
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| ununpentium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 115 | Synonyms: atomic number 115, element 115, Uup |
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| ununquadium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 114 | Synonyms: atomic number 114, element 114, Uuq |
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| ununtrium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 113 | Synonyms: atomic number 113, element 113, Uut |
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| unusefulness | (noun) the quality of having no practical use | Synonyms: inutility, uselessness |
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| unusualness | (noun) uncommonness by virtue of being unusual | - |
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| vaccinum | (noun) immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies | Synonyms: vaccine |
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| venue | (noun) in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held | - |
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| (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, locus |
| venula | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venule |
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| venule | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venula |
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| walnut | (noun) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | - |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Juglans | Synonyms: walnut tree |
| (noun) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling | - |
| wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
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| zonula | (noun) small beltlike zone | Synonyms: zonule |
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| zonule | (noun) small beltlike zone | Synonyms: zonula |
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