dodge | (noun) a quick evasive movement | - |
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(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem |
(noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodging, scheme |
dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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(noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
dodging | (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: escape, evasion |
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(noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away |
(noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, scheme |
dodo | (noun) extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons | Synonyms: Raphus cucullatus |
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(noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: fogey, fogy, fossil |
dogsbody | (noun) a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do | - |
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dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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(noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
doodad | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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doodia | (noun) any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae | Synonyms: rasp fern |
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doodle | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: scrabble, scribble |
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doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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(noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
(noun) a small motor vehicle | - |
driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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duodecimal | (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part |
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duodenum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum | - |
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duodiode | (noun) an electron tube having two diodes in the same envelope, with either a common cathode or separate cathodes. | - |
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dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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ectoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, exoderm |
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ectrodactyly | (noun) congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes | - |
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eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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electrode | (noun) a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit | - |
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electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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(noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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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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entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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epanodos | (noun) repetition of a group of words in reverse order | - |
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(noun) recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order) | - |
episode | (noun) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | Synonyms: sequence |
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(noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: installment, instalment |
(noun) a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series | - |
(noun) a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events | - |
episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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eroding | (noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, erosion, wearing, wearing away |
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erythroderma | (noun) any skin disorder involving abnormal redness | - |
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etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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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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exode | (noun) a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater | - |
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exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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exodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontics |
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exodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontia |
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exodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth | - |
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exodus | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: hegira, hejira |
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falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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(noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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(noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
(noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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flashflood | (noun) a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | Synonyms: flash flood |
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flatbrod | (noun) the thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia | - |
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flood | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flowage |
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(noun) a large flow | Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
(noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
(noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide |
(noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation |
(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent |
floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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(noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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fodder | (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | - |
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(noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire | Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish |
food | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: nutrient |
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(noun) anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | Synonyms: food for thought, intellectual nourishment |
(noun) any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment | Synonyms: solid food |
foodgasm | (noun) An extreme feeling of pleasure caused by seeing food | - |
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foodie | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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(noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
foreboding | (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
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(noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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gastropod | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: univalve |
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geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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geode | (noun) (mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals | - |
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geodesic | (noun) (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere) | Synonyms: geodesic line |
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geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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geoduck | (noun) a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell | - |
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girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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glossodynia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossalgia |
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gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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god | (noun) a material effigy that is worshipped | Synonyms: graven image, idol |
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(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, divinity, immortal |
(noun) a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people | - |
godchild | (noun) an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism | - |
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goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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goddess | (noun) a female deity | - |
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godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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(noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
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godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
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godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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godson | (noun) a male godchild | - |
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godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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good | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
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(noun) benefit | - |
(noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
(noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
goodby | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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goodbye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, sayonara, so long |
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goodness | (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: good |
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(noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: good |
goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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(noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
(noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
goody | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, kickshaw, treat |
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gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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