| abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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| (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
| (noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
| (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
| anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| bromoform | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: tribromomethane |
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| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| caseworm | (noun) insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body | - |
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| chloroform | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: trichloromethane |
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| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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| conformation | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformity |
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| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, contour, form, shape |
| (noun) a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing | - |
| conformism | (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformity |
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| conformist | (noun) someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) | - |
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| conformity | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformation |
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| (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: ossification |
| (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformance |
| (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformism |
| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, accordance |
| corm | (noun) solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure | - |
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| cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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| counterreformation | (noun) a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation | - |
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| cuneiform | (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
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| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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| deformation | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: contortion |
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| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: distortion |
| (noun) alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it | - |
| deformity | (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: malformation, misshapenness |
| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| doormat | (noun) a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering | Synonyms: welcome mat |
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| (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: weakling, wuss |
| dorm | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| dormer | (noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window | Synonyms: dormer window |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| enormity | (noun) an act of extreme wickedness | - |
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| (noun) the quality of extreme wickedness | - |
| (noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: outrageousness |
| (noun) vastness of size or extent | - |
| enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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| (noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
| fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| flatworm | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: platyhelminth |
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| fluoroform | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: trifluoromethane |
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| form | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: shape |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a mold for setting concrete | - |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, shape |
| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, shape |
| (noun) an ability to perform well | - |
| (noun) a particular mode in which something is manifested | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: pattern, shape |
| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: kind, sort, variety |
| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, signifier, word form |
| (noun) a printed document with spaces in which to write | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, grade |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: strain, var., variant |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: phase |
| formal | (noun) a gown for evening wear | Synonyms: dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown |
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| (noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: ball |
| formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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| formalin | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formol |
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| formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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| formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
| formalities | (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formality |
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| formality | (noun) compliance with formal rules | - |
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| (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formalness |
| (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formalities |
| formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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| formalness | (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formality |
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| formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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| format | (noun) the general appearance of a publication | - |
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| (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, formatting |
| formation | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: shaping |
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| (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, organisation, organization |
| (noun) creation by mental activity | - |
| (noun) a particular spatial arrangement | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit | - |
| (noun) (geology) the geological features of the earth | Synonyms: geological formation |
| (noun) natural process that causes something to form | - |
| formative | (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
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| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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| former | (noun) the first of two or the first mentioned of two | - |
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| formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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| formication | (noun) hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines | - |
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| formidability | (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: toughness |
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| formol | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formalin |
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| formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
| (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
| (noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
| (noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
| formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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| formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
| glowworm | (noun) the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly | - |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| haloform | (noun) compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom | - |
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| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| hormism | (noun) psychology concerned with the purposive factor or force in behavior. | Synonyms: hormic psychology |
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| hormone | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: endocrine, internal secretion |
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| inchworm | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: looper, measuring worm |
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| informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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| (noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
| informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
| informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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| information | (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: entropy, selective information |
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| (noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction | - |
| (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: info |
| (noun) formal accusation of a crime | - |
| (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: data |
| informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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| (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
| iodoform | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: triiodomethane |
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| (noun) sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3 | Synonyms: tri-iodomethane |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| lobworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lug, lugworm |
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| lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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| malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| metformin | (noun) an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes | Synonyms: Glucophage |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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| motormouth | (noun) someone who talks incessantly | - |
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| neurohormone | (noun) a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin) | - |
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| nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
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