bookcloth | (noun) a woven fabric (usually cotton) used for book covers. | Synonyms: book cloth |
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boot | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: kick, kicking |
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(noun) a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed | - |
(noun) footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg | - |
(noun) compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools | Synonyms: automobile trunk, luggage compartment, trunk |
(noun) an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg | Synonyms: iron boot, iron heel, the boot |
(noun) protective casing for something that resembles a leg | - |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
bootblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: shoeblack |
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bootboys | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: skinheads |
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bootee | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootie |
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booth | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: cubicle, kiosk, stall |
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(noun) a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment | - |
(noun) a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches | - |
boothose | (noun) protective stockings worn with or in place of boots | - |
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bootie | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootee |
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bootjack | (noun) has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots | - |
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bootlace | (noun) a long lace for fastening boots | - |
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bootleg | (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
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(noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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(noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
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bootstrap | (noun) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
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booty | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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bot | (noun) botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human | - |
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bota | (noun) a wine bottle made of leather | - |
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botanical | (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
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botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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botfly | (noun) stout-bodied hairy dipterous fly whose larvae are parasites on humans and other mammals | - |
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bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
botheration | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
bottle | (noun) a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | - |
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(noun) a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children | Synonyms: feeding bottle, nursing bottle |
(noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottleful |
bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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bottlecap | (noun) a cap that seals a bottle | - |
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bottleful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bottle | Synonyms: bottle |
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bottleneck | (noun) the narrow part of a bottle near the top | - |
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(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: chokepoint, constriction |
bottlenose | (noun) northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead | Synonyms: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus |
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(noun) any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak; chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean | Synonyms: bottle-nosed dolphin, bottlenose dolphin |
bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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bottom | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
(noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
(noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
(noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
(noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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botulin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin |
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botulinum | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinus, Clostridium botulinum |
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botulinus | (noun) anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism | Synonyms: botulinum, Clostridium botulinum |
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botulism | (noun) food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly | - |
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botulismotoxin | (noun) potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: botulin, botulinus toxin |
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bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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boycott | (noun) a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies | - |
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breadroot | (noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: Indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, Psoralea esculenta |
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breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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briarroot | (noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea | - |
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broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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(noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
broth | (noun) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock | - |
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(noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: stock |
brothel | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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(noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
(noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
(noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
brotherhood | (noun) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | - |
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(noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: fraternity, sodality |
(noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, union |
(noun) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | - |
brotula | (noun) deep-sea fishes | - |
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buckshot | (noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells | Synonyms: bird shot, duck shot |
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bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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bullshot | (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
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burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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(noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
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cahoot | (noun) collusion | - |
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callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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capote | (noun) a long cloak with a hood that can be pulled over the head | Synonyms: hooded cloak |
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(noun) a long overcoat with a hood that can be pulled over the head | Synonyms: hooded coat |
carnotite | (noun) a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium | - |
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carotene | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotin, provitamin A |
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(noun) yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants | - |
carotenemia | (noun) excess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color | Synonyms: xanthemia |
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carotenoid | (noun) any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals | - |
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carotin | (noun) an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver | Synonyms: carotene, provitamin A |
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carrot | (noun) promise of reward as in "carrot and stick" | - |
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(noun) orange root; important source of carotene | - |
(noun) perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions | Synonyms: cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativa |
(noun) deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant | - |
carrottop | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: red-header, redhead, redheader |
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carrycot | (noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) | - |
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cefotaxime | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract | Synonyms: Claforan |
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cenotaph | (noun) a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered | Synonyms: empty tomb |
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cephalothin | (noun) a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin | - |
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cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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chariot | (noun) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage | - |
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(noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome | - |
charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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chemotaxis | (noun) movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus | - |
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chemotherapy | (noun) the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness) | - |
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cheroot | (noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat | - |
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chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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chicot | (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
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chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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chipotle | (noun) a ripe jalapeno that has been dried for use in cooking | - |
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chlorothiazide | (noun) a diuretic drug (trade name Diuril) used in the treatment of edema and hypertension | Synonyms: Diuril |
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cholelithotomy | (noun) removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder | - |
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chrysotherapy | (noun) the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis) | - |
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chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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clot | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: coagulum |
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clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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cloth | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: fabric, material, textile |
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clothes | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, dress, wearing apparel |
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clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |