balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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biotin | (noun) a B vitamin that aids in body growth | Synonyms: vitamin H |
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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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cotinga | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: chatterer |
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diablotin | (noun) a thin round slice of bread usually served with soup, especially consomme. | - |
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ergotine | (noun) a powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance, used to produce contraction of the uterus. | - |
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faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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footing | (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, ground |
(noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups | Synonyms: terms |
guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
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(noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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looting | (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: robbery |
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mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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nicotine | (noun) an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide | - |
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piloting | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, pilotage |
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(noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: pilotage |
pyrrhotine | (noun) a brownish iron sulfide mineral (FeS) having weak magnetic properties | Synonyms: magnetic pyrites, pyrrhotite |
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rioting | (noun) a state of disorder involving group violence | Synonyms: riot |
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rooting | (noun) the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow | - |
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sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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serotine | (noun) common brown bat of Europe | Synonyms: Eptesicus serotinus, European brown bat |
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shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
snootiness | (noun) the quality of being snooty | - |
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sootiness | (noun) the state of being dirty with soot | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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stotinka | (noun) 100 stotinka equal 1 lev in Bulgaria | - |
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trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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voting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, balloting, vote |
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wainscoting | (noun) wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room | Synonyms: wainscot, wainscotting |
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(noun) a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) | Synonyms: wainscotting |