| counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
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| counterreformation | (noun) a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation | - |
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| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| countershot | (noun) a return shot; a retaliatory shot | - |
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| countersign | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersignature |
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| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: parole, password, watchword, word |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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| countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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| (noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
| counterspy | (noun) a spy who works against enemy espionage | Synonyms: mole |
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| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| countersubversion | (noun) the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities | - |
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| countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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| countertenor | (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor | - |
| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
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| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countess | (noun) female equivalent of a count or earl | - |
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| counting | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| countlessness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: innumerableness |
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| country | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: land, nation |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: land, state |
| (noun) an area outside of cities and towns | Synonyms: rural area |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: area |
| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| countryside | (noun) rural regions | - |
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| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| county | (noun) (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government | - |
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| (noun) (United States) the largest administrative district within a state | - |
| coup | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup d'etat, putsch, takeover |
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| (noun) a brilliant and notable success | - |
| coupe | (noun) a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment | - |
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| couple | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: duet, duo, twosome |
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| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: match, mates |
| (noun) (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) a small indefinite number | - |
| coupler | (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupling |
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| couplet | (noun) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed | - |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| coupling | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupler |
| (noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: yoke |
| coupon | (noun) a test sample of some substance | - |
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| (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: voucher |
| courage | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courageousness |
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| courageousness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courage |
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| courante | (noun) a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats | - |
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| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| courgette | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: zucchini |
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| (noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: zucchini |
| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courlan | (noun) wading bird of South America and Central America | Synonyms: Aramus guarauna |
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| course | (noun) a mode of action | Synonyms: course of action |
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| (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study |
| (noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport | - |
| (noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: row |
| (noun) part of a meal served at one time | - |
| (noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: line |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, form, grade |
| (noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: trend |
| (noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: path, track |
| courser | (noun) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles | - |
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| (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: charger |
| (noun) a dog trained for coursing | - |
| (noun) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey | - |
| coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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| coursing | (noun) hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent | - |
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| court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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| (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
| (noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
| (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
| (noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
| (noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
| (noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
| (noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| courthouse | (noun) a building that houses judicial courts | - |
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| (noun) a government building that houses the offices of a county government | - |
| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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| courtliness | (noun) elegance suggestive of a royal court | - |
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| courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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| couscous | (noun) a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina | - |
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| (noun) a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew | - |
| cousin | (noun) the child of your aunt or uncle | Synonyms: cousin-german, first cousin, full cousin |
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| couth | (noun) (used facetiously) refinement | - |
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| couture | (noun) high fashion designing and dressmaking | - |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| couvade | (noun) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child | - |
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| couverture | (noun) chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter | - |
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| covetousness | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, greed, rapacity |
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| (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, cupidity |
| (noun) an envious eagerness to possess something | - |
| cowhouse | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowshed |
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| credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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| crouch | (noun) the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body | - |
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| croup | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump |
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| (noun) a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing | Synonyms: spasmodic laryngitis |
| croupe | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, hindquarters, rump |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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| crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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| curiousness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: foreignness, strangeness |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitiveness |
| curvaceousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: shapeliness, voluptuousness |
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| customhouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customshouse |
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| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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| (noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
| (noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
| damourite | (noun) a variety of muscovite | - |
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| dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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| decorousness | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorum |
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| decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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| (noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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| demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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| denouement | (noun) the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work | - |
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| (noun) the outcome of a complex sequence of events | - |
| denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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| deodourant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodorant |
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| detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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| devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| discolouration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discoloration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, stain |
| discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
| (noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
| discounter | (noun) a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price | Synonyms: discount house, discount store, wholesale house |
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| discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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| (noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |