| apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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| (noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
| apparatus | (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: setup |
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| (noun) (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function | - |
| asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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| asparagine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus) | - |
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| asparagus | (noun) edible young shoots of the asparagus plant | - |
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| (noun) plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable | Synonyms: Asparagus officinales, edible asparagus |
| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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| cystoparalysis | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoplegia |
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| disparagement | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: dispraise |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, derogation |
| disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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| disparateness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: distinctiveness |
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| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| endoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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| entoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entozoan, entozoon |
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| hemiparasite | (noun) a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | Synonyms: semiparasite |
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| hyperparathyroidism | (noun) excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis) | - |
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| hypoparathyroidism | (noun) inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood | - |
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| incomparability | (noun) The quality of being so much better than another as to be beyond comparison. | - |
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| (noun) The condition of not being able to be compared. | - |
| nullipara | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child | - |
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| paparazzo | (noun) a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines | - |
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| para | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: paratrooper |
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| (noun) 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia | - |
| (noun) (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered | Synonyms: parity |
| parable | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, apologue, fable |
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| (noun) (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message | - |
| parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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| parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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| paraboloid | (noun) a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis | - |
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| paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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| parachute | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: chute |
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| parachuter | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachutist |
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| parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
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| parachutist | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachuter |
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| paracosm | (noun) a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history | - |
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| parade | (noun) a visible display | - |
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| (noun) a ceremonial procession including people marching | - |
| (noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things | - |
| parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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| paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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| paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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| (noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
| (noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
| (noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
| paradise | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| paradox | (noun) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself | - |
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| paraesthesia | (noun) abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage | Synonyms: paresthesia |
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| paraffin | (noun) from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings | Synonyms: paraffin wax |
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| (noun) (British usage) kerosine | Synonyms: paraffin oil |
| (noun) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) | Synonyms: alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin series |
| parafovea | (noun) area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea | - |
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| paragliding | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: parasailing |
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| paragneiss | (noun) a gneiss derived from a sedimentary rock. | - |
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| paragon | (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, perfection |
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| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, saint |
| paragonite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with sodium | - |
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| paragram | (noun) a pun made by changing the letters of a word, especially the initial letter. | - |
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| paragraph | (noun) one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line | - |
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| paragrapher | (noun) a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | - |
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| parahoma | (noun) ritual drink prepared from Haoma plant. | - |
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| parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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| paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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| paraldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent | Synonyms: ethanal trimer |
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| paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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| paraleipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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| paralepsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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| paralipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition |
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| parallax | (noun) the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object | - |
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| parallel | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
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| (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude |
| (noun) (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes) | - |
| parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelism | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: correspondence |
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| parallelogram | (noun) a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length | - |
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| parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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| parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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| paralogism | (noun) an unintentionally invalid argument | - |
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| paralysis | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: palsy |
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| paralytic | (noun) a person suffering from paralysis | - |
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| paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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| paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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| paramecia | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecium |
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| paramecium | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecia |
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| paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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| paramedical | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
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| parameter | (noun) a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | Synonyms: parametric quantity |
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| (noun) a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: argument |
| (noun) any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance | - |
| parametritis | (noun) inflammation of connective tissue adjacent to the uterus | - |
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| paramilitary | (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
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| paramnesia | (noun) (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality | - |
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| paramountcy | (noun) the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority | - |
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| paramour | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, doxy |
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| (noun) a woman's lover | Synonyms: fancy man |
| paramyxovirus | (noun) a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles | - |
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| parang | (noun) a stout straight knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia | - |
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| paranoia | (noun) a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur | - |
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| paranoiac | (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoid |
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| paranoid | (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoiac |
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| paraparesis | (noun) a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs | - |
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| parapet | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: breastwork |
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| (noun) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony | - |
| paraph | (noun) a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery) | - |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| paraphilia | (noun) abnormal sexual activity | - |
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| paraphrase | (noun) rewording for the purpose of clarification | Synonyms: paraphrasis |
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| paraphrasis | (noun) rewording for the purpose of clarification | Synonyms: paraphrase |
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| paraphrenia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner | Synonyms: paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia |
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| paraphysis | (noun) a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed | - |
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| paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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| paraplegic | (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
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| parapodium | (noun) one of a pair of fleshy appendages of a polychete annelid that functions in locomotion and breathing | - |
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| parapraxis | (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, slip-up, slip |
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| paraprofessional | (noun) a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional | - |
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| parapsychologist | (noun) someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance | - |
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| parapsychology | (noun) phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes | Synonyms: psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon |
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| paraquat | (noun) a poisonous yellow solid used in solution as a herbicide | - |
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