biped | (noun) an animal with two feet | - |
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bipedalism | (noun) the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet | - |
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centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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diapedesis | (noun) passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue | - |
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encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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(noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
expediency | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expedience |
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expedient | (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
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expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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(noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
(noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
(noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |
expeditiousness | (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expedition |
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fissiped | (noun) terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons | Synonyms: fissiped mammal |
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handicapped | (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: disabled |
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hypnopedia | (noun) teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) | Synonyms: sleep-learning |
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impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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impediment | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
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(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance |
impedimenta | (noun) the baggage and equipment carried by an army | - |
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(noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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maxilliped | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: gnathopod |
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millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
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milliped | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, millipede |
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millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
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misopedia | (noun) hatred of children | - |
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moped | (noun) a motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine | - |
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orthopedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopaedics |
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orthopedist | (noun) a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children) | Synonyms: orthopaedist |
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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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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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pedagog | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagogue |
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pedagogics | (noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching method |
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pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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pedagogy | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, teaching |
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(noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, teaching |
(noun) the principles and methods of instruction | Synonyms: pedagogics, teaching method |
pedal | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, treadle |
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(noun) a sustained bass note | Synonyms: pedal point |
pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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pedant | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, scholastic |
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pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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(noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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pedelec | (noun) a bicycle built with a motor to aid the cyclist to turn the pedals | - |
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pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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pederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: paederasty |
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pedesis | (noun) the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid | Synonyms: Brownian motion, Brownian movement |
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pedestal | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, stand |
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(noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, plinth |
(noun) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) | - |
pedestrian | (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
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pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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pediatrist | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician |
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pedicab | (noun) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire | Synonyms: cycle rickshaw |
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pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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pedicle | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicel |
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pediculicide | (noun) a chemical agent that kills lice | - |
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pediculosis | (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: lousiness |
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pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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pedigree | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
(noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
pediment | (noun) a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof | - |
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pedlar | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pitchman |
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pedodontist | (noun) a dentist who specializes in the care of children's teeth | - |
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pedology | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pediatrics |
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pedometer | (noun) measuring instrument for recording the number of steps taken in walking | - |
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pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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pedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: paedophilia |
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peduncle | (noun) a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain | Synonyms: cerebral peduncle |
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(noun) stalk bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower | - |
(noun) the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body | - |
pedwood | (noun) European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers | Synonyms: blood-twig, common European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, red dogwood |
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pinnatiped | (noun) aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers | Synonyms: pinniped, pinniped mammal |
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pinniped | (noun) aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers | Synonyms: pinnatiped, pinniped mammal |
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quadruped | (noun) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking | - |
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ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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sesquipedalia | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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sesquipedalian | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
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sesquipedality | (noun) using long words | - |
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stampede | (noun) a headlong rush of people on a common impulse | - |
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(noun) a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) | - |
stapedectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear | - |
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torpedo | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, numbfish |
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(noun) armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target | - |
(noun) a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead | - |
(noun) a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface | - |
(noun) an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) | - |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep |
(noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, triggerman |
velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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(noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |