| alpenstock | (noun) a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers | - |
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| antepenult | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenultima, antepenultimate |
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| antepenultima | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultimate |
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| antepenultimate | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
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| appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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| (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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| appendicle | (noun) a small appendage | - |
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| appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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| appendix | (noun) a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | Synonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process |
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| (noun) supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book | - |
| arpent | (noun) a former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre | - |
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| aspen | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind | - |
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| ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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| (noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
| carpenter | (noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects | - |
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| carpenteria | (noun) California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: Carpenteria californica |
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| carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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| compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| cytopenia | (noun) a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood | - |
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| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| deepening | (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
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| dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependant | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
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| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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| (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
| dependent | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
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| diapensia | (noun) any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia | - |
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| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| eosinopenia | (noun) a decrease in the number of eosinophils in the blood | - |
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| ependyma | (noun) thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal | - |
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| epenthesis | (noun) the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier | - |
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| expender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, spender |
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| expending | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expenditure |
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| expenditure | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expending |
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| (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: consumption, using up |
| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: outgo, outlay, spending |
| expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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| (noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
| (noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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| fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
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| gabapentin | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles | Synonyms: Neurontin |
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| granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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| haematocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood | Synonyms: hematocytopenia |
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| halfpenny | (noun) an English coin worth half a penny | Synonyms: ha'penny |
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| halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| hematocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood | Synonyms: haematocytopenia |
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| impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
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| impendency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence |
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| impenetrability | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: imperviousness |
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| (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrableness |
| impenetrableness | (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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| impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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| independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
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| (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
| independency | (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independence |
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| independent | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, freelancer, self-employed person |
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| (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, mugwump |
| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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| interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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| interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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| interpenetration | (noun) mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other | Synonyms: permeation |
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| (noun) the action of penetrating between or among | - |
| jalapeno | (noun) hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: jalapeno pepper |
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| (noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper |
| leucopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leukopenia |
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| leukopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leucopenia |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| lycopene | (noun) carotenoid that makes tomatoes red; may lower the risk of prostate cancer | - |
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| lymphocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphopenia |
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| lymphopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphocytopenia |
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| micropenis | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: microphallus |
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| misshapenness | (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, malformation |
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| neutropenia | (noun) leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte) | - |
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| ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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| open | (noun) information that has become public | Synonyms: surface |
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| (noun) a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play | - |
| (noun) a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water | Synonyms: clear |
| (noun) where the air is unconfined | Synonyms: open air, out-of-doors, outdoors |
| openbill | (noun) stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip | - |
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| opener | (noun) a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) | - |
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| (noun) the first event in a series | - |
| (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: undoer, unfastener, untier |
| openhandedness | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, munificence |
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| opening | (noun) a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess | Synonyms: chess opening |
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| (noun) the act of opening something | - |
| (noun) becoming open or being made open | - |
| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, initiative, opening move |
| (noun) a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made | - |
| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, scuttle |
| (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: orifice, porta |
| (noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: possibility, possible action |
| (noun) the initial part of the introduction | - |
| (noun) the first performance (as of a theatrical production) | Synonyms: curtain raising, opening night |
| (noun) a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise | - |
| (noun) an open or empty space in or between things | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) opportunity especially for employment or promotion | - |
| openness | (noun) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | Synonyms: nakedness |
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| (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: receptiveness, receptivity |
| (noun) without obstructions to passage or view | - |
| openwork | (noun) ornamental work (such as embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings | - |
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| overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
| pancytopenia | (noun) an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia | - |
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| pen | (noun) female swan | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement with a point from which ink flows | - |
| (noun) an enclosure for confining livestock | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: penitentiary |
| (noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: playpen |
| penalisation | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalization, penalty, punishment |
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| penalization | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalty, punishment |
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| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| (noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
| (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
| penchant | (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: predilection, preference, taste |
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| pencil | (noun) a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face | - |
| (noun) a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point | - |
| (noun) graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication | - |