| grumpiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, crotchetiness |
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| gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
| hairpiece | (noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, postiche |
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| hairpin | (noun) a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place | - |
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| handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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| happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| hatpin | (noun) a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair | - |
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| hawsepipe | (noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through | Synonyms: hawse, hawsehole |
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| headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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| (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
| headpin | (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: kingpin |
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| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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| helping | (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: portion, serving |
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| hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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| hemianopia | (noun) blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Synonyms: hemianopsia |
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| hemiepiphyte | (noun) a plant that is an epiphyte for part of its life | Synonyms: semiepiphyte |
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| hippie | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippy, hipster |
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| hippies | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hipsters |
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| hornpipe | (noun) a British solo dance performed by sailors | - |
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| (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: pibgorn, stockhorn |
| (noun) music for dancing the hornpipe | - |
| horripilation | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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| hosepipe | (noun) a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas | Synonyms: hose |
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| hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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| (noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
| hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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| hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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| (noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
| hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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| hospitality | (noun) kindness in welcoming guests or strangers | Synonyms: cordial reception |
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| hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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| (noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
| (noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
| (noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
| hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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| housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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| hyperlipidaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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| hyperlipidemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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| hypermetropia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
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| hyperopia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, longsightedness |
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| hyperpiesia | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesis |
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| hyperpiesis | (noun) persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found | Synonyms: essential hypertension, hyperpiesia |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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| impiety | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiousness |
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| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| impinging | (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, striking |
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| impiousness | (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god | Synonyms: impiety |
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| impishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality |
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| inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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| incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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| incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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| inconspicuousness | (noun) the quality of being not easily seen | - |
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| inhospitableness | (noun) having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition | - |
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| (noun) the environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth | - |
| inhospitality | (noun) unkind and inconsiderate welcome | - |
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| insipidity | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidness |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidness |
| insipidness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidity |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidity |
| inspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: brainchild |
| (noun) (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings | Synonyms: divine guidance |
| (noun) a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem | - |
| (noun) arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity | - |
| inspirer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, galvanizer |
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| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| intrepidity | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: dauntlessness |
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| isometropia | (noun) equality of refractive power in the two eyes | - |
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| isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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| jumpiness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jumping | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump | - |
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| (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jump |
| keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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| (noun) conformity or harmony | - |
| (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
| kelpie | (noun) an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears | - |
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| (noun) (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders | Synonyms: kelpy |
| kepi | (noun) a cap with a flat circular top and a visor | Synonyms: peaked cap, service cap, yachting cap |
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| kidnapping | (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: snatch |
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| kingpin | (noun) bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle | Synonyms: kingbolt, swivel pin |
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| (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: headpin |
| (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: bigwig, top banana |
| kopiyka | (noun) 100 kopiykas equal 1 hryvnia in Ukraine | - |
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| koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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| landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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| (noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
| landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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| (noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
| lapidarist | (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapidary | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidist |
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| (noun) an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them | Synonyms: lapidarist |
| lapidation | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: stoning |
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| lapidator | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: stoner |
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| lapidist | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapin | (noun) castrated male rabbit | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a rabbit | Synonyms: rabbit |
| lapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping |
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| lasiocampid | (noun) medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae | Synonyms: lasiocampid moth |
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| leaping | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring |
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| lempira | (noun) the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| lepidobotrys | (noun) African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds | - |
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| lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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| lepidolite | (noun) a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium | - |
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| lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
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| lepidophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of snakes | - |
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| lepidopteran | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect |
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| lepidopterist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterologist |
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| lepidopterologist | (noun) an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths | Synonyms: butterfly collector, lepidopterist |
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| lepidopterology | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidoptery |
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| lepidopteron | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteran, lepidopterous insect |
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| lepidoptery | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidopterology |
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| lepiota | (noun) any fungus of the genus Lepiota | - |
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| leptospira | (noun) important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever | - |
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| leptospirosis | (noun) an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever | Synonyms: swamp fever |
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| limpidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: pellucidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| limping | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness |
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| linchpin | (noun) pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on | Synonyms: lynchpin |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, lynchpin, mainstay |
| lipid | (noun) an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) | Synonyms: lipide, lipoid |
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