| despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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| despotism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, tyranny |
| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| diaspora | (noun) the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | - |
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| (noun) the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel | - |
| dipole | (noun) an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center | Synonyms: dipole antenna |
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| (noun) a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance | - |
| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| disposable | (noun) an item that can be disposed of after it has been used | - |
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| disposal | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposition |
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| (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: administration |
| (noun) a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage | Synonyms: electric pig, garbage disposal |
| (noun) the power to use something or someone | - |
| disposition | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: temperament |
| (noun) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing | - |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: inclination, tendency |
| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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| doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| embonpoint | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
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| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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| endpoint | (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, termination, terminus |
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| entrepot | (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, storage, store, storehouse |
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| (noun) a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties | Synonyms: transshipment center |
| epoch | (noun) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event | Synonyms: era |
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| (noun) a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded | Synonyms: date of reference |
| eponym | (noun) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary) | - |
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| (noun) the person for whom something is named | - |
| eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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| epos | (noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic, epic poem, heroic poem |
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| (noun) a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme | - |
| epoxy | (noun) a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminates | Synonyms: epoxy glue, epoxy resin |
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| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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| erythropoiesis | (noun) the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone marrow | - |
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| erythropoietin | (noun) a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells | - |
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| escapologist | (noun) an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping | Synonyms: escape expert |
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| escapology | (noun) the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment) | - |
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| esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
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| eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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| expo | (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, exposition |
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| exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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| (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
| (noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
| exponential | (noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
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| exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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| export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
| exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| expose | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: unmasking |
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| exposition | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: expounding |
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| (noun) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse | - |
| (noun) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | - |
| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, expo |
| expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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| expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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| (noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
| exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
| (noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
| (noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
| (noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
| (noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
| (noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
| expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| extrapolation | (noun) (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values | - |
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| (noun) an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations | - |
| eyespot | (noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color | Synonyms: ocellus |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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| firepower | (noun) (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target | - |
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| fishpond | (noun) a freshwater pond with fish | - |
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| fitspo | (noun) an image of promoting proper exercise and diet | - |
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| flagpole | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagstaff |
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| (noun) surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors | Synonyms: range pole, ranging pole |
| flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
| (noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
| flowerpot | (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: pot |
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| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| fusspot | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, worrier, worrywart |
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| gastropod | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: univalve |
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| gatepost | (noun) either of two posts that bound a gate | - |
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| geopolitics | (noun) the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | - |
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| gnathopod | (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: maxilliped |
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| goalpost | (noun) one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field | - |
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| guidepost | (noun) a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior | Synonyms: guideline, rule of thumb |
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| (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: signpost |
| gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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| gunpowder | (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: powder |
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| haematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: hematocolpometra |
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| haematocolpos | (noun) accumulation of menstrual blood in the vagina (usually due to an imperforate hymen) | Synonyms: hematocolpos |
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| haematopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haemopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haemosporidian | (noun) minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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| heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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| hematocolpometra | (noun) accumulation of blood in the vagina and uterus | Synonyms: haematocolpometra |
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| hematocolpos | (noun) accumulation of menstrual blood in the vagina (usually due to an imperforate hymen) | Synonyms: haematocolpos |
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| hematopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hemipode | (noun) small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains | Synonyms: bustard quail, button-quail, button quail |
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| hemopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, sanguification |
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| heterospory | (noun) the development of both microspores and megaspores | - |
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| hexapod | (noun) an animal having six feet | - |
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| hippo | (noun) massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa | Synonyms: hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse |
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| hippoboscid | (noun) bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals | Synonyms: louse fly |
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| hippocampus | (noun) a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories | - |
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| hippodrome | (noun) a stadium for horse shows or horse races | - |
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