| primo | (noun) the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | - |
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| primogenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: progenitor |
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| primogeniture | (noun) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | - |
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| primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
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| primordium | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: anlage |
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| primping | (noun) careful or finicky grooming | - |
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| primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| primus | (noun) the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland | - |
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| prince | (noun) a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign) | - |
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| princedom | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: principality |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a prince | - |
| princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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| (noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
| princess | (noun) a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) | - |
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| princewood | (noun) tropical American timber tree | Synonyms: Cordia gerascanthus, Spanish elm |
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| (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, salmwood, Spanish elm |
| principal | (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
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| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
| (noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
| (noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
| principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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| (noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
| (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
| print | (noun) a picture or design printed from an engraving | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) | - |
| (noun) a printed picture produced from a photographic negative | Synonyms: photographic print |
| (noun) a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it) | - |
| (noun) the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication | - |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) availability in printed form | - |
| printer | (noun) a machine that prints | Synonyms: printing machine |
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| (noun) (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing | - |
| (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: pressman |
| printing | (noun) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | - |
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| (noun) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication | Synonyms: printing process |
| (noun) text handwritten in the style of printed matter | - |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: impression |
| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| prion | (noun) (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system | - |
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| prior | (noun) the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot | - |
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| prioress | (noun) the superior of a group of nuns | Synonyms: abbess, mother superior |
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| priority | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
| priorship | (noun) the office of prior | - |
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| priory | (noun) religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress | - |
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| prism | (noun) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | Synonyms: optical prism |
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| (noun) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms | - |
| prismatoid | (noun) a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid | - |
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| prismoid | (noun) a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms | - |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| privacy | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privateness, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privateness, secrecy |
| private | (noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
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| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| privateness | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, secrecy |
| privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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| privation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: deprivation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, want |
| privatisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatization |
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| privatization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation |
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| privet | (noun) any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges | - |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| privy | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, outhouse |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet |
| prize | (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: trophy |
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| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: award |
| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, swag |
| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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| proprietary | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
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| proprietor | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: owner |
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| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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| propriety | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, properness |
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| proprioception | (noun) the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts | - |
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| proprioceptor | (noun) special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body | - |
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| proprionamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: propanamide |
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| ramipril | (noun) an ACE inhibitor (trade name Altace) used to treat high blood pressure or in some patients who have had a heart attack | Synonyms: Altace |
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| reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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| (noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
| reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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| reprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, separate |
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| (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprinting |
| reprinting | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprint |
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| reprisal | (noun) a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime | - |
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| sprig | (noun) an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers | - |
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| (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, twig |
| sprigger | (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: stemmer, stripper |
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| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprigtail | (noun) large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | Synonyms: Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail |
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| spring | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation |
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| (noun) a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed | - |
| (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, springiness |
| (noun) a point at which water issues forth | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring |
| (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: springtime |
| springboard | (noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched | Synonyms: jumping-off point, point of departure |
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| (noun) a flexible board for jumping upward | - |
| springbok | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbuck |
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| springbuck | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok |
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| springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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| (noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
| (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
| springiness | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, spring |
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| springtail | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: collembolan |
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| springtide | (noun) a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons | - |
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| (noun) a swelling rush of anything | - |
| springtime | (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: spring |
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| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| sprint | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: dash |
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| sprinter | (noun) someone who runs a short distance at top speed | - |
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| sprit | (noun) a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally | - |
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| sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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| sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| spritz | (noun) a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) | - |
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| spritzer | (noun) a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
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| surprint | (noun) something added by overprinting | Synonyms: overprint |
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| surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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| surprise | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprisal |
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| (noun) a sudden unexpected event | - |
| (noun) the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you | - |
| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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| thumbprint | (noun) fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb) | - |
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| trandolapril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade name Mavik) used in some patients after a heart attack or to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Mavik |
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| upright | (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
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| (noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
| uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
| (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |