| allopurinol | (noun) a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid | Synonyms: Zyloprim |
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| appurtenance | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, supplement |
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| (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: gear, paraphernalia |
| cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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| (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
| cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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| expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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| expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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| hotspur | (noun) a rash or impetuous person | - |
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| impureness | (noun) the condition of being impure | Synonyms: impurity |
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| impurity | (noun) the condition of being impure | Synonyms: impureness |
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| (noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: dross |
| jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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| jodhpurs | (noun) (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | Synonyms: jodhpur breeches, riding breeches |
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| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| purau | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua |
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| purchase | (noun) the acquisition of something for payment | - |
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| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: leverage |
| (noun) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage | - |
| (noun) something acquired by purchase | - |
| purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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| purchasing | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: buying |
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| purdah | (noun) a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | - |
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| (noun) the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | Synonyms: sex segregation |
| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: solitude |
| pureblood | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| puree | (noun) food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender | - |
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| pureness | (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, honour, purity |
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| (noun) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material | Synonyms: purity |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
| purgation | (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purge, purging |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purification |
| purgative | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
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| purgatory | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins | - |
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| (noun) a temporary condition of torment or suffering | - |
| purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
| (noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
| purging | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purge |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purge |
| purification | (noun) the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities | - |
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| (noun) the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing | - |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purgation |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: refinement, refining |
| purificator | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificatorium |
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| purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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| purifier | (noun) an apparatus for removing impurities | - |
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| purine | (noun) a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances | - |
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| (noun) any of several bases that are derivatives of purine | - |
| purism | (noun) scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language) | - |
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| purist | (noun) someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) | - |
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| puritan | (noun) someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures | - |
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| (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: prude |
| purity | (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, honour, pureness |
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| (noun) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material | Synonyms: pureness |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, pureness, sinlessness, whiteness |
| purl | (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side | Synonyms: purl stitch |
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| (noun) gold or silver wire thread | - |
| purlieu | (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: environs |
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| purloo | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, poilu |
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| purple | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes | Synonyms: the purple |
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| (noun) a color between red and blue | Synonyms: purpleness |
| (noun) (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status | Synonyms: the purple |
| purpleness | (noun) a color between red and blue | Synonyms: purple |
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| purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
| purpose | (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, role, use |
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| (noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: determination |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, intention |
| purposefulness | (noun) the quality of having a definite purpose | Synonyms: sense of purpose |
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| purposelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: aimlessness |
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| purpura | (noun) any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | Synonyms: peliosis |
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| purr | (noun) a low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat | - |
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| purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
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| (noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
| (noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
| (noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
| purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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| purslane | (noun) a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas | - |
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| pursual | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursuit |
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| pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
| pursued | (noun) a person who is being chased | Synonyms: chased |
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| pursuer | (noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chaser |
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| (noun) a person who pursues some plan or goal | - |
| pursuit | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursual |
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| (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pastime |
| (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, hobby, sideline, spare-time activity |
| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, quest |
| purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
| purulency | (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulence |
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| purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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| purveyor | (noun) someone who supplies provisions (especially food) | - |
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| purview | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, view |
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| rangpur | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, lemanderin, rangpur lime |
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| repurchase | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, redemption |
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| sandspur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur |
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| spur | (noun) a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward | Synonyms: gad |
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| (noun) a railway line connected to a trunk line | Synonyms: branch line, spur track |
| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spurring, urging |
| (noun) tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers | - |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spine |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| spuriousness | (noun) state of lacking genuineness | - |
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| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| spurring | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, urging |
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| spurt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, squirt |
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| suppuration | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, maturation |
| tempura | (noun) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried | - |
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