| lard | (noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | - |
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| larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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| (noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
| leeward | (noun) the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | Synonyms: lee, lee side |
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| (noun) the direction in which the wind is blowing | - |
| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| leopard | (noun) large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots | Synonyms: Panthera pardus |
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| (noun) the pelt of a leopard | - |
| leopardbane | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads | Synonyms: leopard's-bane |
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| leopardess | (noun) female leopard | - |
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| leotard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, unitard |
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| leotards | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: tights |
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| lettercard | (noun) a postcard that folds so the message is inside | - |
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| libtard | (noun) A pejorative term for a liberal | - |
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| lifeguard | (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifesaver |
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| lizard | (noun) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him | Synonyms: lounge lizard |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| loanword | (noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | Synonyms: loan |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| lord | (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: master, overlord |
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| lordliness | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, gravitas |
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| (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness |
| lordolatry | (noun) the worship of a lord because of his rank or title | - |
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| lordosis | (noun) an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column | Synonyms: hollow-back |
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| lordship | (noun) the authority of a lord | - |
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| lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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| (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
| lumberyard | (noun) a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale | - |
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| lyrebird | (noun) Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape | - |
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| mallard | (noun) wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed | Synonyms: Anas platyrhynchos |
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| mansard | (noun) a hip roof having two slopes on each side | Synonyms: mansard roof |
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| martyrdom | (noun) death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause | - |
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| (noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: calvary |
| matchboard | (noun) a board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor) | - |
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| mazzard | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: gean, mazzard cherry |
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| megacardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megalocardia |
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| megalocardia | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: cardiomegaly, enlarged heart, megacardia |
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| millboard | (noun) stout pasteboard used to bind books | - |
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| milliard | (noun) a billion | - |
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| milord | (noun) a term of address for an English lord | - |
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| mockingbird | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mocker |
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| moldboard | (noun) wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow | Synonyms: mouldboard |
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| monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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| moorbird | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse |
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| mopboard | (noun) a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor | Synonyms: baseboard, skirting board |
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| mordacity | (noun) a disposition to biting | - |
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| mordant | (noun) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process | - |
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| mortarboard | (noun) an academic cap with a flat square with a tassel on top | - |
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| (noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: hawk |
| mouldboard | (noun) wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow | Synonyms: moldboard |
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| mudguard | (noun) a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels | Synonyms: splash-guard, splash guard |
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| murder | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, slaying |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| murderer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, manslayer |
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| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
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| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
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| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| mustard | (noun) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds | Synonyms: table mustard |
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| (noun) leaves eaten as cooked greens | Synonyms: Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard greens |
| (noun) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica | - |
| myocardiopathy | (noun) a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) | Synonyms: cardiomyopathy |
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| myocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart) | Synonyms: myocardial inflammation |
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| myocardium | (noun) the middle muscular layer of the heart wall | - |
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| nard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: spikenard |
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| nardo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardoo |
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| nardoo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardo |
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| nerd | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, swot, wonk |
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| (noun) an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession | - |
| niggard | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, scrooge, skinflint |
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| niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| niggardness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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| nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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| northeastward | (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeast |
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| northward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees | Synonyms: due north, N, north |
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| northwestward | (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW |
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| notochord | (noun) a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates | - |
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| oilbird | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: guacharo, Steatornis caripensis |
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| orchard | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: grove, plantation, woodlet |
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| ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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| ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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| (noun) a severe or trying experience | - |
| order | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: ordering |
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| (noun) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans | - |
| (noun) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| (noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | Synonyms: purchase order |
| (noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly | Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
| (noun) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | - |
| (noun) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | - |
| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: ordering, ordination |
| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society |
| (noun) a group of person living under a religious rule | Synonyms: monastic order |
| (noun) established customary state (especially of society) | - |
| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: orderliness |
| orderer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| (noun) someone who places an order to buy | - |
| ordering | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: order |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordination |
| orderliness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: methodicalness |
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| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: order |
| orderly | (noun) a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | Synonyms: hospital attendant |
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| (noun) a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer | - |
| ordinal | (noun) the number designating place in an ordered sequence | Synonyms: no., ordinal number |
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| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordinand | (noun) a person being ordained | - |
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| ordinariness | (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity |
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| ordinary | (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
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| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| ordination | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordinance |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordering |
| (noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| ordure | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool |
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| outboard | (noun) internal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat | Synonyms: outboard motor |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an outboard motor | Synonyms: outboard motorboat |
| outwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: externality |
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| (noun) a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) | - |
| (noun) concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit | - |
| ovenbird | (noun) American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground | Synonyms: Seiurus aurocapillus |
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| (noun) small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests | - |
| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| overdraft | (noun) a draft in excess of the credit balance | - |
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| overdrive | (noun) a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power | - |
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| (noun) the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | - |
| overlord | (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, master |
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| overlordship | (noun) the position of overlord | - |
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| oxford | (noun) a low shoe laced over the instep | - |
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| paloverde | (noun) a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves | - |
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| pancarditis | (noun) inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium) | - |
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| paperboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: poster board, posterboard |
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| pardner | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, partner |
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| pardon | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: forgiveness |
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| (noun) the formal act of liberating someone | Synonyms: amnesty, free pardon |
| (noun) a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense | Synonyms: amnesty |
| pardoner | (noun) a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences | - |
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| (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, forgiver |
| password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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