| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| dream | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dreaming |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dreaming |
| (noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | Synonyms: pipe dream |
| (noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | - |
| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
| (noun) someone or something wonderful | - |
| dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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| (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
| (noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
| dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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| dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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| dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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| empyrean | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| entreaty | (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, prayer |
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| epicurean | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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| epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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| firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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| flatbread | (noun) any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough | - |
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| forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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| freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
| freakishness | (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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| grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| greaser | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: taco, wetback |
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| greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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| greasiness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness |
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| great | (noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
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| greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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| greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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| (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
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| hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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| handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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| headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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| heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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| (noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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| incorporeality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: immateriality |
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| increase | (noun) the act of increasing something | Synonyms: step-up |
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| (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increment |
| (noun) a change resulting in an increase | - |
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increment |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, gain |
| irreality | (noun) the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact | Synonyms: unreality |
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| jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| (noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| laureate | (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
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| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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| maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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| miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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| miscreation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: malformation |
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| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| orthochorea | (noun) a form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect | - |
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| outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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| outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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| overeating | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, gula |
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| overreaction | (noun) an excessive reaction; a reaction with inappropriate emotional behavior | - |
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| packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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| pancreas | (noun) a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
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| pancreatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas | - |
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| pancreatin | (noun) extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions | - |
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| pancreatitis | (noun) inflammation of the pancreas; usually marked by abdominal pain | - |
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| phosphocreatine | (noun) an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction | Synonyms: creatine phosphate, creatine phosphoric acid |
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| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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| preamble | (noun) a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| procreation | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, reproduction |
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| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| reabsorption | (noun) the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation | Synonyms: resorption |
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| reach | (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reaching, stretch |
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| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, range |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: range |
| reaching | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: arrival |
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| (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, stretch |
| reactance | (noun) opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance) | - |
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| reactant | (noun) a chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction | - |
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| reaction | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: response |
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| (noun) doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like | - |
| (noun) an idea evoked by some experience | - |
| (noun) extreme conservatism in political or social matters | - |
| (noun) (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body | - |
| (noun) a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others | Synonyms: chemical reaction |
| reactionary | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, ultraconservative |
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