abecedarian | (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
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actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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antiquarian | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
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archosaurian | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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authoritarian | (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
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authoritarianism | (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, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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barbarian | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
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(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
biriani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biryani |
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caesarian | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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centenarian | (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
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cesarian | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
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cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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(noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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cyprian | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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(noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
egalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
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egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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equestrian | (noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
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establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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euphoriant | (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
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eutherian | (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal |
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flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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humanitarian | (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
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(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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(noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
invariant | (noun) a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it | - |
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latitudinarian | (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
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libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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(noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
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luxuriance | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, voluptuousness |
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megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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metatherian | (noun) primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas | - |
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millenarian | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
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millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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nonagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
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octogenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
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parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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pedestrian | (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
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perianth | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium |
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planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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predestinarian | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
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predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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proletarian | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
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proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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radiolarian | (noun) protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods | - |
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salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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saurian | (noun) any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs | - |
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sectarian | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarist, sectary |
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sectarianism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: denominationalism |
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seminarian | (noun) a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) | Synonyms: seminarist |
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septuagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the seventies | - |
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sertularian | (noun) feathery colony of long-branched stems bearing stalkless paired polyps | - |
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sexagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
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solitudinarian | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte |
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tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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tellurian | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
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titanosaurian | (noun) amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: titanosaur |
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totalitarian | (noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
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totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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(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, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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(noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
(noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
(noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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(noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
utilitarian | (noun) someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | - |
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utilitarianism | (noun) doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | - |
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valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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valerian | (noun) a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers | - |
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valetudinarian | (noun) weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health | - |
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valetudinarianism | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity |
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variance | (noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard | Synonyms: variation |
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(noun) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation) | - |
(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, divergence |
(noun) the quality of being subject to variation | Synonyms: variability, variableness |
(noun) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value | - |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: division |
(noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variant |
variant | (noun) a variable quantity that is random | Synonyms: chance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variate |
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(noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variation, version |
(noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variance |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: form, strain, var. |
vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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veterinarian | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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vulgarian | (noun) a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
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