| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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| affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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| affrication | (noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| agaric | (noun) a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside | - |
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| (noun) fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses | Synonyms: Fomes igniarius |
| agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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| agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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| (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
| (noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
| agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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| alphanumerics | (noun) a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation | Synonyms: alphanumeric characters |
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| americium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms | Synonyms: Am, atomic number 95 |
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| amphotericin | (noun) an antibiotic and antifungal agent | - |
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| anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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| apricot | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: peach, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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| (noun) downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach | - |
| (noun) Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach | Synonyms: apricot tree |
| arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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| arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| atmospherics | (noun) a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference | Synonyms: atmospheric static, static |
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| auricle | (noun) a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: atrial auricle, auricula atrii |
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| (noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear | Synonyms: ear, pinna |
| auricula | (noun) a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: auricular appendage, auricular appendix |
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| (noun) yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated | Synonyms: bear's ear, Primula auricula |
| auriculare | (noun) the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus | Synonyms: auricular point |
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| avarice | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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| (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity |
| avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
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| bactericide | (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial, antibacterial drug |
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| (noun) any chemical agent that destroys bacteria | Synonyms: bacteriacide |
| baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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| baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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| barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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| (noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
| bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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| biometrics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometry, biostatistics |
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| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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| (noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
| brickbat | (noun) blunt criticism | - |
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| (noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon | - |
| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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| bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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| bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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| brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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| brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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| bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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| bricole | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: mangonel, traction trebuchet |
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| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| capriccio | (noun) an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation | - |
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| caprice | (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: impulse, whim |
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| capriciousness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: unpredictability |
| caricature | (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: imitation, impersonation |
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| caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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| catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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| chondrichthian | (noun) fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified | Synonyms: cartilaginous fish |
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| cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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| cleric | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, divine, ecclesiastic |
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| clericalism | (noun) a policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters | - |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| clericalization | (noun) The process of increasing the power or influence of a religious hierarchy. | - |
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| climacteric | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, menopause |
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| (noun) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause | - |
| cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| congeneric | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, relative |
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| constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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| cricket | (noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs | - |
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| (noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together | - |
| cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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| curriculum | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, program, programme, syllabus |
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| cylindricality | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricalness |
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| cylindricalness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricality |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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| (noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
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| dielectric | (noun) a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity | Synonyms: insulator, nonconductor |
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| district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| eccentric | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball |
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| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, character, type |
| eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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| (noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
| (noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| egocentric | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
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| electric | (noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
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| electrician | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: lineman, linesman |
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| electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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| (noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
| (noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
| empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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| (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| enrichment | (noun) act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding | - |
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| (noun) a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth | - |
| enterics | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterobacteria, entric |
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| entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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| erica | (noun) any plant of the genus Erica | Synonyms: true heath |
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| escherichia | (noun) a genus of enteric bacteria | - |
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| esoterica | (noun) secrets known only to an initiated minority | - |
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| extrication | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, unsnarling, untangling |
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| fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
| fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
| (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
| fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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| febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| ferricyanide | (noun) salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide | - |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| fratricide | (noun) the murder of your sibling | - |
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| (noun) fire that injures or kills an ally | Synonyms: friendly fire |
| (noun) a person who murders their brother or sister | - |
| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| fricative | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
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| fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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