| 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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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| erica | (noun) any plant of the genus Erica | Synonyms: true heath |
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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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| 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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| 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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| historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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| (noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
| hurricane | (noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
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| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| lyricality | (noun) the property of being suitable for singing | Synonyms: lyricism, songfulness |
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| merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| metrication | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrification |
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| pericarditis | (noun) inflammation of the pericardium | - |
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| pericardium | (noun) a serous membrane with two layers that surrounds the heart | - |
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| pericarp | (noun) the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary | Synonyms: seed vessel |
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| prefabrication | (noun) the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site | - |
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| prevarication | (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: fabrication, lying |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, evasiveness |
| (noun) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth | Synonyms: lie |
| prevaricator | (noun) a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly | Synonyms: liar |
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| refabrication | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: reassembly |
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| sphericalness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericity |
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| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| symmetricalness | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetry |
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| theatrical | (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
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| theatricality | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: staginess |
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| uricaciduria | (noun) presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid in the urine; symptom of gout | - |
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