priesthood | (noun) the body of ordained religious practitioners | - |
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proprietary | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
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proprietor | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: owner |
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proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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propriety | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, properness |
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prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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pruriency | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience |
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quarrier | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarryman |
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querier | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, questioner |
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reorientation | (noun) the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented | Synonyms: change of direction |
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(noun) a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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(noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
(noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
(noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
retrieval | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: recovery |
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(noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory | - |
(noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory | - |
retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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(noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
riel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Cambodia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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(noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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seriema | (noun) Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama | Synonyms: Cariama cristata, crested cariama |
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(noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: chunga, Chunga burmeisteri |
series | (noun) (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions | - |
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(noun) a periodical that appears at scheduled times | Synonyms: serial, serial publication |
(noun) a serialized set of programs | Synonyms: serial |
(noun) (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams | - |
(noun) similar things placed in order or happening one after another | - |
(noun) a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection | - |
(noun) (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other | - |
shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
sobriety | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: temperance |
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(noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, somberness, sombreness |
(noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: dryness |
(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: soberness |
sundries | (noun) miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified | - |
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sweetbrier | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar |
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terrier | (noun) any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground | - |
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triennial | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentenary, tercentennial |
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trier | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, essayer |
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(noun) one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case | - |
unfriendliness | (noun) an unfriendly disposition | - |
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(noun) dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness | - |
unhurriedness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, slowness |
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unvariedness | (noun) characterized by an absence of variation | - |
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variedness | (noun) characterized by variation | - |
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variegation | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: diversification |
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(noun) variability in coloration | - |
varietal | (noun) a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape | Synonyms: varietal wine |
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variety | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness |
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(noun) a difference that is usually pleasant | Synonyms: change |
(noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, kind, sort |
(noun) a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances | Synonyms: variety show |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics | - |
(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord |
whoriental | (noun) An East Asian Whore | - |
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worrier | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, fusspot, worrywart |
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