| banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| barilla | (noun) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate | Synonyms: Halogeton souda |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| brill | (noun) European food fish | Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus |
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| brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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| camarilla | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto |
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| carillon | (noun) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower | Synonyms: bell ringing, carillon playing |
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| (noun) set of bells hung in a bell tower | - |
| carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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| cascarilla | (noun) West Indian shrub with aromatic bark | Synonyms: Croton eluteria |
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| cigarillo | (noun) small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper | - |
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| cyrilla | (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: Cyrilla racemiflora, leatherwood, white titi |
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| defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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| (noun) a small squadron | - |
| espadrille | (noun) a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part | - |
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| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| frill | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: ruff |
| (noun) (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | - |
| gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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| (noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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| grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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| (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
| guerilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerrilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| hydrilla | (noun) submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers; Old World plant naturalized in southern United States and clogging Florida's waterways | Synonyms: Hydrilla verticillata |
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| krill | (noun) shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
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| mandrill | (noun) baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters | Synonyms: Mandrillus sphinx |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| quadrille | (noun) a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples | - |
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| (noun) music for dancing the quadrille | - |
| quadrillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 15 zeros | - |
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| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 24 zeros in the UK | - |
| quadrillionth | (noun) one part in a quadrillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-quadrillionth |
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| rill | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| (noun) a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion) | - |
| sarsaparilla | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras | - |
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| (noun) any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves | - |
| shrilling | (noun) a continuing shrill noise | - |
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| shrillness | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: stridence, stridency |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses | - |
| spirilla | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirillum |
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| spirillum | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirilla |
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| (noun) spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water | - |
| tamarillo | (noun) South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato | Synonyms: tree tomato |
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| thrill | (noun) something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation | - |
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| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, tingle |
| thriller | (noun) a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie | - |
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| trill | (noun) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | Synonyms: shake |
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| (noun) the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula | - |
| trillion | (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros | Synonyms: 1000000000000, one million million |
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| (noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros in the UK | Synonyms: one million million million |
| (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, million, zillion |
| trillionth | (noun) one part in a trillion equal parts | Synonyms: one-trillionth |
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| trillium | (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower | Synonyms: wake-robin, wood lily |
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