| airstrip | (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: flight strip, landing strip, strip |
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| amitriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications | Synonyms: amitriptyline hydrochloride, Elavil |
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| ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
| circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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| cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
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| conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
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| cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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| grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
| (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
| (noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
| (noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
| (noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
| gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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| gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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| gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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| hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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| handgrip | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handle, hold |
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| horripilation | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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| (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
| manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
| mariposa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: mariposa lily, mariposa tulip |
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| nondescript | (noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
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| nortriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Pamelor) used along with psychotherapy to treat dysthymic depression; may interact dangerously if taken with other drugs | Synonyms: Pamelor |
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| peripatetic | (noun) a person who walks from place to place | - |
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| peripateticism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science | Synonyms: Aristotelianism |
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| peripatus | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: onychophoran, velvet worm |
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| peripeteia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripetia, peripety |
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| peripetia | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripety |
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| peripety | (noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | Synonyms: peripeteia, peripetia |
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| peripheral | (noun) electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device |
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| periphery | (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: fringe, outer boundary |
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| periphrasis | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, circumlocution |
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| pinstripe | (noun) a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| (noun) a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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| postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prescription | (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
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| (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
| (noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
| (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| proscription | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: banishment |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, prohibition |
| protriptyline | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression | - |
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| quadripara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies | - |
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| quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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| quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| rip | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, split |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue |
| ripcord | (noun) a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | - |
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| (noun) a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend | - |
| ripeness | (noun) the state of being ripe | - |
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| ripening | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, maturement |
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| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| riposte | (noun) (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return |
| ripper | (noun) a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife | - |
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| ripple | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, rippling, wavelet |
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| (noun) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value | - |
| rippling | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, wavelet |
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| ripsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: splitsaw |
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| riptide | (noun) a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore | Synonyms: rip current |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, rip, tide rip |
| scrip | (noun) a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency | - |
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| script | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, playscript |
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| (noun) a particular orthography or writing system | - |
| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, handwriting |
| scriptorium | (noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts | - |
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| scripture | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | Synonyms: sacred scripture |
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| scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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| seriph | (noun) a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | Synonyms: serif |
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| strip | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip show, striptease |
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| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip |
| (noun) thin piece of wood or metal | - |
| (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies |
| (noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something | - |
| stripe | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, banding |
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| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, streak |
| (noun) a kind or category | - |
| (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes |
| (noun) a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service | - |
| striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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| (noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
| (noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
| stripes | (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe |
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| striping | (noun) the act of marking with stripes | - |
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| stripling | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager |
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| stripper | (noun) an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day | Synonyms: stripper well |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stemmer |
| (noun) a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish | - |
| stripping | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| subscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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| subscription | (noun) a pledged contribution | - |
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| (noun) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document) | - |
| (noun) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
| (noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | - |
| superscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| superscription | (noun) the activity of superscribing | - |
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| (noun) an inscription written above something else | - |
| thrip | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thripid, thrips |
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| thripid | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thrips |
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| thrips | (noun) any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive | Synonyms: thrip, thripid |
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| transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
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| (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
| transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
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| transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
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| (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
| (noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
| (noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
| (noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
| trip | (noun) a journey for some purpose (usually including the return) | - |
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| (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: misstep, stumble, trip-up |
| (noun) a light or nimble tread | - |
| (noun) a catch mechanism that acts as a switch | Synonyms: tripper |
| (noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an exciting or stimulating experience | Synonyms: head trip |
| (noun) a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs | - |
| tripalmitin | (noun) a triglyceride of palmitic acid | Synonyms: glycerol tripalmitate |
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| tripe | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| (noun) lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food | - |
| triphammer | (noun) a massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity | - |
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| triphosphopyridine | (noun) a pyridine ring with three phosphorus groups | - |
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| triple | (noun) a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base | Synonyms: three-bagger, three-base hit |
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| (noun) a quantity that is three times as great as another | - |
| (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triplet |
| triplet | (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triple |
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| (noun) one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika |
| tripletail | (noun) large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail | - |
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| triplicate | (noun) one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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