federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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ferrite | (noun) a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent | - |
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(noun) a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: alpha-Fe, alpha-ferrite |
ferritin | (noun) a protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body | - |
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feterita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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fissiparity | (noun) the tendency to break into parts | - |
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(noun) reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish | - |
fluorite | (noun) a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine | Synonyms: fluor, fluorspar |
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fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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(noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
frittata | (noun) Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats; cooked until bottom is set then inverted into another pan to cook the top | - |
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fritter | (noun) small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables | - |
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futurity | (noun) the quality of being in or of the future | - |
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(noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, hereafter, time to come |
gagwriter | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagster |
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garnierite | (noun) a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate; a source of nickel | - |
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gastritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating | - |
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gastroenteritis | (noun) inflammation of the stomach and intestines; can be caused by Salmonella enteritidis | Synonyms: intestinal flu, stomach flu |
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ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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glycerite | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerole |
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granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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grit | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
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(noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone |
gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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haematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: hematocrit |
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(noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: hematocrit, packed cell volume |
handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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(noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
hematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: haematocrit |
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(noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: haematocrit, packed cell volume |
heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
(noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
heritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, inheritor |
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hilarity | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, mirth, mirthfulness |
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hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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hypercriticism | (noun) Excessive or unfairly harsh criticism. | - |
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hypocellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally few cells | - |
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hypochlorite | (noun) any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid | - |
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hypocrite | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender |
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immaturity | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immatureness |
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impurity | (noun) the condition of being impure | Synonyms: impureness |
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(noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: dross |
inferiority | (noun) an inferior quality | Synonyms: low quality |
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(noun) the quality of being a competitive disadvantage | Synonyms: unfavorable position |
(noun) the state of being inferior | Synonyms: lower rank, lower status |
inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
(noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
inheritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, heritor |
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inheritress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritrix |
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inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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(noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
insincerity | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, hollowness |
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insularity | (noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: detachment, insularism, insulation |
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integrity | (noun) moral soundness | - |
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(noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting | Synonyms: unity, wholeness |
iritis | (noun) inflammation of the iris | - |
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irregularity | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: abnormality |
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(noun) not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals | Synonyms: unregularity |
(noun) an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern | Synonyms: geometrical irregularity |
(noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: constipation |
irritability | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: excitability |
(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance |
irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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(noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
(noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
(noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
isarithm | (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable | Synonyms: isogram, isopleth |
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jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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(noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
(noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
keratoiritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and the iris of the eye | - |
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keratoscleritis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and sclera of the eye | - |
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kerite | (noun) a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber. | - |
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kieserite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of hydrous magnesium sulfate often found in salt mines | - |
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krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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linearity | (noun) the property of having one dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensionality |
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lobularity | (noun) the property of having lobules | - |
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logarithm | (noun) the exponent required to produce a given number | Synonyms: log |
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majority | (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: bulk |
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(noun) (elections) more than half of the votes | Synonyms: absolute majority |
(noun) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs | Synonyms: legal age |
malnutrition | (noun) a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods | - |
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margarita | (noun) a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice | - |
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marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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(noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
mariticide | (noun) the murder of a husband by his wife | - |
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maturity | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: matureness |
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(noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: adulthood |
(noun) the date on which an obligation must be repaid | Synonyms: due date, maturity date |
mediocrity | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: averageness |
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(noun) a person of second-rate ability or value | Synonyms: second-rater |
merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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(noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
meritocracy | (noun) the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth | - |
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(noun) a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects | - |
meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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meteorite | (noun) stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface | - |
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metritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: endometritis |
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micrometeorite | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeor, micrometeoroid |
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micturition | (noun) the discharge of urine | Synonyms: urination |
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millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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minority | (noun) being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts | - |
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(noun) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part | - |
(noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: nonage |
molarity | (noun) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution | Synonyms: M, molar concentration |
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muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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(noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
multicollinearity | (noun) a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated | - |
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muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
(noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
myometritis | (noun) inflammation of the myometrium | - |
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neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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nephrite | (noun) an amphibole mineral consisting of calcium magnesium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade that is less valuable than from jadeite; once believed to cure kidney disorders | - |
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nephritis | (noun) an inflammation of the kidney | Synonyms: Bright's disease |
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nerita | (noun) a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum | - |
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neritid | (noun) operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell | Synonyms: neritid gastropod |
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neritina | (noun) ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters | - |
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neuritis | (noun) inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function | - |
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newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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nitrite | (noun) the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid) | - |
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nutrition | (noun) the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans) | - |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, victuals |
(noun) (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance | - |
nutritionist | (noun) a specialist in the study of nutrition | - |
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nutritiousness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiveness |
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nutritiveness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiousness |
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obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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(noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |
oophoritis | (noun) inflammation of one or both ovaries | - |
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osteoarthritis | (noun) chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; the most common form of arthritis occurring usually after middle age | Synonyms: degenerative arthritis, degenerative joint disease |
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