| arles | (noun) money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract | Synonyms: earnest money |
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| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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| (noun) a grain of barley | - |
| burlesque | (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
| cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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| cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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| colorlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colourlessness |
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| colourlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness |
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| coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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| curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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| fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
| flavorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavourlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| flavourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| hairlessness | (noun) the quality of not having hair | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: depilation |
| harlequin | (noun) a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| hurler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: pitcher, twirler |
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| interleaf | (noun) a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book | - |
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| interleukin | (noun) any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system | - |
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| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| liverleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: hepatica |
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| lusterlessness | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte |
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| merle | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies | - |
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| pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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| peerlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: matchlessness |
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| perleche | (noun) a disorder of the lips marked by scaling and fissures at the corners of the mouth; caused by a deficiency of riboflavin | Synonyms: cheilosis |
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| powerlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, impotency |
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| savorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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| savourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, flavourlessness, savorlessness, tastelessness |
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| scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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| starlessness | (noun) The state of being without visible stars. | - |
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| starlet | (noun) a small star | - |
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| (noun) a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star | - |
| twirler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, pitcher |
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| (noun) someone who twirls a baton | Synonyms: baton twirler |
| varlet | (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: page |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag |
| waterleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum | - |
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| waterlessness | (noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: dryness, xerotes |
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| whirler | (noun) a revolving mechanism | - |
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| (noun) a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling | Synonyms: whirling dervish |