| abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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| abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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| (noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
| (noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
| (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| adermin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch | Synonyms: pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, pyridoxine, vitamin B6 |
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| affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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| (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
| (noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| aftermath | (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: consequence |
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| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: backwash, wake |
| airmail | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airpost |
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| (noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft | - |
| airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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| airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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| airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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| alarm | (noun) a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event | Synonyms: alarm system, warning device |
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| (noun) a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time | Synonyms: alarm clock |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarum, alert, warning signal |
| (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: consternation, dismay |
| alarmism | (noun) needless warnings | - |
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| alarmist | (noun) a person who alarms others needlessly | - |
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| alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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| anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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| angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| arm | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | Synonyms: sleeve |
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| (noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting | Synonyms: weapon, weapon system |
| (noun) the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person | - |
| (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: branch, limb |
| (noun) a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb | - |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: branch, subdivision |
| armada | (noun) a large fleet | - |
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| armadillo | (noun) burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates | - |
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| armament | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: arming, equipping |
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| (noun) weaponry used by military or naval force | - |
| armamentarium | (noun) the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine | - |
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| armature | (noun) coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field | - |
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| armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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| (noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
| armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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| armet | (noun) a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard | - |
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| armful | (noun) the quantity that can be contained in the arms | - |
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| armguard | (noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: bracer |
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| armhole | (noun) a hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached | - |
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| armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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| (noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
| armilla | (noun) (archeology) a bracelet worn around the wrist or arm | - |
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| (noun) a celestial globe consisting of metal hoops; used by early astronomers to determine the positions of stars | Synonyms: armillary sphere |
| arming | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, equipping |
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| armistice | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: cease-fire, truce |
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| armlet | (noun) a band worn around the arm for decoration | Synonyms: arm band |
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| armoire | (noun) a large wardrobe or cabinet; originally used for storing weapons | - |
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| armor | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armour |
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| (noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armour |
| (noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armour |
| armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
| (noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
| armory | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armoury, inventory |
| armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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| (noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
| (noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
| armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
| (noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
| armoury | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
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| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, inventory |
| armpit | (noun) the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder | Synonyms: axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa |
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| armrest | (noun) a support for the arm | - |
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| arms | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: implements of war, munition, weaponry, weapons system |
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| (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: blazon, blazonry, coat of arms |
| army | (noun) a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state | Synonyms: ground forces, regular army |
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| (noun) a large number of people united for some specific purpose | - |
| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| autoalarm | (noun) a radio receiving device used on ships that rings an alarm bell when a distress signal is received. | Synonyms: auto-alarm |
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| averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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| barm | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: yeast |
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| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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| barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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| bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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| berm | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: shoulder |
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| (noun) a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope | - |
| betterment | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, melioration |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, improvement |
| (noun) an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility | - |
| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bioarm | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological weapon, bioweapon |
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| blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| bromoform | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: tribromomethane |
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| buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| carmaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer |
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| carminative | (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
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| carmine | (noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red | Synonyms: cardinal |
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| caseworm | (noun) insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body | - |
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| chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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| chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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| charm | (noun) something believed to bring good luck | Synonyms: good luck charm |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, appealingness |
| (noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks | - |
| (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, spell |
| charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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| charmer | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: beguiler |
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| (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker |
| chloroform | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: trichloromethane |
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| choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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| chyloderma | (noun) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | Synonyms: elephantiasis scroti |
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| conferment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferral |
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| confirmation | (noun) a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | - |
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| (noun) a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism | - |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) information that confirms or verifies | - |
| (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: ratification |
| conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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| conformation | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformity |
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| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, contour, form, shape |
| (noun) a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing | - |
| conformism | (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformity |
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| conformist | (noun) someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) | - |
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| conformity | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformation |
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| (noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: ossification |
| (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformance |
| (noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformism |
| (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, accordance |
| corm | (noun) solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure | - |
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